PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 2658/87 ON THE TARIFF AND STATISTICAL NOMENCLATURE AND ON THE COMMON CUSTOMS TARIFF
Date: 1991-06-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: CCT duties, animal oil, tariff nomenclature, vegetable oil

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN  COMMUNITIES 

C0M(91) 196 final 

Brussels,  14 June  1991 

Proposal  for a 

COUNCIL  REGULATION  (EEC) 

amending Regulation  (EEC) No 2658/87 

on  the tariff  and  statistical  nomenclature 

and on  the Common  Customs Tariff 

(presented  by  the  Commission) 

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[Ogy PCHQKANDUH 

In the  framework of the wultilaterial GATT negotiations on the 
introduction of the harmonized  system, customs duties on the 
import  of certain  inedible animal and vegetable  fats and oils 
were increased. This increase  in customs duties is proving 
disadvantageous to the Community's economic operators. 

It is for this reason that, since 1 July  1990, the customs 
duty has been suspended  to a rate of 2%  (0J L 164 of 
29.6.1990). ' 

It appears more appropriate, for better management, to 
introduce this suspended  rate into the Common Customs Tariff 
by a reduction  in the autonomous duty rate. 

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Proposal  for a 

COUNCIL REGULATION  (EEC) 

amending Regulation  (EEC) No 2658/87 

on  the tariff and statistical  nomenclature 

on the Common  Customs Tariff 

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  during  the  GATT  negotiations  on  the  introduction  of  the 

harmonized  system,  customs  duties  on  the  import  of  certain  inedible 

animal  and vegetable  fats and oils were  increased; 

Whereas  this  increase  in customs  duties  is proving  disadvantageous  to 

economic  operators;  whereas  it  is  therefore  expedient  to  apply  the 

customs duties which  applied prior  to the negotiations; 

Whereas  the  balance  of  concessions  and  obligations  under  the  GATT 

should  not, however, be called  into question; 

Whereas  it  is expedient  to amend  the  autonomous  customs  duties  applied 

to  these  products-,  whereas  therefore  Council  Regulation  (EEC) 

No 2668/871,  as  last  amended  by  Regulation  (EEC)  No  ..../..2,  should 

be amended  accordingly. 

1  OJ No L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1 

2  OJ No L 

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Article 1 

1.  The  combined  nomenclature  attached  to  Regulation  (EEC)  No  2658/87 

is hereby  amended  in accordance with  the Annex  hereto. 

2.  The amendments  to combined  nomenclature  subheadings  provided  for  in 

this  Regulation  shall  be applied  as Taric  subdivisions  until  their 

insertion  in  the  combined  nomenclature  under  the  conditions  laid 

down  in Article  12 of Regulation  (EEC) No 2658/87. 

Article 2 

This Regulation  shall  enter  into  force on  the  third  day  following  that 

of  its publication  in the Official  Journal  of  the European  Communities. 

It shall  apply  from  1 July  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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CN code 

Description 

Rate of duty 

autonomous 
(%) or levy 
( AGR) 

conventional 

Supplemen 
tary unit 

1518 00 

Animal or vegetable  fats and oils and  their 
fractions, boiled,  oxidized,  dehydrated, 
sulphurized, blown, polymerized  by heat in 
vacuum or in inert gas or otherwise  chemically 
modified, excluding  those of heading  No 1516; 
inedible mixtures or preparations  of animal 
or vegetable fats or oils or of  fractions of 
different fats or oils of this chapter, not 
elsewhere specified  or included : 

1518 00 10 

- Linoxyn 

20 

12 

Fixed vegetable  oils, fluid, mixed,  for 
technical  or industrial  uses other than 
the manufacture  of foodstuffs  for human 
consumption  (1) : 

1518 00  31 

- - Crude 

1518 00  39 

- - Other 

5 (2) 

8  (2) 

(1) L'ntry under  this subheading  is subject  to conditions  laid down  in the relevant Community 
provisions. 
(2) In certain conditions, the collection  of a compensatory  amount  is provided  for in addition 
to customs duty. 

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CN  code 

Description 

Rate  of  duty 

autonomous 
(%)  or levy 
( AGR) 

conventional 
(%) 

Supplemen 
tary  unit 

1 

2 

3 

4 

5 

-  Other : 

1518  00  xx 

(1) 

-  - Animal  or  vegetable  fats  and  oils  and 
their  fractions, boiled,  oxidized, 
dehydrated,  sulphurized,  blown,  polymerized 
by heat  in vacuum  or  in  inert  gas  or 
otherwise  chemically  modified,  excluding 
those  of  heading  No  1516 

1518  00  xx 

(2) 

-  - ether 

15 

2 

12 

12 

(1) Taric codes for 1991: 1518 00 90 * 20 

(2) Taric codes for 1991: 1518 00 90 * 90 

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