No L 382/22 Official Journal of the European Communities 31.12. 87 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 4088/87 of 21 December 1987 fixing conditions for the application of preferential customs duties on imports of certain flowers originating in Cyprus, Israel and Jordan 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 the additional Protocols to the Association or Cooperation  Agreements between the European Economic Community, on the one hand, and Cyprus, Israel and Jordan, on the other, provide that preferential customs duties shall be applied to imports into the Community of roses and carnations, within the limit of tariff quotas opened for imports of all fresh cut flowers falling within subheading 0603 10 of the combined ‘nomenclature and originating in the said States; whereas these tariff advantages are applicable only to imports which comply with certain price conditions; Whereas this Regulation should state the price conditions with which imports of roses and carnations must comply in order to qualify for the application of preferential customs duties and should also set both the conditions for suspending the preferential tariff arrangement when these conditions are no longer met and the conditions for its subsequent reintroduction; Whereas price conditions to be complied with for imported products are determined according to Community producer prices; whereas, in the light of the extremely volatile and short-term fluctuations in the prices of the products in question in the Community, these producer prices should be set for two-week periods, on the basis of the average representative market price during the previous three years, excessive fluctu- ations being disregarded, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 This Regulation lays down the conditions for application of a preferential customs duty for large-flowered roses, small-flowered roses, uniflorous (bloom) carnations and multiflorous (spray) carnations, within the limit of tariff quotas opened annually for imports into the Community of all fresh cut flowers falling within subheading 0603 10 of the combined nomenclature and originating in Cyprus, Israel or Jordan. Article 2 1.  For a given product of a given origin, the pref- erential customs duty shall be applicable only if the price of the imported product is at least equal to 85 % of the Community producer price referred to in Article 3. The price of the imported product shall be established on representative Community import markets, without deducting the preferential customs duty. 2. The preferential customs duty shall, save in excep- tional circumstances, be suspended and the Common Customs Tariff duty imposed for a given product of a given origin:, (a) if, on two successive market days, the prices of the imported product are less than 85% of the Community producer price in respect of at least 30 % of the quantities for which prices are available on representative import markets; or (b) if, over a period of five to seven successive market days, the prices of the imported product are alter- nately above and below 85 % of the Community 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 during that period, the prices of the imported product have been below that level. 3. The preferential customs duty shall be reintroduced for a given product of a given origin if the prices of the imported product (full-rate customs duty not deducted) are, in respect of a least 70 % of the quantities for which prices are available on representative Community import markets, equal to, or more than, 85% of the Community producer price for a period, calculated from the actual date of suspension of preferential customs duty, — of two successive market days, after suspension under paragraph 2 (a), — of three successive market days, after suspension under paragraph 2 (b). In the absence of available price quotations, the pref- erential customs duty shall be reintroduced if there are no prices for six successive working days from the date the measure was applied. 4. In the case of imports into Spain and Portugal of products originating in the countries mentioned in Article 1: — the preferential customs duty applicable shall be determined by the special conditions of application of the Agreements between the Community and the countries referred to in Article 1, following the accession of Spain and Portugal,