COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 
C0MC89) 295 final 
Brussels, 16 June 1989 
Proposal for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) 
amending Annex 1 of Régula;Ion (EEC) N° 288/82 
on common rules for Imports 
(presented by the Commission) 
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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 
In the multilateral trade negotiations under the GATT which started in 
1986, following the Ministerial Declaration adopted at Punta del Este, 
the Tropical Products sector was identified as a priority sector. This 
priority applied to both the timing of the negotiations and the 
implementation of the results. 
The Community's commitment to this objective was demonstrated by it 
being the first developed country to submit a detailed offer in October 
1987 an example which was not followed until much later by the other 
participants. However, as the Mid-term Review in Montreal approached 
other participants, both developed and developing, tabled their 
proposals. In November 1988 the Commission sent to the Council a 
proposal which elaborated the Community's position on Tropical Products. 
It consisted of four elements: 
a special action in favour of the least-developed developing 
countries; 
tariff reductions on a selected list of tropical products; 
elimination of certain quantitative restrictions on tropical 
products applied by Member States; 
invitation to Member States applying excise duties on tropical 
beverages to indicate their intentions, if possible, on their 
eventual reduction or elimination; 
The Council gave its agreement to the Commission proposal and at 
Montreal accepted that further small modifications were necessary in 
order to reach a result in the negotiations that was acceptable to all 
parties. The Community's contribution provides for tariff concessions on 
trade amounting to more than 10 bn Ecu, the elimination of certain 
national quantitative restrictions and a number of specific measures in 
favour of the LLDCs. The aim of this proposal for a Council Regulation is 
to put into effect the elimination of certain quantitative restrictions 
on tropical products applied by Member States. 
Coupe* 1 Reguf at loo (EEC) H* 
of 1989 
amending Annex t of Regulation (EEC) N* 288/82 
on common rules for import» 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUWITIESr 
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 multilateral trade negotiations under the GATT opened 
pursuant to the Ministerial Declaration adopted at Punta del Este on 20 
September 1986 resulted in an interim result in the Tropical Products 
Negotiating Group at the Montreal Mid-term Review in December 1988; 
Whereas the Community's contribution to this result on Tropical products 
consists of three elements: first, a significant number of tariff 
reductions on a mfn basis, secondly, the elimination of a number of 
quantitative restrictions on tropical products applied by Member States 
and finally a series of concessions for least-developed developing 
countries that would ensure duty free access for practically all 
tropical products as well as improved access where necessary for 
tropical roots and rice; 
Whereas the Community has found the concessions made by other countries 
participating in the negotiations constitute an acceptable result; 
Whereas the Punta del Este Ministerial Declaration provides for the 
early implementation of results obtained in the area of Tropical 
Products and the Community has found it necessary, therefore, to 
implement its contribution on Tropical Products on an autonomous basis, 
pending the end of the current round of multilateral trade negotiations; 
Whereas it is now necessary to delete those quantitative restrictions on 
tropical products, set out in the Community's contribution to the result 
obtained at the Montreal Mid-term Review, from Annex I of Regulation 
(EEC) N° 288/82; 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 
Article 1 
1. The quantitative restrictions on certain products originating in 
third countries maintained by certain Member States as set out in 
the Annex shall be abolished from 1 July 1989. 
2. The products to which these quantitative restrictions apply shall be 
deleted from Annex I of Regulation N* 288/82. 
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in 
the Official Journal of the European Communities. 
It shall apply with effect from the 1 July 1989. 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable 
in all Member States concerned. 
Done at Brussels, 
For the CounciI 
The President 
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ANNEX 
CN code Descr iption 
1302 
1302 19 Vegetable saps and extracts; pectic 
substances, pectinates and pectates; 
agar-agar and other mucilages and 
thickeners, whether or not modified, 
derived from vegetable products: 
- Vegetable saps and extracts: 
Other: 
1302 19 30 Intermixtures of vegetable 
extracts for the manufacture of 
beverages or of food 
preparations 
3203 00 Colouring matter of vegetable or animal 
origin (including dyeing extracts but 
excluding animal black), whether or not 
chemically defined; preparations as 
specified in note 3 to this chapter 
based on colouring matter of vegetable 
or animal origin: 
- Colouring matter of vegetable origin 
and preparations based thereon: 
ex 3203 00 19 - - Other 
5310 Woven fabrics of jute or of other 
textile bast fibres of heading N° 5303: 
5310 10 - Unbleached: 
5310 10 10 Of a width not exceeding 150 cm 
5310 10 90 - - Of a width exceeding 150 cm 
5310 90 00 - Other 
5" 
CN code Description 
5311 00 Woven fabrics of other vegetable textile 
fibres; woven fabrics of paper yarn: 
ex 5311 00 90 - Other than woven fabrics of paper 
yarn 
5608 Knotted netting of twine, cordage or 
rope; made up fishing nets and other 
made up nets, of textile materials: 
ex 5608 90 00 - Other than wool or fine animal hair 
or cotton 
5702 Carpets and other textile floor 
coverings, woven, not tufted or flocked, 
whether or not made up, Including 
'Kelem', 'Schumacks', 'Karamanle' and 
similar hand-woven rugs: 
5702 20 00 - Floor coverings of cononut fibres 
(coir) 
- Other, of pile construction, not made 
up: 
5702 39 - - Of other textile materials: 
5702 39 90 Other 
- Other, of pile construction, made up: 
5702 49 — Of other textile materials: 
5702 49 90 Other 
- Other, not of pile construction, not 
made up: 
ex 5702 59 00 — Of other textile materials other 
than cotton 
- Other, not of pile construction, made 
up: 
ex 5702 99 00 — Of other textile materials other 
than cotton 
£ 
CN code Description 
5705 Other carpets and other textile floor 
coverings, whether or not made up: 
ex 5705 00 90 - Of other text He mater ials other than 
cotton 
5905 00 Textile wait coverings: 
5905 00 50 - Of Jute 
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Impact on SME 
This proposal will eliminate a number of national quantitative 
restrictions on certain tropical products imported into the Community. 
It is difficult to evaluate the impact of such measures on SME. However 
given that the products concerned are of tropical origin the impact is 
I ike I y to be smalI. 
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Proposal for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) 
amending Annex 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 288/82 on common rules for 
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(submitted to the Council by the Commission) 
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COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) 
amending Annex 1 of Regulation (EEC) 
No 288/82 on common rules for imports 
(submitted to the Council by the Commission) 
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