CELEX: 31996R0263
Language: en
Date: 1996-02-12 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 263/96 of 12 February 1996 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of large-flowered roses originating in Morocco

No L 34/28          EN                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                 13 . 2. 96
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 263/96
                                                      of 12 February 1996
                  re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of large-flowered roses
                                                    originating in Morocco
 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 ;
 Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                    whereas detailed rules on the application and deter­
 3551 /88 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,        mination of these conversions were set by Commission
                                                                   Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 (10), as last amended by
                                                                   Regulation (EC) No 2853/95 (n);
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 large­
(bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations             flowered roses originating in Morocco by Regulation (EC)
within the limit of tariff quotas opened annually for              No 1981 /94 was suspended by Commission Regulation
 imports of fresh cut flowers into the Community ;                 (EC) No 49/96 (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 3057/95 (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 large-flowered roses originating in
Whereas Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87               Morocco ; whereas the preferential customs duty should
stipulates that the preferential customs duty shall be             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 large-flowered roses (CN codes ex
                                                                   0603 10 11 and ex 0603 10 51 ) originating in Morocco
                                                                   the preferential customs duty set by amended Regulation
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2524/95 (*)                  (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 0, laid                This Regulation shall enter into force on 13 February
                                                                   1996.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 12 February 1996.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    Franz FISCHLER
                                                              Member of the Commission