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COMMISSION OFTHEEUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
COM(76)536final.
Brusselsf14October1976«
Proposalfora
CouncilRegulationincreasingtheCommunity
tariffquotaopenedfor1976fornewspaper
fallingwithinsubheading48.01Aofthe
CommonCustomsTariff
(submittedtotheCouncil/bytheCommission)
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COM(76)536final.

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EXPLANAJOR Y_MEMORANDUM
Regulation (EEC)No2886/75of29October 1975 (1)opened for1976
fornewsprint aCommunity tariff quota which wassubject toreview inthe
course oftheyear .Theinitial quantity was2,250,000 mt.
Therevision hasbeendone atameeting ofthe"Economic Tariff Problems -
group on24September 1976where itwasunanimously decided toincrease
thevolume by150,000 mttocover thesupplementary needs which have
appeared incertain Member States .
Thisproposition isintended tointroduce theincrease ,bymeans of
increasing theCommunity reserve towhich allMember States which ha^e
used uptheir initial share have access .
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(1)0JNoL292od12.11.1975 .
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Proposalfora
COUNCILREGULATION (EEC)Ño
of
increasingtheCommunitytariffquotaopenedfor1976
byRegulation(EEC)No2886/75fornewsprintfallingwithinsubheading48.01AoftheCommonCustomsTariff
THECOUNCILOFTHEEUROPEANCOMMUNITIES,
HavingregardtotheTreatyestablishingtheEuropeanEconomicCommunity,
andinparticularArticles28and113thereof;
2
HavingregardtotheproposaloftheCommission;
t
t
Whereas,fornewsprintfallingwithinsubheading48.01AoftheCommon
CustomsTariff,aduty-freeCommunitytariffquota,theamountofwhich
hasbeenfixedat2,250,000metrictons,hasbeenopenedbytheCouncil
andallocatedamongtheMemberStatesbyRegulation(EEC)No2886/75(1);
whereas,byRegulation(EEC)No1171/76of17May1976(2),thebenefit
ofthetariffquotainquestionwasextendedt<Scertaintypesofpaper
which,apartfromthecriterionofwatermarks,^correspondstothe
definitionofnewsprintgivenintheAdditionalNotetoChapter48of
theCommonCustomsTariff;
Whereas,onthebasisofthemostrecentdataorfthisproductfor1976,
itmaybeestimatedthattheadditionalimport^fromnort-membercountries
requiredbytheCommunityamountto150,000metrictons;whereasthe
sizeofthequota,shouldbeincreasedbythisifuantitytotakeaccount
oftherequirementsnoted;whereas,inordertosafeguardtheCommunity
characterofthetariffquotainquestion,aCommunityreserveequal
totheproposedincreaseshouldbesetup;
1
HASADOPTEDTHISREGULATION 2
Article 1
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1cThevolumeoftheCommunitytariffquotaopenedbyRegulation(EEC)
No2536/75fornewsprintfallingwithinsubheading48.01AoftheCommon
C-.stomsTariffisherebyincreasedfront2,250,000to2,400,000metrictons,
Cl)0JNoI292of'12.11.1975,.30
(2)OJNoL131of-20.5.1976,p.6.

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2.This increase of150,000 metric tons shall constitute areserve .
TheCommunity reserve s6tupbyvirtue ofArticle 2(3)ofRegulation
(EEC)No2886 /75isthus increased from 109,000 to259,000 metric tons .
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Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force ontheseventh dayafter its
publication intheOfficial Journal oftheEuropean Communities .
This Regulation shall bebinding initsentirety and
directly applicable inallMember States .
Done atBrussels . For the Council
The President
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