CELEX: 31993R3591
Language: en
Date: 1993-12-28
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 3591/93 of 27 December 1993 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Israel

No L 326/54                             Official Journal of the European Communities                               28 . 12. 93
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 3591 /93
                                                     of 27 December 1993
                  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,                          Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2890/93 (4)
                                                                     fixes the Community producer prices for carnations and
                                                                     roses for the application of the import arrangements ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,
                                                                     Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (*), as
                                                                     last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 (6), lays
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                 down the detailed rules for the application of the
of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the                        arrangements ;
application of preferential customs duties on imports of
certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and
                                                                     Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                     1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 381 3/92 Q, as
3551 /88 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,
                                                                     amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (8), are used to
                                                                     convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the                    and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
conditions for applying a preferential duty on large­                conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom)             whereas detailed rules on the application and determi­
carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the            nation of these conversions were set by Commission
limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the          Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 (9) ;
Community of fresh cut flowers ;
                                                                     Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2604/93 (') opens                Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it
                                                                     must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
and provides for the administration of Community tariff
quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating           Article 2 (2) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for
in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel respectively ;                 suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for
                                                                     multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Israel ;
                                                                     whereas the Common Customs Tariff duty should be
Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                     re-established,
provides, on the one hand, that for a given product of a
given origin, the preferential customs duty is to be
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 Council Regulation
     representative import markets ;                                 (EEC) No 2604/93 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
     days, the prices of the imported product are alterna­                                        Article 2
     tively above and below 85 % of the Community
     producer price in respect of at least 30 % of the
     quantities for which prices are available on the                This Regulation shall enter into force on 28 December
                                                                     1993 .
     representative import markets and if, for three days
     during that period, the prices of the import product
     have been below that level :                                    (4) OJ No  L 263, 22. 10 . 1993,    p. 10 .
                                                                     (5) OJ No  L 72, 18 . 3 . 1988 , p.  16.
                                                                     (6) OJ No  L 264, 23 . 10 . 1993,   p. 33.
(<) OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.                               O   OJ No  L 387, 31 . 12. 1992,    p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988 , p. 1 .                             (8) OJ No  L 320, 22. 12. 1993,     p. 32.
(3) OJ No L 239, 24. 9 . 1993, p. 1 .                                0   OJ No  L  108 , 1 . 5. 1993, p.  106.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 27 December 1993.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    Rene STEICHEN
                                                              Member of the Commission