CELEX: 31998R0946
Language: en
Date: 1998-05-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 946/98 of 5 May 1998 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of uniflorous (bloom) carnations originating in Israel

6. 5. 98               EN                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                  L 132/9
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 946/98
                                                         of 5 May 1998
                   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,                           convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
                                                                      and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
                                                                      conversion rates of the Member States’ currencies;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 whereas detailed rules on the application and determina-
Community,                                                            tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu-
                                                                      lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (10), as last amended by Regula-
                                                                      tion (EC) No 1482/96 (11);
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87
of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the applica-
tion of preferential customs duties on imports of certain             Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and Morocco             Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it
and the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (1), as last amended             must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
by Regulation (EC) No 1300/97 (2), and in particular                  Article 2(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for suspen-
Article 5(2)(b) thereof,                                              sion of the preferential customs duty are met for
                                                                      uniflorous (bloom) carnations originating in Israel;
                                                                      whereas the Common Customs Tariff duty should be
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the                     re-established;
conditions for applying a preferential duty on large-flow-
ered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom) carna-
                                                                      Whereas the quota for the products in question covers the
tions and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the limit
                                                                      period 1 January to 31 December 1998; whereas, as a
of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the
                                                                      result, the suspension of the preferential duty and the
Community of fresh cut flowers;
                                                                      reintroduction of the Common Customs Tariff duty apply
                                                                      up to the end of that period at the latest;
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981/94 (3), as last
amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 650/98 (4),                  Whereas, in between meetings of the Management
opens and provides for the administration of Community                Committee, the Commission must adopt such measures,
tariff quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, origin-
ating in Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Malta, Morocco and the
West Bank and the Gaza Strip;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 944/98 (5) fixes
the Community producer and import prices for carna-                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
tions and roses for the application of the import arrange-
ments;
                                                                                                 Article 1
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (6), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2062/97 (7), lays
down the detailed rules for the application of the arrange-           For imports of uniflorous (bloom) carnations (CN codes
ments;                                                                ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in Israel,
                                                                      the preferential customs duty fixed by Regulation (EC)
                                                                      No 1981/94 is hereby suspended and the Common
Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article            Customs Tariff duty is hereby re-established.
1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (8), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 150/95 (9), are used to
(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)  See page 5 of this Official Journal.                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 6 May 1998.
(6)  OJ  L 72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16.
(7)  OJ  L 289, 22. 10. 1997, p. 1.
(8)  OJ  L 387, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1.                                   (10) OJ L 108, 1. 5. 1993, p. 106.
( 9) OJ  L 22, 31. 1. 1995, p. 1.                                     (11) OJ L 188, 27. 7. 1996, p. 22.
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         This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
         States.
         Done at Brussels, 5 May 1998.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                    Franz FISCHLER
                                                               Member of the Commission