CELEX: 31993R0617
Language: en
Date: 1993-03-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 617/93 of 17 March 1993 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of single-flower (standard) carnations originating in Israel

18 . 3 . 93                                Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 66/21
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 617/93
                                                         of 17 March 1993
                  re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of single-flower
                                           (standard) carnations originating in Israel
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 0, as
                                                                     amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3556/88 (6), laid down
                                                                     detailed rules for the application of these arrangements ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                                  Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
                                                                      1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 f7) are used to
                                                                     convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                 and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the                        conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
application of preferential customs duties on imports of             whereas detailed rules on the application and determi­
certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and            nation of these conversions were set by Commission
Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                       Regulation (EEC) No 3819/92 (8) ;
3551 /88 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,
                                                                     Whereas the preferential customs duty fixed for single­
Whereats Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 fixes conditions                flower (standard) carnations originating in Israel by
for the application of a preferential customs duty on                Council Regulation (EEC) No 3341 /92 was suspended by
large-flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous               Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3406/92 (9) ;
(bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations
within the limit of tariff quotas opened annually for                Whereas on the basis of price recordings made as
imports of fresh cut flowers into the Community ;                    specified in Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No
                                                                     700/88 it must be concluded that the requirement for
                                                                     reintroduction of the preferential customs duty laid down
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3341 /92 (3) opens               in the last indent of Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
and provides for the administration of Community tariff              4088/87 is met for single-flower (standard) carnations
quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating           originating in Israel ; whereas the preferential customs
in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel ;                              duty should be reintroduced,
Whereas Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87
stipulates that the preferential customs duty shall be
reintroduced for a given product of a given origin if the             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
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                                            Article 1
suspension of the actual preferential customs duty,
                                                                      For imports of single-flower (standard) carnations (CN
— of two successive market days, after suspension under              code ex 0603 10 53) originating in Israel the preferential
     Article 2 (2) (a) of that Regulation,                           customs duty set by Regulation (EEC) No 3341 /92 is
                                                                     reintroduced.
— of three successive market days, after suspension
     under Article 2 (2) (b) of that Regulation ;
                                                                                                  Article 2
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2960/92 (4)
fixed Community producer prices for carnations and roses
for application of the arrangements for importation from             This Regulation shall enter into force on 18 March 1993.
the countries in question ;
                                                                     0    OJ No L  72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16.
(') OJ   No L 382,  31 . 12.  1987, p. 22.                           (s)  OJ No L  311 , 17. 11 . 1988, p. 8.
0   OJ   No L 311 , 17.  11 . 1988, p. 1.                            O    OJ No L  387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(3) OJ   No L 336,  20.  11 . 1992, p. 8.                            (8)  OJ No L  387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 17.
(4) OJ   No L 298,  14.  10.  1992, p. 9.                              >) OJ No L  346, 27. 11 . 1992, p. 29.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 17 March 1993.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    Rene STEICHEN
                                                              Member of the Commission