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►B COUNCILREGULATION(EEC)No1657/93
of24June1993
temporarily suspending the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on certain industrial
productsintendedtoequipthefree zonesoftheAzoresandMadeira
(OJ L 158, 30.6.1993, p. 1)
Amended by:
Official Journal
No page date
►M1Council Regulation (EC) No 3256/94 of 22 December 1994 L 339 1 29.12.1994
▼B
COUNCILREGULATION(EEC)No1657/93
of24June1993
temporarily suspending the autonomous Common Customs Tariff
duties on certain industrial products intended to equip the free
zonesoftheAzoresandMadeira
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European EconomicCommunity, and in particular Article 28 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission(
1),
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament(2),
Whereasthe Council, in itsDecis ion 91/315/EEC(3), set up a
programme of options specific to the remote and insular nature of
Madeira and the Azores(Pos eima);
Whereas in the context of the overall programme of measures estab-
lished in that Decision to stimulate the economic and socialdevelopment of the abovementioned autonomous regions, it was stipu-
lated that free zonescould be an appreciable ins trument of economic
development in the regionsconcerned; whereasit may be appropriateto adopt specific customs measures regarding the arrangements applic-able to the free zonesof the Azoresand Madeira;
WhereasCouncil Regulation (EEC) No 1604/92 of 15 June 1992,
amending Regulation (EEC) No 2504/88 on free zonesand free ware-
houses(
4), provided that processing operations carried out in the free
zones of these autonomous regions should not be subject to theeconomic conditions laid down in the inward processing arrangements;
Whereas in a request submitted on 4 March 1992 and supplemented on
22 October 1992 and 20 January 1993, the competent Portuguese
authorities asked to be granted an exemption from Common Customs
Tariff dutieson importsof certain indus trial productsintended to equipthe free zonesof the Azoresand Madeira;
Whereas, upon detailed examination of the situation, such a measure
appearslikely to give the required boos t to the development of
economic activities in the said free zones;
Whereas, in order to avoid directly affecting the functioning of the
common market, a time limit must be set for this measure and suitableaction taken to ensure that the products for which a suspension isgranted are intended solely to equip the said free zones;
Whereas the Commission must be informed of the volume of imports
involved,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
1. The Common Customs Tariff duties applicable to products listed
in the Annex shall be suspended in full until 31 December 2000.
2. The suspension referred to in paragraph 1 shall apply solely to
productsintended to equip the free zonesof the Azoresand Madeira.
3. The competent Portuguese authorities shall adopt the provisions
necessary to ensure compliance with paragraph 2 pursuant to the rele-vant Community provisions on end-use, in particular the charging of1993R1657 — EN — 01.01.1995 — 001.001 — 2
(1) OJ No C 116, 27. 4. 1993, p. 11.
(2) Opinion delivered on 28 May 1993 (not yet published in the Official
Journal).
(3) OJ No L 171, 29. 6. 1991, p. 10.
(4) OJ No L 173, 27. 6. 1992, p. 30.
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Common Customs Tariff duties when the products in question are
transported to other parts of the Community's customs territory.
They shall inform the Commission of these measures at the earliest
opportunity.
Article 2
With respect to the products referred to in Article 1, the competent
Portuguese authorities shall inform the Commission, no later than 15
March of each year, of the volume of importsfor which the tariffsuspension has been granted during the preceding year.
Article 3
During the year 2000, the Commission, after consulting the competent
Portuguese authorities, shall examine the effects of the measuresadopted on the development of the free zonesof the AzoresandMadeira and shall, if necessary, submit appropriate proposals.
Article 4
ThisRegulation s hall enter into force on the day of itspublication in
theOfficial Journal of the European Communities .
ThisRegulation s hall be binding in itsentirety and directly applicable
in all Member States.1993R1657 — EN — 01.01.1995 — 001.001 — 3
ANNEX
Order No CN code Description
18.0300 6804 Millstones, grindstones, grinding wheels and the like, without frameworks, for grinding, sharpening,
polishing, trueing or cutting, hand-sharpening or polishing stones, and parts thereof, of neutral stone,
of agglomerated natural or artificial abrasives, or of ceramics, with or without parts of other mate-
rials
18.0302 7308 Structures(excluding prefabricated buildingsof heading No 9406) and partsof s tructures(for
example, bridges and bridge-sections, lock-gates, towers, lattice masts, roofs, roofing frameworks,
doors and windows and their frames and thresholds for doors, shutters, balustrades, pillars and
columns), or iron or steel; plates, rods, angles, shapes, sections, tubes and the like, prepared for use
in structures, of iron or steel
18.0304 7309 00 Reservoirs, tanks, vats and similar containers for any material (other than compressed or liquefied
gas), of iron or steel, of a capacity exceeding 300 litres, whether or not lined or heat-insulated, but
not fitted with mechanical or thermal equipment
18.0306 7310 other than
7310 21 10Tanks, casks, drums, cans, boxes and similar containers, for any material (other than compressed or
liquefied gas), of iron or steel, of a capacity not exceeding 300 litres, whether or not lined or heat-
insulated, but not fitted with mechanical or thermal equipment, other than cans of a kind used for
preserving food and drink
18.0308 7311 00 Containers for compressed or liquefied gas, of iron or steel
18.0310 7322 Radiatorsfor central heating, not electrically heated, and partsthereof, of iron or s teel; air heaters
and hot air distributors (including distributors which can also distribute fresh or conditioned air), not
electrically heated, incorporating a motor-driven fan or blower, and partsthereof, of iron or s teel
18.0312 7610 Aluminium structures (excluding prefabricated buildings of heading No 9406) and parts of structures
(for example, bridges and bridge-sections, towers, lattice masts, roofs, roofing framework, doors and
windows and their frames and thresholds for doors, balustrades, pillars and columns); aluminium
plates, rods, profiles, tubes and the like, prepared for use in structures
18.0314 7611 00 00 Aluminium reservoirs, tanks, vats and similar containers, for any material (other than compressed or
liquefied gas), of a capacity exceeding 300 litres, whether or not lined or heat-insulated, but not
fitted with mechanical or thermal equipment
18.0316 7612 Aluminium casks, drums, cans, boxes and similar containers (including rigid or collapsible tubular
containers), for any material (other than compressed or liquefied gas), of a capacity not exceeding
300 litres, whether or not heat-insulated, but not fitted with mechanical or thermal equipment
18.0318 7613 00 00 Aluminium containers for compressed or liquefied gas18.0320 8202 Hand saws; blades for saws of all kinds (including slitting, slotting or toothless saw blades)
18.0322 8203 Files, rasps, pliers (including cutting pliers), pincers, tweezers, metal cutting shears, pipe-cutters,
bolt croppers, perforating punches and similar hand tools
18.0324 8204 Hand-operating s pannersand wrenches(including torque meter wrenchesbut not including tap
wrenches); interchangeable spanner sockets, with or without handles▼M11993R1657 — EN — 01.01.1995 — 001.001 — 4
Order No CN code Description
18.0326 8205 Hand tools (including glaziers' diamonds), not elsewhere specified or included; blow lamps; vices,
clamps and the like, other than accessories for and parts of, machine tools; anvils; portable forges;
hand or pedal-operated grinding wheelswith frameworks
18.0328 8207 Interchangeable toolsfor hand tools , whether or not power-operated, or for machine-tools(for
example, for pressing, stamping, punching, tapping, threading, drilling, boring, broaching, milling,
turning or screw driving), including dies for drawing or extruding metal, and rock drilling or earth
boring tools
18.0330 8208 other than
8208 40 00Knivesand cutting blades , for machinesor for mechanical appliancesother than agricultural, horti-
cultural or forestry machines
18.0332 8209 00 Plates, sticks, tips and the like for tools, unmounted, of sintered metal carbides or cermets
18.0334 8210 00 Hand-operated mechanical appliances, weighing 10 kg or less, used in the preparation, conditioning
or serving of food or drink
18.0336 8303 00 Armoured or reinforced safes, strong-boxes and doors and safe deposit lockers for strong-rooms, can
or deed boxesand the like, of bas e metal
18.0338 8304 00 00 Filing cabinets, card-index cabinets, paper trays, paper rests, pen trays, office-stamp stands and
similar office or desk equipment, of base metal, other than office furniture of heading No 9403
18.0340 8402 Steam or other vapour generating boilers(other than central heating hot water boilerscapable als o of
producing low pressure steam); super-heated water boilers
18.0342 8403 Central heating boilersother than thos e of heading No 8402
18.0344 8404 Auxiliary plant for use with boilers of heading No 8402 or 8403 (for example, economizers, super-
heaters, soot removers, gas recoverers); condensers for steam or other vapour power units
18.0346 8405 Producer gasor water gasgenerators , with or without their purifiers ; acetylene gasgeneratorsand
similar water process gas generators, with or without their purifiers
18.0348 8406 Steam turbinesand other vapour turbines18.0350 8407 Spark-ignition reciprocating or rotary internal combustion piston engines
18.0352 8408 Compression-ignition internal combustion piston engines (diesel or semi-diesel engines)
18.0354 8409 Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the engines of heading No 8407 or 8408
18.0356 8413 Pumps for liquids, whether or not fitted with a measuring device; liquid elevators
18.0358 8414 Air or vacuum pumps, air or other gas compressors and fans; ventilating or recycling hoods incor-
porating a fan, whether or not fitted with filters
18.0360 8415 Air conditioning machines, comprising a motor-driven fan and elements for changing the tempera-
ture and humidity, including those machines in which the humidity cannot be separately regulated
18.0362 8416 Furnace burner for liquid fuel, for pulverized solid fuel or for gas; mechanical stokers, including
their mechanical grates, mechanical ash dischargers and similar appliances▼M11993R1657 — EN — 01.01.1995 — 001.001 — 5
Order No CN code Description
18.0364 8417 Industrial or laboratory furnaces and ovens, including incinerators, non-electric
18.0366 8418 Refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or freezing equipment, electric or other; heat pumps
other than air conditioning machinesof heading No 8415
18.0368 8419 Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated, for the treatment of
materials by a process involving a change of temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, distil-
ling, rectifying, sterilizing, pasteurizing, steaming, drying, evaporating, vapourizing, condensing or
cooling other than machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage
water heaters, non-electric
18.0370 8420 Calendering or other rolling machines, other than for metals or glass, and cylinders therefor
18.0372 8421 Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers; filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus, for liquids
or gases
18.0374 8422 Dish-washing machines; machinery for cleaning or drying bottles or other containers; machinery for
filling, closing, sealing, capsuling or labelling bottles, cans, boxes, bags or other containers; other
packing or wrapping machinery, machinery for serating beverages
18.0376 8423 other than
8423 10 10Weighing machinery (excluding balances of a sensitivity of 5 cg or better), including weight oper-
ated counting or checking machines; weighing machine weights of all kinds other than household
scales
18.0378 8423 other than
8424 81 10Mechanical appliances (whether or not hand-operated) for projecting, dispersing or spraying liquids
or powders; fire extinguishers, whether or not charged; spray guns and similar appliances; steam or
sand blasting machines and similar jet projecting machines other than watering appliances
18.0380 8425 Pulley tackle and hoists other than skip hoists; winches and capstans; jacks
18.0382 8426 Ships' derricks; cranes, including cable cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works
trucksfitted with a crane
18.0384 8427 Fork-lift trucks; other works trucks fitted with lifting or handling equipment
18.0386 8428 Other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery (for example, lifts, escalators, conveyors,
teleferics)
18.0388 8437 Machines for cleaning, sorting or grading seed, grain or dried leguminous vegetables; machinery
used in the milling industry or for the working of cereals or dried leguminous vegetables, other than
farm-type machinery
18.0390 8438 Machinery, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter, for the industrial preparation or
manufacture of food or drink, other than machinery for the extraction or preparation of animal or
fixed vegetable fatsor oils
18.0392 8439 Machinery for making pulp of fibrous cellulosic material or for making or finishing paper or paper-
board
18.0394 8440 Book-binding machinery, including book-sewing machines▼M11993R1657 — EN — 01.01.1995 — 001.001 — 6
Order No CN code Description
18.0396 8441 Other machinery for making up paper pulp, paper or paperboard, including cutting machinesof all
kinds
18.0398 8443 Printing machinery; machinesfor us esancillary to printing18.0400 8444 00 Machinesfor extruding, drawing, texturing or cutting man-made textile materials18.0402 8445 Machines for preparing textile fibres; spinning, doubling or twisting machines and other machinery
for producing textile yarns; textile reeling or winding (including weft-winding) machines and
machinesfor preparing textile yarnsfor us e on the machinesof heading No 8446 or 8447
18.0404 8446 Weaving machines(looms )18.0406 8447 Knitting machines, stitch-bonding machines and machines for making gimped yarn, tulle, lace,
embroidery, trimmings, braid or net and machines for tufting
18.0408 8448 Auxiliary machinery for use with machines of heading No 8444, 8445, 8446 or 8447 (for example,
dobbies, Jacquards, automatic stop motions, shuttle changing mechanisms); parts and accessories
suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of this heading or of heading No 8444, 8445,
8446 or 8447 (for example, spindles and spindle flyers, card clothing, combs, extruding nipples,
shuttles, healds and heald-frames, hosiery needles)
18.0410 8450 Household or laundry-type washing machines, including machines which both wash and dry18.0412 8451 Machinery (other than machinesof heading No 8450) for was hing, cleaning, wringing, drying
ironing, pressing (including fusing presses), bleaching, dyeing, dressing, finishing, coating or
impregnating textile yarns, fabrics or made-up textile articles and machines for applying the paste to
the base fabric orother support used in the manufacture of floor coverings such as linoleum;
machinesfor reeling, unreeling, folding, cutting or pinking textile fabrics
18.0414 8452 Sewing machines, other than book-sewing machines of heading No 8440; furniture, bases and covers
specially designed for sewing machines; sewing machine needles
18.0416 8453 Machinery for preparing, tanning or working hides, skins or leather or for making or repairing
footwear or other articles of hides, skins or leather, other than sewing machines
18.0418 8456 Machine-toolsfor working any material by removal of material, by las er or other light or photon
beam, ultrasonic, electro-discharge, electro-chemical, electron beam, ionic-beam or plasma arc
processes
18.0420 8457 Machining centres, unit construction machines (single station) and multi-station transfer machines,
for working metal
18.0422 8458 Lathesfor removing metal18.0424 8459 Machine-tools(including way-type unit head machines ) for drilling, boring, milling, threading or
taping by removing metal, other than lathesof heading No 8458
18.0426 8460 Machine-tools for deburring, sharpening, grinding, honing, lapping, polishing or otherwise finishing
metal, sintered metal carbides or cermets by means of grinding stones, abrasives or polishing
products, other than gear cutting, gear grinding or gear finishing machines of heading No 8461▼M11993R1657 — EN — 01.01.1995 — 001.001 — 7
Order No CN code Description
18.0428 8461 Machine-tools for planing, shaping, slotting, broaching, gear cutting, gear grinding or gear finishing,
sawing, cutting-off and other machine-tools working by removing metal, sintered metal carbides or
cermets, not elsewhere specified or included
18.0430 8462 Machine-tools (including presses) for working metal by forging, hammering or die-stamping;
machine-tools (including presses) for working metal by bending, folding, straightening, flattening,shearing, punching or notching; presses for working metal or metal carbides, not specified above
18.0432 8463 Other machine-tools for working metal, sintered metal carbides or cermets, without removing mate-
rial
18.0434 8464 Machine-tools for working stone, ceramics, concrete, asbestos-cement or like mineral materials or
for cold working glass
18.0436 8465 Machine-tools (including machines for nailing, stapling, glueing or otherwise assembling) for
working wood, cork, hard rubber, hard plastics or similar hard materials
8466 Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of heading Nos 8456 to
8465
18.0438 8467 Toolsfor working in the hand, pneumatic or with s elf-contained non-electric motor18.0440 8468 Machinery and apparatusfor s oldering, brazing or welding, whether or not capable of cutting, other
than those of heading No 8515; gas-operated surface tempering machines and appliances
18.0442 8469 Typewriters and word-processing machines18.0444 8470 Calculating machines; accounting machines, postage-franking machines, ticket-issuing machines and
similar machines, incorporating a calculating device; cash registers
18.0446 8471 Automatic data processing machinesa and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for
transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not else-
where specified or included
18.0448 8472 Other office machines (for example, hectograph or stencil duplicating machines, addresingd
machines, automatic banknote dispensers, coin-sorting machines, coin-counting or wrapping
machines, pencil-sharpening machines, perforsting or stapling machines)
8474 Machinery for sorting, screening, separating, washing, crushing, grinding, mixing or kneading earth,
stone, ores or other mineral substances, in solid (including powder or paste) form; machinery for
agglomerating, shaping or moulding solid mineral fuels, ceramic paste, unhardened cements, plas-
tering materialsor other mineral productsin powder or pas te form; machinesfor forming foundry
mouldsof s and
8475 Machines for assembling electric or electronic lamps, tubes or valves or flashbulbs, in glass envel-
opes; machines for manufacturing or hot working glass or glassware
18.0450 8477 Machinery for working rubber or plastics or for the manufacture of products from these materials,
not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter
18.0452 8478 Machinery for preparing or making-up tobacco, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter▼M11993R1657 — EN — 01.01.1995 — 001.001 — 8
Order No CN code Description
18.0454 8480 Moulding boxes for metal foundry; mould bases; moulding patterns; moulds for metal (other than
ingot moulds), metal carbides, glass, mineral materials, rubber or plastics
18.0456 8501 Electric motors and generators (excluding generating sets)
8503 Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of heading No 8501 or 85028504 Electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors
18.0458 8508 other than
8508 80 80Electro-mechanical toolsfor working in the hand, with s elf-contained electric motor other than
hedge trimmersand lawn edge cutters
18.0460 8514 Industrial or laboratory electric (including induction or dielectric) furnaces and ovens; other indus-
trial or laboratory induction or dielectric heating equipment
18.0462 8515 Electric (including electrically heated gas), lasser or other light or photon beam, ultrasonic, electron
beam, magnetic pulse or plasma arc soldering, brazing or welding machines and apparatus, whether
or not capable of cutting; electric machines and apparatus for hot spraying of metals or sintered
metal carbides
18.0464 8526 Radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus and radio remote control apparatus
8543 Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere
in thisChapter
18.0466 9009 Photocopying apparatus incorporating an optical system or of the contact type and thermo-copying
apparatus
18.0468 9010 Apparatusand equipment for photographic (including cinematographic) laboratories(including
apparatus for the projection of circuit patterns on sensitised semi-conductor materials), not specified
or included elsewhere in this Chapter; negatoscopes; projection screens
18.0470 9017 Drawing, marking-out mathematical calculating instruments (for example, drafting machines, panto-
graphs, protractors, drawing sets, slide rules, disc calculators); instruments for measuring length, for
use in the hand (for example, measuring rods and tapes, micrometers, callipers) not specified or
included elsewhere in this chapter
18.0472 9024 Machines and appliances for testing the hardness, strenght, compressibility, elasticity or other
mechanical properties of materials (for example, metals, wood, textiles, paper, plastics)
9025 Hydrometers and similar floating instruments, thermometers, pyrometers, barometers, hygrometers
and psychrometers, recording or not, and any combination of these instruments
18.0474 9026 Instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking the flow, level, pressure or other variables of
liquids or gases (for example, flow meters, level gauges, manometers, heat meters), excluding
instruments and apparatus of headings No 9014, 9015, 9028 or 9032
18.0476 9027 Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis (for example, polarimeters, refract-
ometers, spectrometers, gas or smoke analysis apparatus); instruments and apparatus for measuring
or checking viscosity, porosity, expansion, surface tension or the like; instruments and apparatus for
measuring or checking quantities of heat, sound or light (including exposure meters); microtomes▼M11993R1657 — EN — 01.01.1995 — 001.001 — 9
Order No CN code Description
18.0478 9028 Gas, liquid or electricity supply or production meters, including calibrating meters therefore
9030 Oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers and other instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking
electrical quantities, excluding meters of heading No 9028; instruments and apparatus for measuring
or detecting alpha, beta, gamma, X-ray, cosmic or other ionizing radiations
9031 Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines, not specified or included elsewhere in
thisChapter; profile projectors
9032 Automatic regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus
9033 Parts and accessories (not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter) for machines, appliances,
instruments or apparatus of Chapter 90
18.0480 9406 Prefabricated buildings▼M11993R1657 — EN — 01.01.1995 — 001.001 — 10