CELEX: 32000R0056
Language: en
Date: 2000-01-10
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 56/2000 of 10 January 2000 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of uniflorous (bloom) carnations originating in Israel

11. 1. 2000            EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                         L 6/25
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 56/2000
                                                           of 10 January 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,                                     down the detailed rules for the application of the
                                                                                arrangements;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                    (5)    Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
Community,                                                                      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 suspen-
                                                                                sion of the preferential customs duty are met for
                                                                                uniflorous (bloom) carnations originating in Israel;
                                                                                whereas the Common Customs Tariff duty should be
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 of 21                      re-established;
December 1987 fixing conditions for the application of prefer-
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)    Whereas the quota for the products in question covers
1300/97 (2), and in particular Article 5(2)(b) thereof,                         the period 1 January to 31 December 2000; whereas, as
                                                                                a result, the suspension of the preferential duty and the
                                                                                reintroduction of the Common Customs Tariff duty
                                                                                apply up to the end of that period at the latest;
(1)     Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the
        conditions for applying a preferential duty on large-
        flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom)         (7)    Whereas, in between meetings of the Management
        carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the               Committee, the Commission must adopt such measures,
        limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into
        the Community of fresh cut flowers;
(2)     Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981/94 (3), as last
        amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2530/
        1999 (4), opens and provides for the administration of           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
        Community tariff quotas for cut flowers and flower
        buds, fresh, originating in Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Malta,
        Morocco and the West Bank and the Gaza Strip;
                                                                                                     Article 1
(3)     Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 55/2000 ( )        5
        fixes the Community producer and import prices for
        carnations and roses for the application of the import
                                                                         For imports of uniflorous (bloom) carnations (CN code
        arrangements;
                                                                         ex 0603 10 20) originating in Israel, the preferential customs
                                                                         duty fixed by Regulation (EC) No 1981/94 is hereby suspended
                                                                         and the Common Customs Tariff duty is hereby re-established.
(4)     Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (6),
        as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2062/97 (7), lays
(1) OJ L 382, 31.12.1987, p. 22.
(2) OJ L 177, 5.7.1997, p. 1.                                                                        Article 2
(3) OJ L 199, 2.8.1994, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 306, 1.12.1999, p. 17.
(5) See page 23 of this Official Journal.
(6) OJ L 72, 18.3.1988, p. 16.
(7) OJ L 289, 22.10.1997, p. 1.                                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 12 January 2000.
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       This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
       Done at Brussels, 10 January 2000.
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                        Franz FISCHLER
                                                                  Member of the Commission