CELEX: 31996R1622
Language: en
Date: 1996-08-09 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1622/96 of 9 August 1996 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of small-flowered roses originating in Israel

No L 202/ 12        (INI               Official Journal of the European Communities                                 10 . 8 . 96
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1622/96
                                                      of 9 August 1996
                  re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of small-flowered roses
                                                    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 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 small­
(bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations           flowered roses originating in Israel by Regulation (EC) No
within the limit of tariff quotas opened annually for             1981 /94 was suspended by Commission Regulation (EC)
imports of fresh cut flowers into the Community,                 No 1394/96 (I2>;
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 (3), 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
                                                                 reintroduction of the preferential customs duty laid down
originating in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel;               in the last indent of Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                 4088/87 is met for small-flowered roses originating in
Whereas Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87             Israel; whereas the preferential customs duty should be
stipulates that the preferential customs duty shall 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 small-flowered roses (CN codes ex
                                                                 0603 10 11 and ex 0603 10 51 ) originating in Israel the
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 667/96 (^ fixed            preferential customs duty set by amended Regulation (EC)
Community producer prices for carnations and roses for           No 1981 /94 is reintroduced.
application of the arrangements for importation from the
countries in question;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (% as                                          Article 2
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 (*), laid
                                                                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 10 August 1996.
(') OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.
I1) 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 .
(4) OJ No L 146, 20. 6. 1996, p. 8.                              0 OJ    No L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
0 OJ No L 92, 13. 4. 1996, p. 11 .                               O OJ    No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
(6) OJ No L 72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16.                              H OJ    No L 188, 27. 7. 1996, p. 22.
0 OJ No L 264, 23. 10. 1993, p. 33.                              H OJ    No L 179, 18. 7. 1996, p. 42.
 ---pagebreak--- 10 . 8 . 96     EN             Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 202/ 13
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 9 August 1996.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                 Hans VAN DEN BROEK
                                                               Member of the Commission