CELEX: 31993R1173
Language: en
Date: 1993-05-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1173/93 of 13 May 1993 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-introducing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Israel

14. 5. 93                             Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 118/59
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1173/93
                                                       of 13 May 1993
                   suspending the preferential customs duties and re-introducing the Common
                   Customs Tariff duty on imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in
                                                             Israel
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            during that period, the prices of the import product
                                                                        have been below that level ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,                                                Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2960/92 (4)
                                                                    fixes the Community producer prices for carnations and
                                                                    roses for the application of the import arrangements ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87
 of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the                     Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (*), as
 application of preferential customs duties on imports of           amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3556/88 (% lays down
 certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and          the detailed rules for the application of the arrangements ;
 Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 3551 /88 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,        Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
                                                                    1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 Q 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 (8) ;
 Community of fresh cut flowers ;
                                                                   Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3341 /92 (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
                                                                    multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Israel ;
                                                                    whereas the Common Customs Tariff duty should be
 Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                   reintroduced,
 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 ;
whereas, on the other hand, the preferential customs duty           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
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 multiflorous (spray) carnations (CN code
     Community producer price in respect of at least 30 %          ex 0603 10 53) originating in Israel, the preferential
     of the quantities for which prices are available on            customs duty fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No
     representative import markets ;                                3341 /92 is hereby suspended and the Common Customs
                                                                   Tariff duty is hereby reintroduced.
     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             This Regulation shall enter into force on 14 May 1993.
     quantities for which prices are available on the
     representative import markets and if, for three days
                                                                   (4) OJ  No  L 298, 14. 10. 1992, p. 9.
                                                                   O   OJ  No  L 72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16.
(') OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.                             (6) OJ  No  L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988, p. 8.
(2) OJ No L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988, p. 1 .                            0   OJ  No  L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
0 OJ No L 336, 20. 11 . 1992, p. 8.                                (8) OJ  No  L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 96.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 13 May 1993 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                     Rene STEICHEN
                                                               Member of the Commission