31994R0019

No L 5/4 Official Journal of the European Communities 7 . 1 . 94

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 19/94 of 6 January 1994 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 Q, as amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (8), are used to Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 convert amounts expressed in third country currencies of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural application of preferential customs duties on imports of conversion rates of the Member States' currencies whereas 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 3551 /88 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof, (EEC) No 1068/93 (9);

Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 fixes conditions for the application of a preferential customs duty on Whereas the preferential customs duty fixed for small­ large-flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous flowered roses originating in Israel by Regulation (EEC) (bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations No 2604/93 was suspended by Commission Regulation within the limit of tariff quotas opened annually for (EC) No 6/94 (10) ; imports of fresh cut flowers into the Community ;

Whereas on the basis of price recordings made as Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2604/93 (') opens specified in Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No and provides for the administration of Community tariff 700/88 it must be concluded that the requirement for quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating reintroduction of the preferential customs duly laid down in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel ; in the last subparagraph of Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 is met for small-flowered roses originating in Israel ; whereas the preferential customs Whereas Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 duty should be reintroduced, 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 pursuant to Article 2 (2) (a) of that Regulation, Article 1 — 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 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2890/93 (4) the preferential customs duty set by Regulation (EEC) No 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 f), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 (6), laid This Regulation shall enter into force on 7 January 1994. (') OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22. (J) OJ No L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988 , p. 1 . (3) OJ No L 239, 24. 9. 1993, p. 1 . O OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 263, 22. 10. 1993, p. 10. (*) OJ No L 320, 22. 12. 1993, p. 32. 0 OJ No L 72, 18 . 3 . 1988 , p. 16. 0 OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106. (•) OJ No L 264, 23. 10. 1993, p. 33 . H OJ No L 3, 5. 1 . 1994, p. 3 .

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

Done at Brussels, 6 January 1994.

For the Commission Rene STEICHEN Member of the Commission