CELEX: 31996R1268
Language: en
Date: 1996-07-01 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1268/96 of 1 July 1996 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of small-flowered roses originating in Israel

No L 163/34        IEN                  Official Journal of the European Communities                                   2. 7. 96
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1268/96
                                                         of 1 July 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 ('), 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 (10), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
 Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 fixes conditions               No 11 64/96 (n);
 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 916/96 (12);
 Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 (3), as last
 amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1099/96 (4),              Whereas on the basis of price recordings made as
 opens and provides for the administration of Community             specified in Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No
 tariff quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh,              700/88 it must be concluded that the requirement for
 originating 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 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
 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 small-flowered roses (CN codes ex
                                                                   0603 10 11 and ex 0603 10 51 ) originating in Israel the
Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 667/96 (*) fixed              preferential customs duty set by amended Regulation (EC)
 Community producer prices for carnations and roses for             No 1981 /94 is reintroduced.
 application of the arrangements for importation from the
countries in question;
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (6), as                                        Article 2
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 f7), laid
                                                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 2 July 1996.
(') OJ  No  L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22.
(2) OJ  No  L 79, 29. 3. 1996, p. 6.
(3) OJ  No  L 199, 2. 8. 1994, p. 1 .                              (8) OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(4) OJ  No  L 146, 20. 6. 1996, p. 8.                              0 OJ No L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
O   OJ  No  L 92, 13. 4. 1996, p. 11 .                             H OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
(o) OJ No L 72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16.                                (") OJ No L 153, 27. 6. 1996, p. 41 .
h OJ No L 264, 23. 10. 1993, p. 33.                                H OJ No L 123, 23. 5. 1996, p. 13.
 ---pagebreak--- 2. 7. 96     EN             Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 163/35
         This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
         States.
         Done at Brussels, 1 July 1996.
                                                                For the Commission
                                                                  Franz FISCHLER
                                                            Member of the Commission