31994R0563
15. 3. 94 No L 71 /20 Official Journal of the European Communities
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 563/94 of 14 March 1994 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 (*), 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 Q, as Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 lays down the amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (*), 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 conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ; carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations within the 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 f);
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2604/93 (3) Whereas, on the basis of prices recorded pursuant to opened and provides for the administration of Regulations (EEC) No 4088/87 and (EEC) No 700/88, it Community tariff quotas for cut flowers and flower buds, must be concluded that the conditions laid down in fresh, originating in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel ; Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 for suspension of the preferential customs duty are met for uniflorous (standard) carnations originating in Israel ; Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 whereas the Common Customs Tariff duty should be provides, on the one hand, that for a given product of a re-established, 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 ; whereas, on the other hand, the preferential customs duty HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 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 10 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 15 March 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 4) OJ No L 263, 22. 10. 1993, p. 10. 0 OJ No L 72, 18 . 3 . 1988, p. 16. '«) OJ No L 264, 23. 10. 1993, p. 33. 0 OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22. I7) OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 . O 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 . ») 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, 14 March 1994.
For the Commission Rene STEICHEN Member of the Commission