PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) AMENDING REGULATION (EEC) NO 3729/90 OPENING AND PROVIDING FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF COMMUNITY TARIFF QUOTAS FOR CERTAIN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS ORIGINATING IN ALGERIA, MOROCCO, TUNISIA OR EGYPT
Date: 1991-03-01
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Egypt, Maghreb, tariff quota

COMMISSION  OF  THE  EUROPEAN  COMVIUNITIES 

C0M(91)  49  final 

Brussels,  1  March 1991 

Proposal  for a 

COUNCIL REGULATION  (EEC) 

amending Regulation (KBC) No 3729/90 opening 

and providing for the administration of Oonnnunity tariff quotas 

for certain agricultural products originating in 

Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia or 3gjpt 

(presented by the Commission) 

EXPIANATCgg MEMORANCPM 

1.  Council Regulation (EEC) No  .../9-f, amending Regulation (EEC) 

No 3275/90 opening and providing for the allocation of Community tariff 
quotas hound in GAIT for certain agricultural and industrial products, 
opened a 12 000-tonne Camraunity tariff quota at 10% for dried onions 
falling within CN code 0712 20 00. 

2.  Until that erga omnes quota is exhausted, the Ten will hold duties on 
imports of this product from Spain and Portugal to 2.9%.  If and when the 
quota is fully taken up, the duty rises to 4%. 

3.  The EEC-Egypt Cooperation Agreement provides for the phasing out of 
duties on certain products originating in ^gypt at the same rate and over 
the same period as specified in the Act of Accession in respect of imports 
from Spain and Portugal into the Community of Ten.  Hiis means dried 
onions originating in 3gypt should be subject to the 2.9% rate until the 
quota is exhausted, and therefore Regulation (EEC) No 3729/90, which opened 
the quota at a rate of 4%, must be amended.  Once the quota has been fully 
utilized, the quota rate on dried onions from 3gypt would rise to 4%. 

4.  Attached is a proposal for a Regulation making the necessary change as 
from 1 January 1991, in accordance with Council Regulation (EBC) No  .. ./&f. 

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Proposal for a 

COUNCIL REGULATION (EBC) No 

/91 

Of 

amending Regulation (EBC) No 3729/90 opaidng and 
providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas 
for certain agricultural products originating in 
Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia or Egypt 

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 the Commission, 

whereas Council Regulation (EBC) No 3729/90 of 13 December 19901 opened 

Community tariff quotas for 1991 for certain agricultural products 

originating in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia or 3gypt, iiWhiH-ing a 4 900-tonne 
quota at 4% for dried onions of CN code 0712 20 00 originating in ^gypt; 

whereas Connc.11 Regulation (EBC) No 

/91 of 19912 opened an SEgajamnes. 

12 000-tonne tariff quota for dried onions at 10%;; 

Whereas until the 12 000-tonne tariff quota has been fully taken up, the 

highest duty applied by the Community as constituted an 31 December 1985 to 

imports of these products from Spain and Portugal is 2.9%;  whereas if and 

when the said quota is exhausted, the duty applicable to imports from Spain 

will be 4%;  whereas the same tariff treatment must be aooorded to products 

originating in ^gypt, and the abovementioned Regulation (EBC) No 3729/90 

amended accordingly, 

HAVE ADOPTED TECS RBOTLATICN: 

Article 1 

1.  The 4% rate of duty shown in column 6 of the table in Article 1 of 

Council Regulation (EBC) No 3729/90 against order number 09.1701 shall be 

reduced to 2.9% 

2.  In the event of exhaustion of the erga "mry^ tariff quota opened by 

Regulation (EBC) No ... /91, a quota duty shall apply to imports into the 

Community as constituted on 31 December 1985 of dried onions originating in 

3gypt. 

1  OJ No L 363, 27.12.1990, p. 1. 
2  OJnoL 

1991, p. 

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Article 2 

This Regulation shall enter Into force on the seventh day following its 
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. 

It shall apply from 1 January 1991. 

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

Done at Brussels, 

For the Council 
The President 

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TA-RIC CODES 

CN Code  • 

"_.TARK Code1... 

Order No 

09.1115 
09.1705 

09.1117 

ex  0701  90  51 

ex  0702  00  10 

09.1118 

ex  0702  00  10 

0701  90  51*10 
0701  90  51*20 

0702  00  10*51 
0702  00  10*59 
0702  00  10*61 
0702  00  10*69 
0702  00  10*71 
0702  00  10*79 
0702  00  10*81 
0702  00  10*84 

0702  00  10*71 
0702  00  10*79 
0702  00  10*81 
0702  00  10*84 

0705  10  11*50 
0703  10  19*95 
0709  90  90*54 

0805  10  70*11 
0805  10  70*12 
0805  10  90*10 

ex  0705  10  11 
ex  0705  10  19 
ex  0709  90  90 

ex  0805  10  70 

ex  0805  10  90 

ex  1604  13  10 
ex  1604  20  50 

1604  15  10*10 
1604  20  50*11 

ex  2008  50  91 

2008  50  91*20 

ex  2009  1111 
ex  2009  11  19 
ex  2009  11  91 
ex  2009  11  99 

ex  2009  19  11 
ex  2009  19  19 
ex  2O09  19  91 
ex  2009  19  99 

ex  2204  21  25 
ex  2204  21  29 
ex  2204  21  55 
ex  2204  .21  59 

ex  2204  21  25 
éx  2204  21  29 
ex  2204  21  55 
ex  2204  21  59 

2009  11  11*10 
2009  11  19*10 
2009  11  91*10 
2009  11  99*10 
2009  11  99*91 
2009  19  11*10 
2009  19  19*10 
2009  19  91*10 
2009  19  99*10 

2204  21  26*92 
2204  21  89*91 
2204  21  5®*92 
2204  21  59*91 

2204  21  25*99 
2204  21  Wm95 
2204  21  55*95 
2204  21  59*95 

09.1705 

09.1707 

09.1201 

09.1105 
09.1205 

09.1124 

09.1001 

09.1205 

1_ 

ihe 'iAKii' codes shown are those applicable on the d.ats:.of "entry- into 
force of this Regulation, 

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FICHE  FINANCIERE 

1.  Ligne budgétaire  concernée  : Chap. 12 art. 120 

2.  Base  juridique  : article 113. 

3-  Intitulé de  la mesure tarifaire  : Proposition de  règlement  du Conseil 
modifiant  le règlement  (CEE) n° 3729/90, portant ouverture et mode de 
gestion de  contingents  tarifaires  communautaires pour certains pro 
duits agricoles, originaires  d'Algérie, du Maroc, de Tunisie et 
d'Egypte. 

^-  Object i f : Assurer aux oignons  secs originaires  d'Egypte  un traitement 
tarifaire  égal à celui  prévu pour  les mêmes produits en provenance 
d'Espagne  et du Portugal. 

5.  Perte de  recettes : 

Désignation des 
produits 

Quantités 

Prix en 
écus/t 

D ro i t 
contingentaire 
prévu pour règl 
(CEE) n*3729/90 

,  Droit 

contingentaire 
proposé 
-en I-

perte de 
recettes sup 
plémentaire 
-en écus-

Oignons secs 

4 900 t 

1 434 

4% 

2,5 % 

105 399 

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FifHF  D'IMPACT SUR LA COMPETITIVITE  ET L'EMPLOI 

Cette proposition  est  formulée  en conformité avec un  règlement  du Conseil, 

adopté en date du 

1991, portant, entre autres, ouverture et 

mode de gestion d'un  contingent  tarifaire  communautaire  consolidé au GATT 

pour des oignons  secs. L'impact  découlant  de cette  concession a été pris 

en considération  lors de  la prise de décision d'adoption  de cette mesure 

et  il n'aura  pas un  caractère  sérieux  sur  la compétitivité  et  l'emploi 

dans  la Communauté. 

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