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Council Regulation (EEC) No 3175/88 of 14 October 1988 opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating in Jordan (1989)

Official Journal L 283 , 18/10/1988 P. 0001 - 0002

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3175/88

of 14 October 1988

opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, originating in Jordan (1989)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 113 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas Article 2 of the Additional Protocol to the Cooperation Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (1) provides that fresh cut flowers and flower buds, falling within the CN codes appearing in Article 1, originating in that country, may be imported into the Community at reduced rates of customs duty within the limits of an annual Community tariff quota for 50 tonnes;

Whereas, within the limits of that quota, Common Customs Tariff duties are to be abolished progressively over the same periods and in accordance with the same timetables as laid down in Articles 75 and 243 of the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal; whereas, for the period 1 November 1988 to 31 October 1989, the quota duties are to be equal to 62,5 % of the basic duties from 1 November to 31 December 1988 and to 50 % of the basic duties from 1 January to 31 October 1989; whereas, within the limits of this tariff quota, the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic are to apply duties calculated in accordance with Council Regulation (EEC) No 2573/87 of 11 August 1987 laying down the arrangements for trade between Spain and Portugal on the one hand and Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia and Turkey on the other (2); whereas the quotas in question should therefore be opened for the period 1 November 1988 to 31 October 1989;

Whereas large-flowered and small-flowered roses and unifloral and multifloral carnations are only covered by these quotas subject to the conditions laid down by Council Regulation (EEC) No 4088/87 of 21 December 1987 establishing conditions for the application of preferential customs duties on imports of certain floricultural products originating in Cyprus, Israel and Jordan (3); whereas these favourable tariff arrangements apply only to imports in respect of which certain price conditions are observed;

Whereas it is in particular necessary to ensure that all Community importers enjoy equal and uninterrupted access to the abovementioned quotas and uninterrupted application of the rates laid down for those quotas to all imports of the products concerned into all Member States until the quotas have been used up; whereas, in the present case, it seems advisable not to allocate the quotas among the Member States, without prejudice to the drawing against the quota volumes of such quantities as they may need, under the conditions and according to the procedures specified in Article 1 (3); whereas this method of administration requires close cooperation between the Member States and the Commission and the latter must, in particular, be able to monitor the rate at which the quotas are used up and inform the Member States accordingly;

Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are united within and jointly represented by the Benelux Economic Union, all transactions concerning the administration of quota shares allocated to that economic union may be carried out by any of its members,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

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  From 1 November 1988 to 31 October 1989 the customs duties applicable to imports into the Community of the products listed below, originating in Jordan, shall be suspended at the level and...

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