CELEX: 31993R0293
Language: en
Date: 1993-02-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 293/93 of 9 February 1993 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-introducing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Morocco

No L 34/ 18                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                 10 . 2. 93
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 293/93
                                                      of 9 February 1993
                  suspending the preferential customs duties and re-introducing the Common
                  Customs Tariff duty on imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in
                                                           Morocco
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             Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2960/92 (4)
Economic Community,                                               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          amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3556/88 (6), lays down
certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and         the detailed rules for the application of the arrangements ;
Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
3551 /88 (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 Q are used to
                                                                  convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the                 and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
conditions for applying a preferential duty on large­             conversion rates of the Member States' currencies whereas
flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom)          detailed rules on the application and determination of
carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the         these conversions were set by Commission Regulation
limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the       (EEC) No 3819/92 (8);
Community of fresh cut flowers ;
                                                                  Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3341 /92 (3) opens            Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it
                                                                  must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
and provides for the administration of Community tariff
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 respectively ;              suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for
                                                                  multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Morocco ;
                                                                  whereas the Common Customs Tariff duty should be
Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                  reintroduced,
provides, on the one hand, that for a given product of a
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 ;              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
whereas, on the other hand, the preferential customs duty
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 multiflorous (spray) carnations (CN code
     imported product are less than 85 % of the                   ex 0603 10 53) originating in Morocco, the preferential
     Community producer price in respect of at least 30 %         customs duty fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No
     of the quantities for which prices are available on           3341 /92 is hereby suspended and the Common Customs
     representative import markets ;                              Tariff duty is hereby reintroduced.
     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 10 February
     producer price in respect of at least 30 % of the             1993.
     quantities for which prices are available on the
     representative import markets and if, for three days
                                                                  (4) OJ  No  L 298, 14. 10. 1992, p. 9.
                                                                  0   OJ  No  L 72, 18 . 3. 1988, p. 16.
O OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.                              (6) OJ  No  L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988, p. 8 .
(2) OJ No L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988, p. 1 .                           o   OJ  No  L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
0 OJ No L 336, 20. 11 . 1992, p. 8.                               (8  OJ  No  L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 17.
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 9 February 1993.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                   Rene STEICHEN
                                                             Member of the Commission