CELEX: 31995R2756
Language: en
Date: 1995-11-29 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2756/95 of 29 November 1995 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations originating in Israel

30. 11 . 95          fENI                  Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 287/31
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2756195
                                                       of 29 November 1995
                  suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common
                  Customs Tariff duty on impqrts of uniflorous (standard) carnations originating
                                                              in Israel
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2524/95 0
                                                                     fixes the Community producer prices for carnations and
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                roses for the application of the import arrangements ;
Community,
                                                                     Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (®), as
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                 last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 O, lays
of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the                        down the detailed rules for the application of the
application of preferential customs duties on imports of             arrangements ;
certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and
Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                       Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
3551 /88 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,            1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (8), as last
                                                                     amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 50/95 (®), are used to
                                                                     convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the
conditions for applying a preferential duty on large­                and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
                                                                     conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom)
carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the            whereas detailed rules on the application and determi­
                                                                      nation of these conversions were set by Commission
limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the
Community of fresh cut flowers ;
                                                                      Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 (10), as last amended by
                                                                      Regulation (EC) No 157/95 (");
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 (3), as last             Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
amended by Regulation (EC) No 2612/95 (4), opened and                 Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it
provides for the administration of Community tariff                   must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating            Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for
in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel ;                               suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for
                                                                      uniflorous (standard) carnations originating in Israel ;
Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                      whereas the Common Customs Tariff duty should be
provides, on the one hand, that for a given product of a              re-established,
given origin, the preferential customs duty is to be
applicable only if the price of the imported product is at
least equal to 85 % of the Community producer price ;
whereas, on the other hand, the preferential customs duty             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
is, except in exceptional cases, suspended and the
Common Customs Tariff duty introduced for a given
product of a given origin :
                                                                                                Article 1
(a) if, on two successive market days, the prices of the
    imported product are less than 85 % of the                        For imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations (CN codes
     Community producer price in respect of at least 30 %             ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in Israel, the
     of the quantities for which prices are available on              preferential customs duty fixed by Regulation (EC) No
     representative import markets ;                                  1981 /94 is hereby suspended and the Common Customs
    or
                                                                      Tariff duty is hereby re-established.
(b) if, over a period of five to seven successive market
     days, the prices of the imported product are alterna­                                      Article 2
     tively above and below 85 % of the Community
     producer price in respect of at least 30 % of the
    quantities for which prices are available on the                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 30 November
                                                                      1995.
     representative import markets and if, for three days
     during that period, the prices of the import product
     have been below that level ;                                     O OJ No L 258 , 28 . 10. 1995, p. 42.
                                                                      (6) OJ No L 72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16.
                                                                      0 OJ No L 264, 23. 10. 1993, p. 33.
(') OJ   No  L 382,  31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.                            (8) OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(*) OJ   No  L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988, p. 1 .                            0 OJ No L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
(3) OJ   No  L 199,  2. 8. 1994, p. 1 .                               (10) OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
(4) OJ   No  L 268,  10. 11 . 1995, p. 4.                             (") OJ No L 24, 1 . 2. 1995, p. 1 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 29 November 1995.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                     Franz FISCHLER
                                                               Member of the Commission