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COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 
COM(92) 153 final 
Brussels, 22 April 1992 
Proposal for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) 
temporarily suspending the autonomous common customs tariff 
duties on a number of agricultural products 
(presented by the Commission) 
EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 
1. In the first quarter of this year, the Commission, with the 
assistance of the Economic Tariff Questions Group, examined all 
requests, submitted by Member States, for temporary suspension of 
common customs tariff duties, including the requests for prolongation 
of the suspensions currently in force. 
2. The attached proposal concerns a number of agricultural products. The 
proposal foi industrial products is being prepared. 
3. Requests for suspension relating to the above products were examined 
in the light of the criteria defined in the Commission communication 
to the Council and the Member States, concerning autonomous tariff 
suspensions (cf. O.J. No. C 235 of 13.9.89, p. 2). 
As a result of this examination, the Commission deems it justifiable 
to suspend the duty on those products listed in the Annex to the 
attached draft Regulation. 
4. As stated in Article 1 of the aforementioned draft Regulation, the 
proposed period of validity is 6 months or 12 months, depending on 
the case. 
proposal for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 
of 1991 192 
temporarily 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 proposal from 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 one case 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 Community, and 
in the other cases to suspend them totally ; 
Whereas, in view of the difficulty of assessing accurately 
short-term trends in the economic situation in the rele­vant sectors, suspension measures should be taken only 
temporarily by fixing their period of validity by reference 
to the interests of Community production, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 
Article I 
The autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties for the 
products listed in the Annex hereto shall be suspended at 
the level indicated against each of them. 
These suspensions shall be valid 
— from 1 July to 31 December 1992. for the products 
mentioned in Table I, 
— from 1 July 1992 to 30 June 1993 for the products 
mentioned in Table II. 
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1992 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member 
States. 
Done at 1992. 
For the Council 
The President 
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ANNEX 
TABLE I 
CN code TARIC Description of goods Autonoaous duties (X) 
1 63826528 
63637526 
6x63641898 
ex63649897 Dogfish of the 6pecies Squalus acanihias, fresh, chilled or 
frozen 
168 
131 
2 6x63826998 
8x83837998 • 30 
130 Sturgeons, fresh, chilled or frozen, for processing (a) (b) 
3 6x63626998 
4 6x63626998 
ex6303799P 140 Luap fish (Cycloplarus luapus) with roe, fresh or chilled, 
for processing (a) 
5 ...83627008 
6x83636880 
6 ex8383ieee • 50 
140 Red Snapper (Luljanus purpureas), fresh, chilled or frozen, 
for processing (a) (c) 
tie 
120 Hard fish roes, fresh, chilled or frozen 
HO ific salaon (Oncorhynchus spp.), frozen and headless, 
the processing industry for aanufacture into pastes or 
spreads (a) 
7 ex030380ee 116 Soft roe, frozen, for the aanufacture of deoxyribonucleic acid 
or protaaine sulphate (a) 
8 ex03052000 
9 ex03061990 
ex03062990 
20 exl6041166 
6x16042016 110 Hard fish roes, salted or in brine 
ne 
116 Krill for processing (a) 
126 Pacific salaon (Oncorhynchus spp.), for the processing 
126 industry for aanufacture into pastes or spreads (a) 
21 6x16043098 tlO Hard fish roes, •ashed, cleaned of adherent organs and siaply 
salted or in brine, for processing (a) 
22 exl6051000 til Crabs of the species 'King' (Paraliihodes caachaiicus), 
119 'Hanasaki' (Paraliihodes brevipas), 'Kegani' 
(.Eriaacrus isanbaclci), 'Queen* and *Sno«' 
(.Chionoecetas spp.), 'Red' (Geryon quinquedans), 
'Rough stone' (Meoli thodas asperriaus), Liihodas 
anlarctica, 'Mud' (Scylla sarrala), 'Blue' 
(Portunus spp.), siaply boiled in water and shelled, nhelher 
or not frozen, in iaaediate packings of a net content of 2kg 
or aore 
23 exl66S3068 tlO Lobster flesh, cooked, for the processing industry for the 
aanufacture of butlers based on lobster, or of pastes, pates, 
soups or sauces (a) (c) 
3 
TABLE II 
CN code 
16 6x87162180 TARIC Description of goods Autonomous duties (X) 
tlO Pees in pods, of the species Pi SUB sativum of the variety 
Hortansa axiphiua, frozen, of a thickness not exceeding 
6aa, to be used, in their pods, in the aenufacture of prepared 
seals (a) (C) 0 
12 6x07119056 114 Nushrooas, excluding aushrooas of the species Agaricus spp., 
192 provisionally preserved in brine, in sulphur water, or in other 
preservative solutions, but unsuitable in thai stale for 
iaaediale consumption, for the food-canning industry (a) 
13 6x97123086 •17 Mushrooas, excluding aushrooas of the species Agaricus spp. , 
•24 dried, whole or in identifiable slices or pieces, for treatment 
other than siaple repacking for retail sale (a) (C) 
14 6x87133390 •20 Beans, white, dried, of the species Phasaolus vulgaris, of 
which not aora than 2X by weight ere retained by a screen with 
apertures of a diameter of 8aa, for use in the food-canning 
industry (a) 
15 6x88641668 til 
121 Deles, fresh or dried, for the processing industry, other then 
for the production of alcohol (a) 
16 6x08641060 •12 Dates, fresh or dried, for packing for retail sale into 
•22 iaaediale packings of a net content not exceeding 11kg (a) 
17 8x08104656 
18 08119050 
08119070 
8x08119096 110 Fruit of the species Vacciniua aacrocarpon, fresh 
135 Fruit of the genus Vacciniua, •hether or not cooked, frozen, 
not containing added sugar or other sweetening aatter 
(a) Control of the use for this special purpose shall be carried out pursuant to 
the ralavanl Coaaunily provisions. 
(b) Tha suspension shall apply to fiah intended to undergo any operation unless 
they are intended to undergo exclusively one or aore of the following 
oparaliona: 
- cleaning, gutting, tailing, heading, 
- cutting (excluding, filiating or cutting of frozen blocks), 
- aaapling, sorting, 
- labelling, 
- packing, 
- chilling, 
- freezing, 
- deep freezing, 
- thaaing, separation. 
Tha suspension is not allowed for products intended, in addition, to undergo 
Irealaenl (or operations) qualifying for suspension ahere such treslaenl (or 
oparaliona) is (are) carried out at retail or catering level. The suspension 
of cusloas duties shall apply only to fiah intended for huean conauaplion. 
(c) Hoaever, tha suspension is not allowed where processing is carried out by 
retail or catering undertakings. 
FINANCIAL RECORD 
1. Budget Iine concerned : Chap. 12 Art. 120 
2. Title of the tariff measure concerned : Draft proposal for a Council 
Regulation, temporarily suspending the autonomous common customs 
tariff duties on a number of agricultural products 
3. Legal basis : Art. 28 of the Treaty 
4. Object ive : suspension of CCT duties on the abovementioned products 
5. Cost of this tariff-measure : 
To be borne by the EEC-budget : 
- for the same exercise in 1991, the loss of own resources was 
expected to be of the order of 23 400 000 ecus (of P.E. E/391/91 
C0M(91) 103 of 25.03.1991) 
for the current exercise, based on the Community statistics 
available, a reasonable estimate for the cost of the operation 
for the period covered by the attached draft Regulation would be 
of the order of 24 570 000 ecus. 
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