CELEX: 31996R0157
Language: en
Date: 1996-01-30 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 157/96 of 30 January 1996 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of small-flowered roses originating in Israel

31 . 1 . 96         I EN I             Official Journal of the European Communities                                    No L 24/ 1
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                                             (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 157/96
                                                      of 30 January 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,                           of the quantities for which prices are available on
                                                                       representative import markets ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 or
 Community,                                                        (b) if, over a period of five to seven successive market
                                                                       days, the prices of the imported product are alterna­
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                  tively above and below 85 % of the Community
 of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the                         producer price in respect of          at least 30 % of the
 application of preferential customs duties on imports of              quantities for which prices          are available on the
 certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and             representative import markets         and if, for three days
 Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                        during that period, the prices       of the import product
                                                                       have been below that level ;
 3551 /88 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,
                                                                   Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2524/95 (*)
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the                  fixes the Community producer prices for carnations and
 conditions for applying a preferential duty on large­             roses for the application of the import arrangements ;
 flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom)
 carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the
 limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the       Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (6), as
 Community of fresh cut flowers ;                                  last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 Q, lays
                                                                   down the detailed rules for the application of the
                                                                   arrangements ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981 /94 (3), as last
 amended by Regulation (EC) No 3057/95 (4), opens and
 provides for the administration of Community tariff               Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
 quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating        1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 381 3/92 (8), as last
 in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel respectively ;              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 Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87                   conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
 provides, on the one hand, that for a given product of a         whereas detailed rules on the application and determi­
given origin, the preferential customs duty is to be               nation of these conversions were set by Commission
 applicable only if the price of the imported product is at        Regulation (EEC) No 1 068/93 (10), as last amended by
 least equal to 85 % of the Community producer price ;             Regulation (EC) No 2853/95 (") ;
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                 Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
product of a given origin :                                        Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it
                                                                   must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
(a) if, on two successive market days, the prices of the          Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for
     imported product are less than 85 % of the
     Community producer price in respect of at least 30 %         (5) OJ   No L 258 , 28 . 10 . 1995, p. 42.
                                                                  (6) 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 .
(2) OJ No L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988, p. 1 .                           (') OJ   No L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 199, 2. 8 . 1994, p. 1 .                              H OJ     No  L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
b) OJ No L 326, 30. 12. 1995, p. 3.                               (") OJ   No  L 299 , 12. 12. 1995, p. 1 .
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suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for       preferential customs duty fixed by Regulation (EC) No
small-flowered roses originating in Israel ; whereas the      1981 /94 is hereby suspended and the Common Customs
Common Customs Tariff duty should be re-established,          Tariff duty is hereby re-established.
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                                      Article 2
                       Article 1
For imports of small-flowered roses (CN codes ex              This Regulation shall enter into force on 31 January
0603 10 11 and ex 0603 10 51 ) originating in Israel, the     1996 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 30 January 1996.
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                          Franz FISCHLER
                                                                   Member of the Commission