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COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 596/82

of 15 March 1982

amending the import arrangements for certain products originating in the USSR

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 Council Regulation (EEC) No 925/79 of 8 May 1979 on common rules for imports from State-trading countries (1) established the list of products of which imports into the Community are not subject to any quantitative restriction;

Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3286/80 of 4 December 1980 on import arrangements in respect of State-trading countries (2), Annex III whereto was amended by Decision 81/248/EEC (3), included a list of products in respect of which release for free circulation in certain Member States is subject to quantitative restrictions;

Whereas Council Decision 81/1065/EEC of 15 December 1981 changing for 1982 the import quotas established by Decision 80/1278/EEC in respect of State-trading countries (4) established the import quotas to be opened in respect of those countries by the Member States in 1982 with regard to certain products;

Whereas the interests of the Community require that imports from the USSR be reduced;

Whereas it is necessary to ensure that this Regulation does not affect import authorizations granted or commitments entered into before its entry into force,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

1. The release for free circulation of products originating in the USSR listed in Annex I shall be subject to presentation of an import authorization.

Import authorizations shall be issued by the Member States within an annual limit of 75 % of the quantities released for free circulation on their territory in 1980.

2. The quotas established by Decision 81/1065/EEC and relating to products originating in the USSR listed in Annex II shall be reduced by 50 %.

3. Import authorizations relating to products listed in Annex II, originating in the USSR, for which release for free circulation is subject in certain Member States to quantitative restrictions pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 3286/80, and in respect of which quotas are not provided for by Decision 81/1065/EEC, shall be issued by the Member States concerned within an annual limit of 50 % of the quantities released for free circulation on their territory in 1980.

4. The release for free circulation of the products listed in Annex II originating in the USSR, other than those referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3, shall be subject to quantitative restrictions. Import authorizations shall be issued by the Member States within an annual limit of 50 % of the quantities released for free circulation on their territory in 1980.

Article 2

Regulation (EEC) No 3286/80 shall not apply to the import arrangements established by this Regulation.

Article 3

The Member States shall inform the Commission without delay of the quotas opened in respect of the USSR pursuant to Article 1.

Article 4

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

However, it shall not prevent the release for free circulation of products referred to above which are covered by import authorizations issued before the date of the Regulation's entry into force, nor the release for free circulation of the said products to be imported in pursuance of contracts entered into before the said date. In addition, it shall not prevent the release for free circulation of products being shipped to the Community, provided it is impossible to alter the destination.

This Regulation shall apply until 31 December 1982. Before that date the Council, acting on a proposal from the Commission, will consider whether the Regulation should be extended and, if necessary, amended.

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

Done at Brussels, 15 March 1982.

For the Council

The President

W. DE CLERCQ

(1) OJ No L 131, 29. 5. 1979, p. 1.

(2) OJ No L 353, 29. 12. 1980, p. 1.

(3) OJ No L 115, 27. 4. 1981, p. 1.

(4) OJ No L 390, 31. 12. 1981, p. 1.

ANNEX I

Products referred to in Article 1 (1)

1.2 // // // NIMEXE code (1980) // Brief description of product // // // 03.03-43 // Shrimps and prawns // 05.14-00 // Ambergris // 16.04-11 // Caviar // 31 // Preserved salmonidae // 98 // Preserved fish // 50.03-10 // Silk waste, etc., not carded or combed // 56.03-11 // Polyamide fibre waste // 13 // Polyester fibre waste // 71.01-10 // Cultured pearls // 71.02-97 // Worked diamonds for non-industrial uses // 73.38-98 // Sanitary ware for indoor use and parts thereof // 84.36-91 // Textile spinning and twisting machines // 84.37-18 // Shuttle-less looms, other than looms for narrow fabrics // 85.01-24 // Universal motors of an output of more than 0;05 kW // 85.21-18 // Cathode-ray tubes for monochrome television sets // 87.07-21 // Electric motor trucks with lifting equipment // 90.05-20 // Binoculars, prismatic // 91.04-56 // Alarm clocks, other than travel clocks // 92.01-11 // Upright pianos // //

ANNEX II

Products referred to in Article 1 (2), (3) and (4)

1.2 // // // NIMEXE code (1980) // Brief description of product // // // // // 32.05-10 // Synthetic organic dyestuffs // 39.02-03 // Polyethylene for moulding, specific gravity of less than 0;94 // 43 // Polyvinyl chloride, not for moulding // 40.02-61 // Polybutadiene-styrene // 63 // Polybutadiene // 80 // Cis-Polyisoprene // 41.02-14 // Bovine cattle leather, other than calf leather // 44.11-30 // Unworked fibre buidling board, excluding hardboard // 90 // Worked fibre building board, excluding hardboard // 44.15-39 // Laminated wood products (excluding veneered panels and sheets) // 80 // Plywood and board, inlaid wood and wood marquetry // 44.18-11 // Reconstituted wood, made from sawdust, wood wool or wood flour // // // NIMEXE code (1980) // Brief description of product // // // // 48.01-15 // Kraft liner paper // 65 // Newsprint // 75 // Semi-chemical fluting paper // 84 // Paper and paperboard consisting of two or more layers . . . // 93 // Paper // 56.03-21 // Viscose fibre waste // 58.01-11 // Carpets, carpeting and rugs, knotted, of wool or of fine animal hair, comprising not more than 350 knots per metre of warp // 13 // Carpets, carpeting and rugs, knotted, of wool or of fine animal hair, comprising more than 350 but not more than 500 knots per metre of warp // 17 // Carpets, carpeting and rugs, knotted, of wool or of fine animal hair, comprising more than 500 knots per metre of warp // 70.05-10 // Horticultural sheet glass // 61 63 65 // Glass coloured throughout the mass (body-tinted) or with an absorbent or reflecting layer (various thicknesses) // 76.01-11 // Unwrought aluminium, not alloyed // 15 // Unwrought aluminium alloys // 84.15-18 // Domestic electrical refrigerators, compression type // 84.62-11 // Ball bearings // 17 // Tapered roller bearings // 85.01-31 // Multi-phase motors of an output of not more than 0;75 kW // 33 // Multi-phase motors of an output of more than 0;75 kW but not more than 7;5 kW // 85.15-27 // Portable monochrome television receivers // 87.01-51 // Agricultural tractors (excluding walking tractors) and forestry tractors, wheeled, new, of an engine power of 25 kW or less // 54 // idem, more than 37 kW but not more than 59 kW // 59 // idem, more than 59 kW // 94.01-41 // Seats with straight wooden frames, not padded, stuffed or upholstered // 50 // Seats with wooden frames, padded, stuffed or upholstered // 97.03-05 // Toys and working models // 59 // Toys and working models, not for assembly, of plastic materials // //