Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 3915/92 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas bound in GATT for certain agricultural and industrial products
Date: 1993-09-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: GATT, industrial product, newspaper, paper, tariff quota

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN  COMMUNITIES 

C0M(93) 452 final 

Brussels, 30 September  1993 

.ViUHKieiaiffi: 

Proposal  for a 

COUNCIL  REGULATION  (EEC) 

amending Regulation  (EEC) No 3915/92 opening  and  providing  for 
the administration of  Community  tariff  quotas bound  in GATT 
for  certain  agricultural  and  industrial  products. 

(presented  by  the  Commission) 

EXPLANATORY pfynpANn^ 

2: 

1. 

Under  its external  relations policy, the Community  reached an 

agreement providing for the annual opening for a duty-free Community 

tariff quota for newsprint.  The volume of this quota, amounting to 

650 000 tonnes, is divided  into two parts:  the first. 600 000 

tonnes, to products coming from Canada, and the second, 50 000 

tonnes, to products coming from other non-member countries. 

The agreement provides also for the necessity of  increasing by 5% 

that part of the auota reserved for  imports from Canada, if it is 

used up before the end of a given period of one year. 

2. 

From the economic data at present available, it is believed  that the 

volume of 600 000 tonnes might not satisfy Community needs for 

products of this type  in 1993. as about 559 000 tonnes of the tariff 

quota had already been used, as of 25 August. 

The purpose of the attached proposal  is therefore to  increase the 

quota  in accordance with the Community's undertaking. 

Proposal  for a 

C O U N C IL  R E G U L A T I ON  (EEC)  No 

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amending  Regulation  (EEC) No  3915/92 opening  and  providing  for  the 

administration  of  Community  tariff  quotas  bound  in GATT  for  certain 
agricultural  and  industrial  products. 

THE  COUNCIL  OF  THE  EUROPEAN  COMMUNITIES. 

Having  regard  to  the  Treaty  establishing 
Economic  C o m m u n i t y,  a nd 
thereof. 

the  European 
in  particular  Article  113 

Having  regard  to  the  proposal  from 

the  Commission, 

Whereas,  for  newsprint,  the  C o m m u n i ty  has  reached  an 
agreement  which  provides  in  particular  for  the  opening  of 
a  C o m m u n i ty 
tariff  quota  of  650  000  tonnes,  of  which 
600  000  tonnes  are  reserved,  until  30  November  of  each 
year,  exclusively  for  products  from  Canada,  in  accordance 
with  Article  XIII  of  the  General  Agreement  on  Tariffs 
and  Trade  ;  whereas  this  agreement  provides  equally  for 
the  obligation  to  increase,  by  5  %,  that  p an  of  the  quota 
reserved  for  imports  from  Canada,  in  the  event  that  that 
part  is  used  up  before  the  e nd  of  a  given  period  of  one 
year  ; whereas  the  q u ou  of  650  0 00  tonnes  was  opened  for 
1993»  by  Council  Regulation  (EEC)  N o 3 9 i 5 / 9 2 jK)  ; 

Whereas  the  e c o n o m ic  data  at  present  available  give  rise 
to  the  belief  that  the  r e q u i r e m e n ts  for  importing  news 

the 
print  from  Canada  could  reach  a  level  higher  than 
said  volume  of  600  000  t o n n e s,  whereas  the  volume  of 
that  part  of  q u ou  reserved  for  these  imports  should  be 
increased,  therefore,  by  30  000 

t o n n e s. 

HAS  ADOPTED  THIS  REGULATION 

Article 

I 

For  order  No 09.0015.  the table  in Article  1 
(1) of Council  Regulation  (EEC)  No  3915/92 
is  hereby  replaced  by the following  table: 

Older 
number 

CN  code 
M 

Description 

09.0015 

4801  00  10 

Newsprint  (') : 
—  from  Canada 

Quou 
period 

Quota 
volume 

Rate  of 
duty 
(V.) 

From  1  January 
to  31  December 
1993 

330  000  tonnes 

0 

Article 

2 

This  Regulation  shall  enter  into  force  on  the  seventh  day 
following  its  publication 
Communities. 
European 

in  the  Official 

Journal 

of 

the 

T h is  Regulation  shall  be  b i n d i ng  in  its  entirety  and  directly  applicable 
S û t e s. 

in  all  M e m b er 

D o ne  at  Brussels, 

For 

the  Council 

The 

President 

( 1) 

OJ  No  L  395  of  3 1 . 1 2 . 1 9 9 2.  p.  15 

FINANCIAL  RECORD 

Budget  Iine concerned  : Chap.  12 Art.  120 

Legal  basis  : Art.  113 of  the  Treaty 

Title of  the  tariff  measure  concerned  : Proposal  for  a Council 

Regulation  (EEC) amending  Regulation  (EEC) No  3915/92 opening  and 

providing  for  the administration  of  Community  tariff  quotas  bound  in 

GATT  for  certain  agricultural  and  industrial  products. 

Object ive  : To  fulfil  GATT-commitments  and  to ensure  that  Community 

needs  for  newsprint  are met. 

Method  of  calculation : 

CCT  heading: 

Volume of  the  quota: 

Duty  to be applied: 

Normal  CCT  duty: 

4801  00  10 and  4801  00 90 

30 000 T 

0  % 

4,9  and  9 % 

Duty-loss 

Average  price per  tonne 

759 ECU 

Value of  30 000  tonnes 

22 770 000 ECU 

Imports under  4801  00  10  (±5  %) 

1  138 500 ECU 

Imports under  4801  00 90  (+ 95  %) 

21 631  500 ECU 

Duty-loss : 

4801  00  10  :  1 138 500 ECU  X 4,9  % 

55 786 ECU 

4801  00 90  : 21  631  500 ECU  X 9 

% 

1 946 835 ECU 

2 002 621  ECU 

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