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31 . 12 . 87 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 400 / 1

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COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) No 4184 / 87

of 21 December 1987 opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, falling within code 0603 of the combined nomenclature, originating in Jordan ( 1988 )

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES , favourable tariff arrangements apply only to imports in respect of which certain price conditions are observed ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 113 Whereas it is possible that from 1 January 1988 the thereof, nomenclature used in the Common Customs Tariff will be replaced by the combined nomenclature based on the Having regard to the proposal from the Commission , International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System ; whereas this Regulation Whereas Article 2 of the Additional Protocol to the takes account of that fact by using the combined Cooperation Agreement between the European Economic nomenclature codes within which the products concerned Community and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (') fall ; provides that fresh cut flowers and flower buds , falling within the combined nomenclature codes appearing in Whereas it is in particular necessary to ensure that all Article 1 , originating in that country , may be imported into Community importers enjoy equal and uninterrupted access the Community at reduced rates of customs duty within the to the abovementioned quotas and uninterrupted application limits of an annual Community tariff quota of 50 tonnes; of the rates laid down for those quotas to all imports of the products concerned into all Member States until the quotas Whereas , within these limits , Common Customs Tariff have been used up ; whereas , in the present case , it seems duties are to be abolished progressively over the same periods advisable not to allocate the quotas among the Member and in accordance with the same time tables as laid down in States , without prejudice to the drawing against the quota Articles 75 and 243 of the Act of Accession of Spain and volumes of such quantities as they may need , under the Portugal ; whereas , for the period 1 January to 31 October conditions and according to the procedures specified in 1988 , the quota duties are to be equal to 62,5% of the Article 1 ( 3 ); whereas this method of administration requires Common Customs Tariff duties; whereas , within the limits close cooperation between the Member States and the of this tariff quota , the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Commission and the latter must , in particular, be able to Republic are to apply duties calculated in accordance with monitor the rate at which the quotas are used up and inform Council Regulation ( EEC) No 2573 / 87 of 11 August 1987 the Member States accordingly; laying down the arrangements for trade between Spain and Portugal on the one hand and Algeria , Egypt , Jordan , Whereas , since the Kingdom of Belgium , the Kingdom of the Lebanon , Tunisia and Turkey on the other ( 2); whereas the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are united tariff quota in question should therefore be opened for the within and jointly represented by the Benelux Economic period from 1 January to 31 October 1988 amounting, by Union , all transactions concerning the administration of virtue of the pro rata temporis clause , to 41,667 tonnes for quota shares allocated to that economic union may be carried the period in question; out by any of its members ,

Whereas large-flowered and small flowered roses and unifloral and multifloral carnations are only covered by these HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : quotas subject to the conditions laid down by Council Regulation ( EEC) No 4088 / 87 of 21 December 1987 establishing conditions for the application of preferential Article 1 customs duties on imports of certain floricultural products originating in Cyprus, Israel and Jordan ( 3 ); whereas these 1 . From 1 January to 3 1 October 1988 the customs duties H OJ No L 297 , 21 . 10 . 1987 , p . 19 . applicable to imports into the Community of the products ( 2 ) OJ No L 250 , 1 . 9 . 1987 , p . 1 . listed below, originating in Jordan , shall be suspended at the ( 3 ) OJ No L 382 , 31 . 12 . 1987 , p . 22 . level and within the limits of the tariff quota :

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Order Volume of Quota Quota duty CN Code Description ( tonnes ) ( % ) No

09.1152 0603 10 51 Cut flowers and flower buds of a kind suitable for 41,667 — From 1 January to 0603 10 53 bouquets or for ornamental purposes, fresh , dried, dyed, 31 May 1988 : 10 0603 10 55 bleached, impregnated or otherwise prepared: 0603 10 61 — Fresh : — From 1 June to 0603 10 65 31 October 1988 : 0603 10 69 — — From 1 November to 31 May 15 0603 10 11 — — From 1 June to 31 October 0603 10 13 0603 10 15 0603 10 21 0603 10 25 0603 10 29

Within the limits of the tariff quota , the Kingdom of Spain interruption against their accumulated shares of the and the Portuguese Republic shall apply customs duties Community quota . calculated in accordance with Regulation (EEC ) No 2573 / 87 . 2 . Each Member State shall ensure that importers of the products concerned have free access to the quotas for as long 2 . Access to the tariff quotas referred to in paragraph 1 as the residual balance of the quota volume so permits . may be halted for large-flowered and small-flowered roses and unifloral and multifloral carnations if it is found at 3 . Member States shall charge imports of the products Community level that the price conditions laid down by concerned against their shares as and when the products are entered with customs authorities for free circulation . Regulation (EEC) No 4088 / 87 are not being observed.

In such cases , the Commission shall adopt regulations 4 . The extent to which the quota has been used up shall be re-establishing the duties applicable to the products in determined on the basis of the imports charged in accordance question and, where appropriate , re-introducing this with paragraph 3 . Regulation on the dates and in respect of the products and periods indicated in the Regulations in question . Article 3 3 . If an importer indicates that a consignment of the products in question is to be imported into a Member State At the request of the Commission , Member States shall and applies to use the quotas , the Member State concerned inform it of imports actually charged against the quota . shall inform the Commission and draw an amount corresponding to the requirements to the extent that the available balance of the quota so permits . Article 4 4 . Shares drawn pursuant to paragraph 3 shall be valid until the end of the quota period . The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate closely in order to ensure that this Regulation is complied with .

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Article 5 1 . Member States shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that shares drawn pursuant to Article 1(3 ) are opened in such a way that imports may be chared without This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1988 .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels , 21 December 1987 .

For the Council The President B. HAARDER