CELEX: 31989R3193
Language: en
Date: 1989-10-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3193/89 of 25 October 1989 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-introducing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Israel

26. 10. 89                                   Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 309/ 15
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3193/89
                                                           of 25 October 1989
                   suspending the preferential customs duties and re-introducing 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 1550/89 Q
                                                                         fixes the Community producer prices for carnations and
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                    roses for the application of the import arrangements ;
Economic Community,
                                                                         Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (8), as
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                     amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3556/88 ('), lays down
of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the                            the detailed rules for the application of the arrangements ;
application of preferential customs duties on imports of
certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and                Whereas, in order to enable the arrangements to operate
Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                           normally, the following should be used for the calculation
3551 /88 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,               of the import prices :
                                                                              for the currencies which are maintained against one
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the                             another within a maximum spread at any given
conditions for applying a preferential duty on large­                         moment for spot rate transactions of 2,25 % , a
flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom)
                                                                              conversion rate based on their central rate adjusted by
carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the
                                                                              the correcting factor provided for in the last
 limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the
                                                                              subparagraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regulation
Community of fresh cut flowers ;
                                                                              (EEC) No 1 676/85 (10), as last amended by Regulation
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3005/88 (3), (EEC)                        (EEC) No 1636/87 (•>),
 No 3175/88 (4), (EEC) No 3552/88(0 and (EEC) No                              for the other currencies, a conversion rate based on
4078/88 (*) open and provide for the administration of                        the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates for the
 Community tariff quotas for cut flowers and flower buds,                     currency, as recorded over a given period, against the
 fresh, originating in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel                     Community currencies referred to in the preceding
 respectively ;                                                               indent, and the abovementioned factor ;
 Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                        Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
 provides, on the one hand, that for a given product of a                Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it
 given origin, the preferential customs duty is to be                    must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
 applicable only if the price of the imported product is at              Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for
 least equal to 85 % of the Community producer price ;                   suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for
 whereas, on the other hand, the preferential customs duty                multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Israel ;
 is, except in exceptional cases, suspended and the                      whereas the Common Customs Tariff duty should be
 Common Customs Tariff duty introduced for a given                        reintroduced,
 product of a given origin :
 (a) if, on two successive market days, the prices of the
                                                                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
      imported product are less than 85 % of the
      Community producer price in respect of at least 30 %
      of the quantities for which prices are available on                                          Article 1
      representative import markets ;
      or                                                                  For imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations (CN codes
                                                                          ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in Israel, the
 ( b) it, over a period ot live to seven successive market
                                                                          preferential customs duty fixed by Council Regulation
      days, the prices of the imported product are alterna­               (EEC) No 4078/88 is hereby suspended and the Common
      tively above and below 85 % of the Community
                                                                          Customs Tariff duty is hereby reintroduced.
      producer price in respect of at least 30 % of the
      quantities for which prices are available on the
      representative import markets and if, for three days                                          Article 2
      during that period, the prices of the import product
      have been below that level ;                                        This Regulation shall enter into force on 27 October
                                                                           1989 .
 (') OJ   No  L 382,  31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.
 (2) OJ   No  L 311 , 17 . 11 . 1988, p. 1 .                              0 OJ No L 151 , 3 . 6. 1989, p. 32.
 (3) OJ   No  L 271 , 1 . 10. 1988, p. 7.                                 («) OJ No L 72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16.
 (4) OJ   No  L  283, 18 . 10. 1988 , p. 1 .                              0 OJ No L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988, p. 8 .
 0   OJ   No  L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988, p. 2.                                H OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
  0  OJ   No  L  359, 28 . 12. 1988 , p. 8 .                              (") OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .
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             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Brussels, 25 October 1989.
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                     Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                Member of the Commission