CELEX: 31996R1658
Language: en
Date: 1996-08-19 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1658/96 of 19 August 1996 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of small-flowered roses originating in Israel

No L 210 / 16         EN                   Official Journal of the European Communities                                  20 . 8 . 96
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1658 196
                                                            of 19 August 1996
                   re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of small -flowered roses
                                                          originating in Israel
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (6), as
                                                                        last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 f), laid
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  down detailed rules for the application of these
 Community,                                                             arrangements;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                  Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
 of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the                          1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (8), as last
 application of preferential customs duties on imports of               amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 50/95 (9), are used to
 certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and             convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
 Morocco ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No                    and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
                                                                       conversion rates of the Member States' currencies; whereas
 539/96 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,
                                                                       detailed rules on the application and determination of
                                                                       these conversions were set by Commission Regulation
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 fixes conditions                   (EEC) No 1068 /93 (I0), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
 for the application of a preferential customs duty on                  No 1482/96 O 1);
 large-flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous
(bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations                 Whereas the preferential customs duty fixed for small­
within the limit of tariff quotas opened annually for                  flowered roses originating in Israel by Regulation (EC) No
imports of fresh cut flowers into the Community;                        1981 /94 was suspended by Commission Regulation (EC)
                                                                       No 1638/96 (,2);
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 (*), as last
amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1099/96 (4),                  Whereas on the basis of price recordings made as
opens and provides for the administration of Community                 specified in Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No
tariff quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh,                  700/88 it must be concluded that the requirement for
originating in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel;                     reintroduction of the preferential customs duty laid down
                                                                       in the last indent of Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
Whereas Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                   4088/87 is met for small-flowered roses originating in
stipulates that the preferential customs duty shall be                 Israel; whereas the preferential customs duty should be
reintroduced for a given product of a given origin if the              reintroduced,
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                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
markets, not less than 85 % of the Community producer
price for a period, calculated from the actual date of
suspension of the actual preferential customs duty,                                              Article 1
— of two successive market days, after suspension under
     Article 2 (2) (a) of that Regulation,                             For imports of small-flowered roses (CN codes ex
                                                                       0603 10 11 and ex 0603 10 51 ) originating in Israel the
— of three successive market days, after suspension                    preferential customs duty set by amended Regulation (EC)
     under Article 2 (2) (b) of that Regulation;                       No 1981 /94 is reintroduced.
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 667/96 (*) fixed
Community producer prices for carnations and roses for                                           Article 2
application of the arrangements for importation from the
countries in question;                                                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 20 August 1996.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States .
                  r-w      .         i    iq a       » 1 q0 /                    For the Commission
                  Done at Brussels, 19 August 1996 .
                                                                                   Erkki LIIKANEN
                                                                             Member of the Commission
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