COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 
C0M(93) 474 final 
Brussels, 6 December 1993 
Proposal for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) 
opening and providing for the administration of a Community 
preferential celling for certain petroleum products 
refined In Turkey and establishing Community surveillance 
for imports thereof (1994) 
(presented by the Commission) 
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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 
1. Following negotiations held with Turkey with a view to amending the 
EEC-Turkey Association Agreement and the Additional Protocol thereto 
consequent on the accession of new Member States, the Community signed 
on 30 June 1973 in Ankara a Supplementary Protocol, which entered into 
force on 1 March 1986. 
This Supplementary Protocol provides inter alia for the opening of an 
annual Community duty-free tariff quota of 340 000 tonnes for certain 
petroleum products falling within Chapter 27 of the combined 
nomenclature. 
2 In addition, the decision taken by the Council of Association in June 
1973 that Turkey should not receive less favourable treatment than 
that granted to the countries qualifying for generalised tariff 
preferences led the Commission and the Turkish authorities to study 
the problem of giving Turkey and the developing countries equivalent 
tariff treatment. 
After studying the problem, the Commission finally recognized that, in 
view of the provisions of paragraph 4 of the Sole Article of Annex I 
to the Additional Protocol, the tariff quota of 340 000 tonnes laid 
down for Turkey should be converted, as from 1976, into a Community 
ceiling, the volume of which should be increased in the same 
proportions as had been applied under the Generalized System of 
Preferences. 
Currently, the amount of this ceiling after successive increases is 
740 250 tonnes. 
The only purpose of the attached proposal for a Regulation is to open, 
for the products in question, a Community ceiling for 1994 of the 
abovementioned ceiling, and to establish Community surveillance of 
imports of these products. 
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3. The attached proposal lays down that authority to apply the rules on 
ceilings and re-establishment of customs duties should be transferred 
from the Council to the Commission. 
This is the purpose of the attached proposal 
Annex: Proposal for a Council Regulation. 
Proposal for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION ( EC) No 
of 793 
opening and providing for the administration of a Community preferential 
ceiling for certain petroleum products refined in Turkey and establishing 
Community surveillance for imports thereof (1994) 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 
Community, and in particular Article 113 
thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
Whereas Article 7 of the Supplementary Protocol to the 
Association Agreement between the European . 
Community and Turkey consequent on the accession of 
new Member States to the Community ('), which was 
signed in Ankara on 30 June 1973 and entered into force 
on 1 March 1986(2), provides for the total suspension of 
customs duties applicable in certain petroleum products 
refined in Turkey falling within Chapter 27 of the 
Common Customs Tariff within the limits of an annual 
Community tariff quota of 340 000 tonnes ; whereas, for 
the products concerned, a provisional adjustment should 
be made to those tariff preferences, consisting essentially 
of substituting for the Community tariff quota a Com­
munity ceiling amounting, after successive increases, to 
740 250 tonnes, above which the customs duties ap­
plicable to third countries may be re-established ; imports should, therefore, be made subject to a system of 
surveillance ; 
Whereas the decision for the opening of Community 
tariff ceilings in the execution of its international obliga­
tions should be taken by the Community ; whereas to 
ensure the efficiency of a common administration of 
these ceilings, the Member States might well have 
recourse to the means of an administrative procedure 
based on offsetting imports of the products in question 
against the ceiling at Community level as and when these 
products are entered with the customs authorities for free 
circulation ; whereas this administrative procedure must 
make provision for the possible re-establishment of 
customs tariff duties as soon as the ceiling is reached at 
Community level ; 
Whereas this administrative procedure requires close and 
particularly swift coopération between the Member States 
and the Commission ; whereas the latter must, in partic­
ular, be able to follow the progress of quantities charged 
against the ceiling and keep the Member States informed ; 
whereas this cooperation has to be particularly close since 
the Commission must be able to take the appropriate 
measures to re-establish customs tariff duties if the ceiling 
is reached, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 
Article 1 
Whereas the application of ceilings requires the Com­
munity to be regularly informed of the trend of imports 
of the relevant products originating in Turkey ; whereas 
(') OJ No L 361, 31. 12. 1977, p. 2. 
O OF No L 48, 26. 2. 1986. D- 36. 1. From 1 January to 31 December 1994 the duties 
applicable to imports into the Community of the petro­
leum products refined in Turkey and indicated in para­
graph 2 shall be suspended in full within the limits of a 
Community ceiling of 740 250 tonnes. 
2. The petroleum products to which paragraph 1 
applies shall be the following : 
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Order 
No 
13.0010 CN code 
2710 00 
2710 00 21 
2710 00 25 
2710 00 26 
2710 00 27 
2710 00 29 
2710 00 32 
2710 00 34 
2710 00 36 
2710 00 37 
2710 00 39 
2710 00 51 
2710 00 55 
2710 00 59 
2710 00 69 
2710 00 74 
2710 00 76 
2710 00 77 
2710 00 78 
2710 00 85 
2710 00 87 
2710 00 88 
2710 00 89 
2710 00 92 
2710 00 94 
2710 00 96 
2710 00 98 Description 
Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than 
made preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing by 
weight 70 % or more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bitumi­
nous minerals, these oils being the basic constituents of the prepara­
tions : 
— Lights oils : 
— — For other purposes : 
— — — Special spirits : 
— - — — White spirit 
Other 
Other 
— — — - Motor spirit : 
— — — — — Aviation spirit 
— — — — — Other, with a lead content : 
— — — — — — Not exceeding 0,013 g per litre : 
------- With an octane number of less than 95 
— — — — — — — With an octane number of 95 or more but less 
than 98 
— — — — — — — With an octane number of 98 or more 
— — — — — — Exceeding 0,013 g per litre : 
— — — — — — — With an octane number of less than 98 
— -- — — — — With an octane number of 98 or more 
— — — — Spirit type jet fuel 
Other light oils 
— Medium oils : 
— — For other purposes : 
— — — Kerosene : 
Jet fuel 
Other 
Other 
— Heavy oils : 
— — Gas oils : 
— — — For other purposes 
— — Fuel oils : 
— — — — With a sulphur content not exceeding 1 % by weight 
— — — — With a sulphur content exceeding 1 % by weight but not 
exceeding 2 % by weight 
— — — — With a sulphur content exceeding 2 % by weight but not 
exceeding 2,8 % by weight 
— — — — With a sulphur content exceeding 2,8 % by weight 
— — Lubricating oils ; other oils : 
— - — To be mixed in accordance with the terms of additional note 6 
(CN) to this chapter (') 
— — — For other purposes : 
— — — — Motor oils, compressor lube oils, turbine lube oils 
— — — — Liquids for hydraulic purposes 
— White oils, liquid paraffin 
— — — — Gear oils and reductor oils 
— — — — Metal-working compounds, mould release oils, anti-
corrosion oils 
— — — — Electrical insulating oils 
— — — — Other lubricating oils and other oils 
c 
Order 
No 
13 0010 
(Otnt'd) IN ,<><(<• 
2711 
2711 12 
2711 12 94 
2711 12 96 
2711 12 98 
2711 13 
2711 13 91 
2711 13 93 
2711 13 98 
2712 
2712 10 
2712 10 10 
2712 10 90 
2712 20 00 
2712 90 
2712 90 39 
2712 90 90 
2713 
2713 90 
2713 90 90 Description 
Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons : 
- liquefied 
- - Propane : 
Other : 
----- Of a purity exceeding 90 % but less than 99 % 
----- Mixtures of propane and butane containing more than 
50 % but not more than 70 % of propane 
Other 
- - Butanes : 
- — — For other purposes 
- - - - Of a purity exceeding 90 % but less than 95 % 
- - — — Mixtures of butane and propane containing more than 50 % 
but not more than 65 % of butane 
Other V 
Petroleum jelly, paraffin wax, microcrystalline petroleum wax, slack wax, 
ozokerite, lignite wax, peat wax, other mineral waxes, and similar 
products obtained by synthesis or by other processes, whether or not 
coloured : 
- Petroleum jelly : 
- - Crude 
Other 
- Paraffin wax containing by weight less than 0,75 % of oil 
- Other : 
Other : 
- — — Crude : 
- — — — For other purposes 
Other 
Petroleum coke, petroleum bitumen and other residues of petroleum oils 
or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals : 
- Other residues of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous 
minerals : 
Other 
(') Entry under this code is subject to conditions laid down in the relevant Community provisions. 
3. Imports, of the petroleum products referred to in 
paragraph 1 shall be subject to Community surveillance. a regulation re-establishing, until the end of the calendar 
year, the collection of the duties normally applicable. 
4. Quantities shall be charged against the ceiling as 
and when products are entered with the customs authori­
ties for free circulation. 
5. The extent to which that ceiling is used up shall be 
determined at Community level on the basis of the 
imports charged against it, in the manner specified in 
paragraph 4. 
6. Member States shall inform the Commission, at the 
intervals and within the time limits specified in Article 3, 
of imports effected in accordance with the rules referred 
to in this Article. 
Article 2 
As soon as the ceiling referred to in Article 1 (1) has been 
reached at Community level, the Commission may adopt Article 3 
Member States shall send the Commission statements of 
the quantities charged for the preceding month no later 
than the 15th day of each month. At the Commission's 
request, they shall send statements of the quantities 
charged for periods of 10 days, to be forwarded within five 
clear days of the end of each 10-day period. 
Article 4 
The Commission shall take all appropriate measures, in 
close cooperation with the Member States, to ensure the 
implementation of this Regulation. 
Article 5 
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January i§94 
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This Régulaiiim shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member 
States. 
Done al Brussels, 
For the Council 
Tlie President 
FINANCIAL RECORD S 
1. Budget line concerned : Chap. 12 art. 120 
2. Legal base : art 113 of the Treaty 
3. Heading of the tariff measure : Proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) 
opening and providing for the administration of a Community 
preferential ceiling for certain petroleum products refined in Turkey 
and establishing Community surveillance for imports thereof (1994) 
4. Oblect ive : Respect of contractual engagements as regards Turkey. 
5. Method of calculation : 
CN code: 2710 to 2714 
Volume of the ceiling : 740 250 t 
Duty to apply: 0 X 
Normal duties : Various duties (average duty : 5 %) 
6. Loss of receipts : 
Value 1 tonne: 72 ECU (average value) 
Total value: 53 298 000 ECU 
LOSS: 
- in case of total utilisation 
53 298 000 ECU X 5/100 - 2 664 900 ECU 
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