31993R0293

CELEX: 31993R0293
Datum: 1993-02-10
Källa: eur-lex.europa.eu

No L 34/ 18 Official Journal of the European Communities 10 . 2. 93

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 293/93 of 9 February 1993 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-introducing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Morocco

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, during that period, the prices of the import product have been below that level ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2960/92 (4) Economic Community, fixes the Community producer prices for carnations and roses for the application of the import arrangements ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (*), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3556/88 (6), lays down application of preferential customs duties on imports of certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and the detailed rules for the application of the arrangements ; Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3551 /88 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof, Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 Q are used to convert amounts expressed in third country currencies Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural conditions for applying a preferential duty on large conversion rates of the Member States' currencies whereas flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom) detailed rules on the application and determination of carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the these conversions were set by Commission Regulation limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the (EEC) No 3819/92 (8); Community of fresh cut flowers ; Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3341 /92 (3) opens must be concluded that the conditions laid down in and provides for the administration of Community tariff Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel respectively ; multiflorous (spray) carnations originating in Morocco ; whereas the Common Customs Tariff duty should be reintroduced, Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 provides, on the one hand, that for a given product of a given origin, the preferential customs duty is to be applicable only if the price of the imported product is at least equal to 85 % of the Community producer price ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : whereas, on the other hand, the preferential customs duty is, except in exceptional cases, suspended and the Common Customs Tariff duty introduced for a given Article 1 product of a given origin :

(a) if, on two successive market days, the prices of the For imports of multiflorous (spray) carnations (CN code imported product are less than 85 % of the ex 0603 10 53) originating in Morocco, the preferential Community producer price in respect of at least 30 % customs duty fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No of the quantities for which prices are available on 3341 /92 is hereby suspended and the Common Customs representative import markets ; Tariff duty is hereby reintroduced.

or (b) if, over a period of five to seven successive market Article 2 days, the prices of the imported product are alterna tively above and below 85 % of the Community This Regulation shall enter into force on 10 February producer price in respect of at least 30 % of the 1993 . quantities for which prices are available on the representative import markets and if, for three days (4) OJ No L 298, 14. 10 . 1992, p. 9 . 0 OJ No L 72, 18 . 3. 1988, p. 16. O OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22. (6) OJ No L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988 , p. 8 . (2) OJ No L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988 , p. 1 . o OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 336, 20. 11 . 1992, p. 8 . (8 OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 17.

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

Done at Brussels, 9 February 1993.

For the Commission Rene STEICHEN Member of the Commission