CELEX: 31994R1120
Language: en
Date: 1994-05-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1120/94 of 16 May 1994 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations originating in Israel

No L 122/20                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                17. 5. 94
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1120/94
                                                         of 16 May 1994
                    suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common
                    Customs Tariff duty on imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations originating
                                                             in Israel
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2890/93 (4)
                                                                     fixes the Community producer prices for carnations and
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             roses for the application of the import arrangements ;
  Community,
                                                                     Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (*), as
                                                                     last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 (6), lays
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87               down the detailed rules for the application of the
  of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the                      arrangements ;
  application of preferential customs duties on imports of
  certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and         Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
  Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                     1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 f), as
  3551 /88 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,        amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (8), 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 ;
  flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom)          whereas detailed rules on the application and determi­
  carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the         nation of these conversions were set by Commission
  limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the       Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 (9), as amended by
  Community of fresh cut flowers ;                                  Regulation (EC) No 547/94 (10);
                                                                    Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
  Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2604/93 (3)                   Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it
  opened and provides for the administration of                     must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
  Community tariff quotas for cut flowers and flower buds,          Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for
  fresh, originating in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel ;
                                                                    suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for
                                                                    uniflorous (standard) carnations originating in Israel ;
 Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                   whereas the Common Customs Tariff duty should be
  provides, on the one hand, that for a given product of a          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
      imported product are less than 85 % of the                    For imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations (CN codes
      Community producer price in respect of at least 30 %          ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in Israel, the
      of the quantities for which prices are available on           preferential customs duty fixed by Regulation (EEC) No
      representative import markets ;                               2604/93 is hereby suspended and the Common Customs
      or
                                                                    Tariff duty is hereby re-established.
(b) if, over a period of five to seven successive market
      days, the prices of the imported product are alterna­                                  Article 2
      tively above and below 85 % of the Community
      producer price in respect of at least 30 % of the
      quantities for which prices are available on the             This Regulation shall enter into force on 17 May 1994.
      representative import markets and if, for three days
      during that period, the prices of the import product         (4) OJ No L 263, 22. 10. 1993, p. 10.
      have been below that level ;                                 O OJ No L 72, 18. 3 . 1988, p. 16.
                                                                   («) OJ No L 264, 23. 10. 1993, p. 33 .
                                                                   f) OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
0 OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.                               (8) OJ No L 320, 22. 12. 1993, p. 32.
(2) OJ No L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988, p. 1 .                            (9) OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
(3 OJ No L 239, 24. 9. 1993, p. 1 .                                (,0) OJ No L 69, 12. 3. 1994, p. 1 .
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 16 May 1994.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                   René STEICHEN
                                                             Member of the Commission