CELEX: 31996R0897
Language: en
Date: 1996-05-20 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 897/96 of 20 May 1996 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of single-flower (standard) carnations originating in Israel

21 . 5. 96            EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 121 /5
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 897/96
                                                        of 20 May 1996
                  re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of single-flower
                                         (standard) carnations 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 (8), as last
 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 in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,           these conversions were set by Commission Regulation
                                                                    (EEC) No 1068/93 (10), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
 Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 fixes conditions               No 2853/95 (");
 for the application of a preferential customs duty on
 large-flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous             Whereas the preferential customs duty fixed for single­
(bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations              flower (standard) carnations originating in Israel 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 521 /96 (l2);
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 (3), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 585/96 (4), opens and                Whereas on the basis of price recordings made as
 provides for the administration of Community tariff                specified in Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No
quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating          700/88 it must be concluded that the requirement for
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
                                                                   4088/87 is met for single-flower (standard) carnations
Whereas Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87               originating in Israel; 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
prices are available on representative Community import
markets, not less than 85 % of the Community producer
price for a period, calculated from the actual date of             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
suspension of the actual preferential customs duty,
— of two successive market days, after suspension under
     Article 2 (2) (a) of that Regulation,                                                     Article 1
— of three successive market days, after suspension
     under Article 2 (2) (b) of that Regulation;                   For imports of single-flower (standard) carnations (CN
                                                                   codes ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2524/95 (*)                  Israel the preferential customs duty set by amended
fixed Community producer prices for carnations and roses           Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 is reintroduced.
for application of the arrangements for importation from
the countries in question;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 f5), as                                          Article 2
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 Q, laid
                                                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 May 1996.
(') OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.
(2) OJ No L 79, 29. 3. 1996, p. 6.
0 OJ No L 199, 2. 8. 1994, p. 1 .                                  (8) OJ  No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(4) OJ  No  L 84, 3. 4. 1996, p. 8 .                               0 OJ    No L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
(s) OJ  No  L 258, 28 . 10. 1995, p. 42.                           (10) OJ  No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
(6) OJ  No  L 72, 18 . 3. 1988, p. 16.                             (") OJ   No L 299, 12. 12. 1995, p. 1 .
0   OJ  No  L 264, 23. 10. 1993, p. 33.                              12 OJ  No L 77, 27. 3. 1996, p. 8 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 20 May 1996.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                     Franz FISCHLER
                                                               Member of the Commission