CELEX: 31996R2313
Language: en
Date: 1996-12-02 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2313/96 of 2 December 1996 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Israel

No L 313/ 16        ( EN                   Official Journal of the European Communities                                 3 . 12. 96
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2313/96
                                                          of 2 December 1996
                    suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common
                    Customs Tariff duty on imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in
                                                                  Israel
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                  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
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                        representative import markets and if, for three days
  Community,                                                                   during that period, the prices of the import product
                                                                               have been below that level;
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87
  of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the                           whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1985/96 (^
 application of preferential customs duties on imports of                fixes the Community producer prices for carnations and
 certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and               roses for the application of the import arrangements;
 Morocco ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
  539/96 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,
                                                                         Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (6), as
                                                                         last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 Q, lays
 Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088 /87 lays down the
                                                                         down the detailed rules for the application of the
 conditions for applying a preferential duty on large-
                                                                         arrangements;
 flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom)
 carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the
 limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the
 Community of fresh cut flowers;                                         Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
                                                                          1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (8), as last
                                                                         amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 50/95 (9), are used to
 Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 (3), as last                convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
 amended by Regulation (EC) No 2266/96 (4), opens and                    and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
 provides for the administration of Community tariff                     conversion rates of the Member States' currencies; whereas
 quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating              detailed rules on the application and determination of
 in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel respectively;                     these conversions were set by Commission Regulation
                                                                         (EEC) No 1068/93 (l0), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
                                                                         No 1482/96 (n );
 Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87
 provides, on the one hand, that for a given product of a
 given origin, the preferential customs duty is to be                    Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
 applicable only if the price of the imported product is at              Regulations (EEC) No 4088 /87 and (EEC) No 700/88 , it
 least equal to 85 % of the Community producer price;                    must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
whereas, on the other hand, the preferential customs duty               Article 2 (2) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for
 is, except in exceptional cases, suspended and the                      suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for
 Common Customs Tariff duty introduced for a given                       multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Israel;
 product of a given origin :                                            whereas the Common Customs Tariff duty should be
                                                                        re-established;
(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 %               Whereas the quota for the products in question covers the
     of the quantities for which prices are available on                period 1 November 1996 to 31 October 1997; whereas, as
     representative import markets;                                     a result, the suspension of the preferential duty and the
                                                                        reintroduction of the Common Customs Tariff duty apply
     or
                                                                        up to the end of that period at the latest,
(b) if, over a period of five to seven successive market
     days, the prices of the imported product are alterna­              (5) OJ    No L 264, 17. 10 . 1996, p. 14.
                                                                        O OJ      No L 72, 18 . 3. 1988 , p. 16 .
                                                                        O OJ      No L 264, 23. 10 . 1993, p. 33.
(') OJ  No   L 382, 31 . 12. 1987,   p. 22.                             (8) OJ    No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(2) OJ  No   L 79, 29. 3. 1996, p.    6.                                0 OJ      No L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
(3) OJ  No   L 199 , 2. 8 . 1994, p.  1.                                ( I0) OJ  No L 108 , 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
(4) OJ  No   L 306, 28 . 11 . 1996,  p. 25 .                              ") OJ   No L 188 , 27. 7. 1996, p. 22.
 ---pagebreak--- 3 . 12. 96          EN              Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 313 / 17
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                  1981 /94 is hereby suspended and the Common Customs
                                                               Tariff duty is hereby re-established .
                         Article 1
                                                                                       Article 2
For imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations (CN codes
ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in Israel, the    This Regulation shall enter into force on 3 December
preferential customs duty fixed by Regulation (EC) No          1996 and is applicable until 31 October 1997 at the latest.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                 Done at Brussels, 2 December 1996 .
                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                           Franz FISCHLER
                                                                    Member of the Commission