CELEX: 31994R1451
Language: en
Date: 1994-06-24 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1451/94 of 23 June 1994 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations originating in Israel

24. 6. 94                              Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 157/ 19
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1451/94
                                                       of 23 June 1994
                  suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing die Common
                  Customs Tariff duty on imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations originating
                                                           in Israel
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1 168/94 (4)
                                                                  fixes the Community producer prices for carnations and
                                                                  roses for the application of the import arrangements ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Community,
                                                                  Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (*), as
                                                                  last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 (6), lays
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87             down the detailed rules for the application of the
of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the                     arrangements ;
 application of preferential customs duties on imports of
certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and         Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                     1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 0, as
3551 /88 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,        amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (8), are used to
                                                                  convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the                 and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
conditions for applying a preferential duty on large­             conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom)          whereas detailed rules on the application and determi­
carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the         nation of these conversions were set by Commission
limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the       Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 (9), as amended by
Community of fresh cut flowers ;                                  Regulation (EC) No 547/94 (10);
                                                                  Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2604/93 (3)                   Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it
opened and provides for the administration of                     must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
Community tariff quotas for cut flowers and flower buds,          Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for
fresh, originating in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel ;        suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for
                                                                  uniflorous (standard) carnations originating in Israel ;
Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                  whereas the Common Customs Tariff duty should be
provides, on the one hand, that for a given product of a          re-established,
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 ;
whereas, on the other hand, the preferential customs duty         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
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
     imported product are less than 85 % of the                   For imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations (CN codes
     Community producer price in respect of at least 30 %         ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in Israel, the
     of the quantities for which prices are available on          preferential customs duty fixed by Regulation (EEC) No
     representative import markets ;                              2604/93 is hereby suspended and the Common Customs
     or
                                                                  Tariff duty is hereby re-established.
(b) if, over a period of five to seven successive market
     days, the prices of the imported product are alterna­                                 Article 2
     tively above and below 85 % of the Community
     producer price in respect of     at least 30 % of the
     quantities for which prices      are available on the        This Regulation shall enter into force on 24 June 1 994.
     representative import markets    and if, for three days
     during that period, the prices   of the import product       O OJ No L 130, 25. 5. 1994, p. 21 .
     have been below that level :                                 O OJ No L 72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16.
                                                                  (6) OJ No L 264, 23. 10. 1993, p. 33.
                                                                  O OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(') OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.                            (8) OJ No L 320, 22. 12. 1993, p. 32.
0 OJ No L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988, p. 1 .                             O OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
O OJ No L 239, 24. 9. 1993, p. 1 .                                H OJ No L 69, 12. 3. 1994, p. 1 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 23 June 1994.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                     Rene STEICHEN
                                                               Member of the Commission