CELEX: 31996R2168
Language: en
Date: 1996-11-12 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2168/96 of 12 November 1996 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of small-flowered roses originating in Israel

No L 290/ 12         PEN                   Official Journal of the European Communities                                 13 . 11 . 96
                                           COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2168 /96
                                                         of 12 November 1996
                    re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of small -flowered roses
                                                          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 3813/92 (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 on 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 (l0), 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 small­
 (bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations                 flowered roses originating in Israel by Regulation (EC) No
 within the limit of tariff quotas opened annually for                  1981 /94 was suspended by Commission Regulation (EC)
 imports of fresh cut flowers into the Community;                       No 2139/96 (12);
 Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 (3), as last               Whereas on the basis of price recordings made as
 amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1 877/96 (4),                 specified in Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No
 opens and provides for the administration of Community                 700/88 it must be concluded that the requirement for
 tariff quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh,                  reintroduction of the preferential customs duty laid down
 originating in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel;                     in the last indent of Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                        4088/87 is met for small-flowered roses originating in
 Whereas Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088 /87                  Israel; whereas the preferential customs duty should be
 stipulates that the preferential customs duty shall 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 small-flowered roses (CN codes ex
                                                                       0603 10 11 and ex 0603 10 51 ) originating in Israel the
                                                                       preferential customs duty set by amended Regulation (EC)
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 198 5/96 (*)                     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 (6), as
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 (7), laid
                                                                       This Regulation shall enter into force on 13 November
                                                                        1996 .
(') OJ   No  L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.
(2) OJ   No  L 79, 29 . 3 . 1996, p. 6.
O   OJ   No  L 199, 2. 8 . 1994, p. 1 .                                f) 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 .
0   OJ   No  L 264, 17. 10 . 1996, p. 14.                              H OJ     No L 108 , 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
(*) OJ   No  L 72, 18 . 3 . 1988 , p. 16.                              (") OJ   No L 188 , 27. 7. 1996, p. 22.
0   OJ   No  L 264, 23 . 10 . 1993, p. 33 .                            (,2) OJ  No L 286, 8 . 11 . 1996, p. 2.
 ---pagebreak--- 13 . 11 . 96     EN             Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 290/ 13
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels. 12 November 1996 .
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                      Franz FISCHLER
                                                                Member of the Commission