Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) temporarily suspending totally or partially the autonomous duties of the Common Customs Tariff for certain fishery products (1996)
Date: 1995-11-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: CCT duties, fishery product, free-at-frontier price, import, reference price, suspension of customs duties

COMMISSION  OF THE EUROPEAN  COMMUNITIES 

Brussels,  15.11.1995 
COM(95) 554 final 

Proposal  for  a 

COUNCIL  REGULATION  (EC) 

temporarily suspending totally or partially the autonomous duties of the Common Customs Tariflf 
for certain fishery products (1996) 

(presented  by the  Commission) 

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 

1. 

In the third quarter of this year, the Commission, with the assistance of 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  proposals  for 
Regulations  temporarily  suspending  the  autonomous  common  customs  tariff  duties  on 
industrial products are also in preparation. 

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. 

4. 

As stated in Article 1  of the aforementioned proposal for a  Regulation, the proposed period 
of validity is 12 months. 

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Proposal for a 

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 

195 

of 

1995 

temporarily suspending totally or partially the autonomous duties of the 
Common Customs Tariff for certain fishery products (1996) 

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, 

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 

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

Having 
Commission, 

regard 

to 

the  proposal 

from 

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 1996; 

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

Article 1 

1.  From  1  January  to  31  December  1996,  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. 

to 

referred 

the  suspensions 

2. Imports of the products in question shall not be 
in 
covered  by 
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  (*),  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 1996. 

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

Done at 

, 

1995. 

For the Council 

The President 

C1) OJ No 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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CN  code 

TARIC 

Description  of goods 

Autonoaous  duties (X) 

! 

93626529 
93837526 
0x83841698 
6x63640867 

2  0x63026998 
6*03037996 

3  6x83826999 

4  ex83826999 
ex83637996 

5  ex83827686 
6x63827880 

6  ex63831( 

8  ex83642857 
ex63642857 
ex63849847 

9  6x83642685 
6x83649661 

19  ex63652866 
ex6365266e 

11  ex83861999 
ex83862998 

12  exl6G41198 
exl6842818 

13  8x16843098 

14  6x16651868 
exl665109e 

168 
«31 

<36 
138 

•48 

158 
*48 

«11 
«91 

116 

«34 
*44 
(36 

(18 
(18 

(11 
(19 

(16 
(16 

(26 
(28 

(18 

(11 
(19 

Dogfish  of the spocios  Squalus  acanlhias, 
frozen 

fresh,  chiliad or 

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

Luap  fish  (Cyclopterus 
for  processing  (a) 

luapus)  aith  roe,  fresh or chilled, 

Red Snapper 
for processing  (a) (c) 

(.Luljanua  purpureua), 

fresh,  chilled  or frozen, 

Hard  fish  roes,  freBh,  chilled  or frozen 

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

frozen and headless, 

spp.), 

Fillets and aeat  of hake of the genus  Harluccius, 
the species  Harluccius  aerluccius,  Harluccius 
and  HerLuccius 
froren,  for processing  (a) (b) 

bilinearis 
hubbsi,  in the fora of industrial  blocks, 

excluding 

Fillets  and «eat  of Alaska  pollack  (Tharagra 
in the fora of industrial  blocks,  frozen,  for processing  (a) 
(b) 

chalcograaaa), 

Hard  fish  roes,  sailed  or in brine 

Krill  for processing  (a) 

Pacific  salaon  (Oncorhynchus 
industry  for aanufacture  into  pastes or spreads  (a) 

spp.),  for the processing 

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

(Paralithodas 

isanbecki),  'Queen' and 

Crabs of the species  'King* 
cBachalicus),  'Hanasaki'  (.Paralithodas  bravipas), 
'Kegani'  (Eriaacrus 
'Snox'  (Chionoeceies  spp.),  'Red*  (Gar yon 
quinquadens),  'Rough atone*  (Heolilhodas 
Lilhodes  anlarclica, 
'Blue'  (Portunus 
shelled,  ahether  or not frozen,  in ieaediate  packings of a net 
content  of 2kg or «ore 

siaply  boiled  in water and 

'Hud*  (.Scylla 

asparriaus), 

sarrala), 

spp.), 

16 

8.5 

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(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, 
-  pecking, 
-  chilling, 
-  freezing, 
-  deep  freezing, 
-  thaaing,  separation. 
The  suspension  is not  allowed  for  products  intended,  in eddilion,  to  undergo 
treataent  (or  operations) qualifying  for  suspension  «here  such  treataent  (or 
operations)  is  (are) carried  out  at  retail  or  catering  level. The  suspension 
of  custoas  duties  shell apply  only  to  fish  intended  for  huaan  consumption. 

(c) Hoaever,  the suspension  is net  allowed  where  processing  is carried  out  by 

reteil  or  catering  endartakings. 

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FINANCIAL RECORD 

1. 

Budget heading involved : Chap. 12 Art. 120 

2. 

Title of operation  : Proposal  for a Council Regulation,  temporarily  suspending  totally or 
partially the autonomous duties of the Common Customs Tariff for certain fishery products 
(1996). 

3. 

Legal basis :  Art. 28 of the EC Treaty 

4. 

Objective of operation : Suspension of CCT duties on the above-mentioned products 

5. 

Cost of the measure: 

to be borne by the EC budget (in uncollected customs duties - UCD): 

The cost is difficult to estimate in advance, mainly because of the lack of recent Community 
statistics coupled with the arrival of the three new Member States for whom full economic 
data are not available. 

On the basis of : 

latest available Eurostat statistics (1993) 
Member States' declarations on use of suspensions 
the period of validity of the Regulation (1.1.96 / 31.12.96) 
the presence of three new Member States 
the extension of the Regulation in identical form 

the best estimate of UCD for  1996 would be 39 MECU.  This measure, which would apply 
for a year, would account for an equivalent amount. 

Estimated cost of this measure (1.1.96 / 31.12.96V 

39 000 000 ECU 

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