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COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
COM ( 83) 523 final
Brussels, 9 September 1983
Proposal for a
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a  
Community tariff quota for wines of fresh grapes falling within  
subheading ex 22.05 C of the Common Customs Tariff and
originating in Cyprus (1984)
Proposal for a
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a  
Community tariff quota for liqueur wines falling within  
subheading ex 22.05 C of the Common Customs Tariff and
originating in Cyprus (1984)
(submitted to the Council by the Commission)
COM(83) 523 final

E X P L A N A T O R Y  M E M O R A D N U M
1. The supplementary Protocol to the Agreement establishing an Association  
between the EEC and Cyprus came to an end on 31 December 1980. In  
order to avoid interruption of its commercial relations with this  
country, the Community has made applicable for 1983 the provisions of  
the abovementioned Protocol in Regulation (EEC) No 1922/83 laying
down the arrangements applicable to trade with Cyprus.
Pending the definition of arrangements applicable beyond 31 December  
1983 it is necessary to extend provisionally for 1984 the arrangements  
which the Community applies currently to trade with Cyprus on the basis  
of the abovementioned supplementary Protocol.
The Protocol provides for the opening of annual Community tariff quotas  
for the wines listed below originating in Cyprus.
a) wine of fresh grapes, other than liqueur wines, subheading ex 22.05 C  
of the CCT, 10 000 hi at duty rates of 3.6 ECU/hl and 4.2 ECU/hl
b) liqueur wines, subheading ex 22.05 C of the CCT, 250 000 hi at duty  
rates of 4.0 ECU/hl; 5.0 ECU/hl; 6.1 ECU/hl and 6.9 ECU/hl.
These wines remain subject to the provisions governing the common  
organisation of the market in wine products, especially as regards  
observance of the reference price.
Consequently, the Community tariff quotas shown above should be opened  
for the period from 1 January to 31 December 1984.
2. These Regulations provide for the splitting up of the tariff volumes  
into two parts, of which the first will be allocated among the Member  
States as quota share and the second will be kept as a reserve.
In the absence of Community statistics, for a period sufficiently  
representative, the initial quota shares have been calculated on the  
basis of the possible demand on the markets of the various Member  
States and on the basis of forecasts made by some of them.

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3. Because of the inherent particularities in the trade in wines which,  
additionally, are different from one Member State to another, the  
provisions of the Regulation for wines, exceptionally, do not lay down  
a common method of administration to be applied by all Member States.
4. This is the subject of the two annexed proposals.
NOTE
The tariff quotas in question are still likely to be modified in the  
light of the results of the negotiations with Cyprus until these results  
are available, the Regulations proposed will be the instrument which will  
make it possible to fulfil the commitment entered into by the  
Community.
The Commission thus, reserves the right to amend its proposals while it  
jfcill going through channels in order to adapt it, if necessary, to the  
new arrangements.

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Proposal for a
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No / 83
of
opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for wines 
of fresh grapes falling within subheading ex 22.05 C of the Common Customs Tariff and
originating in Cyprus (1 9 8 4 )
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 supplementary Protocol to  
the Agrrement establishing an Association  
between the EEC and Cyprus (1) came to an  
end on 31 December 1980; whereas to  
avoid interruption of its commercial re­
lations with this country, the Community  
has made applicable for 1983 the provi­
sions of the abovementioned Protocol in  
Regulation (EEC) No 1922/83 laying down  
the arrangements applicable to trade with  
Cyprus (2)
Whereas pending the definition of arrange­
ments applicable beyond 31 December 1983 
it is necessary to extend provisionatly  
for 1984 the arrangements which the  
Community applies currently to trade  
with Cyprus on the basis of the above-  
mentioned supplementary Protocol;
Whereas the abovementioned Supplementary Protocol 
provides for the opening of an annual Community tariff 
quota of 10 000 hectolitres of certain wines of fresh 
grapes, in containers holding two litres or less, falling 
within subheading ex 22.05 C of the Common Customs 
Tariff and originating in Cyprus, at rates of customs duty 
equal to 25 % of the customs duty in the Common 
Customs Tariff; whereas this Community tariff quota 
should be opened for the period from 1  January to 
31 December 19 8 ^
Whereas the wines in question are subject to compliancc 
with the free-at-frontier reference price; whereas, in order 
that such wines may benefit from this tariff quota, Article
(') OJNoL 172, 28. 6.1978, p . 2.
(2) OJNoL 191, 15. 7.1983, p. 1 .18 of Regulation (EEC) No 337/79 f·^, as last amended 
by Regulation (EEC) No” | 595^§3 must be complied ■  
with;
Whereas it is in particular necessary to ensure for all 
Community importers equal and uninterrupted access to 
the abovementioned quota and uninterrupted application 
of the rates laid down for that quota to all imports of the 
products concerned into all Member States until the 
quota has been used up; whereas, having regard to the 
above principles, the Community nature of the quota can 
be respected by allocating the Community tariff quota 
among the Member States; whereas, in order to reflect as 
accurately as possible the true trend of the market in the 
products in question, such allocation should be in 
proportion to the requirements of the Member States, 
calculated by reference to the statistics for imports of the 
products in question from Cyprus over a representative 
reference period and also to the economic outlook for the 
quota period concerned;
Whereas, however, neither Community nor national 
statistics showing the breakdown for each of the types of 
wine in question are available and no reliable estimates of 
future imports can be made; whereas, in these 
circumstances, the quota should be allocated in initial 
shares on the basis of the likely demand for these wines on 
the markets of the various Member States;
Whereas, in order to take into account import trends for 
the products concerned in the various Member States, the 
quota volume should be divided into two instalments, the 
first being shared among the Member States and the 
second constituting a reserve to cover at a later date the 
requirements of Member States which have used up their 
initial quota shares; whereas, in order to give importers in 
each Member State a certain degree of security, the first 
instalment of the Community quota should, under the 
present circumstances, be fixed at 80% of the quota 
volume;
Whereas the Member States’ initial shares may be used up 
at different times; whereas, in order to take this fact into 
account and avoid any break in continuity, any Member 
State which has almost used up its initial share should 
draw an additional share from the reserve; whereas this 
must be done by each Member State as and when each of 
its additional shares is almost used up, and repeated as 
many times as the reserve allows; whereas the initial and 
additional shares must be valid until the end of the quota
5) OJ No L 54, 5. 3. 1979, p. 1.
(4)OJN oL '1 6 3 ,  2 2 . 6 . 1 9 8 3 ,  p . 4 8 .

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period; whereas this method of administration requires 
close cooperation between Member States and the 
Commission, and the latter must be in a position to 
monitor the extent to which the quota volume has been 
used up and to inform the Member States;
Whereas, if at a given date in the quota period a 
substantial quantity of an initial share remains unused in 
any Member State, it is essential that that Member State 
should return a significant proportion to the reserve, to 
prevent a part of any Community quota from remaining 
unused in one Member State when it could be used in 
others;
Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of 
the Netherlands and' the Grand Duchy of Luxembourgare united within and jointly represented by the Benelux 
Economic Union, any operation relating to the 
administration of the quota shares allocated to that 
economic union may be carried out by any one of its 
members,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: .
Article 1
1. From 1  January to 31 December 198 ^ Common 
Customs Tariff duties in respect of the following products 
originating in Cyprus shall be suspended at the levels 
shown below within the limits of a Community tariff 
quota of 10 000 hectolitres:
CCT
heading
NoDescriptionRate of 
duty
22.05 Wine of fresh grapes; grape must with fermentation arrested by the 
addition of alcohol:
C. Other:
I. Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume not exceeding 13% 
vol, in containers holding: 
ex a) Two litres or less:
— Wine of fresh grapes i-6 ECU per 
hi
II. Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume exceeding 13% vol 
but not exceeding 15% vol in containers holding: 
ex a) Two litres or less:
— Wine or fresh grapes other than liqueur wines of an 
actual alcoholic strength by volume of 15% vol 4-2 ECU per 
hi
Within the limits of this tariff quota, Greece shall apply 
duties calculated in accordance with the relevant 
provisions in the 1979 Act of Accession and the Protocol 
of Adaptation.
2. The wines in question shall be subject to
compliance with the free-at-frontier reference price. In 
order that such wines may benefit from this tariff quota 
Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 337/79 must be 
complied with.
Article 2
1. The Community tariff quota referred to in Article 1  
shall be divided into two instalments.
2. The first instalment, amounting to 8 000 
hectolitres, shall be allocated among the Member States; 
the shares, which subject to Article 5 shall be valid until 
31 December 1984, shall be as follows:(hectolitres)
Benelux 30
Denmark 200
Germany 600
Greece 30
France 40
Ireland 540
Italy 60
United Kingdom 6 500
The second instalment, amounting to 2 000
hectolitres, shall constitute the reserve.
Article 3
1. If 90 % or more of a Member State’s initial share as 
specified in Article 2 (2), or 90 % of that share minus the 
portion returned to the reserve where Article 5 is applied, 
has been used up, then to the extent permitted by the

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amount of the reserve that Member State shall forthwith, 
by notifying the Commission, draw a second share equal 
to 15 % of its initial share, rounded up where necessary to 
the next unit.
2. If, after one of its initial shares has been used up, 
90 % or more of the second share drawn by a Member 
State has been used up, then, to the extent permitted by 
the amount of the reserve, that Member State shall, in 
accordance with the conditions laid down in paragraph 1, 
draw a third share equal to 7*5 % of its initial share, 
rounded up where necessary to the next unit.
3. If, after its second share has been used up, 90 % or 
more of the third share drawn by a Member State has been 
used up, that Member State shall, in accordance with the 
conditions laid down in paragraph 1, draw a fourth share 
equal to the third.
This process shall continue until the reserve is used up.
4. By way of derogation from paragraphs 1,2 and 3, a 
Member State may draw shares smaller than those fixed 
in those paragraphs if there is reason to believe that those 
might not be used up. It shall inform the Commission of 
its reasons for applying this paragraph.
Article 4
The additional shares drawn pursuant to Article 3 shall be 
valid until 31 December 1984.
Article 5
Member States shall return to the reserve, not later than 
1  October 1984, the unused portion of their initial share 
which on 15 September 1984 is in excess of 20% of the 
initial volume. They may return a larger quantity if there 
are grounds for believing that such portion may not be 
used in full.
Each Member State shall, not later than 1  October 1984, 
notify the Commission of the total quantities of the 
products in question imported up to 15 September 1984 
and charged against the Community quota, and of any 
quantities of the initial shares returned to the reserve.Article 6
The Commission shall keep an account of the shares 
opened by Member States in accordance with Articles 2 
and 3 and shall, as soon as it is notified, inform each 
Member State of the extent to which the reserve has been 
used up.
It shall inform the Member States, not later than 
5 October 1984, of the amount in the reserve after 
quantities have been returned pursuant to Article 5.
The Commission shall ensure that any drawing which 
uses up the reserve is limited to the balance available, and 
to this end shall indicate the amount thereof to the 
Member State which makes such last drawing.
Article  7
1. The Member States shall take all measures 
necessary to ensure that additional shares drawn 
pursuant to Article 3 are opened in such a way that 
imports may be charged without interruption against 
their accumulated shares of the Community quota.
2. The Member States shall ensure that importers of 
the products in question,
have free access to the shares allocated to them.
3. The extent to which a Member State has used up its 
share shall be determined on the basis of imports of the 
products in question entered with the customs authorities 
for free circulation.
Article 8
At the request of the Commission, the Member States 
shall inform it of imports of the products concerned 
actually charged against their shares.
Article 9
The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate 
closely in order to ensure that this Regulation is complied 
with.
Article 10
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1  January 
1984 .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member 
States.
Done at Brussels,
For the Council  
The President

A N N E X  B
Proposal for a
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No /8 3  
of
opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for 
liqueur wines falling within subheading ex 22.05 C of the Common Customs Tariff and
originating in Cyprus (1 9 8 4 )
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 supplementary Protocol to the  
Agreement establishing an Association  
between the EEC and Cyprus (1) came to an  
end on 31 December 1980; whereas to avoid  
interruption of its commercial relations  
with this country, the Community has made  
applicable for 1983 the provisions of the  
àbovementioned Protocol in Regulation (EEC  
No 1922/83 laying down the arrangements  
applicable to trade with Cyprus (2)
Whereas pending the definition of arrange­
ments applicable beyond 31 December 1983  
it is necessary to extend provisionally  
for 1984 the arrangements which the  
Community applies currently to trade with  
Cyprus on the basis of the àbovementioned  
supplementary Protocol ;
Whereas the abovementioned Supplementary Protocol 
provides for the opening of an annual Community tariff 
quota of 250 000 hectolitres of liqueur wines, falling 
within subheading ex 22.05 C of the Common Customs 
Tariff and originating in Cyprus, at rates of customs duty 
equal to 30% of the Common Customs Tariff; whereas 
this Community tariff quota should be opened for the 
period from 1  January to 31 December 198 4 .
Whereas entry under the above Community tariff quota 
must be conditional on the wines being described as‘liqueur wines’  in the V.I.l document provided for in 
Regulation (EEC) No 2115/76 (3j.
Whereas the wines in question are subject to compliance 
with the free-at-frontier reference price; whereas, in order 
that such wines may benefit from this tariff quota. Article 
18 of Regulation (EEC) No 337/79 (4;, as last amended 
by Regulation (EEC) N o1 595/53 (5,, must be complied 
with;
Whereas it is in particular necessary to ensure for all 
Community importers equal and uninterrupted access to 
the abovementioned quota and uninterrupted application 
of the rates laid down for that quota to all imports of the 
products concerned into all Member States until the 
quota has been used up; whereas, having regard to the 
above principles, the Community nature of the quota can 
be respected by allocating the Community tariff quota 
among the Member States; whereas, in order to reflect as 
accurately as possible the true trend of the market in the 
products in question, such allocation should be in 
proportion to the requirements of the Member States, 
calculated by reference to the statistics for imports of the 
products in question from Cyprus over a representative 
reference period and also to the economic outlook for the 
quota period concerned;
Whereas, however, neither Community nor national 
statistics showing the breakdown for the products in 
question are available and no reliable estimates of future 
imports can be made; whereas, in these circumstances, 
the quota should be allocated in initial shares on the basis 
of the likely demand for these products on the markets of 
the various Member States;
Whereas, in order to take into account import trends for 
the products concerned in the various Member States, the 
quota volume should be divided into two instalments, the 
first being shared among the Member States and the 
second constituting a reserve to cover at a later date the 
requirements of Member States which have used up their 
initial quota shares; whereas, in order to give importers in  
each Member State a certain degree of security, the first 
instalment of the Community quota should, under 
present circumstances, be fixed at 85% of the quota 
volume;
( ’)  ojN oL 172, 28. 6.1978, p. 1.
(i) ojN oL 191, 15. 7.1983, p. 1.(3 ) OJ No L 237, 28. 8. 1976, p. 1.
(4)OJ No L 54, 5. 3. 1979, p. 1.
(5)o j n oL163, 22.6.1983, p. 48.

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Whereas the Member States’ initial shares may be used up 
at different times; whereas, in order to take this fact into 
account and avoid any break in continuity, any Member 
State which has almost used up its initial share should 
draw an additional share from the reserve; whereas this 
must be done by each Member State as and when each of 
its additional shares is almost used up, and repeated as 
many times as the reserve allows; whereas the initial and 
additional shares must be valid until the end of the quota 
period; whereas this method of administration requires 
close cooperation between the Member States and the 
Commission, and the latter must be in a position to 
monitor the extent to which the quota volume has been 
used up and to inform the Member States thereof;
Whereas, if at a given date in the quota period a 
substantial quantity remains unused in any Member 
State, it is essential that that Member State should return 
a significant proposition to the reserve, to prevent a partof any Community quota from remaining unused in one 
Member State when it could be used in others;
Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of 
the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg 
are united within and jointly represented by the Benelux 
Economic Union, any operation relating to the 
administration of the quota shares allocated to that 
economic union may be carried out by any one of its 
members,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
1. From 1  January to 31 December 1984, Common 
Customs Tariff duties in respect of the following products 
originating in Cyprus shall be suspended at the levels 
shown below within the limits of a Community tariff 
quota of 250 000 hectolitres:
CCT
heading
NoDescriptionRate of 
duty
22.05 Wine of fresh grapes; grape must with fermentation arrested by the 
additional of alcohol:
C. Other:
II. Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume exceeding 13 % vol 
but not exceeding 15% vol, in containers holding: 
ex a) Two litres or less:
— Liqueur wines of an actual alcoholic strength by 
volume of 15 % vol
ex b) More than two litres:
— Liqueur wines of an actual alcoholic strength by 
volume of 15% vol
III. Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume exceeding 15% vol 
but not exceeding 18% vol, in containers holding:
a) Two litres or less: 
ex 2. Other:
— Liqueur wines
b) More than two litres: 
ex 3. Other:
— Liqueur wines
IV. Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume exceeding 18 % vol 
but not exceeding 22 % vol, in containers holding:
a) Two litres or less: 
ex 2. Other:
— Liqueur wines
b) More than two litres: 
ex 3. Other:
— Liqueur winesS-0 ECU per 
hi
3-9 ECU per 
hi
6-1 ECU per 
hi
5-0 ECU per 
hi
6-9 ECU per 
hi
6-9 ECU per 
hi

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Within the limits of this tariff quota, Greece shall apply 
duties calculated in accordance with the relevant 
provisions in the 1979 Act of Accession and the Protocol 
of Adaptation.
2. The admission of these wines under the tariff quota 
shall be conditional on their being described in the V.I.l 
document provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 2115 / 76 
as ‘liqueur wines’.
3. The wines in question shall be subject to 
compliance with the free-at-frontier reference price. In 
order that such wines shall benefit from this tariff quota 
Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 337/79 must be 
complied with.
Article 2
1. The Community tariff quota referred to in Article 1  
shall be divided into two instalments.
2. The first instalment, amounting to 212 060 
hectolitres, shall be allocated among the Member States; 
the shares, which subject to Article 5 shall be valid until 
31 December 198^, shall be as follows:
(hectolitres)
Benelux 2 000
Denmark 2 000
Germany 4 000
Greece 20
France 20
Ireland 2 000
Italy 20
United Kingdom 202 000
3. The second instalment, amounting to 37 940 
hectolitres, shall constitute the reserve.
Article 3
1. If 90 % or more of a Member State’s initial share as 
specified in Article 2 (2), or 90 % of that share minus the 
portion returned to the reserve where Article 5 is applied, 
has been used up, then to the extent permitted by the 
amount of the reserve that Member State shall forthwith, 
by notifying the Commission, draw a second share equal 
to 15 % of its initial share, rounded up where necessary to 
the next unit.
2. If, after one of its initial shares has been used up, 
90 % or more of the second share drawn by a Member 
State has been used up, then, to the extent permitted by 
the amount of the reserve, that Member State shall, inaccordance with the conditions laid down in paragraph 1, 
draw a third share equal to 7-5% of its initial share, 
rounded up where necessary to the next unit.
3. If, after its second share has been used up, 90 % or 
more of the third share drawn by a Member State has been 
used up, that Member State shall, in accordance with the 
conditions laid down in paragraph 1, draw a fourth share 
equal to the third.
This process shall continue until the reserve is used up.
4. By way of derogation from paragraphs 1,2 and 3, a 
Member State may draw shares smaller than those fixed 
in those paragraphs if there is reason to believe that those 
might not be used up. It shall inform the Commission of 
its reasons for applying this paragraph.
Article 4
The additional shares drawn pursuant to Article 3 shall be 
valid until 31 December 1984.
Article 5
Member States shall return to the reserve, not later than 1  
October 1984, the unused portion of their initial share 
which, on 15 September 1984, is in excess of 20 % of the 
initial volume. They may return a larger quantity if there 
are grounds for believing that such portion may not be 
used in full.
Each Member State shall, nor later than 1  October 1984, 
notify the Commission of the total quantities of the 
products in question imported up to 15 September 1984 
and charged against the Community quota, and of any 
quantities of the initial shares returned to the reserve.
Article 6
The Commission shall keep an account of the shares 
opened by Member States in accordance with Articles 2 
and 3 and shall, as soon "as it is notified, inform each 
Member State of the extent to which the reserve has been 
used up.
It shall inform the Member States, not later than 
5 October 198 4 of the amount in the reserve after 
quantities have been returned pursuant to Article 5.
The Commission shall ensure that any drawing which 
uses up the reserve is limited to the balance available, and 
to this end shall indicate the amount thereof to the 
Member State which makes such last drawing.

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Article 7
1. The Member States shall take all measures 
necessary to ensure that additional shares drawn 
pursuant to Article 3 are opened in such a way that 
imports may be charged without interruption against 
their accumulated shares of the Community quota.
2. The Member States shall ensure that importers of 
the products in question,
have free access to the shares allocated to them.
3. The extent to which a Member State has used up its 
share shall be determined on the basis of imports of the 
products in question entered with the customs authorities 
for free circulation.Article 8
At the request of the Commission, the Member States 
shall inform it of imports of the products concerned 
actually charged against their shares.
Article 9
The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate 
closely in order to ensure that this Regulation is complied 
with.
Article 10
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1  January 
198 4 .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member 
States.
Done at Brussels,
For the Council  
The President