31993R3107

CELEX: 31993R3107
Datum: 1993-11-11
Källa: eur-lex.europa.eu

No L 278 /40 Official Journal of the European Communities 11 . 11 . 93

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 3107 /93 of 10 November 1993 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations originating in Israel

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 2890/93 (4) 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 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (*), as of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 (6), lays application of preferential customs duties on imports of down the detailed rules for the application of the certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and 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 381 3/92 f) are used to Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the convert amounts expressed in third country currencies conditions for applying a preferential duty on large and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom) conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ; carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the whereas detailed rules on the application and determi limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the nation of these conversions were set by Commission Community of fresh cut flowers ; Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 (8) ;

Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2604/93 (3) Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it opened and provides for the administration of must be concluded that the conditions laid down in Community tariff quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for fresh, originating in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel ; suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for uniflorous (standard) carnations originating in Israel ; whereas the Common Customs Tariff duty should be Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088 /87 re-established, 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 product of a given origin : Article 1

(a) if, on two successive market days, the prices of the For imports of uniflorous (standard) carnations (CN codes imported product are less than 85 % of the ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 1 0 53) originating in Israel, the Community producer price in respect of at least 30 % preferential customs duty fixed by Regulation (EEC) No of the quantities for which prices are available on 2604/93 is hereby suspended and the Common Customs representative import markets ; Tariff duty is hereby re-established.

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 1 1 November 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 0 OJ No L 263, 22. 10. 1993 , p . 10. (J) OJ No L 72, 18 . 3 . 1988, p. 16. (') OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22. (6) OJ No L 264, 23 . 10. 1993 , p. 33. (2) OJ No L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988, p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 . (3) OJ No L 239, 24. 9 . 1993, p. 1 . (8) OJ No L 108, 1 . 5 . 1993, p. 106.

11 . 11 . 93 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 278/41

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

Done at Brussels, 10 November 1993 .

For the Commission Rene STEICHEN Member of the Commission