CELEX: 31996R0906
Language: en
Date: 1996-05-21 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 906/96 of 21 May 1996 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations originating in Israel

No L 122/6           EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                                  22. 5. 96
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 906/96
                                                       of 21 May 1996
                  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
Community,
                                                                  Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2524/95 (*)
                                                                   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 f), lays
certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and          down the detailed rules for the application of the
Morocco ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No                 arrangements;
539/96 (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 (8), as last
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the                  amended by Regulation (EC) No 150/95 (9), 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
carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the          conversion rates of the Member States' currencies; whereas
limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the        detailed rules on the application and determination of
Community of fresh cut flowers;                                    these conversions were set by Commission Regulation
                                                                   (EEC) No 1068/93 (10), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 (3), as last           No 2853/95 (u);
amended by Regulation (EC) No 585/96 (4), opened and
provides for the administration of Community tariff                Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating         Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it
                                                                   must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel;
                                                                   Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for
                                                                   suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for
Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                   uniflorous (standard) carnations originating in Israel,
provides, on the one hand, that for a given product of a           whereas the Common Customs Tariff duty should be
given origin, the preferential customs duty is to be               re-established,
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
is, except in exceptional cases, suspended and the                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
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
    imported product are less than 85 % of the                      For imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations (CN codes
    Community producer price in respect of at least 30 %           ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in Israel, the
    of the quantities for which prices are available on             preferential customs duty fixed by Regulation (EC) No
    representative import markets;                                  1981 /94 is hereby suspended and the Common Customs
                                                                   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
     producer price in respect of at least 30 % of the             This Regulation shall enter into force on 22 May 1996.
     quantities for which prices are available on the
     representative import markets and if, for three days           0 OJ No L 258, 28. 10. 1995, p. 42.
                                                                    if) OJ No L 72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16.
                                                                    0 OJ No L 264, 23. 10. 1993, p. 33.
(') OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.                              (8) OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 79, 29. 3. 1996, p. 6.                                  0 OJ No L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 199, 2. 8. 1994, p. 1 .                                 (10) OJ No L 108 , 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
h) OJ No L 84, 3. 4. 1996, p. 8.                                     ") OJ No L 299, 12. 12. 1995, p. 1 .
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 21 May 1996.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                   Franz FISCHLER
                                                             Member of the Commission