31989R2194

21 . 7 . 89 No L 209/ 17 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2194/89

of 20 July 1989

reintroducing the preferential customs duty on imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Morocco

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, for application of the arrangements for importation from the countries in question ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (8), as Economic Community, amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3556/88 (9), laid down detailed rules for the application of these arrangements ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the Whereas to permit the import arrangements to function application of preferential customs duties on imports of in the normal manner prices on importation should be certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and calculated using Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3551 /88 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof, — for currencies maintained against each other within a maximum spread at any given moment for spot rate transactions of 2,25 % a conversion rate based on Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 fixes conditions their central rate multiplied by the correcting factor for the application of a preferential customs duty on large-flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous provided for in the last subparagraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) (bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1676/85 (l0), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1636/87 (n), within the limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports of fresh cut flowers into the Community ; :— for other currencies a conversion rate based on the arithmetic mean of the spot market rate of the Whereas Council Regulations (EEC) No 3005/88 (J), currency, recorded for a given period, against the (EEC) No 3175/88 (4), (EEC) No 3552/88 0 and (EEC) No Community currencies indicated in the preceding 4078/88 (6) open and provide for the administration of indent and of the aforesaid coefficient ; Community tariff quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, Whereas the preferential customs duty fixed for fresh, originating in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Morocco by respectively ; Regulation (EEC) No 3552/88 was suspended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1405/89 (> 2); Whereas Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088 /87 stipulates that the preferential customs duty shall be Whereas on the basis of price recordings made as reintroduced for a given product of a given origin if the specified in Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No prices of the imported product (full rate customs duty not 700/88 it must be concluded that the requirement for deducted) are, for at least 70 % of the quantities for which reintroduction of the preferential customs duty laid down prices are available on representative Community import in the last paragraph of Article 2 (3) relative to the markets, not less than 85 % of the Community producer absence of available price quotations ' for six successive price for a period, calculated from the actual date of working days is met for multiflorous (spray) carnations suspension of the actual preferential customs duty, originating in Morocco ; whereas the preferential customs duty should be reintroduced, — of two successive market days, after suspension under Article 2 (2) (a) of that Regulation,

— of three successive market days, after suspension HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : under Article 2 (2) (b) of that Regulation ;

Article 1 Whereas, Article 2 (3) of that Regulation stipulates that in the absence of available price quotations, the preferential For imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations (CN codes customs duty shall be reintroduced if there are no prices ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in Morocco for six successive working days from the date the measure the preferential customs duty set by Regulation (EEC) No was applied ; 3552/88 is reintroduced .

Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1550/89 (7) Article 2 fixed Community producer prices for carnations and roses

This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 July 1989. (*) OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22. (2) OJ No L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988 , p. 1 . (') OJ No L 271 , 1 . 10 . 1988 , p. 7. H OJ No L 72, 18 . 3 . 1988 , p . 16. (4) OJ No L 283, 18 . 10. 1988 , p. 1 . O OJ No L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988, p. 8 . O OJ No L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988 , p. 2. H OJ No L 164, 24. 6 . 1985, p. 1 . («) OJ No L 359, 28 . 12. 1988 , p. 8 . (") OJ No L 153, 13 . 6 . 1987, p . 1 . 0 OJ No L 151 , 3. 6. 1989, p. 32. ( ,2) OJ No L 140, 24. 5 . 1989, p. 33 .

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

Done at Brussels, 20 July 1989.

For the Commission

Ray MAC SHARRY

Member of the Commission