COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMVIUNITIES 
C0M(91) 236 final 
Brussels, 24 June 1991 
Proposal for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) 
ftMFKiniMG REGUIATION (EEC) No 2603/69 
f?TARl ISHING tt^N, P'» ES FOR EXPQBIS, 
(presented by the Commission) 
EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 
In line with the provisions of Part 3 of the EEC Treaty regarding a common 
commercial policy, Council Regulation (EEC) No 2603/69 establishing common 
rules for exports1 laid down the principle of the freedom of exports 
originating in the Community to third countries, subject to the exceptions 
provided for in that Regulation. 
Council Regulation (EEC) No 1934/822 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2603/69 
updated the list of exceptions by abolishing some of the restrictions 
imposed by Member States and introducing exceptions regarding certain 
petroleum products. 
However, since the adoption of the amending Regulation, most Member States 
have removed the remaining restrictions. In the light of the forthcoming 
completion of the single market, the maintenance of such restrictions is 
not only a contradiction of all that the market stands for, but is also 
impracticable in a Community without controls on goods at internal 
frontiers. It seemed necessary to take account of this development. 
It is therefore proposed in this Regulation that the previous regulations 
be brought up to date by the removal of almost all the restrictions still 
in force and the principle of total freedom established from 
31 December 1992. Until then a few restrictions of minor economic 
importance shall be maintained. 
1 0J No L 324, 27.12.1969, p.25. 
2 0J No L 211, 20.7.1982, p.1. 
** UAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION 
AMENDED REGULATION (EEC) No 2603/69 
ESTABLISHING COMMON RULES FOR EXPORTS 
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 instruments establishing common organization of 
agricultural markets and to the instruments concerning processed 
agricultural products adopted in pursuance of Article 235 of the Treaty, in 
particular the provisions of those instruments which allow for derogation 
from the general principle that quantitative restrictions or measure? 
having equivalent effQct may be replaced solely by measures provided for in 
those same instruments 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
Whereas under Regulation (EEC) No 2603/69,1 as amended by Regulation (EEC) 
No 1934/82,2 exports from the Community to third countries are free, that 
is not subject to any quantitative restrictions, subject to the exceptions 
provided for in that Regulation and listed in the Annex thereto; 
Whereas since the adoption of that Regulation, the Member States have 
removed most of the restrictions on exports of some products listed in that 
Annex ; 
1 0J No L 324, 27.12.1969, p.25 
2 0J No L 211, 20.7.1982, p.1. 
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Whereas the Regulation should be updated accordingly; 
Whereas after 31 December 1992 the maintenance by Member States of 
quantitative restrictions would be incompatible with the single market, 
which entails the abolition of goods controls at the Community's internal 
front iers; 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 
Article 1 
Regulation (EEC) No 2603/69 is hereby amended as follows. 
Article 10 is replaced by the following: 
"Article 10 
1. Until 31 December 1992 the principle of the freedom of export as laid 
down in Article 1 shall not apply: 
- to those products listed in the Annex for the Member States mentioned 
therein, 
- nor exports to South Africa of the following products: 
2709 00 Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous 
minerals, crude 
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2710 00 Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous 
minerals, other than crude; preparations not 
elsewhere specified or included, containing not 
less than 70% by weight, of petroleum oils or of 
oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these 
oils being the basic constituents of the 
preparations: 
2710 00 11 to 2710 00 39 Light oils 
2710 00 41 to 2710 00 59 Medium oils 
ex 2710 00 61 to 2710 00 99 Heavy oils except 
lubricating oils used in 
clocks and watches and 
the like presented in 
small receptacles 
containing not more than 
250 g net of oil. 
2711 Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons: 
Liquefied: 
2711 12 Propane: 
Propane of a purity not less than 99% 
Other 
2711 13 Butanes: 
In gaseous state: 
ex 2711 29 00 Other: 
- Propane 
- Butanes 
2. The Annex is replaced by that to this Regulation. 
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Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of 
its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in 
a 11 Member States. 
Done at Brussels, 
For the CounciI 
ANNEX 
CCT Description Member State 
heading No applying 
restr iction 
ex 4101 10 Whole hides or skins of bovine animals, Italy 
of a weight per skin not exceeding 8 kg 
when simply dried, 10 kg when dry-
salted, or 14 kg when fresh, wet-salted 
or otherwise preserved: 
ex 4102 Raw skins of sheep or lambs (fresh, or Italy 
salted, dried, limed, pickled or 
otherwise preserved, but not tanned, 
parchment-dressed or further prepared), 
whether or not dehaired or split, other 
than those excluded by note Kb) or 
1(c) to this chapter: 
ex 4102 10 With wool on France 
ex 4102 10 90 Other France 
ex 4102 29 00 Dehaired or without wool on, other France 
y 
ex 4103 10 Other raw hides and £kins of goats or Italy 
kids (fresh., or salted, dried, limed, 
pickled or otherwise preserved, but not 
tanned, parchment-dressed or further 
prepared), whether or not dehaired or 
split, other than those excluded by 
note 1(b) or 1(c) to this chapter: 
ex 4301 20 00 Raw furskins (including heads, tails, Italy 
paws and other pieces or cuttings, 
suitable for furriers' use), other than 
raw hides and skins of heading No 4101, 
4102 or 4103 of rabbit or hare, whole, 
with or without head, tail or paws 
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