CELEX: 31998R0765
Language: en
Date: 1998-04-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 765/98 of 7 April 1998 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations originating in Israel

8. 4. 98              EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                                   L 109/3
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 765/98
                                                     of 7 April 1998
                  re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of uniflorous (standard)
                                            carnations originating in Israel
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
                                                                  and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
                                                                  conversion rates of the Member States’ currencies;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             whereas detailed rules on the application and determina-
Community,                                                        tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu-
                                                                  lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (10), as amended by Regulation
                                                                  (EC) No 1482/96 (11);
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87
of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the applica-
tion of preferential customs duties on imports of certain         Whereas the preferential customs duty fixed for
flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and Morocco         uniflorous (standard) carnations originating in Israel by
and the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (1), as last amended         Regulation (EC) No 1981/94 was suspended by Commis-
by Regulation (EC) No 1300/97 (2), and in particular              sion Regulation (EC) No 659/98 (12);
Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,
                                                                  Whereas on the basis of price recordings made as speci-
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 fixes conditions              fied in Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No
for the application of a preferential customs duty on             700/88 it must be concluded that the requirement for
large-flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous            reintroduction of the preferential customs duty laid down
(bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations            in Article 2 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 is met for
within the limit of tariff quotas opened annually for             uniflorous (standard) carnations originating in Israel;
imports of fresh cut flowers into the Community;                  whereas the preferential customs duty should be reintro-
                                                                  duced;
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981/94 (3), as last
amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 650/98 (4),              Whereas in between meetings of the Management
opens and provides for the administration of Community            Committee, the Commission must adopt such measures,
tariff quotas for certain products originating in Algeria,
Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Malta, Morocco, the West
Bank and the Gaza Strip, Tunisia and Turkey, and
providing detailed rules for extending and adapting these
tariff quotas;
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 658/98 (5)
fixed Community producer and import prices for carna-
tions and roses for application of the arrangements for
importation from the countries in question;                                                  Article 1
                                                                  1. For imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations (CN
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (6), as
                                                                  codes ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2062/97 (7), laid
                                                                  Israel the preferential customs duty set by Regulation (EC)
down detailed rules for the application of these arrange-
                                                                  No 1981/94 is reintroduced.
ments;
                                                                  2.    Regulation (EC) No 659/98 is hereby repealed.
Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (8), as
amended by Regulation (EC) No 150/95 (9), are used to
(1)  OJ L 382, 31. 12. 1987, p. 22.                                                          Article 2
(2)  OJ L 177, 5. 7. 1997, p. 1.
(3)  OJ L 199, 2. 8. 1994, p. 1.
(4)  OJ L 88, 24. 3. 1998, p. 8.                                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 8 April 1998.
(5)  OJ L 90, 25. 3. 1998, p. 32.
(6)  OJ L 72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16.
(7)  OJ L 289, 22. 10. 1997, p. 1.                                (10) OJ L 108, 1. 5. 1993, p. 106.
( 8) OJ L 387, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1.                                (11) OJ L 188, 27. 7. 1996, p. 22.
( 9) OJ L 22, 31. 1. 1995, p. 1.                                  (12) OJ L 90, 25. 3. 1998, p. 34.
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        This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
        States.
        Done at Brussels, 7 April 1998.
                                                                For the Commission
                                                                   Franz FISCHLER
                                                              Member of the Commission