CELEX: 31997R0799
Language: en
Date: 1997-04-30 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 799/97 of 30 April 1997 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of small-flowered roses originating in Israel

No L 114/38           EN                  Official Journal of the European Communities                                   1 . 5 . 97
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 799197
                                                         of 30 April 1997
                  re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of small -flowered roses
                                                       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 381 3/92 (s), as last
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 (l ()), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 fixes conditions                 No 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 small­
(bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations               flowered roses originating in Israel by Regulation (EC) No
within the limit of tariff quotas opened annually for                1981 /94 was suspended by Commission Regulation (EC)
imports of fresh cut flowers into the Community;                     No 462/97 (l2);
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 (3), as last            Whereas on the basis of price recordings made as
amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 592/97 (4),                 specified in Regulations (EEC) No 4088/ 87 and (EEC) No
opens and provides for the administration of Community               700/ 88 it must be concluded that the requirement for
tariff quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh,                reintroduction of the preferential customs duty laid down
originating in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel;                   in the last indent of Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                     4088/ 87 is met for small-flowered roses originating in
Whereas Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/ 87                Israel; whereas the preferential customs duty should be
stipulates that the preferential customs duty shall 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 small-flowered roses (CN codes ex
                                                                      0603 10 11 and ex 0603 10 51 ) 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 1 May 1997.
 (') OJ No   L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.
 (2) OJ No   L 79, 29. 3. 1996, p. 6.
 0   OJ No   L 199, 2. 8 . 1994, p. 1 .                               (s) OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
 («) OJ No   L 89, 4. 4. 1997, p. 1 .                                 0 OJ No L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
 (') OJ No   L 264, 17. 10 . 1996, p. 14.                             (I0) OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
 («) 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.                                M OJ No L 70, 12. 3. 1997, p. 1 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 30 April 1997.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    Franz FISCHLER
                                                              Member of the Commission