CELEX: 31993R3107
Language: en
Date: 1993-11-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 3107/93 of 10 November 1993 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations originating in Israel

No L 278 /40                           Official Journal of the European Communities                               11 . 11 . 93
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 3107/93
                                                    of 10 November 1993
                  suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common
                  Customs Tariff duty on imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations originating
                                                            in Israel
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                             during that period, the prices of the import product
                                                                        have been below that level ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2890/93 (4)
 Community,                                                        fixes the Community producer prices for carnations and
                                                                   roses for the application of the import arrangements ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088 /87
of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the                      Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (*), as
application of preferential customs duties on imports of           last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 (6), lays
certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and          down the detailed rules for the application of the
Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                     arrangements ;
 3551 /88 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,
                                                                   Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
                                                                    1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 381 3/92 f) are used to
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the                  convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
conditions for applying a preferential duty on large­              and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom)           conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the          whereas detailed rules on the application and determi­
limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the        nation of these conversions were set by Commission
Community of fresh cut flowers ;                                   Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 (8) ;
                                                                   Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2604/93 (3)                    Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it
opened and provides for the administration of                      must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
Community tariff quotas for cut flowers and flower buds,           Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for
fresh, originating in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel ;         suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for
                                                                   uniflorous (standard) carnations originating in Israel ;
                                                                   whereas the Common Customs Tariff duty should be
Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088 /87                  re-established,
provides, on the one hand, that for a given product of a
given origin, the preferential customs duty is to be
applicable only if the price of the imported product is at
least equal to 85 % of the Community producer price ;
whereas, on the other hand, the preferential customs duty          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
is, except in exceptional cases, suspended and the
Common Customs Tariff duty introduced for a given
product of a given origin :                                                                     Article 1
(a) if, on two successive market days, the prices of the           For imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations (CN codes
     imported product are less than 85 % of the                    ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 1 0 53) originating in Israel, the
     Community producer price in respect of at least 30 %          preferential customs duty fixed by Regulation (EEC) No
     of the quantities for which prices are available on           2604/93 is hereby suspended and the Common Customs
     representative import markets ;                               Tariff duty is hereby re-established.
     or
(b) if, over a period of five to seven successive market                                        Article 2
     days, the prices of the imported product are alterna­
     tively above and below 85 % of the Community                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 1 November
     producer price in respect of at least 30 % of the             1993 .
     quantities for which prices are available on the
     representative import markets and if, for three days
                                                                   0   OJ  No L  263, 22. 10. 1993,    p. 10.
                                                                   (J) OJ  No L  72, 18 . 3 . 1988, p.  16.
(') OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.                             (6) OJ  No L  264, 23 . 10. 1993 ,  p. 33.
(2) OJ No L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988, p. 1 .                            0   OJ  No L  387, 31 . 12. 1992,   p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 239, 24. 9. 1993, p. 1 .                               (8) OJ  No L  108, 1 . 5 . 1993, p.  106.
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             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Brussels, 10 November 1993.
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                      Rene STEICHEN
                                                                Member of the Commission