CELEX: 31996R2234
Language: en
Date: 1996-11-22 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2234/96 of 22 November 1996 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of single-flower (standard) carnations originating in Israel

23. 11 . 96         ( ENl               Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 299/7
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2234/96
                                                        of 22 November 1996
                     re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of single-flower
                                            (standard) carnations originating in Israel
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         down detailed rules for the application of these
                                                                       arrangements;
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
   Community,                                                          Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
                                                                        1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 381 3/92 (8), as last
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 50/95 (9), are used to
   of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the                       convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
   application of preferential customs duties oil imports of           and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
   certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and           conversion rates of the Member States' currencies; whereas
   Morocco ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No                  detailed rules on the application and determination of
   539/96 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,            these conversions were set by Commission Regulation
                                                                       (EEC) No 1068/93 (10), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
  Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 fixes conditions                 No 1482/96 (u );
  for the application of a preferential customs duty on
  large-flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous              Whereas the preferential customs duty fixed for single­
  (bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations               flower (standard) carnations originating in Israel by
  within the limit of tariff quotas opened annually for               Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 was suspended by
  imports of fresh cut flowers into the Community,                    Commission Regulation (EC) No 2187/96 (12);
 Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 (3), as last             Whereas on the basis of price recordings made as
 amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 877/96 (4), opens and                specified in Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No
  provides for the administration of Community tariff                 700/88 it must be concluded that the requirement for
 quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating           reintroduction of the preferential customs duty laid down
 in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel;                               in the last indent of Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                      4088/87 is met for single-flower (standard) carnations
 Whereas Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                 originating in Israel; whereas the preferential customs
 stipulates that the preferential customs duty shall be               duty should be reintroduced,
 reintroduced for a given product of a given origin if the
 prices of the imported product (full rate customs duty not
 deducted) are, for at least 70 % of the quantities for which
 prices are available on representative Community import
 markets, not less than 85 % of the Community producer                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 price for a period, calculated from the actual date of
 suspension of the actual preferential customs duty,
— of two successive market days, after suspension under                                         Article 1
      Article 2 (2) (a) of that Regulation,
— of three successive market days, after suspension
      under Article 2 (2) (b) of that Regulation;                     For imports of single-flower (standard) carnations (CN
                                                                     codes ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in
                                                                      Israel the preferential customs duty set by amended
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1985/96 Q                      Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 is reintroduced.
 fixed Community producer prices for carnations and roses
 for application of the arrangements for importation from
the countries in question;
                                                                                                Article 2
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (% as
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 Q, laid
                                                                     This Regulation shall enter into force on 23 November
                                                                      1996 .
(')  OJ  No   L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.
(2)  OJ  No   L 79, 29. 3. 1996, p. 6.
  3  OJ  No   L 199, 2. 8 . 1994, p. 1 .                             (8) OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(4)  OJ  No   L 249, 1 . 10. 1996, p. 1 .                            (9) OJ No L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
(4 OJ No L 264, 17. 10. 1996, p. 14.                                 (10) OJ No L 108 , 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
('6) OJ No L 72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16.                                 (") OJ No L 188 , 27. 7. 1996, p. 22.
M OJ No L 264, 23. 10. 1993, p. 33.                                  H OJ No L 292, 15. 11 . 1996, p. 7.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 22 November 1996 .
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                    Franz FISCHLER
                                                              Member of the Commission