CELEX: 31998R1041
Language: en
Date: 1998-05-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1041/98 of 19 May 1998 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of small-flowered roses originating in Israel

20. 5. 98              EN                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                   L 149/3
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1041/98
                                                         of 19 May 1998
                   re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of small-flowered roses
                                                      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 96/98 (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 the preferential customs duty fixed for small-
flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and Morocco            flowered roses originating in Israel by Regulation (EC) No
and the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (1), as last amended            1981/94 was suspended by Commission Regulation (EC)
by Regulation (EC) No 1300/97 (2), and in particular                 No 660/98 (12);
Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,
                                                                     Whereas on the basis of price recordings made as speci-
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 fixes conditions                 fied in Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No
for the application of a preferential customs duty on                700/88 it must be concluded that the requirement for
large-flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous               reintroduction of the preferential customs duty laid down
(bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations               in Article 2 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 is met for
within the limit of tariff quotas opened annually for                small-flowered roses originating in Israel; whereas the
imports of fresh cut flowers into the Community;                     preferential customs duty should be reintroduced;
                                                                     Whereas in between meetings of the Management
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981/94 (3), as last              Committee, the Commission must adopt such measures,
amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 650/98 (4),
opens and provides for the administration of Community
tariff quotas for certain products originating in Cyprus,
Egypt, Israel, Malta, Morocco, the West Bank and the
Gaza Strip, Tunisia and Turkey, and providing detailed
rules for extending and adapting these tariff quotas;
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1040/98 (5)
fixed Community producer and import prices for carna-
tions and roses for application of the arrangements for
importation from the countries in question;                                                     Article 1
                                                                     1. For imports of small-flowered roses (CN codes ex
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (6), as                0603 10 11 and ex 0603 10 51) originating in Israel the
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2062/97 (7), laid                 preferential customs duty set by amended Regulation (EC)
down detailed rules for the application of these arrange-            No 1981/94 is reintroduced.
ments;
                                                                     2.    Regulation (EC) No 660/98 is hereby repealed.
Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
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.                                                            Article 2
(2)  OJ  L 177, 5. 7. 1997, p. 1.
(3)  OJ  L 199, 2. 8. 1994, p. 1.
(4)  OJ  L 88, 24. 3. 1998, p. 8.                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 20 May 1998.
(5)  See page 1 of this Official Journal.
(6)  OJ  L 72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16.
(7)  OJ  L 289, 22. 10. 1997, p. 1.                                  (10) OJ L 108, 1. 5. 1993, p. 106.
( 8) OJ  L 387, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1.                                  (11) OJ L 135, 8. 5. 1998, p. 5.
( 9) OJ  L 22, 31. 1. 1995, p. 1.                                    (12) OJ L 90, 25. 3. 1998, p. 36.
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        This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
        States.
        Done at Brussels, 19 May 1998.
                                                                For the Commission
                                                                   Franz FISCHLER
                                                              Member of the Commission