CELEX: 31993R3476
Language: en
Date: 1993-12-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 3476/93 of 17 December 1993 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of small-flowered roses originating in Israel

No L 317/28                                Official Journal of the European Communities                               18 . 12. 93
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 3476/93
                                                       of 17 December 1993
                   re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of small-flowered roses
                                                        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 0 are used to
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                 convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the                        and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
                                                                     conversion rates of the Member States' currencies whereas
application of preferential customs duties on imports of
certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and            detailed rules on the application and determination of
Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                       these conversions were set by Commission Regulation
3551 /88 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,           (EEC) No 1068/93 (8);
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 fixes conditions                 Whereas the preferential customs duty fixed for small­
for the application of a preferential customs duty on                flowered roses originating in Israel by Regulation (EEC)
large-flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous               No 2604/93 was suspended by Commission Regulation
(bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations               (EC) No 3110/93 (9);
within the limit of tariff quotas opened annually for
imports of fresh cut flowers into the Community ;
                                                                     Whereas on the basis of price recordings made as
                                                                     specified in Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2604/93 (3) opens                700/88 it must be concluded that the requirement for
and provides for the administration of Community tariff              reintroduction of the preferential customs duty laid down
quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating           in the last subparagraph of Article 2 (3) of Regulation
in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel ;                              (EEC) No 4088/87 is met for small-flowered roses
                                                                     originating in Israel ; whereas the preferential customs
Whereas Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                 duty should be reintroduced,
stipulates that the preferential customs duty shall be
re-established 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                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
price for a period, calculated from the actual date of
suspension of the actual preferential customs duty,
— of two successive market days, after suspension
                                                                                               Article 1
     pursuant to Article 2 (2) (a) of that Regulation,
— of three successive market days, after suspension
     pursuant to Article 2 (2) (b) of that Regulation ;               For    imports   of small-flowered    roses   (CN     codes
                                                                     ex 0603 10 11 and ex 0603 10 51 ) originating in Israel
                                                                      the preferential customs duty set by Regulation (EEC) No
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2890/93 (4)                    2604/93 is re-established.
fixed Community producer prices for carnations and roses
for application of the arrangements for importation from
the countries in question ;
                                                                                               Article 2
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 O, as
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 0, laid
                                                                     This Regulation shall enter into force on 18 December
(') OJ  No  L  382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.                             1993 .
(2) OJ  No  L  311 , 17. 11 . 1988, p. 1 .
(3) OJ  No  L  239, 24. 9. 1993, p. 1 .
(4) OJ  No  L  263, 22. 10. 1993, p. 10.                              O OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
H   OJ  No  L  72, 18 . 3. 1988, p. 16.                               (8) OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
V) OJ No L 264, 23. 10. 1993, p. 33.                                  O OJ No L 278, 11 . 11 . 1993, p. 46.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 17 December 1993.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                     Rene STEICHEN
                                                               Member of the Commission