CELEX: 31993R0647
Language: en
Date: 1993-03-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 647/93 of 19 March 1993 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Israel

No L 69/28                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                  20. 3 . 93
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 647/93
                                                           of 19 March 1993
                     re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of multiflorous (spray)
                                                    carnations originating in Israel
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (*), as
                                                                        amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3556/88 (*), 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 Q 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 (l), 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
 Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 fixes conditions                   multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Israel by
 for the application of a preferential customs duty on                  Regulation (EEC) No 3341 /92 was suspended by
 large-flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous                 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3407/92 (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 multiflorous (spray) 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 multiflorous (spray) carnations (CN code
— of two successive market days, after suspension under                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 20 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.                           (*) OJ  No  L  311 , 17. 11 . 1988, p. 8.
(2) OJ  No  L  311 ,  17.  11 . 1988, p. 1.                            0   OJ  No  L  387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
0   OJ  No  L  336,   20.  11 . 1992, p. 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. 31 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 19 March 1993 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                     Rene STEICHEN
                                                               Member of the Commission