CELEX: 31996R1184
Language: en
Date: 1996-06-27 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1184/96 of 27 June 1996 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Israel

28 . 6. 96            EN                 Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 155/47
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1184/96
                                                        of 27 June 1996
                  re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of multiflorous (spray)
                                                carnations originating in Israel
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        down detailed rules for the application of these
                                                                   arrangements;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                         Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
                                                                    1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (8), as
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87               amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 50/95 (9), are used to
of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the                      convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
application of preferential customs duties on imports of           and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and          conversion rates of the Member States' currencies; whereas
Morocco ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No                 detailed rules on the application and determination of
539/96 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,           these conversions were set by Commission Regulation
                                                                   (EEC) No 1068/93 (10), as amended by Regulation (EC) No
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 fixes conditions               1 164/96 (n);
for the application of a preferential customs duty on
large-flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous             Whereas the preferential customs duty fixed for
(bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations             multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Israel by
within the limit of tariff quotas opened annually for              Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 was suspended by
imports of fresh cut flowers into the Community,                   Commission Regulation (EC) No 1046/96 (12);
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 (3), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1099/96 (4), opens and               Whereas on the basis of price recordings made as
provides for the administration of Community tariff                specified in Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No
quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating         700/88 it must be concluded that the requirement for
in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel;                             reintroduction of the preferential customs duty laid down
                                                                   in the last indent of Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                   4088/87 is met for multiflorous (spray) carnations
Whereas Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87               originating in Israel; whereas the preferential customs
stipulates that the preferential customs duty shall be             duty should be reintroduced,
reintroduced for a given product of a given origin if the
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             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
suspension of the actual preferential customs duty,
— of two successive market days, after suspension under
     Article 2 (2) (a) of that Regulation,                                                   Article 1
— of three successive market days, after suspension
     under Article 2 (2) (b) of that Regulation;                   For imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations (CN codes
                                                                   ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in Israel the
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 667/96 (*) fixed             preferential customs duty set by amended Regulation (EC)
Community producer prices for carnations and roses for              No 1981 /94 is reintroduced.
application of the arrangements for importation from the
countries in question;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (% as                                          Article 2
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 Q, laid
                                                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 28 June 1996.
(') OJ  No  L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.
 2  OJ  No  L 79, 29. 3. 1996, p. 6.
(3) OJ  No  L 1 99, 2. 8. 1994, p. 1 .                             (8) OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(«) OJ  No  L 146, 20. 6. 1996, p. 8.                              0 OJ No L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
Ì5) OJ No L 92, 13. 4. 1996, p. 11 .                               (10) OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 96.
(6) OJ No L 72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16.                                (») OJ No L 153, 27. 6. 1996, p. 41 .
PS OT No L 264. 23 . 10 . 1993, p. 33 .                            c2) OJ No L 139, 12. 6. 1996, p. 7.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 27 June 1996.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                     Franz FISCHLER
                                                               Member of the Commission