COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 
COM(90))249 final 
Brussels, 12 June 1990 
Proposal for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) 
opening and providing for the administration of autonomous 
community tariff 'quotas, for certain 
chemical products 
(1990) 
(presented by the Commission) 
EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 
Subsequent to requests made by various Member States, the Services of 
the Commission nave examined, in conjunction with the Government experts 
concerned, the question of opening in 1990 • tariff quotas 
for two new chemical products. 
2. Following this examination, which took place during the "Economic Tariff" 
last 
group meetings |held in particular on 2 April 1990, it has been determined 
that the opening of tariff quotas for the following products could have 
the agreement of the Member States without disturbing the markets for such 
products: 
- copolymers of ethylene and methacrylic acid: A 200 tonnes at A% 
- high-viscosity poly-alpha-olefin: 2 200 tonnes at 01. 
This is the purpose of this proposal. 
Proposal for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 
of 
opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for 
certain chemical 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 proposal from the Commission, 
Whereas production in the Community of certain 
ch Sirica I products is currently 
unable to meet the specific requirements of the user 
industries in the Community ; whereas, consequently, 
Community supplies of products of this type currently 
depend to a considerable extent on imports from third 
countries ; whereas the most urgent Community 
requirements for the products in question should be met 
immediately on the most favourable terms ; whereas zero 
duty Community tariff quotas should therefore be opened 
within the limits of appropriate volumes for a period 
up to 61 December 19v0; taking account of the reed 
not to disturb the markets for such products nor 
the starting out or development of Community 
production; Whereas, it is appropriate tô take the necessary measures 
to ensure efficient Community administration of these 
tariff quotas while offering the Member States the 
opportunity to draw from the quota volumes the 
necessary quantities corresponding to actual imports ; 
whereas this method of administration requires close 
cooperation between the Member States and the 
Commission and the latter must in particular be able to 
monitor the rate at which the quotas are used up and 
inform the Member States accordingly ; 
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, all transactions concerning the 
administration of the quantities draw by that economic 
union may be carried out by any one of its members, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION 
Whereas it is necessary, in particular, to ensure for all 
Community importers equal and uninterrupted access to 
the said quotas and to ensure the uninterrupted 
application of the rates laid down for the quotas to all 
imports of the products concerned into all Member States 
until the quotas have been used up; 
Article I 
LFrom the cbtë^^trylnbT^rorce'of this Regulation uhli I 31 December 1990, the customs duties 
applicable to imports into the Community of the products listed below shall be suspended at 
the levels and within the limits of the Connunity tariff quotas shown below: 
3 
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(Xk-r No CN cod» 
(a) Description Amount of 
quota 
(in tonnes) Quota duty 
CM 
09.2725 iex3901 90 00 
09.2727 ex3902 90 GO 
(a) TARIC codes: 3901 9U 
3901901 Copolymers of ethylene and methacrylic acid, 
containing from 8X to 12% by weight of methacry­
lic acid, put up in one of the forms referred 
to in Note 6(b) to Chapter 39 
Synthetic poly-alpha-olefin having a kinetic 
viscosity of not less than 38 x 16"^ m2 5*1 
(38 centistokes) at 100°C measured using the 
ASTW 0 445 method, for tie manufacture of lubri­
cating oil (1) 
00 *97 
00*95 4200 
2200 
v.1) Control .of the use for this special purpose shall be carried out pursuant to the relevant Community 
provisions. _____ j 
2.Within the limits of these tariff quotas the Kingdom 
of Spain and the Portuguese Republic shall apply customs 
duties calculated in accordance with the relevant 
provisions of the 1985 Act of Accession. notifying the Commission, draw an amount corre­
sponding to its requirements from the appropriate quota 
volume. 
Article 2 
The tariff quotas referred to in Article 1 shall be managed 
by the Commission, which may take any appropriate 
administrative measures to ensure that they are managed 
efficiently. 
Article 3 Requests for drawings, indicating the date on which the 
entries were accepted, must be sent to the Commission 
without delay. 
Drawings shall be granted by the Commission in chrono­
logical order of the dates on which the customs 
authorities of the Member States concerned accepted the 
entries for release for free circulation, to the extent that 
the available balance so permits. 
Where .in importer presents a present covered by this 
Regulation for release for free circulation in a Member 
State, applying to take advantage of the preferential 
arrangements, and the entry is accepted by the customs 
authorities, the Member State concerned shall, by If a Member State does not use a drawing in full it shall 
return any unused portion to the corresponding quota 
volume as soon as possible. 
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If the quantities requested are greater than the available 
balance of the quota volume, the balance shall be 
allocated among applicants pro rata. The Commission 
shall inform the Member States of the drawings made. 
Article 4 
Each Member State shall ensure that importers of the 
products in question have equal and continuous access to the quotas for as long as the balance of the relevant quota 
volume so permits. 
Article 5 
The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate 
closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied with. 
Article 6 
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 
States. 
Done at Brussels, 
For the Council 
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FICHE FINANCIERE 
1. Ligne budgétaire concernée : Chap. 12 art*. 120 
2. Base juridique : art. 26 du traité 
3. Intitulé de la mesure tarifaire : Proposition de règlement 
du Conseil portant ouverture et mode de gestion de 
contingents tarifaires autonomes pour certains produits 
chimiques. 
4. Objectif : Assurer la couverture à des conditions 
favorables, des besoins communautaires. 
5. Mode de calcul : 
Designation des 
prodults 
Gopolymeres 
d'ethylene et 
d'aclde methacry-
lique 
Poly-alpha-olefl-
ne de haute vls-
coslte QuantItes 
4 200 
2 200 Prix en 
6cus/unit6 
1 097,22 
3000 Droit 
normal (en X) 
12,5 
12,5 Droit oontln-
gentalre (en %) 
4 
0 Perte de 
reoettes (en ecus) 
391 708 
825 000 
1 216 708 
Nouvelles mesures tarifaires. 
FICHE D'IMPACT SUR LA COMPETITIVITE ET L'EMPLOI 
La présente proposition vise l'ouverture de contingents 
tarifaires communautaires autonomes destinés à couvrir, à des 
conditions favorables, les besoins des industries utilisatrjLoes. 
Elle aura pour effet de permettre à ces industries de / 
concurrencer celles des pays tiers sur les marchés de la 
Communauté et des pays tiers et de maintenir ou même d'améliorer 
l'emploi dans la Communauté. , 
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