Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) on the suspension of the import levy on sheepmeat and goatmeat sector products
Date: 1994-12-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: goatmeat, import levy, import licence, market supervision, sheepmeat, third country

COMMISSION  OF  THE  EUROPEAN  COMMUNITIES 

COM(94) 586 final 
Brussels, 08.12.1994 

94/0290  (ACC) 

Proposal  for a 

COUNCIL  REGULATION  (EC) 

on the suspension of the import levy on sheepmeat and 
goatmeat sector products 

(presented by  the Commission) 

Explanatory memorandum 

In the  sheepmeat  and goatmeat  sector, voluntary  restraint  agreements  exist 
with Romania  and  Iceland  and equivalent unilateral  arrangements  exist  with 
those  countries  with  which  no  voluntary  restraint  agreement  (regulation 
(EEC)  No  3643/85)  has  been  concluded.  Regulation  (EEC)  No  3842/92 
suspended  collection  of  the  levy  on  imports  originating  in  the  above-
mentioned countries until  31 December 1994. 

A  voluntary  restraint  agreement  was  concluded  with  the  Socialist  Federal 
Republic  of  Yugoslavia  in  1981, but  certain  details  of  the  management  of 
the import arrangements laid down were suspended and replaced by Regulation 
(EEC) No  3125/92  which  establishes  the  arrangements  applicable  to Bosnia-
Herzegovina,  Croatia,  Slovenia, Montenegro, Serbia  and  the  former  Yugoslav 
Republic of Macedonia. 

Pending the implementation for this sector of the access commitments  in the 
GATT  Uruguay  Round  Agreement  on  1.7.95  it  is  necessary  to  provide  for 
interim access arrangements  for sheepmeat and goatmeat. 

Negotiations  with  Argentina,  Australia,  Bulgaria,  Hungary,  the  Czech 
Republic, New  Zealand,  Poland, the Slovak Republic  and Uruguay have  led to 
the  extension  of  the  adjustments  to  the  voluntary  restraint  agreements 
until  3 0 June  1995  and  consequently  the  collection  of  the  levy  applicable 
to those countries is suspended until that date. 

This  draft  Regulation  extends  that  suspension,  subject  to  certain 
quantitative  limits, to the other supplier countries. 

Financial  impact  : 

This measure has no financial  impact on the Community 
budget 

Proposal  for  a 
COUNCIL  REGULATION  (EC) No  ..../.. 

of  . . . 

on  the  suspension  of  the  import  levy  on  sheepmeat  and 
goatmeat  sector  products 

THE  COUNCIL  OF  THE  EUROPEAN  UNION, 

Having  regard  to  the  Treaty  establishing  the  European  Community,  and  in 
particular  Article  228(2)  and  the  first  subparagraph  of  228(3),  in 
conjunction  with Article  113; 

Having  regard  to  the  proposal  from  the  Commission; 

Whereas  the  Community  has  voluntary  restraint  agreements  with  Romania  and 
Iceland  and  equivalent  unilateral  arrangements  established  by  Council 
Regulation  (EEC)  No  3643/85  of  19  December  1985  concerning  the  import 
arrangements  applicable  to  certain  third  countries  in  the  sheepmeat  and 
goatmeat  sector  as  from  1986^1'; 

Whereas,  pursuant  to  Council  Regulation  (EEC)  No  3609/93  of  17  December 
199g  suspending  the  import  levy  on  products  of  the  sheepmeat  and  goatmeat 
sector'2'the  levy  on  the  import  of  live  sheep  and  goats  and  sheepmeat  and 
goatmeat  from  the  abovementioned  countries  in particular  has  been  suspended 
until  31 December  1994; 

Whereas  a  voluntary  restraint  agreement  was  concluded  with  the  Socialist 
Federal  Republic  of  Yugoslavia  in  1981; whereas, while  the  substance  of  the 
Agreement  remained  unchanged,  certain  details  of  the  management  of  the 
import  arrangements  laid  down  were  suspended  and  replaced  by  Council 
Regulation  (EEC)  No  3125/92  of  26  October  1992  on  the  arrangements 
applicable  to  the  importation  into  the  Community  of  sheepmeat  and  goatmeat 
products  originating  in  Bosnia-Herzegovina,  Croatia,  Slovenia,  Montenegro, 
Serbia  and  the  former  Yugoslav  Republic  of  Macedonia^3'; 

Whereas  it  is  necessary  to  provide  for  interim  arrangements  for  trade  in 
the  sheepmeat  and  goatmeat  sectors  pending  the  implementation  for  this 
sector  of  the  access  in  the  Uruguay  Round  of  the  General  Agreement  on 
Tariffs  and  Trade  on  1.7.1995; 

Whereas  negotiations  with  Argentina,  Australia,  Bulgaria,  the  Czech 
Republic,  Hungary,  New  Zealand,  Poland,  the  Slovak  Republic  and  Uruguay 
have  led  to  the  extension  of  the  adjustments  to  the  voluntary  restraint 
agreements  until  30  June  1995  and  consequently  the  collection  of  the  levy 
applicable  to  those  countries  is  suspended  until  that  date; 

(1) 

(2) 
(3) 

OJ  L  348,  24.12.198 5,  p.  2  Regulation  as  last  amended  by  regulation 
(EEC) No  3890/92  (OJ L391,  31.12.1992, p. 5 1 ). 
OJ  L  328,  29.12.1993,  p.4. 
OJ  L  313,  30.10.1992, p.  3 

Whereas  it  seems  appropriate  to  extend  the  above  suspension,  subject  to 
certain quantitative  limits, to all supplier countries; 

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 

Article 1 

Notwithstanding  the voluntary  restraint  agreements  concluded  with  Iceland, 
the  Socialist 
Federal  Republic  of  Yugoslavia  and  Romania  and 
notwithstanding  Regulation  (EEC) No  3643/85, the collection of  the  levy on 
imports  of  sheepmeat  and  goatmeat  sector  products  falling  within  CN  codes 
0204,  0104  1030, 0104  1080 and  0104 2090 from Bosnia-Herzegovina,  Croatia, 
Iceland,  the  former  Yugoslav  Republic  of  Macedonia,  Romania,  Slovenia  and 
the  countries  referred  to  in the  said Regulation  shall  be  suspended  until 
30 June 1995. 

For  the  countries  referred  to  in  the  abovementioned  agreements,  the 
quantity  for the first six months of 1995 will be  50% of the  figure agreed 
for the whole of the year 1995, but it may be exceeded by up to 20%, which 
will be taken into account during the subsequent period. 

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 from 1 January 1995. 

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

Done at Brussels,  ... December 1994. 

For the Council 

The President 

J> 

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