CELEX: 31997R0009
Language: en
Date: 1997-01-07 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 9/97 of 7 January 1997 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations originating in Morocco

No L 4/4              EN                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                  8 . 1 . 97
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 9197
                                                         of 7 January 1997
                  re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of uniflorous (standard)
                                               carnations originating in Morocco
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 (8), as
 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 last in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,       these conversions were set by Commission Regulation
                                                                    (EEC) No 1068/93 (10), as amended by Regulation (EC) No
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 fixes conditions                 1482/96 (u);
for the application of a preferential customs duty on
large-flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous              Whereas the preferential customs duty fixed for
(bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations              uniflorous (standard) carnations originating in Morocco by
within the limit of tariff quotas opened annually for               Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 was suspended by
imports of fresh cut flowers into the Community;                    Commission Regulation (EC) No 2440/96 (12);
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 (3), as last
                                                                    Whereas on the basis of price recordings made as
amended by Regulation (EC) No 2397/96 (4), opens and
                                                                    specified in Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No
provides for the administration of Community tariff                 700/88 it must be concluded that the requirement for
quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating          reintroduction of the preferential customs duty laid down
in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel;                              in the last indent of Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                    4088/87 is met for uniflorous (standard) carnations
Whereas Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                originating in Morocco; whereas the preferential customs
stipulates that the preferential customs duty shall be              duty should 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        Whereas the quota for the products in question covers the
prices are available on representative Community import             period 1 November 1996 to 31 October 1997; whereas, as
markets, not less than 85 % of the Community producer               a result, the suspension of the preferential duty and the
price for a period, calculated from the actual date of              reintroduction of the Common Customs Tariff duty apply
suspension of the actual preferential customs duty,                 up to the end of that period at the latest,
— of two successive market days, after suspension under
     Article 2 (2) (a) of that Regulation,
— of three successive market days, after suspension
     under Article 2 (2) (b) of that Regulation;                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 198 5/96 O
fixed Community producer prices for carnations and roses
for application of the arrangements for importation from                                       Article 1
the countries in question;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (*), as
                                                                    For imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations (CN codes
                                                                    ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in Morocco
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 f), laid                the preferential customs duty set by amended Regulation
                                                                    (EC) No 1981 /94 is reintroduced.
 ') OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.
 2) OJ No L 79, 29. 3. 1996, p. 6.
 3 OJ No L 199, 2. 8 . 1994, p. 1 .                                 (8) OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
 *) OJ  No  L 327, 18 . 12. 1996, p. 1 .                            0 OJ No L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
 J) OJ  No  L 264, 17. 10 . 1996, p. 14.                            (10) OJ No L 108 , 1 . 5. 1993, p. 96.
 6  OJ  No  L 72, 18 . 3. 1988, p. 16.                              (») OJ No L 188, 27. 7. 1996, p. 22.
 A  OJ  No  L 264, 23. 10. 1993, p. 33.                             H OJ No L 331 , 20. 12. 1996, p. 45.
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                                                   Article 2
           This Regulation shall enter into force on 8 January 1997.
           It shall apply until 31 October 1997 at the latest.
           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 7 January 1997.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                    Franz FISCHLER
                                                               Member of the Commission