CELEX: 31999R2529
Language: en
Date: 1999-11-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2529/1999 of 30 November 1999 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Morocco

1. 12. 1999            EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                     L 306/15
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2529/1999
                                                         of 30 November 1999
               suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty
                               on imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Morocco
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                    carnations and roses for the application of the import
                                                                               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(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for suspen-
                                                                               sion of the preferential customs duty are met for multi-
                                                                               florous (spray) carnations originating in Morocco;
                                                                               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, Morocco, the West Bank and Gaza
Strip (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1300/97 (2),            (6)   Whereas the quota for the products in question covers
and in particular Article 5(2)(b) thereof,                                     the period 1 November 1999 to 31 May 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                 (7)   Whereas, in between meetings of the Management
        (bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations                 Committees, the Commission must adopt such meas-
        within the limit of tariff quotas opened annually for                  ures,
        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 650/98 (4),
        opens and provides for the administration of
        Community tariff quotas for cut flowers and flower               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
        buds, fresh, originating in Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel,
        Jordan, Malta, Morocco, the West Bank and the Gaza
        Strip, Tunisia and Turkey;
                                                                                                    Article 1
(3)     Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (5),
        as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2062/97 (6), lays
        down the detailed rules for the application of the               For imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations (CN codes
        arrangements;                                                    ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in Morocco,
                                                                         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 (EC) No 2528/1999 (7)
        fixes the Community producer and import prices for
(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 88, 24.3.1998, p. 8.
(5) OJ L 72, 18.3.1988, p. 16.
(6) OJ L 289, 22.10.1997, p. 1.
(7) See page 13 of this Official Journal.                                This Regulation shall enter into force on 2 December 1999.
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         This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
         Done at Brussels, 30 November 1999.
                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                          Franz FISCHLER
                                                                    Member of the Commission