CELEX: 31996R2188
Language: en
Date: 1996-11-14 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2188/96 of 14 November 1996 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of small-flowered roses originating in Israel

15. 11 . 96           EN                  Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 292/9
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2188 /96
                                                        of 14 November 1996
                   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,                           Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1985/96 f5)
                                                                       fixes the Community producer prices for carnations and
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                roses for the application of the import arrangements;
  Community,
                                                                       Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (6), as
                                                                       last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 Q, 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 last amended by Regulation (EC) No                    1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 381 3/92 (8), as last
  539/96 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,             amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 50/95 (9), are used to
                                                                       convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
                                                                       and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
 Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the                     conversion rates of the Member States' currencies; whereas
 conditions for applying a preferential duty on large­                 detailed rules on the application and determination of
 flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom)
 carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the
                                                                       these conversions were set by Commission Regulation
 limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the
                                                                       (EEC) No 1068/93 (l0), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
                                                                       No 1482/96 (");
 Community of fresh cut flowers;
                                                                       Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
 Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 (3), as last              Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88 , it
 amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 877/96 (4), opens and                 must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
 provides for the administration of Community tariff                   Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for
 quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating            suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for
 in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel respectively,                   small-flowered roses originating in Israel; whereas the
                                                                       Common Customs Tariff duty should be re-established;
 Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                      Whereas the quota for the products in question covers the
 provides, on the one hand, that for a given product of a              period 1 November 1996 to 31 October 1997; whereas, as
 given origin, the preferential customs duty is to be                  a result, the suspension of the preferential duty and the
 applicable only if the price of the imported product is at            reintroduction of the Common Customs Tariff duty apply
 least equal to 85 % of the Community producer price;                  up to the end of that period at the latest,
 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
                                                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 product of a given origin :
 (a) if, on two successive market days, the prices of the                                         Article 1
     imported product are less than 85 % of the
     Community producer price in respect of at least 30 %              For imports of small-flowered roses (CN codes ex
     of the quantities for which prices are available on              0603 10 11 and ex 0603 10 51 ) originating in Israel, the
     representative import markets;                                    preferential customs duty fixed by Regulation (EC) No
     or
                                                                       1981 /94 is hereby suspended and the Common Customs
                                                                      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
     tively above and below 85 % of the Community                                                 Article 2
     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 15 November
     representative import markets and if, for three days              1996 and is applicable until 31 October 1997 at the latest.
     during that period, the prices of the import product
     have been below that level;                                      (5) OJ  No L 264, 17. 10 . 1996, p. 14.
                                                                      (6) OJ  No L 72, 18 . 3. 1988 , p. 16.
                                                                      0 OJ    No L 264, 23. 10 . 1993, p. 33.
(') OJ   No  L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.                             (8) OJ  No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(2) OJ   No  L 79, 29. 3. 1996, p. 6.                                 0 OJ    No L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
H   OJ   No  L 199, 2. 8 . 1994, p. 1 .                               (I0) OJ No L 108 , 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
(4) OJ   No  L 249, 1 . 10 . 1996, p. 1 .                             (") OJ  No 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, 14 November 1996 .
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                      Franz FISCHLER
                                                                Member of the Commission