CELEX: 31994R0006
Language: en
Date: 1994-01-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 6/94 of 4 January 1994 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of small-flowered roses originating in Israel

5 . 1 . 94                              Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 3/3
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 6/94
                                                       of 4 January 1994
                   suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common
                   Customs Tariff duty on imports of small-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 (*), as
 application of preferential customs duties on imports of           last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 (% lays
 certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and          down the detailed rules for the application of the
                                                                    arrangements ;
 Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 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 f7), as
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the                   amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (8), are used to
 conditions for applying a preferential duty on large­              convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
 flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom)           and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the           conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
 limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the        whereas detailed rules on the application and determi­
Community of fresh cut flowers ;                                    nation of these conversions were set by Commission
                                                                    Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 (9) ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2604/93 (3) opens               Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
and provides for the administration of Community tariff             Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it
quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating          must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel respectively ;               Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for
                                                                   suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for
                                                                   small-flowered roses originating in Israel ; whereas the
Whereas Article «2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                  Common Customs Tariff duty should be re-established,
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 small-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 Regulation (EEC) No
     of the quantities for which prices are available on           2604/93 is hereby suspended and the Common Customs
     representative import markets ;                               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
     producer price in respect of at least 30 % of the             This Regulation shall enter into force on 5 January 1994.
     quantities for which prices are available on the
     representative import markets and if, for three days          O   OJ  No L 263, 22. 10. 1993, p. 10.
                                                                   (s) OJ  No L 72, 18 . 3 . 1988, p. 16.
                                                                   (6) OJ  No L 264, 23. 10. 1993, p. 33.
(') OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.                             O   OJ  No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988, p. 1 .                            (8) OJ  No L 320, 22. 12. 1993, p. 32.
(3) OJ No L 239, 24. 9. 1993, p. 1 .                               O   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, 4 January 1994.
                                                                For the Commission
                                                                  Rene STEICHEN
                                                            Member of the Commission