CELEX: 31996R0916
Language: en
Date: 1996-05-22 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 916/96 of 22 May 1996 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of small-flowered roses originating in Israel

23 . 5. 96           EN              Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 123/ 13
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 916/96
                                                       of 22 May 1996
                    suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common
                    Customs Tariff duty on imports of small-flowered roses originating in Israel
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         during that period, the prices of the import product
                                                                      have been below that level;
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
  Community,
                                                                 Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2524/95 Q
                                                                 fixes the Community producer prices for carnations and
                                                                 roses for the application of the import arrangements;
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87
 of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the                   Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (% as
 application of preferential customs duties on imports of        last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 Q, lays
 certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and       down the detailed rules for the application of the
 Morocco ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No              arrangements;
 539/96 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,
                                                                 Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
                                                                  1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (8), as last
 Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the               amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 50/95 f), are used to
 conditions for applying a preferential duty on large­           convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
 flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom)        and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
 carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the       conversion rates of the Member States' currencies; whereas
 limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the     detailed rules on the application and determination of
 Community of fresh cut flowers;                                 these conversions were set by Commission Regulation
                                                                 (EEC) No 1068/93 (10), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
                                                                 No 2853/95 (");
 Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 (3), as last
 amended by Regulation (EC) No 585/96 (4), opens and
 provides for the administration of Community tariff             Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
 quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating      Regulations (EEC) No 4088 /87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it
                                                                 must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
 in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel respectively,
                                                                 Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for
                                                                 suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for
Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                 small-flowered roses originating in Israel; whereas the
 provides, on the one hand, that for a given product of a        Common Customs Tariff duty should be 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         For imports of small-flowered roses (CN codes ex
      imported product are less than 85 % of the                 0603 10 11 and ex 0603 10 51 ) originating in Israel, the
      Community producer price in respect of at least 30 %       preferential customs duty fixed by Regulation (EC) No
      of the quantities for which prices are available on        1981 /94 is hereby suspended and the Common Customs
      representative import markets;                             Tariff duty is hereby re-established.
      or
(b) if, over a period of five to seven successive market                                     Article 2
      days, the prices of the imported product are alterna­
      tively above and below 85 % of the Community              This Regulation shall enter into force on 23 May 1996.
      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      0   OJ  No  L 258, 28. 10. 1995, p. 42.
                                                                (<) 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 .
(2) OJ No L 79, 29. 3. 1996, p. 6.                              0   OJ  No  L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
0 OJ No L 199, 2. 8. 1994, p. 1 .                               (l#) OJ No L 108 , 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
M OJ No L 84, 3. 4. 1996, p. 8.                                 (») OJ No L 299, 12. 12. 1995, p. 1 .
 ---pagebreak--- No L 123/ 14   EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                        23 . 5. 96
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Brussels, 22 May 1996.
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                      Franz FISCHLER
                                                                Member of the Commission