CELEX: 31998R2377
Language: en
Date: 1998-11-03 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 2377/98 of 3 November 1998 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations originating in Morocco

4. 11. 98              EN                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                 L 295/11
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2377/98
                                                      of 3 November 1998
                   suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common
                   Customs Tariff duty on imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations originating in
                                                             Morocco
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
                                                                     and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
                                                                     conversion rates of the Member States’ currencies;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                whereas detailed rules on the application and deter-
Community,                                                           mination of these conversions were set by Commission
                                                                     Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 (10), as last amended by
                                                                     Regulation (EC) No 1482/96 (11);
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87
of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the applica-
tion of preferential customs duties on imports of certain            Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, the          Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it
West Bank and Gaza Strip (1), as last amended by Regula-             must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
tion (EC) No 1300/97 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b)        Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for suspen-
thereof,                                                             sion of the preferential customs duty are met for
                                                                     uniflorous (standard) carnations originating in Morocco;
                                                                     whereas the Common Customs Tariff duty should be
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the                    re-established;
conditions for applying a preferential duty on large-
flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom)
carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the            Whereas the quota for the products in question covers the
limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the          period 1 November 1998 to 31 October 1999; whereas, as
Community of fresh cut flowers;                                      a result, the suspension of the preferential duty and the
                                                                     reintroduction of the Common Customs Tariff duty apply
                                                                     up to the end of that period at the latest;
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981/94 (3), as last
amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 650/98 (4),
                                                                     Whereas, in between meetings of the Management
opens and provides for the administration of Community
                                                                     Committees, the Commission must adopt such measures,
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
Turkey;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (5), as                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2062/97 (6), lays
down the detailed rules for the application of the arrange-
ments;
                                                                                                Article 1
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2376/98 (7)
fixes the Community producer and import prices for                   For imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations (CN codes
carnations and roses for the application of the import               ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in Morocco,
arrangements;                                                        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 the representative market rates defined in Article
1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (8), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 150/95 (9), are used to
(1)  OJ  L 382, 31. 12. 1987, p. 22.
                                                                                                Article 2
(2)  OJ  L 177, 5. 7. 1997, p. 1.
(3)  OJ  L 199, 2. 8. 1994, p. 1.
(4)  OJ  L 88, 24. 3. 1998, p. 8.                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 5 November
(5)  OJ  L 72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16.                                   1998.
(6)  OJ  L 289, 22. 10. 1997, p. 1.
(7)  See page 9 of this Official Journal.
(8)  OJ  L 387, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1.                                  (10) OJ L 108, 1. 5. 1993, p. 106.
( 9) OJ  L 22, 31. 1. 1995, p. 1.                                    (11) OJ L 188, 27. 7. 1996, p. 22.
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         This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
         States.
         Done at Brussels, 3 November 1998.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                    Franz FISCHLER
                                                               Member of the Commission