CELEX: 31997R2651
Language: en
Date: 1997-12-30
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2651/97 of 30 December 1997 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of small-flowered roses originating in Israel

31 . 12. 97          [ EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                               L 356/ 53
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2651/97
                                                    of 30 December 1997
                  suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common
                  Customs Tariff duty on imports of small-flowered roses originating in Israel
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 50/95 (9), are used to
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
Community,                                                        and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
                                                                  conversion rates of the Member States' currencies; whereas
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87              detailed rules on the application and determination of
of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the                     these conversions were set by Commission Regulation
application of preferential customs duties on imports of          (EEC) No 1068/93 (10), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and         No 1482/96 (u);
Morocco and the West Bank and the Gaza Strip ('), as last         Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1300/97 (2), and in                 Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it
particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,                             must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the                 Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for
conditions for applying a preferential duty on large­             suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for
flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom)          small-flowered roses originating in Israel; whereas the
carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the         Common Customs Tariff duty should be re-established;
limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the       Whereas the quota for the products in question covers the
Community of fresh cut flowers;                                   period 1 January to 31 December 1998; whereas, as a
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 (3), as last          result, the suspension of the preferential duty and the
amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1 667/97 (4),            reintroduction of the Common Customs Tariff duty apply
opens and provides for the administration of Community            up to the end of that period at the latest;
tariff quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh,             Whereas, in between meetings of the Management
originating in Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Malta, Morocco and          Committee, the Commission must adopt such measures,
the West Bank and the Gaza Strip;
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2649/97 (*)
fixes the Community producer and import prices for                                          Article 1
carnations and roses for the application of the import
arrangements;                                                     For imports of small-flowered roses (CN codes ex
                                                                  0603 10 11 and ex 0603 10 51 ) originating in Israel, the
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (*), as             preferential customs duty fixed by Regulation (EC) No
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2062/97 Q, lays                1981 /94 is hereby suspended and the Common Customs
down the detailed rules for the application of the                Tariff duty is hereby re-established.
arrangements;
                                                                                            Article 2
Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (8), as last            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1998 .
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States .
                  Done at Brussels, 30 December 1997.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                          Hans VAN DEN BROEK
                                                                       Member of the Commission
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