CELEX: 31996R1669
Language: en
Date: 1996-08-22 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1669/96 of 22 August 1996 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of small-flowered roses originating in Israel

No L 214/4           EN              Official Journal of the European Communities                                23 . 8 . 96
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1669/96
                                                      of 22 August 1996
                    suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common
                    Customs Tariff duty on imports of small-flowered roses originating in Israel
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                     Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 667/96 (*) fixes
                                                                   the Community producer prices for carnations and roses
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           for the application of the import arrangements;
   Community,                                                      Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (6), as
                                                                   last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 Q, lays
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87            down the detailed rules for the application of the
  of 21     December      1987 fixing conditions for the           arrangements;
  application of preferential customs duties on imports of
  certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and        Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
  Morocco ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No               1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (8), as last
  539/96 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,         amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 50/95 (9), are used to
                                                                   convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
                                                                   and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
  Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/ 87 lays down the               conversion rates of the Member States' currencies; whereas
  conditions for applying a preferential duty on large­            detailed rules on the application and determination of
  flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom)        these conversions were set by Commission Regulation
  carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the       (EEC) No 1068/93 (10), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
  limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the      No 1482/96 (n);
  Community of fresh cut flowers;
                                                                  Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
  Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 (3), as last        Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it
                                                                  must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
  amended by Regulation (EC) No 1099/96 (4), opens and
  provides for the administration of Community tariff             Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for
  quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating      suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for
  in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel respectively,             small-flowered roses originating in Israel; whereas the
                                                                  Common Customs Tariff duty should be re-established;
 Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                 Whereas the quota for the products in question covers the
  provides, on the one hand, that for a given product of a        period 1 November 1995 to 31 October 1996; whereas, as
 given origin, the preferential customs duty is to be             a result, the suspension of the preferential duty and the
 applicable only if the price of the imported product is at       reintroduction of the Common Customs Tariff duty apply
 least equal to 85 % of the Community producer price;             up to the end of that period at the latest,
 whereas, on the other hand, the preferential customs duty
 is, except in exceptional cases, suspended and the
 Common Customs Tariff duty introduced for a given                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 product of a given origin :
 (a) if, on two successive market days, the prices of the                                     Article 1
     imported product are less than 85 % of the
     Community producer price in respect of at least 30 %         For imports of small-flowered roses (CN codes ex
     of the quantities for which prices are available on          0603 10 11 and ex 0603 10 51 ) originating in Israel, the
     representative import markets;                               preferential customs duty fixed by Regulation (EC) No
     or
                                                                  1981 /94 is hereby suspended and the Common Customs
                                                                 Tariff duty is hereby re-established.
(b) if, over a period of five to seven successive market
     days, the prices of the imported product are alterna­
                                                                                              Article 2
     tively above and below 85 % of the Community
     producer price in respect of     at least 30 % of the
     quantities for which prices     are available on the        This Regulation shall enter into force on 23 August 1996
     representative import markets    and if, for three days     and is applicable until 31 October 1996 at the latest.
     during that period, the prices  of the import product
     have been below that level;                                 O OJ     No L 92, 13. 4. 1996, p. 11 .
                                                                 (<) OJ  No  L 72, 18 . 3. 1988, p. 16.
                                                                 0 OJ     No L 264, 23. 10 . 1993, p. 33.
(') OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.                           (8) OJ   No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
I1) OJ No L 79, 29. 3. 1996, p. 6.                               (») OJ  No  L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
0 OJ No L 199, 2. 8. 1994, p. 1 .                                (10) OJ  No  L 108 , 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
h) OJ No L 146, 20. 6. 1996, p. 8.                                ") OJ   No  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, 22 August 1996.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                     Erkki LIIKANEN
                                                               Member of the Commission