CELEX: 31999R0074
Language: en
Date: 1999-01-12 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 74/1999 of 12 January 1999 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of large-flowered roses originating in Israel

L 7/12                EN                 Official Journal of the European Communities                               13. 1. 1999
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 74/1999
                                                      of 12 January 1999
                  suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common
                   Customs Tariff duty on imports of large-flowered roses originating in Israel
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         down the detailed rules for the application of the arrange-
                                                                    ments;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                          Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
                                                                    Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the applica-              Article 2(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for suspen-
tion of preferential customs duties on imports of certain           sion of the preferential customs duty are met for large-
flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and Morocco           flowered roses originating in Israel; whereas the Common
and the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (1), as last amended           Customs Tariff duty should be re-established;
by Regulation (EC) No 1300/97 (2), and in particular                Whereas the quota for the products in question covers the
Article 5(2)(b) thereof,                                            period 1 January 1999 to 31 December 1999; whereas, as
                                                                    a result, the suspension of the preferential duty and the
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the                   reintroduction of the Common Customs Tariff duty apply
conditions for applying a preferential duty on large-flow-          up to the end of that period at the latest;
ered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom) carna-
tions and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the limit          Whereas, in between meetings of the Management
of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the               Committee, the Commission must adopt such measures,
Community of fresh cut flowers;
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981/94 (3), as last             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 650/98 (4),
opens and provides for the administration of Community                                       Article 1
tariff quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, origin-
ating in Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Malta, Morocco, the West            For imports of large-flowered roses (CN codes ex
Bank and the Gaza Strip respectively;                               0603 10 11 and ex 0603 10 51) originating in Israel, the
                                                                    preferential customs duty fixed by Regulation (EC) No
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 70/1999 (5)                   1981/94 is hereby suspended and the Common Customs
fixes the Community producer and import prices for                  Tariff duty is hereby re-established.
carnations and roses for the application of the import
arrangements;                                                                                Article 2
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (6), as               This Regulation shall enter into force on 14 January
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2062/97 (7), lays                1999.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 12 January 1999.
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                 Franz FISCHLER
                                                                           Member of the Commission
(1) OJ  L 382, 31. 12. 1987, p. 22.
(2) OJ  L 177, 5. 7. 1997, p. 1.
(3) OJ  L 199, 2. 8. 1994, p. 1.
(4) OJ  L 88, 24. 3. 1998, p. 8.
(5) See page 4 of this Official Journal.
(6) OJ  L 72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16.
(7) OJ  L 289, 22. 10. 1997, p. 1.