31993R3591
No L 326/54 Official Journal of the European Communities 28 . 12. 93
COMMISSION REGULATION ( EC) No 3591 /93 of 27 December 1993 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing 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 2890/93 (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 Community, Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 700/88 (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 (6), lays Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 down the detailed rules for the application of the of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the arrangements ; application of preferential customs duties on imports of certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 381 3/92 Q, as 3551 /88 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof, amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (8), 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 ; flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom) whereas detailed rules on the application and determi carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the nation of these conversions were set by Commission limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 (9) ; 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 2604/93 (') opens must be concluded that the conditions laid down in and provides for the administration of Community tariff Article 2 (2) (a) 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 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 multiflorous (spray) carnations (CN codes imported product are less than 85 % of the Community producer price in respect of at least 30 % ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in Israel, the of the quantities for which prices are available on preferential customs duty fixed by Council Regulation representative import markets ; (EEC) No 2604/93 is hereby suspended and the Common Customs Tariff duty is hereby re-established. or (b) if, over a period of five to seven successive market days, the prices of the imported product are alterna Article 2 tively above and below 85 % of the Community producer price in respect of at least 30 % of the This Regulation shall enter into force on 28 December quantities for which prices are available on the 1993 . representative import markets and if, for three days during that period, the prices of the import product have been below that level : (4) OJ No L 263, 22. 10 . 1993, p. 10 . (5) OJ No L 72, 18 . 3 . 1988 , p. 16. (6) OJ No L 264, 23 . 10 . 1993, p. 33. (<) OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22. O OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988 , p. 1 . (8) OJ No L 320, 22. 12. 1993, p. 32. (3) OJ No L 239, 24. 9 . 1993, p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 108 , 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
28. 12. 93 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 326/55
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .
Done at Brussels, 27 December 1993.
For the Commission Rene STEICHEN Member of the Commission