Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) temporarily suspending totally or partially the autonomous duties of the Common Customs Tariff for certain fishery products (1995)
Date: 1994-11-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: CCT duties, aquaculture, common customs tariff, fish product, suspension of customs duties

COMMISSION  OP  THE  EUROPEAN  COMVttJNITIES 

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C0M(94) 505 final 

Brussels,  18.11.1994 

Proposal  for a 

COUNCIL  REGULATION (EC) 

temporarily suspending totally or partially the autonomous duties of the Common Customs 
Tariff for certain fishery products (1995) 

(presented  by the Commission) 

EXPLANATORY  MEMORANDUM 

d 

In the third quarter of this year, the Commission, with the assistance ~5f 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. 

The  attached  proposal  concerns  a  number  of  fishery  products.  The  proposal  for 

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. 

As stated in Article  1 of the aforementioned  proposal for  a  Regulation,  the proposed 

period of validity is 12 months. 

Proposal for a 

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 

194 

of 

1994 

? 

temporarily suspending totally or partially the autonomous duties of the 
Common Customs Tariff for certain fishery products (1995) _ 

THE  COUNCIL  OF  THE  EUROPEAN 
UNION, 

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 

Article 1 

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

Having  regard  to  the  proposal  from 
Commission, 

the 

Whereas  Community  supplies  for  certain 
fishery products  currently  depend  on  imports 
from  third  countries;  whereas  it  is  in  the 
Community's  interest  to  suspend  totally  or 
partially the customs duties for the products in 
question;  whereas,  in  order  not  to  jeopardize 
the  development  prospects  of  production  of 
competitive products  in the Community and to 
ensure  an  adequate  supply  to  satisfy  user 
industries, it is advisable to limit these suspen 
sion  measures  to  a  period  1  January  to  31 
December 1995; 

Whereas  the  decision  for  the  suspension  of 
these autonomous duties should be taken by the 
Community, 

1.  From  1 January to 31 December  1995, the 
autonomous  duties  of  the  Common  Customs 
Tariff  applicable  to  the  products  listed  in  the 
Annex shall be suspended at the level indicated 
in respect of each of them. 

2. Imports of the products in question shall not 
be  covered  by  the  suspensions  referred  to  in 
paragraph  1  unless  the  free-at-frontier  price, 
which  is  determined  by the  Member  States  in 
accordance  with  Article  22  of  Council 
Regulation (EEC) No 3759/92 of  17 December 
1992  on  the  common  organization  of  the 
market in fishery and aquaculture products  (l), 
is at least equal to the reference  price fixed, or 
to be fixed, by the Community for the products 
under  consideration  or  the  categories  of  the 
products concerned. 

Article 2 

This  Regulation  shall  enter  into  force  on  1 
January 1995. 

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

Done at 

, 

1994. 

For the Council 

The President 

C1) OJNo L 388, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1891/93 (OJ No L 172,15. 7. 

1993, p. 1). 

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ANNEX 

CN  code 

TASIC 

Description of goods 

Autonomous duties (X)  ? 

1 

63826526 
63637520 
6x63641698 
8x6364969? 

2  ex8362699? 
ex83837997 

3  ex8362699? 

4  ex63826997 
6x63637997 

5  6x63627886 
6x63627686 
6x63638666 
6x63638666 

6  6x63631666 

7  GxG3Q38G99 
ex83638888 

9  ex63842685 
6x63649661 

•66 
• 31 

«36 
«36 

(48 

(58 
(48 

(11 
(91 
(21 
(29 

(16 

Ml 
(19 

(18 
(18 

Dogfish of the species  Squalus  acanlhias, 
frozen 

fresh, chilled or 

Sturgeons, fresh, chilled or frozen, for processing  (a) (b) 

Luap  fish  (.Cycloplerus 
for processing  (a) 

tuapus)  «ith roe, fresh or chilled, 

Bed Snapper  (Luijanus  purpureas), 
for processing  (a)  (c) 

fresh, chilled or frozen, 

Hard  fish roes, fresh, chilled or frozen 

Pacific salaon  (Oncorhynchus  spp.),  frozen and headless, 
for the processing  industry for aanufaclure  into pastes or 
spreads  (a) 

Soft  roe, frozen, for the aanufacture of deoxyribonucleic  acid 
or prolaaine sulphate  (a) 

Fillets and aeat of Alaska pollack  (Theraqra 
in the fora of industrial blocks,  frozen, for processing  (a) 
(b) 

chalcograaaa), 

16 

18  ex638S269e 

(18 

Hard  fish  roes, salted or in brine 

11  6x63861996 
ex63862998 

12  exl6041188 
GK160.42610 

13  6x16043699 

14  exl69S1969 
exl6951899 

(16 
(16 

(26 
(26 

(18 

(11 
(19 

Krill for processing  (a) 

Pacific  salaon  (Oncorhynchus  spp.),  for the processing 
industry for aanufacture  into pastes or spreads  (a) 

Hard  fish roes, «ashed, cleaned of adherent  organs and siaply 
salted or in brine, for processing  (a) 

brevipes), 

(Paralithodes 

'Hanasaki'  (Paratithodes 
isenbecki), 

Crabs of the species  'Xing' 
caachaticus), 
'Kegani'  (Eriaacrus 
'Snow'  (Chi'onoecetes  spp.), 
quinquedans), 
Lithodes  anlarclica, 
'Blue*  (Portunus  spp.),  siaply  boiled  in water and 
shelled,  whether or not frozen,  in iaaediale  packings of a net 
content of 2kg or aore 

'Rough stone'  (Neoii  thodes 
'Hud'  (Scytta 

'Queen' and 
(Geryon 

asperriaus), 

serrala), 

'Red' 

15  exl68S3686 

(16 

Lobster  flesh, cooked, for the processing  industry for  the 
aanufacture of butters based on lobster, or of pastes, pâtés, 
soups or sauces  (a) (c) 

J^ 

(a) Control  of  the use  for  this special purpose  shall be carried  out  pursuant  to 

the  relevant  Coaaunity  provisions. 

(b) The  suspension  shall  apply  to  fish  intended  to undergo  any  operation  unless 

they  are  intended  to undergo  exclusively  one  or  aore  of  the  following 
operations: 
-  cleaning,  gutting,  tailing,  heading, 
-  cutting  (excluding  filleting  or  cutting  of  frozen  blocks), 
-  saapling,  sorting, 
-  labelling, 
-  packing, 
-  chilling, 
-  freezing, 
- deep  freezing, 
-  thawing,  séparation. 
The  suspension  is not  allowed  for  products  intended,  in addition,  to  undergo 
treataent  (or  operations) qualifying  for  suspension  where  such  treataant  (or 
operations)  is (are) carried  out  at  retail  or  catering  level. The  suspension 
of  cusloas  duties  shall  apply  only  to fish  intended  for  huaan  consumption. 
(c) However,  the suspension  is not- allowed  where  processing  is carried  out  by 

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retail  or  catering  undertakings. 

FINANCIAL RECORD 

1. 

Budget line concerned : Chap. 12 Art. 120 

2. 

Title of the tariff measure concerned : Proposal for a Council Regulation, temporarily 
suspending  totally or partially the autonomous duties of the Common Customs Tariff 
for certain fishery products (1995). 

3. 

Legal basis : Art. 28 of the EC-Treaty 

4. 

Objective : suspension of CCT duties on the abovementioned products 

5. 

Cost of this tariff-measure  : 

-

To be borne by the EC-budget : 

for the same exercise in 1994, the loss of own resources was expected to be of 
the order of 35 300 000 ECU. 

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 37 000 000 ECU. 

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