CELEX: 31993R3594
Language: en
Date: 1993-12-28
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 3594/93 of 27 December 1993 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of large-flowered roses originating in Israel

No L 326/60                            Official Journal of the European Communities                              28 . 12. 93
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 3594/93
                                                    of 27 December 1993
                  suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common
                  Customs Tariff duty on imports of large-flowered roses 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             Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (■*), as
of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the                     last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 (6), lays
application of preferential customs duties on imports of          down the detailed rules for the application of the
certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and         arrangements ;
Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
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 3813/92 Q, as
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the                 amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (8), are used to
conditions for applying a preferential duty on large­             convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom)          and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
                                                                  conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the
limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the       whereas detailed rules on the application and determi­
Community of fresh cut flowers ;                                  nation of these conversions were set by Commission
                                                                  Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 (9);
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2604/93 (') opens             Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
and provides for the administration of Community tariff           Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it
                                                                  must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating
in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel respectively ;              Article 2 (2) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for
                                                                  suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for
                                                                  large-flowered roses originating in Israel ; whereas the
Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088 /87                 Common Customs Tariff duty should be 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 ;             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
whereas, on the other hand, the preferential customs duty
is, except in exceptional cases, suspended and the
Common Customs Tariff duty introduced for a given                                               Article 1
product of a given origin :
                                                                  For imports of large-flowered roses (CN codes ex
(a) if, on two successive market days, the prices of the          0603 10 11 and ex 0603 10 51 ) originating in Israel, the
     imported product are less than 85 % of the                   preferential customs duty fixed by Council Regulation
     Community producer price in respect of at least 30 %         (EEC) No 2604/93 is hereby suspended and the Common
     of the quantities for which prices are available on          Customs Tariff duty is hereby re-established.
     representative import markets ;
     or
                                                                                                Article 2
(b) if, over a period of five to seven successive market
     days, the prices of the imported product are alterna­
     tively above and below 85 % of the Community                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 28 December
                                                                   1993 .
     producer price in respect of at least 30 % of the
     quantities for which prices are available on the
     representative import markets and if, for three days         (<)  OJ  No L  263, 22. 10 . 1993,    p. 10.
                                                                  O    OJ  No L  72, 18 . 3 . 1988 , p.  16 .
                                                                  (<•) OJ  No L  264, 23 . 10 . 1993,   p. 33.
(') OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.                            (7)  OJ  No L  387, 31 . 12. 1992,    p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988, p. 1 .                           (8)  OJ  No L  320, 22. 12. 1993,     p. 32.
O OJ No L 239, 24. 9 . 1993, p. 1 .                               0    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, 27 December 1993.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                     René STEICHEN
                                                               Member of the Commission