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5 . 1 . 94 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 3/3

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 6/94 of 4 January 1994 suspending the preferential customs duties and re-establishing the Common Customs Tariff duty on imports of small-flowered roses 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 (% 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 3813/92 f7), as Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (8), are used to conditions for applying a preferential duty on large­ convert amounts expressed in third country currencies flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom) and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ; limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the whereas detailed rules on the application and determi­ Community of fresh cut flowers ; nation of these conversions were set by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 (9) ;

Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2604/93 (3) opens Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to and provides for the administration of Community tariff Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating must be concluded that the conditions laid down in in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel respectively ; Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for small-flowered roses originating in Israel ; whereas the Whereas Article «2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 Common Customs Tariff duty should be 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 small-flowered roses (CN codes ex imported product are less than 85 % of the 0603 10 11 and ex 0603 10 51 ) 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 5 January 1994. producer price in respect of at least 30 % of the quantities for which prices are available on the representative import markets and if, for three days O OJ No L 263, 22. 10 . 1993, p. 10 . (s) 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 . O OJ No L 108 , 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.

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

Done at Brussels, 4 January 1994.

For the Commission Rene STEICHEN Member of the Commission