CELEX: 31987R4184
Language: en
Date: 1987-12-21
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 4184/87 of 21 December 1987 opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, falling within code 0603 of the combined nomenclature, originating in Jordan (1988)

31 . 12 . 87                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                  No L 400 / 1
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                                                 (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                            COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC ) No 4184 / 87
                                                          of 21 December 1987
                     opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for cut flowers and
                     flower buds, fresh, falling within code 0603 of the combined nomenclature, originating in
                                                              Jordan ( 1988 )
  THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                favourable tariff arrangements apply only to imports in
                                                                          respect of which certain price conditions are observed ;
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
  Economic Community, and in particular Article 113                       Whereas it is possible that from 1 January 1988 the
  thereof,                                                                nomenclature used in the Common Customs Tariff will be
                                                                          replaced by the combined nomenclature based on the
  Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,                     International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity
                                                                          Description and Coding System; whereas this Regulation
  Whereas Article 2 of the Additional Protocol to the                    takes account of that fact by using the combined
  Cooperation Agreement between the European Economic                     nomenclature codes within which the products concerned
  Community and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (')                       fall ;
  provides that fresh cut flowers and flower buds, falling
  within the combined nomenclature codes appearing in                    Whereas it is in particular necessary to ensure that all
  Article 1 , originating in that country, may be imported into          Community importers enjoy equal and uninterrupted access
  the Community at reduced rates of customs duty within the              to the abovementioned quotas and uninterrupted application
  limits of an annual Community tariff quota of 50 tonnes;               of the rates laid down for those quotas to all imports of the
                                                                         products concerned into all Member States until the quotas
 Whereas , within these limits , Common Customs Tariff                   have been used up; whereas, in the present case, it seems
 duties are to be abolished progressively over the same periods          advisable not to allocate the quotas among the Member
  and in accordance with the same time tables as laid down in            States, without prejudice to the drawing against the quota
 Articles 75 and 243 of the Act of Accession of Spain and                volumes of such quantities as they may need , under the
 Portugal ; whereas , for the period 1 January to 31 October             conditions and according to the procedures specified in
  1988 , the quota duties are to be equal to 62,5% of the                Article 1 (3 ); whereas this method of administration requires
 Common Customs Tariff duties; whereas , within the limits               close cooperation between the Member States and the
 of this tariff quota, the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese           Commission and the latter must , in particular, be able to
 Republic are to apply duties calculated in accordance with              monitor the rate at which the quotas are used up and inform
 Council Regulation (EEC) No 2573 / 87 of 11 August 1987                 the Member States accordingly;
 laying down the arrangements for trade between Spain and
 Portugal on the one hand and Algeria, Egypt, Jordan ,                   Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of the
 Lebanon , Tunisia and Turkey on the other ( 2); whereas the             Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are united
 tariff quota in question should therefore be opened for the             within and jointly represented by the Benelux Economic
 period from 1 January to 31 October 1988 amounting, by                  Union , all transactions concerning the administration of
 virtue of the pro rata temporis clause , to 41,667 tonnes for           quota shares allocated to that economic union may be carried
 the period in question;                                                out by any of its members ,
 Whereas large-flowered and small flowered roses and
 unifloral and multifloral carnations are only covered by these         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
 quotas subject to the conditions laid down by Council
 Regulation (EEC) No 4088 / 87 of 21 December 1987
establishing conditions for the application of preferential
                                                                                                     Article 1
customs duties on imports of certain floricultural products
originating in Cyprus, Israel and Jordan ( 3 ); whereas these
                                                                        1.       From 1 January to 3 1 October 1988 the customs duties
H OJ No L 297, 21 . 10. 1987 , p . 19 .                                 applicable to imports into the Community of the products
(2 ) OJ No L 250 , 1 . 9 . 1987 , p . 1 .                               listed below, originating in Jordan, shall be suspended at the
( 3) OJ No L 382, 31 . 12 . 1987 , p . 22 .                             level and within the limits of the tariff quota:
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No L 400 / 2                               Official Journal of the European Communities
    Order                                                                                    Volume of Quota          Quota duty
                   CN Code                               Description                             (tonnes)                (% )
      No
09.1152         0603 10 51        Cut flowers and flower buds of a kind suitable for             41,667         — From 1 January to
                0603 10 53         bouquets or for ornamental purposes, fresh , dried, dyed,                      31 May 1988 :
                                                                                                                  10
                0603  10 55        bleached, impregnated or otherwise prepared:
                0603  10 61        — Fresh :                                                                    — From 1 June to
                0603  10 65                                                                                       31 October 1988 :
                0603  10 69        — — From 1 November to 31 May
                                                                                                                  15
                0603  10 11        — — From 1 June to 31 October
                 0603  10 13
                 0603  10 15
                 0603  10 21
                 0603  10 25
                 0603  10 29
Within the limits of the tariff quota , the Kingdom of Spain              interruption against their accumulated shares of the
and the Portuguese Republic shall apply customs duties                    Community quota .
calculated in accordance with Regulation (EEC ) No
2573 / 87 .                                                               2.      Each Member State shall ensure that importers of the
                                                                          products concerned have free access to the quotas for as long
2.     Access to the tariff quotas referred to in paragraph 1             as the residual balance of the quota volume so permits .
may be halted for large-flowered and small-flowered roses
and unifloral and multifloral carnations if it is found at                3.      Member States shall charge imports of the products
Community level that the price conditions laid down by                    concerned against their shares as and when the products are
Regulation (EEC) No 4088 / 87 are not being observed.                     entered with customs authorities for free circulation .
In such cases , the Commission shall adopt regulations                    4 . The extent to which the quota has been used up shall be
re-establishing the duties applicable to the products in                  determined on the basis of the imports charged in accordance
question and, where appropriate, re-introducing this                      with paragraph 3 .
Regulation on the dates and in respect of the products and
periods indicated in the Regulations in question.
                                                                                                      Article 3
 3 . If an importer indicates that a consignment of the
products in question is to be imported into a Member State                 At the request of the Commission, Member States shall
 and applies to use the quotas, the Member State concerned                 inform it of imports actually charged against the quota.
 shall inform the Commission and draw an amount
 corresponding to the requirements to the extent that the
 available balance of the quota so permits .
                                                                                                      Article 4
 4.     Shares drawn pursuant to paragraph 3 shall be valid
 until the end of the quota period .                                       The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
                                                                           closely in order to ensure that this Regulation is complied
                                                                           with .
                             Article 2
                                                                                                       Article 5
 1.     Member States shall take all appropriate measures to
 ensure that shares drawn pursuant to Article 1(3 ) are opened
 in such a way that imports may be chared without                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1988 .
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States .
                   Done at Brussels , 21 December 1987 .
                                                                                              For the Council
                                                                                                The President
                                                                                                B. HAARDER