COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 
C0M(93) 452 final 
Brussels, 30 September 1993 
.ViUHKieiaiffi: 
Proposal for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) 
amending Regulation (EEC) No 3915/92 opening and providing for 
the administration of Community tariff quotas bound in GATT 
for certain agricultural and industrial products. 
(presented by the Commission) 
2: 
EXPLANATORY pfynpANn^ 
1. Under its external relations policy, the Community reached an 
agreement providing for the annual opening for a duty-free Community 
tariff quota for newsprint. The volume of this quota, amounting to 
650 000 tonnes, is divided into two parts: the first. 600 000 
tonnes, to products coming from Canada, and the second, 50 000 
tonnes, to products coming from other non-member countries. 
The agreement provides also for the necessity of increasing by 5% 
that part of the auota reserved for imports from Canada, if it is 
used up before the end of a given period of one year. 
2. From the economic data at present available, it is believed that the 
volume of 600 000 tonnes might not satisfy Community needs for 
products of this type in 1993. as about 559 000 tonnes of the tariff 
quota had already been used, as of 25 August. 
The purpose of the attached proposal is therefore to increase the 
quota in accordance with the Community's undertaking. 
Proposal for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No /93 
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amending Regulation (EEC) No 3915/92 opening and providing for the 
administration of Community tariff quotas bound in GATT for certain 
agricultural and industrial products. 
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, for newsprint, the Community has reached an 
agreement which provides in particular for the opening of 
a Community tariff quota of 650 000 tonnes, of which 
600 000 tonnes are reserved, until 30 November of each 
year, exclusively for products from Canada, in accordance 
with Article XIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs 
and Trade ; whereas this agreement provides equally for 
the obligation to increase, by 5 %, that pan of the quota 
reserved for imports from Canada, in the event that that 
part is used up before the end of a given period of one 
year ; whereas the quou of 650 000 tonnes was opened for 
1993» by Council Regulation (EEC) No39i5/92jK) ; 
Whereas the economic data at present available give rise 
to the belief that the requirements for importing news­print from Canada could reach a level higher than the 
said volume of 600 000 tonnes, whereas the volume of 
that part of quou reserved for these imports should be 
increased, therefore, by 30 000 tonnes. 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION 
Article I 
For order No 09.0015. the table in Article 1 
(1) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3915/92 
is hereby replaced by the following table: 
Older 
number 
09.0015 CN code 
M 
4801 00 10 Description 
Newsprint (') : 
— from Canada Quou 
period 
From 1 January 
to 31 December 
1993 Quota 
volume 
330 000 tonnes Rate of 
duty 
(V.) 
0 
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day 
following its publication in the Official Journal of the 
European Communities. 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member 
Sûtes. 
Done at Brussels, 
For the Council 
The President 
(1) OJ No L 395 of 31.12.1992. p. 15 
FINANCIAL RECORD 
Budget Iine concerned : Chap. 12 Art. 120 
Legal basis : Art. 113 of the Treaty 
Title of the tariff measure concerned : Proposal for a Council 
Regulation (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 3915/92 opening and 
providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas bound in 
GATT for certain agricultural and industrial products. 
Object ive : To fulfil GATT-commitments and to ensure that Community 
needs for newsprint are met. 
Method of calculation : 
CCT heading: 
Volume of the quota: 
Duty to be applied: 
Normal CCT duty: 4801 00 10 and 4801 00 90 
30 000 T 
0 % 
4,9 and 9 % 
Duty-loss 
Average price per tonne 
Value of 30 000 tonnes 
Imports under 4801 00 10 (±5 %) 
Imports under 4801 00 90 (+ 95 %) 759 ECU 
22 770 000 ECU 
1 138 500 ECU 
21 631 500 ECU 
Duty-loss : 
4801 00 10 : 1 138 500 ECU X 4,9 % 
4801 00 90 : 21 631 500 ECU X 9 % 55 786 ECU 
1 946 835 ECU 
2 002 621 ECU 
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