CELEX: 31999R0941
Language: en
Date: 1999-05-04 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 941/1999 of 4 May 1999 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of uniflorous (bloom) carnations originating in Morocco

L 117/24              EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                              5. 5. 1999
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 941/1999
                                                        of 4 May 1999
                  suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common
                  Customs Tariff duty on imports of uniflorous (bloom) carnations originating in
                                                           Morocco
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 938/1999 (7)
                                                                   fixes the Community producer and import prices for
                                                                   carnations and roses for the application of the import
                                                                   arrangements;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,                                                         Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to
                                                                   Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it
                                                                   must be concluded that the conditions laid down in
                                                                   Article 2(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for suspen-
                                                                   sion of the preferential customs duty are met for
                                                                   uniflorous (bloom) carnations originating in Morocco;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87               whereas the Common Customs Tariff duty should be
of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the applica-             re-established;
tion of preferential customs duties on imports of certain
flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, the
West Bank and Gaza Strip (1), as last amended by Regula-           Whereas the quota for the products in question covers the
tion (EC) No 1300/97 (2), and in particular Article 5(2)(b)        period 1 November 1998 to 31 May 1999; whereas, as a
thereof,                                                           result, the suspension of the preferential duty and the
                                                                   reintroduction of the Common Customs Tariff duty apply
                                                                   up to the end of that period at the latest;
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the                  Whereas, in between meetings of the Management
conditions for applying a preferential duty on large-              Committees, the Commission must adopt such measures,
flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom)
carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the
limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the
Community of fresh cut flowers;
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 1981/94 (3), as last
amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 650/98 (4),
opens and provides for the administration of Community
tariff quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, origin-                                 Article 1
ating in Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Malta,
Morocco, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Tunisia and
Turkey;                                                            For imports of uniflorous (bloom) carnations (CN codes
                                                                   ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in Morocco,
                                                                   the preferential customs duty fixed by Regulation (EC)
                                                                   No 1981/94 is hereby suspended and the Common
                                                                   Customs Tariff duty is hereby re-established.
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (5), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2062/97 (6), lays
down the detailed rules for the application of the arrange-
ments;
                                                                                              Article 2
(1) OJ  L 382, 31.12.1987, p. 22.
(2) OJ  L 177, 5.7.1997, p. 1.
(3) OJ  L 199, 2.8.1994, p. 1.                                     This Regulation shall enter into force on 6 May 1999.
(4) OJ  L 88, 24.3.1998, p. 8.
(5) OJ  L 72, 18.3.1988, p. 16.
(6) OJ  L 289, 22.10.1997, p. 1.                                   (7) See page 18 of this Official Journal.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 4 May 1999.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                      Franz FISCHLER
                                                                 Member of the Commission