CELEX: 31994R1410
Language: en
Date: 1994-06-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1410/94 of 20 June 1994 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of small-flowered roses originating in Israel

21 . 6. 94                            Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 154/27
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1410/94
                                                        of 20 June 1994
                    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,                      Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1 168/94 (4)
                                                                   fixes the Community producer prices for carnations and
                                                                   roses for the application of the import arrangements ;
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
  Community,
                                                                   Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (*), as
                                                                   last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 (6), lays
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87             down the detailed rules for the application of the
  of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the                    arrangements ;
  application of preferential customs duties on imports of
  certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and        Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
  Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                   1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 Q, as
  3551 /88 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,       amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (8), are used to
                                                                   convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
 Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the                 and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
 conditions for applying a preferential duty on large­             conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
  flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom)         whereas detailed rules on the application and determi­
  carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the        nation of these conversions were set by Commission
  limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the      Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 f), as amended by
  Community of fresh cut flowers ;                                 Regulation (EC) No 547/94 (10) ;
                                                                   Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2604/93 (3) opens             Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it
 and provides for the administration of Community tariff           must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
 quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating        Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for
 in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel respectively ;              suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for
                                                                   small-flowered roses originating in Israel ; whereas the
 Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                  Common Customs Tariff duty should be re-established,
 provides, on the one hand, that for a given product of a
 given origin, the preferential customs duty is to be
 applicable only if the price of the imported product is at
 least equal to 85 % of the Community producer price ;
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 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
 product of a given origin :                                                                 Article 1
 (a) if, on two successive market days, the prices of the
      imported product are less than 85 % of the                   For imports of small-flowered roses (CN codes ex
      Community producer price in respect of at least 30 %        0603 10 11 and ex 0603 10 51 ) originating in Israel, the
      of the quantities for which prices are available on         preferential customs duty fixed by Regulation (EEC) No
      representative import markets ;                             2604/93 is hereby suspended and the Common Customs
                                                                  Tariff duty is hereby re-established.
      or
 (b) if, over a period of five to seven successive market
      days, the prices of the imported product are alterna­                                  Article 2
      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            This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 June 1994.
      representative import markets and if, for three days
      during that period, the prices of the import product        O OJ    No L 130, 25. 5. 1994, p. 21 .
      have been below that level ;                                O OJ    No L 72, 18 . 3. 1988, p. 16.
                                                                  (6) OJ  No L 264, 23. 10. 1993, p. 33.
                                                                  o OJ    No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(') OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.                            (8) OJ  No L 320, 22. 12. 1993, p. 32.
(2) OJ No L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988, p. 1 .                           O OJ    No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
(J) OJ No L 239, 24. 9. 1993, p. 1 .                              H OJ    No L 69, 12. 3. 1994, p. 1 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 20 June 1994.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                     Rene STEICHEN
                                                               Member of the Commission