31993R3476

No L 317/28 Official Journal of the European Communities 18 . 12. 93

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 3476/93 of 17 December 1993 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of small-flowered roses originating in Israel

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, down detailed rules for the application of these arrangements ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 0 are used to convert amounts expressed in third country currencies Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural conversion rates of the Member States' currencies whereas application of preferential customs duties on imports of certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and detailed rules on the application and determination of Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No these conversions were set by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 (8); 3551 /88 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof,

Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 fixes conditions Whereas the preferential customs duty fixed for small­ for the application of a preferential customs duty on flowered roses originating in Israel by Regulation (EEC) large-flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous No 2604/93 was suspended by Commission Regulation (bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations (EC) No 3110/93 (9); within the limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports of fresh cut flowers into the Community ; Whereas on the basis of price recordings made as specified in Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2604/93 (3) opens 700/88 it must be concluded that the requirement for and provides for the administration of Community tariff reintroduction of the preferential customs duty laid down quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating in the last subparagraph of Article 2 (3) of Regulation in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel ; (EEC) No 4088/87 is met for small-flowered roses originating in Israel ; whereas the preferential customs duty should be reintroduced, Whereas Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 stipulates that the preferential customs duty shall be re-established for a given product of a given origin if the prices of the imported product (full rate customs duty not deducted) are, for at least 70 % of the quantities for which prices are available on representative Community import markets, not less than 85 % of the Community producer HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : price for a period, calculated from the actual date of suspension of the actual preferential customs duty,

— of two successive market days, after suspension Article 1 pursuant to Article 2 (2) (a) of that Regulation, — of three successive market days, after suspension pursuant to Article 2 (2) (b) of that Regulation ; For imports of small-flowered roses (CN codes ex 0603 10 11 and ex 0603 10 51 ) originating in Israel the preferential customs duty set by Regulation (EEC) No Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2890/93 (4) 2604/93 is re-established. fixed Community producer prices for carnations and roses for application of the arrangements for importation from the countries in question ;

Article 2 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 O, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 0, laid This Regulation shall enter into force on 18 December (') OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22. 1993 . (2) OJ No L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988, p. 1 . (3) OJ No L 239, 24. 9. 1993, p. 1 . (4) OJ No L 263, 22. 10. 1993, p. 10 . O OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 . H OJ No L 72, 18 . 3 . 1988, p. 16. (8) OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106. V) OJ No L 264, 23. 10. 1993, p. 33. O OJ No L 278, 11 . 11 . 1993, p. 46.

18 . 12. 93 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 317/29

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

Done at Brussels, 17 December 1993 .

For the Commission Rene STEICHEN Member of the Commission