CELEX: 31995R0654
Language: en
Date: 1995-03-27 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 654/95 of 27 March 1995 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Israel

28 . 3. 95          rENI                Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 68 /25
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 654/95
                                                       of 27 March 1995
                   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,                               during that period, the prices of the import product
                                                                          have been below that level ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                           Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2578/94 (*)
                                                                     fixes the Community producer prices for carnations and
                                                                     roses for the application of the import arrangements ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87
of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the                        Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (6), as
application of preferential customs duties on imports of             last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 Q, lays
certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and            down the detailed rules for the application of the
Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                       arrangements ;
3551 /88 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,
                                                                     Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the                    1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (8), as last
conditions for applying a preferential duty on large­                amended by Regulation (EC) No 150/95 (9), are used to
flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom)             convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the            and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the          conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
Community of fresh cut flowers ;                                     whereas detailed rules on the application and determi­
                                                                     nation of these conversions were set by Commission
                                                                     Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 (10), as last amended by
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 (3), as                  Regulation (EC) No 157/95 (»);
amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 298/95 (4),
opens and provides for the administration of Community               Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
tariff quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh,                Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it
originating in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel respec­            must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
tively ;                                                             Article 2 (2) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for
                                                                     suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for
Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                     multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Israel ;
provides, on the one hand, that for a given product of a             whereas the Common Customs Tariff duty should be
given origin, the preferential customs duty is to be                 re-established,
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 multiflorous (spray) 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 (EC) No
     representative import markets ;                                  1981 /94 is hereby suspended and the Common Customs
                                                                     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 29 March 1995.
     quantities for which prices are available on the
     representative import markets and if, for three days            O OJ No L 273, 25. 10. 1994, p. 4.
                                                                     (6) OJ No L 72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16.
                                                                     O OJ No L 264, 23. 10. 1993, p. 33.
(>)  OJ  No L  382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 2:                             (8) OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
 (2) OJ  No L  311 , 17. 11 . 1988, p. 1                             O OJ No L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
 (3) OJ  No  L 199, 2. 8. 1994, p. 1 .                               (10) OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
 (4) OJ  No  L 35, 15. 2. 1995, p. 6.                                (n) OJ No L 24, 1 . 2. 1995, p. 1 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 27 March 1995.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    Franz FISCHLER
                                                              Member of the Commission