CELEX: 31995R0014
Language: en
Date: 1995-01-05 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 14/95 of 5 January 1995 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of single-flower (standard) carnations originating in Israel

No L 4/6                                    Official Journal of the European Communities                                  6 1  95
                                           COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 14/95
                                                          of 5 January 1995
                   re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of single-flower (stan­
                                               dard) 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 3813/92 Q, as
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                  amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (8), are used to
of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the                         convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
                                                                      and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
application of preferential customs duties on imports of              conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and
                                                                      whereas detailed rules on the application and determi­
Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                      nation of these conversions were set by Commission
3551 /88 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,
                                                                      Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 (9), as amended by
                                                                      Regulation (EC) No 547/94 (10) ;
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 fixes conditions
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 2717/94 (");
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 (3) opens                 Whereas on the basis of price recordings made as
and provides for the administration of Community tariff               specified in Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No
quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating            700/88 it must be concluded that the requirement for
in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel ;                               reintroduction of the preferential customs duty laid down
                                                                      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
price for a period, calculated from the actual date of                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
suspension of the actual preferential customs duty,
— of two successive market days, after suspension under
     Article 2 (2) (a) of that Regulation,                                                        Article 1
— 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
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2578/94 (4)                     Israel the preferential customs duty set by 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 Q, as
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 (6), laid
                                                                      This Regulation shall enter into force on 6 January 1995.
(») OJ  No  L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.
(2) OJ  No  L  311 , 17. 11 . 1988, p. 1 .                            0 OJ    No L 387,  31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(3) OJ  No  L  199, 2. 8 . 1994, p. 1 .                               (8) OJ  No L 320,  22. 12. 1993, p. 32.
(4) OJ  No  L 273, 25. 10. 1994, p. 4.                                0 OJ    No L 108,  1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
O   OJ  No  L 72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16.                                 (10) OJ No  L 69, 12. 3. 1994, p. 1 .
(6) OJ  No  L  264, 23. 10. 1993, p. 33.                              (") OJ No L 288, 9. 11 . 1994, p. 16.
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 5 January 1995.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                   Rene STEICHEN
                                                             Member of the Commission