CELEX: 31998R0659
Language: en
Date: 1998-03-24 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 659/98 of 24 March 1998 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of uniflorous (bloom) carnations originating in Israel

L 90/34                EN                  Official Journal of the European Communities                                 25. 3. 98
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 659/98
                                                        of 24 March 1998
                   suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common
                   Customs Tariff duty on imports of uniflorous (bloom) carnations originating in
                                                                Israel
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
                                                                       and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
                                                                       conversion rates of the Member States’ currencies;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  whereas detailed rules on the application and determina-
Community,                                                             tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu-
                                                                       lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (10), as last amended by Regula-
                                                                       tion (EC) No 1482/96 (11);
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87
of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the applica-
tion of preferential customs duties on imports of certain              Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and Morocco              Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it
and the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (1), as last amended              must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
by Regulation (EC) No 1300/97 (2), and in particular                   Article 2(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for suspen-
Article 5(2)(b) thereof,                                               sion of the preferential customs duty are met for
                                                                       uniflorous (bloom) carnations originating in Israel;
                                                                       whereas the Common Customs Tariff duty should be
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the                      re-established;
conditions for applying a preferential duty on large-flow-
ered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom) carna-
                                                                       Whereas the quota for the products in question covers the
tions and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the limit
                                                                       period 1 January to 31 December 1998; whereas, as a
of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the
                                                                       result, the suspension of the preferential duty and the
Community of fresh cut flowers;
                                                                       reintroduction of the Common Customs Tariff duty apply
                                                                       up to the end of that period at the latest;
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981/94 (3), as last
amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 650/98 (4),                   Whereas, in between meetings of the Management
opens and provides for the administration of Community                 Committee, the Commission must adopt such measures,
tariff quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, origin-
ating in Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Malta, Morocco and the
West Bank and the Gaza Strip;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 658/98 (5) fixes
the Community producer and import prices for carna-                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
tions and roses for the application of the import arrange-
ments;
                                                                                                  Article 1
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (6), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2062/97 (7), lays
down the detailed rules for the application of the arrange-            For imports of uniflorous (bloom) carnations (CN codes
ments;                                                                 ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in Israel,
                                                                       the preferential customs duty fixed by Regulation (EC)
                                                                       No 1981/94 is hereby suspended and the Common
Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article             Customs Tariff duty is hereby re-established.
1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (8), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 150/95 (9), are used to
(1)  OJ  L 382, 31. 12. 1987, p. 22.
(2)  OJ  L 177, 5. 7. 1997, p. 1.                                                                 Article 2
(3)  OJ  L 199, 2. 8. 1994, p. 1.
(4)  OJ  L 88, 24. 3. 1998, p. 8.
(5)  See page 32 of this Official Journal.                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 25 March 1998.
(6)  OJ  L 72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16.
(7)  OJ  L 289, 22. 10. 1997, p. 1.
(8)  OJ  L 387, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1.                                    (10) OJ L 108, 1. 5. 1993, p. 106.
( 9) OJ  L 22, 31. 1. 1995, p. 1.                                      (11) OJ L 188, 27. 7. 1996, p. 22.
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 24 March 1998.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                     Franz FISCHLER
                                                                Member of the Commission