CELEX: 31990R1075
Language: en
Date: 1990-04-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1075/90 of 27 April 1990 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-introducing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Israel

No L 108/68                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                   28 . 4. 90
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1075/90
                                                       of 27 April 1990
                  suspending the preferential customs duties and re-introducing the Common
                  Customs Tariff duty on imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in
                                                             Israel
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3327/89 (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 ;
Economic Community,                                                 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (*), as
                                                                    amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3556/88 (*), lays down
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                the detailed rules for the application of the arrangements ;
of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the
application of preferential customs duties on imports of            Whereas, in order to enable the arrangements to operate
certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and           normally, the following should be used for the calculation
Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                      of the import prices :
3551/88 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,           — for the currencies which are maintained against one
                                                                        another within a maximum spread at any given
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the                       moment f6r spot rate transactions of 2,25 %, a
conditions for applying a preferential duty on large­                   conversion rate based on their central rate adjusted by
flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom)                the correcting factor provided for in the last
carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the               subparagraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regulation
limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the             (EEC) No 1676/85 f), as last amended by Regulation
Community of fresh cut flowers ;                                        (EEC) No 1 636/87 (8),
                                                                    — for the other currencies, a conversion rate based on
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2396/89 (3) opens                   the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates for the
and provides for the administration of Community tariff                 currency, as recorded over a given period, against the
quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating              Community currencies referred to in the preceding
in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel respectively ;                    indent, and the abovementioned factor ;
                                                                    Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                    Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it
provides, on the one hand, that for a given product of a            must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
given origin, the preferential customs duty is to be                Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for
applicable only if the price of the imported product is at          suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for
least equal to 85 % of the Community producer price ;               multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Israel ;
whereas, on the other hand, the preferential customs duty           whereas the Common Customs Tariff duty should be
is, except in exceptional cases, suspended and the                  reintroduced,
Common Customs Tariff duty introduced for a given
product of a given origin :
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
(a) if, on two successive market days, the prices of the
     imported product are less than 85 % of the
     Community producer price in respect of at least 30 %                                     Article 1
     of the quantities for which prices are available on
     representative import markets ;                                 For imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations (CN codes
                                                                    ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in Israel, the
    or
                                                                    preferential customs duty fixed by Council Regulation
(b) if, over a period of five to seven successive market            (EEC) No 2396/89 is hereby suspended and the Common
     days, the prices of the imported product are alterna­           Customs Tariff duty is hereby reintroduced.
     tively above and below 85 % of the Community
     producer price in respect of at least 30 % of the                                        Article 2
     quantities for which prices are available on the
     representative import markets and if, for three days           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 May 1990.
     during that period, the prices of the import product
     have been below that level ;
                                                                    (4) OJ No L 321 , 4. 11 . 1989, p. 41 .
                                                                    Is) OJ No L 72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16.
(') OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.                              (0 OJ No L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988, p. 8 .
I2) OJ No L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988, p. 1 .                             O OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
 3) OJ No L 227, 4. 8. 1989, p. 9.                                  (8 OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 27 April 1990.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Ray MAG SHARRY
                                                              Member of the Commission