CELEX: 31993R3522
Language: en
Date: 1993-12-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 3522/93 of 21 December 1993 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of single-flower (standard) carnations originating in Israel

No L 320/20                               Official Journal of the European Communities                               22. 12. 93
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 3522/93
                                                      of 21 December 1993
                   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 Q 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
application of preferential customs duties on imports of            conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and           whereas detailed rules on the application and determi­
Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                      nation of these conversions were set by Commission
3551 /88 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,          Regulation (EEC) No 38 1 9/92 (8) ;
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 fixes conditions                Whereas the preferential customs duty fixed for single­
for the application of a preferential customs duty on               flower (standard) carnations originating in Israel by
large-flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous              Regulation (EEC) No 2604/93 was suspended by
(bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations              Commission Regulation (EC) No 3107/93 f) ;
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             reintraduction of the preferential customs duty laid down
quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating          in the last indent of Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel ;                             4088 /87 is met for single-flower (standard) carnations
                                                                    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
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               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 under
                                                                                             Article 1
     Article 2 (2) (a) of that Regulation,
— of three successive market days, after suspension
     under Article 2 (2) (b) of that Regulation ;                   For imports of single-flower (standard) carnations (CN
                                                                    code ex 0603 10 53) originating in Israel the preferential
                                                                    customs duty set by Regulation (EEC) No 2604/93 is
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2890/93 (4)                  reintroduced.
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 (*), as
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 (6), laid
                                                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 22 December
(') OJ  No  L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.                            1993 .
0   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 .
0   OJ  No  L 72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16.                               0 OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 17.
(Ó OJ No L 264, 23. 10. 1993, p. 33.                                O OJ No L 278, 11 . 11 . 1993, p. 40.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 21 December 1993 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    Rene STEICHEN
                                                              Member of the Commission