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Family and to extend support, including financial 
support, to persons who, by reason of the need to 
— to develop family benefits, so as to avoid that a raise children or care for an elderly or disabled 
lack of resources will not dissuade anyone from relativC) have tQ reduce QJ. cease WQrk5 
having children; to develop, in particular, the 
benefits paid to the most disadvantaged families 
and to adapt them for single-parent families and 
for families where there is a disabled child, 
to contribute to fostering the integration of 
persons who, having raised children, wish to enter 
the labour market, and to give them opportunities 
for supplementary training to enable them to 
acquire the qualifications needed to find a job, 
to remove obstacles to occupational activity by 
parents through measures allowing the reconcil­
iation of family and professional responsibilities 
Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amendin 
respect of the system of generalized tariff preferen 
Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, ft 
(91/C 194 
SEC(91) 11C 
(Submitted by the Commis, Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 3833/90 in 
respect of the system of generalized tariff preferences applied to certain products originating in 
Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama 
(91/C 194/26) 
SEQ91) 1109 final 
(Submitted by the Commission on 9 July 1991) 
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 Commission, 
Having regard to the opinion of the European 
Parliament, 
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and 
Social Committee, 
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3835/90 (*) 
extends the application of tariff preferences to Bolivia, 
Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in order to assist these 
(') OJ No L 370, 31. 12. 1990, p. 126. AND TO THIS END REQUESTS THE COMMISSION: 
1. to submit regular reports to the Council on progress 
achieved in relation to these objectives, to determine 
and develop the use of appropriate indicators to this 
effect, and to present suitable proposals taking into 
account demographic, economic and social changes in 
the Community; 
2. to organize regular consultation with Member States 
on the development of social protection policy. 
f 
countries to halt the growth in the production of and 
trade in cocaine, which is threatening their social 
integrity and so damaging their economies that their 
development is at risk; 
Whereas it has been established that the countries of the 
Central American isthmus are being increasingly used as 
a staging post on the route of illegal drugs from the 
Andean region to North America; 
Whereas the illegal cultivation of poppies and cannabis 
and the production of drugs and other psychotropic 
substances in the Central American countries is 
expanding alarmingly; 
Whereas the growing trade in and cultivation of drugs 
threatens the economic and social stability of the 
countries of the isthmus; 
NoC 194/18 Official Journal of the European Communities 25. 7. 91 
Whereas Article 4 (1) of the Cooperation Agreement of 
12 November 1985 between the European Economic 
Community, of the one part, and the countries parties to 
the General Treaty on Central American Economic Inte­
gration (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras 
and Nicaragua) and Panama, of the other part, of which 
the overall purpose is to help resolve the problems of the 
Central American isthmus, which have, in particular, 
been worsened by the effects of the current economic 
recession, provides that the Contracting Parties shall 
undertake to promote by means of appropriate measures 
the harmonious development, diversification and quali­
tative improvement of their trade, with a view to maxi­
mizing such trade;. 
Whereas the countries of the Central American isthmus 
are today engaged in the consolidation of peace and 
democracy, which calls for the mobilization of all their 
economic resources and backing from the international 
community; 
Whereas the Community has been constant in its support 
for peace and development in the Central American 
isthmus; 
Whereas the Central American Presidents at Puntarenas 
on 15 December 1990 appealed to the Community to 
extend to their countries the tariff preferences granted to 
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru; 
Whereas this appeal was backed by the Governments of 
Colombia and Ecuador in the San Andres Declaration of 
15 January 1991; 
Whereas the ministerial meeting between the Community 
and the Central American countries, Panama and the 
cooperating countries (Colombia, Mexico and 
Venezuela) held in Managua on 18 and 19 March 1991 
dealt constructively with this matter at the urgent request 
of the Central American Ministers; 
Whereas the Community considers it necessary to 
continue to support peace and democratization in 
Central America and Panama in the present period of 
consolidation and therefore, in order to increase these 
countries' export earnings and their growth, to grant them exceptional, temporary assistance by extending to 
their agricultural exports generalized tariff preferences 
similar to those granted to Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador 
and Peru; whereas these concessions should be granted 
to the Central American countries for the same period, 
without prejudice to the annual nature of the 
Community's system of generalized tariff preferences, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 
Article 1 
Subject to the provisions of Article 2 (2) of this Regu­
lation, Common Customs Tariff duties shall be totally 
suspended until 31 December 1991 for products orig­
inating in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, 
Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama listed in the Annex to 
this Regulation. Article 1 (4) and Articles 7 to 12 of 
Regulation (EEC) No 3833/90 (') shall, without 
prejudice to the levying of any supplementary duties that 
may apply, apply to those countries and to the products 
listed in the Annex to this Regulation. 
Article 2 
1. Regulation (EEC) No 3833/90 shall continue to 
apply to products originating in countries mentioned in 
Article 1 and not listed in the Annex to this Regulation 
but in Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 3833/90. 
2. Regulation (EEC) 3833/90 shall continue to apply 
to products from Chapter 3 of the Common Customs 
Tariff originating in Panama. 
Article 3 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the fifth 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. 
(') OJ No L 370, 31. 12. 1990, p. 86. 
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ANNEX 
List of products covered by Article 1 (a) (b) 
CN code 
0106 00 
CHAPTER 3 
0409 00 00 
CHAPTER 5 
CHAPTER 6 
0708 
0709 60 99 Description 
Other live animals 
FISH AND CRUSTRACEANS, MOLLUSCS AND OTHER AQUATIC 
INVERTEBRATES 
Natural honey 
PRODUCTS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED 
OR INCLUDED 
LIVE TREES AND OTHER PLANTS, BULBS, ROOTS AND THE 
LIKE; CUT FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTAL FOLIAGE 
Leguminous vegetables, shelled or unshelled, fresh or chilled 
Other vegetables, fresh or chilled: 
Other 
0709 90 90 
0710 
all codes 
0710 80 10 except 
0803 00 90 
0804 30 00 
0804 50 00 
0805 30 90 
0805 40 00 
0807 10 10 Other 
Vegetables (uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water), frozen 
Bananas, including plantains, dried 
Pineapples 
Guavas, mangoes and mangosteens 
Citrus fruit, fresh or dried: 
Limes 
Grapefruit 
Melons (including watermelons) and papaws (papayas), fresh 
Watermelons 
0807 10 90 
0807 20 00 Other 
Papaws (papayas) 
0809 40 90 
ex 0809 20 10 
ex 0809 20 90 Sloes, fresh 
Sour cherries (prunus cerasus), fresh 
0810 90 80 Other fruit, fresh 
0811 Fruit and nuts, uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water, 
frozen, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter 
ex CHAPTER 9 COFFEE, TEA, MATE AND SPICES, EXCLUDING PRODUCTS 
FALLING WITHIN CN CODES 0905 00 00 AND 0907 00 00 
(a) Notwithstanding the rules for the interpretation of the combined nomenclature, the wording for the description of the 
goods shall be considered as having no more than an indicative value, the preferential scheme being determined, 
within the context of this Annex, by the coverage of the CN codes. Where ex CN codes are indicated, the preferential 
scheme is to be determined by application of the CN code and the corresponding description taken together. 
(b) Agricultural products which under standard procedure enjoy exemption from, or the temporary suspension of, all 
CCT duties are listed only pro memoria. 
No C 194/20 Official Journal of the European Communities 25. 7. 91 
CN code 
ex CHAPTER 12 
CHAPTER 13 
CHAPTER 14 
1504 
except code 1504 30 11 
1519 
1520 
1602 50 90 
1604 
CHAPTER 18 
CHAPTER 20 
ex CHAPTER 21 
ex CHAPTER 22 
CHAPTER 24 Description 
MISCELLANEOUS GRAINS, SEEDS AND FRUIT; INDUSTRIAL 
AND MEDICINAL PLANTS; STRAW AND FODDER; EXCLUDING 
SUGAR BEET AND SUGAR CANE FALLING WITHIN 
SUBHEADINGS 1212 91 AND 1212 92 
GUMS, RESINS AND OTHER VEGETABLE SAPS AND EXTRACTS 
VEGETABLE PLAITING MATERIALS; VEGETABLE PRODUCTS 
NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED OR INCLUDED 
Fats and oils and their fractions, of fish or marine mammals, whether or 
not refined but not chemically modified 
Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining, industrial 
fatty alcohols 
Glycerol (glycerine), whether or not pure; glycerol waters and glycerol 
lyes 
Other prepared or preserved meat, meat offal or blood: 
of bovine animals 
Prepared or preserved fish; caviar and caviar substitutes prepared from fish 
eggs 
COCOA AND COCOA PREPARATIONS 
PREPARATIONS OF VEGETABLES, FRUIT, NUTS OR OTHER 
PARTS OF PLANTS 
MISCELLANEOUS EDIBLE PREPARATIONS, EXCLUDING SUGAR 
SYRUPS FALLING WITHIN SUBHEADINGS 2106 90 30, 2106 90 51, 
2106 90 55 AND 2106 90 59 
BEVERAGES, SPIRITS AND VINEGAR, EXCLUDING PRODUCTS 
FALLING WITHIN SUBHEADINGS 2204 10 11 TO 2204 30 10, 
2206 00 10, 2208 40 90, 2208 90 11 AND 2208 90 19 
TOBACCO AND MANUFACTURED TOBACCO SUBSTITUTES 
Proposal for a Council Directive on the adoption of standards for satellite broadcasting of 
television signals 
(91/C 194/27) 
COM(91) 242 final — SYN 350 
(Submitted by the Commission on 15 July 1991) 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
In cooperation with the European Parliament, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 
Economic Community, and in particular Article 100a 
thereof, Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and 
Social Committee,