CELEX: 31996R1810
Language: en
Date: 1996-09-18 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1810/96 of 18 September 1996 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Israel

19 . 9 . 96             EN              Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 237/ 19
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1810/96
                                                        of 18 September 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 667/96 (*) fixes
   application of preferential customs duties on imports of             the Community producer prices for carnations and roses
   certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and            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 (% as
  Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the                     last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 Q, lays
  conditions for applying a preferential duty on large­                 down the detailed rules for the application of the
                                                                        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 1099/96 (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 (10), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
                                                                       No 1482/96 (u);
 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 1995 to 31 October 1996; whereas, as
      representative import markets;                                  a result, the suspension of the preferential duty and the
      or
                                                                      reintroduction of the Common Customs Tariff duty apply
                                                                      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           0 OJ     No L 92, 13. 4. 1996, p. 11 .
                                                                      (6) OJ   No L 72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16.
                                                                      0 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.                               f) OJ    No L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
(3)  OJ   No   L 199, 2. 8 . 1994, p. 1 .                             H OJ      No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
(4)  OJ   No   L 146, 20. 6. 1996, p. 8 .                             (") OJ    No L 188, 27. 7. 1996, p. 22.
 ---pagebreak--- No L 237/20       PEN                Official Journal of the European Communities                               19 . 9 . 96
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 19 September
preferential customs duty fixed by Regulation (EC) No          1996 and is applicable until 31 October 1996 at the latest.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 18 September 1996.
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                          Franz FISCHLER
                                                                    Member of the Commission