CELEX: 31996R0320
Language: en
Date: 1996-02-22 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 320/96 of 22 February 1996 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of small-flowered roses originating in Israel

23 . 2. 96            I EN I                Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 45/ 1
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                                                   (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                            COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 320/96
                                                           of 22 February 1996
                     suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common
                     Customs Tariff duty on imports of small-flowered roses originating in Israel
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                  of the quantities for which prices are available on
                                                                              representative import markets;
                                                                             or
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Community,                                                              (b) if, over a period of five to seven successive market
                                                                             days, the prices of the imported product are alterna­
                                                                             tively above and below 85 % of the Community
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                        producer price in respect of at least 30 % of the
 of 21      December        1987 fixing conditions for the
                                                                             quantities for which prices are available on the
 application of preferential customs duties on imports of                    representative import markets and if, for three days
 certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and                   during that period, the prices of the import product
 Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                              have been below that level;
 3551 /88 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,
                                                                         Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2524/95 (*)
 Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the                       fixes the Community producer prices for carnations and
 conditions for applying a preferential duty on large­                   roses for the application of the import arrangements;
 flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloorr^
 carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the
 limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the            Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (®), as
 Community of fresh cut flowers;                                         last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 Q, lays
                                                                        down the detailed rules for the application of the
                                                                        arrangements;
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 (3), as last
 amended by Regulation (EC) No 3057/95 (4), opens and
 provides for the administration of Community tariff                    Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating               1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 381 3/92 (8), as last
in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel respectively,                     amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 50/95 (9), are used to
                                                                        convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
                                                                        and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                        conversion rates of the Member States' currencies; whereas
provides, on the one hand, that for a given product of a                detailed rules on the application and determination of
given origin, the preferential customs duty is to be                    these conversions were set by Commission Regulation
applicable only if the price of the imported product is at              (EEC) No 1068/93 (10), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
least equal to 85 % of the Community producer price;                    No 2853/95 (n );
whereas, on the other hand, the preferential customs duty
is, except in exceptional cases, suspended and the
Common Customs Tariff duty introduced for a given                       Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
product of a given origin:                                              Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88 , it
                                                                        must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
                                                                        Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for
(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 %              0 OJ     No L 258 , 28 . 10 . 1995, p. 42.
                                                                        (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 311 ,  17. 11 . 1988, p. 1 .                             0 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 326,   30. 12. 1995, p. 3.                               (" OJ    No L 299, 12. 12. 1995, p. 1 .
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suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for       preferential customs duty fixed by Regulation (EC) No
small-flowered roses originating in Israel; whereas the       1981 /94 is hereby suspended and the Common Customs
Common Customs Tariff duty should be re-established,          Tariff duty is hereby re-established.
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                                                                      Article 2
                        Article 1
For imports of small-flowered roses (CN codes ex              This Regulation shall enter into force on 23 February
0603 10 11 and ex 0603 10 51 ) originating in Israel, the     1996.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 22 February 1996.
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                         Franz FISCHLER
                                                                   Member of the Commission