CELEX: 31993R3475
Language: en
Date: 1993-12-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 3475/93 of 17 December 1993 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of large-flowered roses originating in Israel

No L 317/26                              Official Journal of the European Communities                             18 . 12. 93
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 3475/93
                                                     of 17 December 1993
                 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of large-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 3813/92 Q are used to
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87               convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the                      and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
application of preferential customs duties on imports of           conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and          whereas detailed rules on the application and determi­
Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                     nation of these conversions were set by Commission
3551 /88 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,         Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 (8);
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 fixes conditions               Whereas the preferential customs duty fixed for large­
for the application of a preferential customs duty on              flowered roses originating in Israel by Regulation (EEC)
large-flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous             No 2604/93 was suspended by Commission Regulation
(bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations             (EC) No 3109/93 (9);
within the limit of tariff quotas opened annually for
imports of fresh cut flowers into the Community ;
                                                                   Whereas on the basis of price recordings made as
                                                                   specified in Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2604/93 (3) opens              700/88 it must be concluded that the requirement for the
and provides for the administration of Community tariff            re-establishment of the preferential customs duty laid
quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating         down in the last paragraph of Article 2 (3) of Regulation
in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel ;                            (EEC) No 4088/87 is met for large-flowered roses
                                                                   originating in Israel ; whereas the preferential customs
Whereas Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87               duty should be reintroduced,
stipulates that the preferential customs duty shall be
re-established 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               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
price for a period, calculated from the actual date of
suspension of the actual preferential customs duty,
— of two successive market days, after suspension
                                                                                             Article 1
     pursuant to Article 2 (2) (a) of that Regulation,
— of three successive market days, after suspension
     pursuant to under Article 2 (2) (b) of that Regulation ;       For imports of large-flowered roses (CN codes ex
                                                                    0603 10 11 and ex 0603 10 51 ) originating in Israel the
                                                                    preferential customs duty set by Regulation (EEC) No
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2890/93 (4)                  2604/93 is reintroduced.
fixed Community producer prices for carnations and roses
for application of the arrangements for importation from
the countries in question ;
                                                                                              Article 2
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (*), as
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 291 7/93(f), laid
                                                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 18 December
(') OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.                              1993 .
(2) OJ No L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988 , p. 1 .
P) OJ No L 239, 24. 9. 1993, p. 1 .
(4) OJ No L 263, 22. 10. 1993, p. 10.                               0 OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(*) OJ No L 72, 18 . 3. 1988, p. 16.                                (8) OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
(« OJ No L 264, 23. 10. 1993, p. 33 .                               0 OJ No L 278, 11 . 11 . 1993, p. 44.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 17 December 1993.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                     Rene STEICHEN
                                                               Member of the Commission