PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING ANNEX 1 OF REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 288/82 ON COMMON RULES FOR IMPORTS
Date: 1989-06-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: market supervision, semi-manufactured goods, third country, titanium

COMMISSION  OF  THE  EUROPEAN  COMMUNITIES 

C0MC89) 295 final 

Brussels,  16  June 1989 

Proposal  for a 

COUNCIL  REGULATION (EEC) 

amending Annex  1 of Régula;Ion  (EEC) N° 288/82 
on common  rules for  Imports 

(presented by the Commission) 

EXPLANATORY  MEMORANDUM 

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In the multilateral  trade negotiations  under  the GATT which  started  in 
1986,  following  the Ministerial  Declaration  adopted  at  Punta  del  Este, 
the Tropical  Products  sector  was  identified  as a priority  sector.  This 
priority  applied  to both  the  timing  of  the negotiations  and  the 
implementation  of  the  results. 

The  Community's  commitment  to  this objective was  demonstrated  by  it 
being  the  first  developed  country  to submit  a detailed  offer  in October 
1987 an example  which  was  not  followed  until  much  later  by  the other 
participants. However,  as  the Mid-term  Review  in Montreal  approached 
other  participants, both  developed  and  developing,  tabled  their 
proposals.  In November  1988 the Commission  sent  to  the Council  a 
proposal  which  elaborated  the Community's  position on  Tropical  Products. 
It consisted of  four  elements: 

a special  action  in favour  of  the  least-developed  developing 
countries; 

tariff  reductions on  a selected  list of  tropical  products; 

elimination of  certain  quantitative  restrictions  on  tropical 
products  applied  by Member  States; 

invitation  to Member  States  applying  excise  duties on  tropical 
beverages  to  indicate  their  intentions,  if possible, on  their 
eventual  reduction or  elimination; 

The Council  gave  its agreement  to the Commission  proposal  and  at 
Montreal  accepted  that  further  small  modifications were  necessary  in 
order  to reach  a  result  in the negotiations  that  was acceptable  to all 
parties. The Community's  contribution provides  for  tariff  concessions  on 
trade  amounting  to more  than  10 bn  Ecu,  the elimination of  certain 
national  quantitative  restrictions and  a number  of  specific  measures  in 
favour  of  the LLDCs. The aim of  this proposal  for  a Council  Regulation is 
to put  into effect  the elimination  of  certain  quantitative  restrictions 
on  tropical  products  applied  by Member  States. 

Coupe* 1 Reguf at loo (EEC) H* 

of 

1989 

amending Annex  t of Regulation (EEC) N* 288/82 
on common  rules for  import» 

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN  COMMUWITIESr 

Having  regard  to the Treaty establishing the European Economic 
Community,  and  in particular  Article 113 thereof, 

Having  regard  to the proposal  from  the Commission, 

Whereas  the multilateral  trade negotiations under  the GATT opened 
pursuant  to the Ministerial  Declaration adopted  at  Punta  del  Este on  20 
September  1986 resulted  in an  interim  result  in the Tropical  Products 
Negotiating Group at  the Montreal  Mid-term  Review  in December  1988; 

Whereas  the Community's  contribution  to this result  on Tropical  products 
consists of  three elements: first, a significant  number  of  tariff 
reductions on a mfn basis, secondly,  the elimination of  a number  of 
quantitative  restrictions on  tropical  products applied  by Member  States 
and  finally a series of concessions  for  least-developed  developing 
countries  that would  ensure duty  free access  for practically  all 
tropical  products as well  as  improved  access where necessary  for 
tropical  roots and  rice; 

Whereas  the Community  has  found  the concessions made by other  countries 
participating  in the negotiations constitute an acceptable  result; 

Whereas  the Punta  del  Este Ministerial  Declaration provides  for  the 
early  implementation of  results obtained  in the area of  Tropical 
Products and  the Community  has found  it necessary,  therefore, to 
implement  its contribution on Tropical  Products on an autonomous  basis, 
pending  the end of  the current  round of multilateral  trade negotiations; 

Whereas  it  is now necessary  to delete  those quantitative  restrictions on 
tropical  products, set out  in the Community's contribution to the result 
obtained  at  the Montreal  Mid-term  Review, from Annex  I of  Regulation 
(EEC) N° 288/82; 

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 

Article 1 

1.  The quantitative  restrictions on certain products originating  in 

third countries maintained  by certain Member  States as set out  in 
the Annex  shall  be abolished  from  1 July 1989. 

2.  The products to which  these quantitative restrictions apply shall  be 

deleted  from Annex  I of Regulation  N* 288/82. 

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 with effect  from  the 1 July 1989. 

This Regulation shall be binding  in  its entirety and directly applicable 
in all Member  States concerned. 

Done at Brussels, 

For  the CounciI 

The President 

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ANNEX 

CN code 

Descr iption 

1302 

Vegetable  saps and extracts; pectic 
substances, pectinates and pectates; 
agar-agar  and other mucilages and 
thickeners, whether  or not  modified, 
derived  from vegetable products: 

-  Vegetable  saps and extracts: 

1302 19 

Other: 

1302 19 30 

3203 00 

Intermixtures of  vegetable 
extracts  for  the manufacture of 
beverages or of  food 
preparations 

Colouring matter of  vegetable or  animal 
origin  (including  dyeing extracts but 
excluding  animal  black), whether  or not 
chemically defined; preparations as 
specified  in note 3 to this chapter 
based on colouring matter  of  vegetable 
or animal  origin: 

-  Colouring matter of vegetable origin 

and preparations based  thereon: 

ex 3203 00 19  -  -  Other 

5310 

Woven  fabrics of  jute or of other 
textile bast  fibres of  heading N° 5303: 

5310 10 

-  Unbleached: 

5310 10 10 

Of a width  not exceeding  150 cm 

5310 10 90  - - 

Of a width exceeding  150 cm 

5310 90 00  -  Other 

5" 

CN code 

Description 

5311  00 

Woven  fabrics of other  vegetable  textile 
fibres; woven  fabrics of  paper  yarn: 

ex  5311  00 90 

-  Other  than woven  fabrics of  paper 

yarn 

5608 

Knotted  netting of  twine, cordage or 
rope; made up  fishing nets and  other 
made up  nets, of  textile materials: 

ex  5608 90 00 

-  Other  than wool  or  fine animal  hair 

or  cotton 

5702 

Carpets  and other  textile  floor 
coverings, woven, not  tufted or  flocked, 
whether  or  not  made up,  Including 
'Kelem',  'Schumacks',  'Karamanle' and 
similar  hand-woven  rugs: 

5702 20 00 

-  Floor  coverings of  cononut  fibres 

(coir) 

-  Other, of  pile construction, not  made 

up: 

5702 39 

- - 

Of other  textile materials: 

5702 39 90 

Other 

-  Other, of pile construction, made  up: 

5702 49 

— 

Of other  textile materials: 

5702 49 90 

Other 

-  Other, not of  pile construction, not 

made up: 

ex  5702 59 00 

— 

Of other  textile materials  other 
than  cotton 

-  Other, not  of  pile construction, made 

up: 

ex  5702 99 00 

— 

Of other  textile materials  other 
than  cotton 

£ 

CN code 

Description 

5705 

Other carpets and other textile floor 
coverings, whether or not made up: 

ex 5705 00 90  -  Of other text He mater ials other than 

cotton 

5905 00 

Textile wait coverings: 

5905 00 50  -  Of Jute 

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Impact  on  SME 

This  proposal 
quantitative 
will  eliminate  a  number  of  national 
restrictions  on  certain  tropical  products  imported  into  the  Community. 
It  is  difficult  to  evaluate  the  impact  of  such  measures  on  SME.  However 
given  that  the  products  concerned  are  of  tropical  origin  the  impact  is 
I ike I y  to  be  smalI. 

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Proposal for a 

COUNCIL  REGULATION (EEC) 

amending Annex  1 of  Regulation (EEC) No 288/82  on common  rules for 
imports 

(submitted to the Council by the  Commission) 

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Proposal for  a 

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amending Annex  1 of  Regulation  (EEC) 
No 288/82  on common  rules for  imports 

(submitted to the  Council  by the  Commission) 

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