CELEX: 31997R1162
Language: en
Date: 1997-06-26 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1162/97 of 26 June 1997 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of single-flower (standard) carnations originating in Israel

No L 169 /2            EN                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                 27. 6. 97
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1162/97
                                                         of 26 June 1997
                   re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of single-flower
                                          (standard) carnations 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 (8), as last
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 50/95 (9), are used to
of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the                       convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
application of preferential customs duties on imports of            and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and           conversion rates of the Member States' currencies; whereas
Morocco ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No                  detailed rules on the application and determination of
539/96 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,            these conversions were set by Commission Regulation
                                                                    (EEC) No 1068/93 (l0), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 fixes conditions                No 1482/96 (");
for the application of a preferential customs duty on
large-flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous              Whereas the preferential customs duty fixed for single­
(bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations              flower (standard) carnations originating in Israel by
within the limit of tariff quotas opened annually for               Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 was suspended by
imports of fresh cut flowers into the Community;                    Commission Regulation (EC) No 855/97 (I2);
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 (3), as last
                                                                    Whereas on the basis of price recordings made as
amended by Regulation (EC) No 592/97 (4), opens and
                                                                    specified in Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No
provides for the administration of Community tariff                 700/88 it must be concluded that the requirement for
quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating          reintroduction of the preferential customs duty laid down
in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel;                              in the last indent of Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                    4088/87 is met for single-flower (standard) carnations
Whereas Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088 /87               originating in Israel; whereas the preferential customs
stipulates that the preferential customs duty shall be              duty should be reintroduced,
reintroduced 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
price for a period, calculated from the actual date of              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
suspension of the actual preferential customs duty,
— of two successive market days, after suspension under
     Article 2 (2) (a) of that Regulation,                                                     Article 1
— of three successive market days, after suspension
     under Article 2 (2) (b) of that Regulation;                    For imports of single-flower (standard) carnations (CN
                                                                    codes ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 989/97 (*) fixed              Israel the preferential customs duty set by amended
Community producer prices for carnations and roses for              Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 is reintroduced .
application of the arrangements for importation from the
countries in question;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (6), as                                          Article 2
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 (7), laid
                                                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 27 June 1997.
(•) OJ  No  L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.
(2) OJ  No  L 79, 29. 3. 1996, p. 6.
0   OJ  No  L 199, 2. 8. 1994, p. 1 .                               (R) OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(4) OJ  No  L 89, 4. 4. 1997, p. 1 .                                0 OJ No L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
(*) OJ  No  L 141 , 31 . 5. 1997, p. 71 .                           ('») OJ No L 108 , 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
 6  OJ  No  L 72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16.                               (") OJ No L 188 , 27. 7. 1996, p . 22.
0   OJ  No  L 264, 23. 10 . 1993, p. 33.                            (12) OJ No L 122, 14. 5. 1997, p. 19.
 ---pagebreak--- 27. 6. 97     EN             Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 169/3
          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 26 June 1997.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                   Franz FISCHLER
                                                             Member of the Commission