COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 
COM(94) 586 final 
Brussels, 08.12.1994 
94/0290 (ACC) 
Proposal for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) 
on the suspension of the import levy on sheepmeat and 
goatmeat sector products 
(presented by the Commission) 

Explanatory memorandum 
In the sheepmeat and goatmeat sector, voluntary restraint agreements exist 
with Romania and Iceland and equivalent unilateral arrangements exist with 
those countries with which no voluntary restraint agreement (regulation 
(EEC) No 3643/85) has been concluded. Regulation (EEC) No 3842/92 
suspended collection of the levy on imports originating in the above-
mentioned countries until 31 December 1994. 
A voluntary restraint agreement was concluded with the Socialist Federal 
Republic of Yugoslavia in 1981, but certain details of the management of 
the import arrangements laid down were suspended and replaced by Regulation 
(EEC) No 3125/92 which establishes the arrangements applicable to Bosnia-
Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Serbia and the former Yugoslav 
Republic of Macedonia. 
Pending the implementation for this sector of the access commitments in the 
GATT Uruguay Round Agreement on 1.7.95 it is necessary to provide for 
interim access arrangements for sheepmeat and goatmeat. 
Negotiations with Argentina, Australia, Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech 
Republic, New Zealand, Poland, the Slovak Republic and Uruguay have led to 
the extension of the adjustments to the voluntary restraint agreements 
until 3 0 June 1995 and consequently the collection of the levy applicable 
to those countries is suspended until that date. 
This draft Regulation extends that suspension, subject to certain 
quantitative limits, to the other supplier countries. 
Financial impact : This measure has no financial impact on the Community 
budget 
Proposal for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No ..../.. 
of . . . 
on the suspension of the import levy on sheepmeat and 
goatmeat sector products 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in 
particular Article 228(2) and the first subparagraph of 228(3), in 
conjunction with Article 113; 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission; 
Whereas the Community has voluntary restraint agreements with Romania and 
Iceland and equivalent unilateral arrangements established by Council 
Regulation (EEC) No 3643/85 of 19 December 1985 concerning the import 
arrangements applicable to certain third countries in the sheepmeat and 
goatmeat sector as from 1986^1'; 
Whereas, pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3609/93 of 17 December 
199g suspending the import levy on products of the sheepmeat and goatmeat 
sector'2'the levy on the import of live sheep and goats and sheepmeat and 
goatmeat from the abovementioned countries in particular has been suspended 
until 31 December 1994; 
Whereas a voluntary restraint agreement was concluded with the Socialist 
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1981; whereas, while the substance of the 
Agreement remained unchanged, certain details of the management of the 
import arrangements laid down were suspended and replaced by Council 
Regulation (EEC) No 3125/92 of 26 October 1992 on the arrangements 
applicable to the importation into the Community of sheepmeat and goatmeat 
products originating in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, 
Serbia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia^3'; 
Whereas it is necessary to provide for interim arrangements for trade in 
the sheepmeat and goatmeat sectors pending the implementation for this 
sector of the access in the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on 
Tariffs and Trade on 1.7.1995; 
Whereas negotiations with Argentina, Australia, Bulgaria, the Czech 
Republic, Hungary, New Zealand, Poland, the Slovak Republic and Uruguay 
have led to the extension of the adjustments to the voluntary restraint 
agreements until 30 June 1995 and consequently the collection of the levy 
applicable to those countries is suspended until that date; 
(1) OJ L 348, 24.12.198 5, p. 2 Regulation as last amended by regulation 
(EEC) No 3890/92 (OJ L391, 31.12.1992, p. 51). 
(2) OJ L 328, 29.12.1993, p.4. 
(3) OJ L 313, 30.10.1992, p. 3 
Whereas it seems appropriate to extend the above suspension, subject to 
certain quantitative limits, to all supplier countries; 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 
Article 1 
Notwithstanding the voluntary restraint agreements concluded with Iceland, 
the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Romania and 
notwithstanding Regulation (EEC) No 3643/85, the collection of the levy on 
imports of sheepmeat and goatmeat sector products falling within CN codes 
0204, 0104 1030, 0104 1080 and 0104 2090 from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, 
Iceland, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia and 
the countries referred to in the said Regulation shall be suspended until 
30 June 1995. 
For the countries referred to in the abovementioned agreements, the 
quantity for the first six months of 1995 will be 50% of the figure agreed 
for the whole of the year 1995, but it may be exceeded by up to 20%, which 
will be taken into account during the subsequent period. 
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the 
Official Journal of the European Communities. 
It shall apply from 1 January 1995. 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in 
all Member States. 
Done at Brussels, ... December 1994. 
For the Council 
The President 
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