CELEX: 31996R0854
Language: en
Date: 1996-05-08 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 854/96 of 8 May 1996 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of large-flowered roses originating in Israel

No L 115/32          EN                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                     9 . 5. 96
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 854/96
                                                         of 8 May 1996
                  re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of large-flowered roses
                                                      originating in Israel
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        down detailed rules for the application of these
                                                                    arrangements;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Community,                                                         Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
                                                                    1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 381 3/92 (8), as last
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87               amended by Regulation (EC) No 150/95 (9), are used to
 of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the                      convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
 application of preferential customs duties on imports of           and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
 certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and          conversion rates of the Member States' currencies; whereas
 Morocco ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No                 detailed rules on the application and determination of
 539/96 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,           these conversions were set by Commission Regulation
                                                                    (EEC) No 1068/93 (10), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088 /87 fixes conditions               No 2853/95 (n);
 for the application of a preferential customs duty on
 large-flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous             Whereas the preferential customs duty fixed for large­
 (bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations             flowered roses originating in Israel by Regulation (EC) No
within the limit of tariff quotas opened annually for               1981 /94 was suspended by Commission Regulation (EC)
 imports of fresh cut flowers into the Community,                   No 2633/95 (12);
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 (3), as last
 amended by Regulation (EC) No 585/96 (4), opens and                Whereas on the basis of price recordings made as
 provides for the administration of Community tariff                specified in Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No
 quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating         700/88 it must be concluded that the requirement for
 in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel;                             reintroduction of the preferential customs duty laid down
                                                                    in the last indent , of Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                    4088/87 is met for large-flowered roses originating in
Whereas Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                Israel; whereas the preferential customs duty should be
 stipulates that the preferential customs duty shall be             reintroduced,
 reintroduced for a given product of a given origin if the
 prices of the imported product (full rate customs duty not
 deducted) are, for at least 70 % of the quantities for which
 prices are available on representative Community import
 markets, not less than 85 % of the Community producer
 price for a period, calculated from the actual date of             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
suspension of the actual preferential customs duty:
— of two successive market days, after suspension under
     Article 2 (2) (a) of that Regulation,                                                     Article 1
— of three successive market days, after suspension
     under Article 2 (2) (b) of that Regulation;                    For imports of large-flowered roses (CN codes ex
                                                                    0603 10 11 and ex 0603 10 51 ) originating in Israel the
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2524/95 (*)                   preferential customs duty set by amended Regulation (EC)
fixed Community producer prices for carnations and roses            No 1981 /94 is reintroduced.
for application of the arrangements for importation from
the countries in question;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (% as                                            Article 2
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 (^ laid
                                                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 9 May 1996.
(') OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.
(2) OJ No L 79, 29. 3. 1996, p. 6.
(3) OJ No L 199, 2. 8 . 1994, p. 1 .                               (8) OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(4) OJ  No  L 84, 3. 4. 1996, p. 8.                                (>) OJ No L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
(5) OJ  No  L 258, 28. 10. 1995, p. 42.                            (10) OJ No L 108 , 1 . 5. 1993, p. 96.
(6) OJ  No  L 72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16.                              (") OJ No L 299, 12. 12. 1995, p. 1 .
O   OJ  No  L 264, 23. 10 . 1993, p. 33.                           H OJ No L 269, 11 . 11 . 1995, p. 18.
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 8 May 1996.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                   Franz FISCHLER
                                                             Member of the Commission