CELEX: 31997R0433
Language: en
Date: 1997-03-05 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 433/97 of 5 March 1997 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Israel

No L 65/ 52            EN                  Official Journal of the European Communities                                  6 . 3 . 97
                                            COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 433/97
                                                            of 5 March 1997
                    re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of multiflorous (spray)
                                                    carnations 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 3813/92 (8), as
 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 ( l0), as amended by Regulation (EC) No
 Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 fixes conditions                   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
 (bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations                multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Israel by
 within the limit of tariff quotas opened annually for                 Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 was suspended by
 imports . of fresh cut flowers into the Community,                    Commission Regulation (EC) No 362/97 (l2);
 Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 (3), as last
                                                                       Whereas on the basis of price recordings made as
 amended by Regulation (EC) No 2397/96 (4), opens and
                                                                       specified in Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No
 provides for the administration of Community tariff                   700/88 it must be concluded that the requirement for
 quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating            reintroduction of the preferential customs duty laid down
 in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel;                                in the last indent of Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                       4088/87 is met for multiflorous (spray) carnations
 Whereas Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                  originating in Israel; whereas the preferential customs
 stipulates that the preferential customs duty shall be                duty should 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
 price for a period, calculated from the actual date of                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 suspension of the actual preferential customs duty,
— of two successive market days, after suspension under
     Article 2 (2) (a) of that Regulation,                                                          Article 1
— of three successive market days, after suspension
     under Article 2 (2) (b) of that Regulation;                       For imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations (CN codes
                                                                       ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in Israel the
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1985/96 (5)                      preferential customs duty set by amended Regulation (EC)
fixed Community producer prices for carnations and roses               No 1981 /94 is reintroduced .
for application of the arrangements for importation from
the countries in question;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (6), as                                               Article 2
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 Q, laid
                                                                      This Regulation shall enter into force on 6 March 1997.
(') OJ  No  L 382, 31 . 12. 1987,    p. 22.
(2) OJ  No  L 79, 29 . 3 . 1996, p.   6.
(3) OJ  No  L  199 , 2. 8 . 1994, p.  1.                              (8) OJ  No  L  387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
 4  OJ  No  L 327, 18 . 12. 1996,    p. 1 .                           0 OJ    No  L  22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
(5) OJ No L 264, 17. 10 . 1996, p. 14.                                H OJ    No   L  108 , 1 . 5. 1993, p. 96 .
(6) OJ No L 72, 18 . 3. 1988, p. 16.                                  (") OJ  No   L  188 , 27. 7. 1996, p. 22.
0 OJ No L 264, 23 . 10 . 1993, p. 33 .                                 12 OJ  No   L  59, 28 . 2. 1997, p. 46 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 5 March 1997 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    Franz FISCHLER
                                                              Member of the Commission