31989R3193

26 . 10 . 89 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 309/ 15

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3193/89 of 25 October 1989 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-introducing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Israel

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1550/89 Q fixes the Community producer prices for carnations and Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European roses for the application of the import arrangements ; Economic Community, Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (8), as Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3556/88 ('), lays down of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the the detailed rules for the application of the arrangements ; application of preferential customs duties on imports of certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and Whereas, in order to enable the arrangements to operate Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No normally, the following should be used for the calculation 3551 /88 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof, of the import prices : for the currencies which are maintained against one Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the another within a maximum spread at any given conditions for applying a preferential duty on large­ moment for spot rate transactions of 2,25 % , a flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom) conversion rate based on their central rate adjusted by carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the the correcting factor provided for in the last limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the subparagraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regulation Community of fresh cut flowers ; (EEC) No 1 676/85 (10), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1636/87 (•>), Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3005/88 (3), (EEC) No 3175/88 (4), (EEC) No 3552/88(0 and (EEC) No for the other currencies, a conversion rate based on 4078/88 (*) open and provide for the administration of the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates for the Community tariff quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, currency, as recorded over a given period, against the fresh, originating in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel Community currencies referred to in the preceding respectively ; indent, and the abovementioned factor ;

Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to provides, on the one hand, that for a given product of a Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it given origin, the preferential customs duty is to be must be concluded that the conditions laid down in applicable only if the price of the imported product is at Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for least equal to 85 % of the Community producer price ; suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for whereas, on the other hand, the preferential customs duty multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Israel ; is, except in exceptional cases, suspended and the whereas the Common Customs Tariff duty should be Common Customs Tariff duty introduced for a given reintroduced, product of a given origin : (a) if, on two successive market days, the prices of the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : imported product are less than 85 % of the Community producer price in respect of at least 30 % of the quantities for which prices are available on Article 1 representative import markets ; or For imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations (CN codes ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in Israel, the ( b) it, over a period ot live to seven successive market preferential customs duty fixed by Council Regulation days, the prices of the imported product are alterna­ (EEC) No 4078/88 is hereby suspended and the Common tively above and below 85 % of the Community Customs Tariff duty is hereby reintroduced. producer price in respect of at least 30 % of the quantities for which prices are available on the Article 2 representative import markets and if, for three days during that period, the prices of the import product have been below that level ; This Regulation shall enter into force on 27 October 1989 .

(') OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22. (2) OJ No L 311 , 17 . 11 . 1988, p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 151 , 3 . 6. 1989, p. 32. (3) OJ No L 271 , 1 . 10. 1988, p. 7. («) OJ No L 72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16. (4) OJ No L 283, 18 . 10. 1988 , p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988, p. 8 . 0 OJ No L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988, p. 2. H OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 359, 28 . 12. 1988 , p. 8 . (") OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .

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

Done at Brussels, 25 October 1989.

For the Commission Ray MAC SHARRY Member of the Commission