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COMMISSION  OF THE  EUROPEAN  COMMUNITIES 
COM(83) 208 final. 
Brussels,  18 April 1983 
Draft of 
COUNCIL REGULATION  (EEC) 
temporarily  suspending  the autonomous  Common  Customs  Tariff  duties 
on a number of agricultural  products 
(Submitted  to the  Council  by the  Commission) 
COM(83) 208 final. 

EXPLANATORY  MEMORANDUM 
1. The subject  of the  following  draft  regulation  is the  temporary suspension 
of duties  in the Common  Customs  Tariff  for a number of agricultural  items, 
as requested  by the  Member  State. 
It is partly a prolongation  and partly a new  measure. 
2. It seems appropriate  to the  Commission  that a duty suspension  is justi­
fied for the goods listed in the  annex to this regulation. 
The Commission  proposes  a total suspension for those products for which 
Community  production  does not exist or is  minimal.  A partial  suspension 
is proposed  in cases where the Community  production covers only  a part 
of the requirements.  The rate of the  partially  suspended  duty depends 
on the extent of the  possible  Community  supply to the  Community  users. 
The Commission  is also looking  for the right balance  between  the interests 
of the suppliers,  users and the  consumers  in the  Community. 
It also takes  into account  the need to protect  employment. 
3. The Commission  proposes,  in  order to avoid disturbance  of the 
Community  trade for  certain  agricultural  products,  to make the temporary 
suspension  of duties in the Common  Customs  Tariff  conditional  on the 
observance  of the  possible  reference  price. 
4_ The proposed  measures  are confined  to a fixed period  because  of the 
difficulties  of estimating  the evolution  of the  basic factors. 
5. For a number of items for which  the Member  States  also requested duty 
suspensions  the Commission  does not propose a tariff measure  because 
the necessary conditions  are not  fulfilled.  This concerns  the following 
items : 

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CCT 
heading  Description 
No 
ex 03.01 Alb)  Salmon,  frozen and headless, for the processing 
industry  for manufacture  into pastes or  spreads 
03.01 Alb)  Salmon,  intended for  smoking 
ex 03.01 B I e) 1 Flaps of piked dog-fish(Squalus acanthias), fresh, 
chiI led or frozen 
ex 03.01 B I h) 1 Cod  (Gadus  morhua,  Boreogadus  saida,  Gadus  ogac), 
fresh or chilled,  whole,  headless or in 
pieces intended for processing 
ex 03.01 B I ij) 1 Saithe (Pollachius  virens),  fresh or  chilled,  intended 
for processing 
ex 03.01 B I k)  Haddock  (Melanogrammus  aeglefinus), fresh,  chilled 
or frozen,  whole,  headless or in pieces, intended 
for processing 
ex 03.01 Bit)  Hake  Merluccius spp), fresh,  chilled  or frozen,  whole, 
headless or in pieces, intended for processing 
ex 03.01 B II a)  Fillets  of hake (Merluccius spp), fresh,  chilled 
and B II b) 9 or frozen, intended for processing 
ex 16.04 B I  Salmon  for the processing industry for  manufacture 
into pastes or  spreads 
ex 16.04 C II Spiced and salted herrings, in  immediate  packings 
of a net capacity of 10 kg or  more with an  average 
weight for 4 whole  herrings or 6 headless herrings 
exceeding 1 kg 
02.01 A II b)  Meat  of bovine  animals frozen 
ex 24.01 B  Tobacco  refuse for the  manufacture  of reconstituted 
tobacco  falling  within  subheading  24.02  E or snuff 
falling  within  subheading  24.02  D 
6. Attention i.-  drawn  to the  fact that the Council Resolution of  27.6.191 
simplifyini  the task of the  customs  administrations (0J C  79/74) 
requires  the publication of the attached Regulation at  least  six weeks 
before this entry  into force. 

Draft 
COUNCIL  REGULATION (EEC) 
tempor&rily  suspending  the autonomous  Common  Customs  Tariff  duties  on a 
/' number  of agricultural  products 
THE COUNCIL OF  THE  EUROPEAN 
COMMUNITIES, 
Having  regard to the Treaty establishing the European 
Economic  Community, and in particular Article 28 
thereof, 
Having  regard to the draft Regulation submitted by 
the Commission, 
Whereas production in the Community of the 
products specified in  this  Regulation is currently 
inadequate or  non-existent;  whereas  producers  thus 
cannot  meet  the  needs  of user industries in the 
Community; 
Whereas in certain  cases  it is in the  interest  of the 
Community  to suspend the autonomous Common 
Customs  Tariff  duties  only partially, particularly  since 
the goods  in question are produced in the  Commu­
nity, and in the other  cases  to suspend them totally ; 
Whereas, in  view  of the difficulty of  assessing  accur­
ately  short-term trends in the economic situation in 
the relevant  sectors,  suspension  measures  should be 
taken only temporarily by fixing their period of vali­
dity by reference to the  interests  of Community 
production, 
Whereas  Article  21 of  Council Regulation  (EEC) No  3796/81  ' makes 
provision  for the  annual  fixing  of reference prices  for certain 
products  valid for the  Community,  for the  purpose  of avoiding 
disturbance  of Community  trade; 
Whereas  it is  therefore important,  in order not to  prejudice  the 
scope of these provisions,  to make the  grant of temporary  suspension 
of Common  Customs  Tariff  duties  for the  products  which are subject  to 
reference prices subject  to observance  of those prices  -
1) OJ No L  379, 31.12.1981,  p. 1. 

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HAS ADOPTED  THIS  REGULATION  : 
Article  1 
1 . The autonomous Common Customs  Tariff  duties for 
the products listed in the  tables  annexed hereto shall 
be suspended at the level indicated against each of 
them. 
These  suspensions  shall be applicable : 
— from 1  July  to 31 December 198 3 for the products 
listed in Table I, 
— from 1  July  1983 to 30 June 198 4 for the products 
listed in Table II. 
2. When a  product  has been made subject  to a  fixed  reference 
price, the concession  of the  temporary suspension  of duties of the Com 
Customs  Tariff  referred  to in  paragraph  1 shall be conditional  on obsen 
of that price. 
Article  2 
This  Regulation shall enter into force on 1  July  198 3 . 
This  Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member 
States. 
Done at Brussels, 
For the  Council 
The President 

ANNEX 
TABLE  I 
CCT Rate of 
heading Description autonomous 
No duty (%) 
ex 03.01  B I e) 1 Piked  dog-fish (Squaius acanthias), fresh,  chilled  or frozen, whole,  headless 
or in pieces 6 
ex 03.02 A I 
e) 
ex 03.02  A I 
f) Salmon,  salted  or in  brine,  whole,  headless  or 
in pieces 
Saithe  (Pollachius virens), salted  or in  brine, 
whole, headless  or in  pieces,  intended  for 
smoking  or drying (a) 
Fillets  of saithe (Pollachius virens), salted 
or in brine,  intended  for smoking  or drying(a) 4 
8 
9 ex 03.02  A II 
d) 
ex 03.03  A I Crawfish  heads, 
(c) for the processing  industryla) 
10 
16.5 ex 08.10  D Boysenberries,  frozen,  no sugar added 
ex 15.07  D lb)  2 Purified  soya-bean oil in glass bottles. Each bottle holds  10 litres of purified 
soya-bean oil containing by weight  : 
— a minimum of  8-5 %  and a maximum of  12 %  of palmitic acid  esters, 
— a minimum of  2-5 %  and a maximum of  4-7 %  of stearic acid  esters, 
— a minimum of  224 %  and a maximum of  29 %  of oleic acid  esters, 
— a minimum of  46-6 %  and a maximum of  53-7 %  of linoleic  acid  esters, 
— a minimum of  7-4 %  and a maximum of  11 %  of linoleic  acid  esters, 
and containing  : 
— not more than  5 millimoles of free fatty acid per kg of oil, 
— phosphalipids corresponding to a nitrogen content not exceeding 
004 mg per gram of oil. 
The soya-bean oil covered by this description is destined for the preparation 
of emulsions for injections (a) 8 with a maximum 
duty of 125  ECU  per 
100 kg net weight, 
plus a compensatory 
amount in certain 
conditions 

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CCT 
hea di ng 
No 
t Descri pt ion Rate of 
autonomous 
duty (%) 
ex 16.05 A Crabs of the  species "King"(ParaLithodes 
camtchati eus), "Hanasaki" (ParaLithodes 
brevipes),  "Kegani" (Erimacrus  isenbecki), 
and "Queen"  (Chionocetes spp),  "Red" 
(Geryon  quiquedens)  and "Rough  stone" 
(Neolithodes  asperrimus)  and Lithodes 
antarctica,  simply  boiled  in water and 
shelled,  whether  or not  frozen,  in 
immediate  packings  of a net  capacity 
of 2 kg or more 0 
ex 16.05 B Lobster  flesh,  cooked, to be used by the processing industry for the manu­
facture of butters based on lobster,  pâtés  and pastes, soups or sauces (a) (c) 10 
ex 16.05 B Shrimps  and prawns of the species 'Pandalus borealis'  boiled  in water and 
shelled,  whether or not frozen or dried, intended for the industrial proces­
sing of products  falling  within  heading No  16,05  (a)(c) 16 

TABLE  II 
CCT Raw of 
heading Description itutonomoUs 
No Description 
duty (%) 
ex 03.01  Big)  & Lesser  or Greenland halibut  ( Re i nhardt  i US h ippog  LOSSO i des ) ex 03.01  Big)  & 
fresh,  chilled  or frozen, whole, headless or in 
pieces 0 
ex 03.01  B I v) Sturgeons, fresh,  chilled  or frozen, whole, headless or in pieces, intended for 
processing (a) (b) 0 
ex 03.01 C Soft roes, frozen, intended for the manufacture of deoxyribonucleic  acid 
(DNA)  (a) 0 
ex 03.01 C Hard  fish  roes, fresh,  chilled  or frozen 0 
ex 03.02 C Hard  fish  roes, salted or in brine 0 
07.01 G III Horse-radish  (Cochlearia armoracia) fresh or  chilled 11 
ex 07.03 E Mushrooms,  excluding cultivated mushrooms  within  the meaning of 
subheading  07.01  Q I, in salted or sulphur water or to  which  other 
substances  ensuring their temporary preservation have been added, but not 
specially  prepared for immediate consumption 0 
ex 07.04 B Mushrooms,  excluding cultivated mushrooms  within  the meaning of 
subheading  07.01  Q I, dried, dehydrated or evaporated, whole or in identi­
fiable  slices or pieces, intended for  treatment  other than simple repacking 
for retail sale (a) (c) 0 
ex 07.04 B Sweet red or  green peppers,  dried,  dehydrated 
or evaporated,  in pieces, with  a moisture 
content not exceeding  9.5% but not  further 
prepared 1 
10 
ex 07.05 B I Beans,  white, dried, of the species 'Phaseolus vulgaris' 0 
ex 08.01 A Dates, fresh or dried, intended for the processing industry, other than for 
the production of alcohol (a) 0 
ex 08.01 A Dates, fresh or dried, for packing for retail sale into immediate packings of a 
net capacity not exceeding  11 kg (a) 0 
ex 08.09 Rose-hips,  fresh 0 
08.10 Fruit  of the species  Vaccinium,  whether or not cooked, in frozen  state,  not 
ex B, C and ex D containing  added sugar 0 
ex 08.10 D Rose-hips,  whether or not cooked, in frozen  state,  not containing added 
sugar 0 
ex 08.10 D Dates, frozen, in immediate packings of a net capacity of  5 kg or more, not 
intended for the production of alcohol (a) 0 
ex 09.04 B I Ground  paprika for use in animal feedingstuffs (a) 0 
ex 16.04 AII Hard  fish roes, washed, cleaned of  adherrent  organs and simply salted or in 
brine 0 
ex 23.07 A J Fish  or marine mammal solubles 0 
(a) Checks on their use for this special purpose shall be carried out pursuant to the relevant Community provisions. 
(b) The suspension shall apply to  fish intended to undergo any operation unless they are intended to undergo exclusively one or 
more of the  following  operations : 
— cleaning, gutting,  tailing,  heading, 
— cutting (excluding  filleting  or cutting of frozen blocks), 
— sampling, sorting, 
— labelling, 
— packing, 
— chilling, 
— freezing, 
— deep  freezing, 
— thawing, separation. 
The suspension is not allowed for products intended, in addition, to undergo  treatment  (or operations)  qualifying  for suspen­
sion where such  treatment  (or operations) is (are) carried out at retail or catering  level.  The suspension of customs duties shall 
apply  only to  fish  intended for human consumption. 
(c) However, the suspension is not allowed where the  treatment  is carried out by retail .-ile or catering undertakings.