CELEX: 31993R3109
Language: en
Date: 1993-11-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 3109/93 of 10 November 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 278 /44                           Official Journal of the European Communities                             11 . 11 . 93
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 3109/93
                                                    of 10 November 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
 of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the                    Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (5), as
 application of preferential customs duties on imports of         last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 (6), lays
 certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and        down the detailed rules for the application of the
 Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                   arrangements ;
 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 are used to
 Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the                convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
 conditions for applying a preferential duty on large­            and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
 flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom)         conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
 carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the        whereas detailed rules on the application and determi­
 limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the      nation of these conversions were set by Commission
 Community of fresh cut flowers ;                                 Regulation (EEC) No 1068 /93 (8) ;
                                                                  Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2604/93 (3) opens            Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it
 and provides for the administration of Community tariff          must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
 quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating       Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for
 in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel respectively ;             suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for
                                                                  large-flowered roses originating in Israel ; whereas the
                                                                  Common Customs Tariff duty should be re-established,
 Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87
 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
 product of a given origin :                                                                  Article 1
(a) if, on two successive market days, the prices of the          For imports of large-flowered roses (CN codes ex
     imported product are less than 85 % of the                   0603 10 11 and ex 0603 10 51 ) originating in Israel, the
     Community producer price in respect of at least 30 %         preferential customs duty fixed by Council Regulation
     of the quantities for which prices are available on          (EEC) No 2604/93 is hereby suspended and the Common
     representative import markets ;                              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                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 11 November
     producer price in respect of at least 30 % of the             1993 .
     quantities for which prices are available on the
     representative import markets and if, for three days
                                                                  (4) OJ  No L  263, 22. 10. 1993, p. 10.
                                                                  0   OJ  No L  72, 18 . 3. 1988 , p. 16.
(>) OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.                            (6) OJ  No L  264, 23. 10. 1993, p. 33 .
(2) OJ No L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988, p. 1 .                           0   OJ  No L  387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 239, 24. 9. 1993, p. 1 .                              (8) 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, 10 November 1993.
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                      Rene STEICHEN
                                                                Member of the Commission