31990R1075

No L 108/68 Official Journal of the European Communities 28 . 4. 90

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1075/90

of 27 April 1990

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 3327/89 (4) fixes the Community producer prices for carnations and roses for the application of the import arrangements ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (*), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3556/88 (*), lays down Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 the detailed rules for the application of the arrangements ; of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the Whereas, in order to enable the arrangements to operate application of preferential customs duties on imports of normally, the following should be used for the calculation certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and of the import prices : Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3551/88 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof, — for the currencies which are maintained against one another within a maximum spread at any given Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the moment f6r spot rate transactions of 2,25 %, a conversion rate based on their central rate adjusted by conditions for applying a preferential duty on large­ the correcting factor provided for in the last flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom) subparagraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regulation carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the (EEC) No 1676/85 f), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 636/87 (8), Community of fresh cut flowers ; — for the other currencies, a conversion rate based on Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2396/89 (3) opens the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates for the and provides for the administration of Community tariff currency, as recorded over a given period, against the quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating Community currencies referred to in the preceding indent, and the abovementioned factor ; in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel respectively ;

Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it provides, on the one hand, that for a given product of a must be concluded that the conditions laid down in given origin, the preferential customs duty is to be Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for applicable only if the price of the imported product is at suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for least equal to 85 % of the Community producer price ; multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Israel ; whereas, on the other hand, the preferential customs duty whereas the Common Customs Tariff duty should be is, except in exceptional cases, suspended and the reintroduced, Common Customs Tariff duty introduced for a given product of a given origin : HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : (a) if, on two successive market days, the prices of the imported product are less than 85 % of the Community producer price in respect of at least 30 % Article 1 of the quantities for which prices are available on representative import markets ; For imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations (CN codes ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in Israel, the or preferential customs duty fixed by Council Regulation (b) if, over a period of five to seven successive market (EEC) No 2396/89 is hereby suspended and the Common days, the prices of the imported product are alterna­ Customs Tariff duty is hereby reintroduced. tively above and below 85 % of the Community producer price in respect of at least 30 % of the Article 2 quantities for which prices are available on the representative import markets and if, for three days This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 May 1990. during that period, the prices of the import product have been below that level ; (4) OJ No L 321 , 4. 11 . 1989, p. 41 . Is) OJ No L 72, 18. 3. 1988, p. 16. (') OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22. (0 OJ No L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988, p. 8 . I2) OJ No L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988, p. 1 . O OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 . 3) OJ No L 227, 4. 8. 1989, p. 9. (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, 27 April 1990.

For the Commission Ray MAG SHARRY Member of the Commission