CELEX: 31999R0394
Language: en
Date: 1999-02-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 394/1999 of 23 February 1999 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of large-flowered roses originating in Morocco

24. 2. 1999           EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                                  L 48/9
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 394/1999
                                                    of 23 February 1999
                  suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common
                  Customs Tariff duty on imports of large-flowered roses originating in Morocco
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 393/1999 (7)
                                                                   fixes the Community producer and import prices for
                                                                   carnations and roses for the application of the import
                                                                   arrangements;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                   Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
Community,
                                                                   Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it
                                                                   must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
                                                                   Article 2(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for suspen-
                                                                   sion of the preferential customs duty are met for large-
                                                                   flowered roses originating in Morocco; whereas the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87               Common Customs Tariff duty should be re-established;
of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the applica-
tion of preferential customs duties on imports of certain
flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, the        Whereas the quota for the products in question covers the
West Bank and Gaza Strip (1), as last amended by Regula-           period 1 November 1998 to 31 October 1999; whereas, as
tion (EC) No 1300/97 (2), and in particular Article 5(2)(b)        a result, the suspension of the preferential duty and the
thereof,                                                           reintroduction of the Common Customs Tariff duty apply
                                                                   up to the end of that period at the latest;
                                                                   Whereas, in between meetings of the Management
                                                                   Committees, the Commission must adopt such measures,
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the
conditions for applying a preferential duty on large-
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;
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981/94 (3), as last
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 Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Malta,
Morocco, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Tunisia and             For imports of large-flowered roses (CN codes ex
Turkey;                                                            0603 10 11 and ex 0603 10 51) originating in Morocco,
                                                                   the preferential customs duty fixed by Regulation (EC)
                                                                   No 1981/94 is hereby suspended and the Common
                                                                   Customs Tariff duty is hereby re-established.
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (5), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2062/97 (6), lays
down the detailed rules for the application of the arrange-
ments;                                                                                         Article 2
(1) OJ  L 382, 31. 12. 1987, p. 22.
(2) OJ  L 177, 5. 7. 1997, p. 1.                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 25 February
(3) OJ  L 199, 2. 8. 1994, p. 1.                                   1999.
(4) OJ  L 88, 24. 3. 1998, p. 8.
(5) OJ  L 72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16.
(6) OJ  L 289, 22. 10. 1997, p. 1.                                 (7) See page 7 of this Official Journal.
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        This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
        States.
        Done at Brussels, 23 February 1999.
                                                                For the Commission
                                                                   Franz FISCHLER
                                                              Member of the Commission