CELEX: 31994R2718
Language: en
Date: 1994-11-08 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2718/94 of 8 November 1994 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Israel

No L 288/ 18                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                9 . 11 . 94
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2718/94
                                                      of 8 November 1994
                   suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common
                   Customs Tariff duty on imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in
                                                              Israel
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2578/94 (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 (*), 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 Q, 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 (EC) No 1981 /94 (3) opens              Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it
 and provides for the administration of Community tariff            must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
 quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating         Article 2 (2) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for
 in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel respectively ;               suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for
                                                                    multiflorous (spray) 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            For imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations (CN codes
     imported product are less than 85 % of the                    ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in Israel, the
     Community producer price in respect of at least 30 %          preferential customs duty fixed by Regulation (EC) No
     of the quantities for which prices are available on            1981 /94 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 10 November
                                                                    1994.
     quantities for which prices are available on the
     representative import markets and if, for three days
     during that period, the prices of the import product          O OJ No L 273, 25. 10. 1994, p. 4.
     have been below that level ;                                  O OJ No L 72, 18 . 3. 1988, p. 16.
                                                                   (4 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.
(2) OJ No L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988, p. 1 .                            O OJ     No L 108,  1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
(3) OJ No L 199, 2. 8. 1994, p. 1 .                                (10) 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, 8 November 1994.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                     Rene STEICHEN
                                                               Member of the Commission