COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMVIUNITIES 
COM(93) 533 final 
Brussels, 29 October 1993 
Proposal for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) 
CONCERNING A TECHNICAL ADAPTATION OF COUNCIL REGULATION 
(EEC) NO 715/9 0 ON THE ARRANGEMENTS APPLICABLE TO AGRICULTURAL 
PRODUCTS AND CERTAIN GOODS RESULTING FROM THE PROCESSING OF 
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS ORIGINATING IN THE AFRICAN, CARIBBEAN 
AND PACIFIC STATES (ACP STATES) 
(presented by the Commission) 
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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 
Pursuant to the ACP-EEC Lomé convention and Regulation (EEC) No 715/9 0, 
pineapples, advocados, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens originating in the ACP 
states may be imported into the Community free of customs duty. 
These arrangements date from the completion of the customs union. 
Following the recent inclusion of these products in the common organization of 
the market in fruit and vegetables, a technical adaptation is required to include 
these products in Article 15 of Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 providing for 
exemption from customs duties for fruit and vegetables. 
Such a technical adaptation is the aim of the attached proposal for a Regulation. 
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Proposal for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 
of 
concerning a technical adaptation of Council 
Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 on the arrangements applicable 
to agricultural products and certain goods resulting from 
the processing of agricultural products originating in 
the African, Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP States) 
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 the African, Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP States) are granted 
exemption from customs duties for pineapples, advocados, guavas, mangoes and 
mangosteens pursuant to the Fourth ACP-EEC Convention'1) and Regulation (EEC) 
No 715/90(2), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 444/92<3); 
Whereas, under Regulation (EEC) No 638/93<4), with effect from 1 January 1993, 
the abovementioned products are included in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 
of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the market in fruit and 
vegetables(^) and avocados, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens are withdrawn from 
Council Regulation (EEC) No 827/68 of 28 June 1968 on the common organization of 
the market in certain products listed in Annex II to the Treaty'6); 
(1) OJ No L 229, 17.8.1991, p. 1. 
(2) OJ No L 84, 30.3.1990, p. 85. 
(3) OJ No L 52, 27.2.1992, p. 7. 
(4) OJ No L 6 9, 20.3.1993, p. 7. 
(5) OJ No L 118, 20.5.1972, p. 1 (Regulation last amended by Regulation (EEC) 
No 638/9j(4)). 
(6) OJ No L 151, 30.6.1968, p. 16 (Regulation last amended by Regulation (EEC) 
No 2430/y3 (OJ No L 223, 2.9.1993, p. 9.)). 
Whereas, following the abovementioned amendment to Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, a 
technical adaptation should be made to Regulation (EEC) No 715/90; whereas that 
adaptation should include the products in question in the table given in Article 
15 listing fruit and vegetables which may be imported free of customs duties; 
whereas that technical adaptation should take effect on the same date as the 
amendment to Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 
Article 1 
The following products are hereby inserted in the table given in Article 15(1) of 
Regulation (EEC) No 715/90: 
CN code Description 
"0804 30 00 Pineapples 
0804 40 Avocados 
0804 50 00 Guavas, mangoes and mangosteens". 
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in 
the Official Journal of the European Communities. 
It shall apply from 1 January 1993. 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all 
Member States. 
L>one at, For the council 
The President 
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