31994R2208

No L 236/20 Official Journal of the European Communities 10 . 9 . 94

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2208 /94 of 9 September 1994 re-establishing the preferential customs duty on imports of single-flower (standard) carnations 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 ; certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and whereas detailed rules on the application and determi­ Morocco ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No nation of these conversions were set by Commission 3551 /88 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) (b) thereof, Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 (9), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 547/94 (10) ; Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 fixes conditions for the application of a preferential customs duty on Whereas the preferential customs duty fixed for single­ large-flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous flower (standard) carnations originating in Israel by (bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations Regulation (EEC) No 2604/93 was suspended by within the limit of tariff quotas opened annually for Commission Regulation (EC) No 1451 /94 (u); imports of fresh cut flowers into the Community ;

Whereas on the basis of price recordings made as Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2604/93 (3) 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 duty laid down in Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco and Israel ; in the last indent of Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 is met for single-flower (standard) carnations Whereas Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 originating in Israel ; whereas the preferential customs stipulates that the preferential customs duty shall be duty should be reintroduced, reintroduced 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 under Article 1 Article 2 (2) (a) of that Regulation, — of three successive market days, after suspension For imports of single-flower (standard) carnations (CN under Article 2 (2) (b) of that Regulation ; codes ex 0603 10 13 and ex 0603 10 53) originating in Israel the preferential customs duty set by Regulation Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 11 68/94 (4) (EEC) No 2604/93 is reintroduced. 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 (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2917/93 (*), laid This Regulation shall enter into force on 10 September 1994. (') OJ No L 382, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 22. 0 OJ No L 311 , 17. 11 . 1988 , p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 239, 24. 9. 1993 , p. 1 . (8) OJ No L 320, 22. 12. 1993, p. 32. (4) OJ No L 130, 25. 5. 1994, p. 21 . (') OJ No L 108 , 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106. 0 OJ No L 72, 18 . 3. 1988, p. 16. H OJ No L 69, 12. 3. 1994, p. 1 . (Ó OJ No L 264, 23 . 10. 1993, p. 33. (") OJ No L 157, 24. 6. 1994, p. 19.

10 . 9 . 94 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 236/21

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

Done at Brussels, 9 September 1994.

For the Commission Rene STEICHEN Member of the Commission