CELEX: 32000R1019
Language: en
Date: 2000-05-15 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1019/2000 of 15 May 2000 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of uniflorous (bloom) carnations originating in Israel

L 115/18               EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                     16.5.2000
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1019/2000
                                                             of 15 May 2000
               suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty
                                  on imports of uniflorous (bloom) carnations originating in Israel
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                               (4)     Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (6), as last
                                                                                  amended by Regulation (EC) No 2062/97 (7), lays down
                                                                                  the detailed rules for the application of the arrange-
                                                                                  ments.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                                (5)     On the basis of prices recorded pursuant to Regulations
                                                                                  (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it must be
                                                                                  concluded that the conditions laid down in Article 2(2)
                                                                                  of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for suspension of the
                                                                                  preferential customs duty are met for uniflorous (bloom)
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 of 21                        carnations originating in Israel; whereas the Common
December 1987 fixing conditions for the application of prefer-                    Customs Tariff duty should be re-established.
ential customs duties on imports of certain flowers originating
in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and Morocco and the West Bank and
the Gaza Strip (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No                 (6)     The quota for the products in question covers the period
1300/97 (2), and in particular Article 5(2)(b) thereof,                           1 January to 31 December 2000; whereas, as a result,
                                                                                  the suspension of the preferential duty and the reintro-
                                                                                  duction of the Common Customs Tariff duty apply up
                                                                                  to the end of that period at the latest.
Whereas:
                                                                          (7)     In between meetings of the Management Committee for
                                                                                  Live Plants and Floriculture Products, the Commission
                                                                                  must adopt such measures,
(1)     Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the conditions
        for applying a preferential duty on large-flowered roses,
        small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom) carnations and
        multiflorous (spray) carnations within the limit of tariff
        quotas opened annually for imports into the
        Community of fresh cut flowers.
                                                                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
(2)     Council Regulation (EC) No 1981/94 (3), as last amended
        by Commission Regulation (EC) No 563/2000 (4), opens
        and provides for the administration of Community tariff                                        Article 1
        quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating
        in Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Malta, Morocco,
        the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Tunisia and Turkey,             For imports of uniflorous (bloom) carnations (CN code
        and providing detailed rules for extending and adapting           ex 0603 10 20) originating in Israel, the preferential customs
        these tariff quotas.                                              duty fixed by Regulation (EC) No 1981/94 is hereby suspended
                                                                          and the Common Customs Tariff duty is hereby re-established.
(3)     Commission Regulation (EC) No 1018/2000 (5) fixes the
        Community producer and import prices for carnations
        and roses for the application of the import arrange-                                           Article 2
        ments.
(1) OJ L 382, 31.12.1987, p. 22.                                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 17 May 2000.
(2) OJ L 177, 5.7.1997, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 199, 2.8.1994, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 68, 16.3.2000, p. 46.                                            (6) OJ L 72, 18.3.1988, p. 16.
(5) See page 16 of this Official Journal.                                 (7) OJ L 289, 22.10.1997, p. 1.
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
          Done at Brussels, 15 May 2000.
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                           Franz FISCHLER
                                                                     Member of the Commission