CELEX: 31996R1741
Language: en
Date: 1996-09-06 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1741/96 of 6 September 1996 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of small-flowered roses originating in Israel

7. 9 . 96              EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 226/3
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1741/96
                                                        of 6 September 1996
                     re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of small -flowered roses
                                                         originating in Israel
    THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          down detailed rules for the application of these
                                                                         arrangements;
    Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
    Community,                                                          Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
                                                                         1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 381 3/92 (8), as last
    Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 50/95 (9), are used to
   of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the                        convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
   application of preferential customs duties on imports of             and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
   certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and            conversion rates of the Member States' currencies; whereas
   Morocco ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No                   detailed rules on the application and determination of
   539/96 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,             these conversions were set by Commission Regulation
                                                                        (EEC) No 1068/93 (10), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
   Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 fixes conditions                 No 1482/96 (");
   for the application of a preferential customs duty on
   large-flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous              Whereas the preferential customs duty fixed for small­
  (bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations               flowered roses originating in Israel by Regulation (EC) No
  within the limit of tariff quotas opened annually for                 1981 /94 was suspended by Commission Regulation (EC)
  imports of fresh cut flowers into the Community,                     No 1669/96 (,2);
  Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 (3), as last             Whereas on the basis of price recordings made as
  amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1099/96 (4),                specified in Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No
  opens and provides for the administration of Community               700/88 it must be concluded that the requirement for
  tariff quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh,                reintroduction of the preferential customs duty laid down
  originating in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel;                   in the last indent of Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                       4088/87 is met for small-flowered roses originating in
  Whereas Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                 Israel; whereas the preferential customs duty should be
  stipulates that the preferential customs duty shall be              reintroduced,
  reintroduced for a given product of a given origin if the
  prices of the imported product (full rate customs duty not
 deducted) are, for at least 70 % of the quantities for which
 prices are available on representative Community import
 markets, not less than 85 % of the Community producer                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 price for a period, calculated from the actual date of
 suspension of the actual preferential customs duty,
 — of two successive market days, after suspension under
                                                                                                  Article 1
      Article 2 (2) (a) of that Regulation ,
 — of three successive market days, after suspension
      under Article 2 (2) (b) of that Regulation;                     For imports of small-flowered roses (CN codes ex
                                                                      0603 10 11 and ex 0603 10 51 ) originating in Israel the
                                                                      preferential customs duty set by amended Regulation (EC)
 Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 667/96 (*) fixed               No 1981 /94 is reintroduced.
 Community producer prices for carnations and roses for
 application of the arrangements for importation from the
 countries in question;
                                                                                                  Article 2
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (f), as
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 (7), laid
                                                                     This Regulation shall enter into force on 7 September
                                                                      1996 .
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(4)  OJ   No  L 146, 20 . 6. 1996, p. 8 .                            O OJ     No L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
(j OJ No L 92, 13. 4. 1996, p. 11 .                                  H OJ     No L 108 , 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
(6) OJ No L 72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16.                                  (") OJ   No L 188 , 27. 7. 1996, p. 22.
O OJ No L 264, 23. 10 . 1993, p. 33 .                               H OJ      No L 214, 23. 8. 1996, p. 4.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 6 September 1996.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                    Franz FISCHLER
                                                              Member of the Commission