Proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) amending Regulation (EC) No 2505/96 opening and providing for the administration of autonomous Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural and industrial products
Date: 1998-05-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural product, industrial product, tariff quota

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COMMISSION  OF THE EUROPEAN  COMMUNITIES 

Brussels,  15.05.1998 
COM(1998) 318  final 

Proposal  for a 

COUNCIL  REGULATION  (EC) 

amending Regulation  (EC) No 2505/96 opening and providing for the 
administration  of autonomous  Community  tariff  quotas for certain agricultural  and 
industrial  products 

(presented by the  Commission) 

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 

1.  In  response 

to  requests  from  several  Member  States, 

the  Commission's 
departments,  together  with the government  experts concerned,  considered  whether 
to  open,  increase  and  extend  autonomous  tariff  quotas  for  certain  industrial 
products. 

2.  Following the discussion,  at a meeting of the Economic Tariff  Questions  Group, it 
was  concluded  that  the  Member  States  could  approve  new  quotas,  increases  or 
extensions  to  quotas  for  the  products  covered  by  the  proposal  for  a  Regulation, 
without disturbing the markets for such products. 

Hence the attached proposal for  a Regulation. 

A 

Proposal for a 

COUNCIL REGULATION  (EC) No 

/98 

amending Regulation  (EC) No 2505/96 opening and providing for the 
administration  of autonomous  Community  tariff quotas for certain  agricultural  and 
industrial  products 

THE COUNCIL  OF THE EUROPEAN  UNION, 

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

Having regard to the proposal from  the  Commission, 

Whereas,  by  virtue  of  Regulation  (EC)  No 2505/96l,  the  Council  opened  Community 
tariff  quotas for  certain agricultural  and industrial products; whereas Community  demand 
for  the  products  in  question  should  be  met  under  the  most  favourable  conditions; 
whereas  Community  tariff  quotas  should  therefore  be  opened  at reduced  or zero  rates  of 
duty  for  appropriate  volumes,  and  increased  or  extended  in  the  case  of  certain  existing 
tariff  quotas, avoiding any disturbance to the markets for these products; 

Whereas.Regulation (EC) No 2505/96 should therefore  be amended, 

OJ  L 345, 31.12.1996,  p.  1. Regulation  as  last  amended  by  Regulation  (EC) "No 2631/97  (OJ  L 356, 
31.12.1997, p. 1). 

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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 

Article 1 

1.  For the quota period  from  1 January to 30 June  1998, Annex  I to Regulation  (EC) No 

2505/96 is hereby amended as follows: 

- order  number  09.2935:  the  amount  of  the  tariff  quota  shall  be  altered  to  70,000 

tonnes, 

- order  number  09.2967: the  amount  of  the  tariff  quota  shall  be  altered  to  3,000,000 

units. 

2.  For  the  quota  period  from  1 January  to  31  December  1998,  Annex  I  to  Regulation 

(EC) No 2505/96 is hereby amended as follows: 

- order number 09.2947: the amount of the tariff  quota shall be altered to  1,300  tonnes, 
- order  number  09.2959:  the  amount  of  the  tariff  quota  shall  be  altered  to  45,000 

tonnes, 

- order number 09.2963: the amount of the tariff  quota shall be altered to  500,000,000 

units. 

Article 2 

The  quota  period  for  tariff  quota  with  order  number  09.2965  in  Annex  I  to  Regulation 
(EC) No 2505/96 is amended in  1.1.-31.12.1998. 

Article 3 

The  tariff  quotas  shown  in  the  Annex  to  this  Regulation  shall  be  added  to  Annex  I  to 
Regulation (EC) No 2505/96. 

Article 4 

This  Regulation  shall  enter  into  force  on  the  seventh  day  following  that  of  its 
publication  in the  Official Journal  of the European  Communities. 

Articles  1 and 2 shall  apply  with effect  from  1 January  1998, Article  3 with effect  from 
1 July  1998. 

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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ANNEX 

Order 
No 
09.2967 

CN code 

TARIC code 

Description 

ex 8518 29 20 
ex 8518 29 80 

20 
30 

Loudspeaker,  having  a  diameter  of  less 
than  23  mm,  for  use  in  the  manufacture 
of  products 
falling  within  subheading 
8525 20 91 (a) 

Amount of 
quota 
3,000,000 
units 

Quota duty 
(%) 
0 

Quota period 

1.7.-31.12.1998 

0 

0 

1.7.-31.12.1998 

1.7.-31.12.1998 

09.2968 

ex 2825 30 00 

20 

Vanadium  oxides  and  hydroxides,  in  the 
form of powder,  only for the  production  of 
alloys(a) 

300 tonnes 

09.2969 

ex 3920 62 19 
ex 3920 91 00 

80 
10 

52,500 m2 

of 

polyethylene 

terephthalate 
Film 
metallised  on  one  or  both  sides,  or 
laminate  of  such  films  metallised  on  the 
outer  surfaces,  and  having  the  following 
caracteristics: 
-  a  visible  light  transmission  of  not  less 
than  50%, 
-  not  coated  with  an  adhesive  or  any 
other non-plastic material, 
-  whether  or  not  covered  on  both  sides 
with a layer of polyvinyl butyral, 
-  a total  thickness  not  exceeding  0,2  mm 
without  taking  into  account  any  presence 
of layers of polyvinyl butyral, 
for  use 
reflecting laminated glass(a) 

in  the  manufacture  of  heat-

09.2970 

2933 61 00 

09.2971 

ex 3818 00 10 

-

45 

09.2972 

ex 5603 92 90 

50 

5,000 tonnes 

15,000 units 

0 

0 

1.7.-31.12.1998 

1.7.-31.12.1998 

7,600,000 
m2 

0 

1.7.-31.12.1998 

Melamine 

Doped silicon wafers having  a diameter  of 
300  mm  (±0,25  mm),  for  use 
in  the 
falling  within 
manufacture  of  products 
heading No 8542 (a) 

Nonwoven  of  staple 
fibers  having  a 
tensile  strength  (in the  machine  direction) 
of 3,8 kg/5 cm or more, in rolls with : 
-a  width  of  78  mm  or  more  but  not 
exceeding  252 mm 
and 
-a length of 980 m or more, 
for  use  in the manufacture  of floppy  discs 
(a) 

09.2973 

ex 8540 91 00 

95 

Flat  mask,  consisting  of  circular  holes, 
with  a  diagonal  measurement  of  39  cm 
(±0,5 cm) 

250,000 
units 

0 

1.7.-31.12.1998 

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

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FINANCIAL STATEMENT 

1. 

Budget heading concerned: Chapter  12, Article 120 

2. 

3. 

4. 

Legal basis: Article 28 of the Treaty 

Title  of  tariff  measure:  Proposal  for  a  Council  Regulation  (EC)  amending 
Regulation  (EC)  No  2505/96  opening  and  providing  for  the  administration  of 
autonomous  Community  tariff  quotas  for  certain  agricultural  and  industrial 
products. 

Objective:  To  ensure  that  the  Community  processing  industry  is  supplied  on 
favourable terms. 

5. 

Method of calculation: 

Note:  this  table  lists  only  products  to  the  Regulation  which  have  a  financial 
incidence. 

Product 
description 

Variation in quota 
volume 
(Units/tonnes/m2) 

Variation in 
estimated 
price 
(ECU/Unit) 

Variation in 
normal duty (%) 
(CCT1998) 

Variation 
in quota 
duty 
(%) 

Expected  variation 
in the loss of 
revenue in relation 
to the  previous 
quota  period (in 
ECU) 

Gum  rosin 
09.2935 

Polyfluoride 
09.2947 

+ 20,000 t 
(initial  volume; 
50,000 t) 

0 
(initial price: 
32.5) 

0 
(initial duty: 5) 

+  400t 
(initial volume: 
900 t) 

0 
(initial price: 
9,000) 

0 
(initial duty:  10.1) 

Saturating  kraft 
09.2959 

+  15,000 u 
(initial volume: 
30,000 u) 

0 
(initial price: 
515) 

0 
(initial duty: 4.6) 

Resistor 
09.2963 

+ 200,000,000 u 
(initial volume: 
300,000,000  u) 

0 
(initial price: 
0.0039) 

0 
(initial duty:  1.9) 

Loudspeaker I 
09.2967 

+  1,000,000 u 
(initial volume: 
2,000,000 u) 

0 
(initial price: 
10) 

0 
(initial duty: 2.7) 

Loudspeaker II 
09.2967 

Vanadium 
09.2968 

+ 3,000,000 u 

10 

+  300t 

10,000 

2.7 

5.5 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

32,500 

363,600 

355,350 

14,820 

270,000 

810,000 

165,000 

'5" 

PET 
09.2969 

Melamine 
09.2970 

Doped  silicon 
09.2971 

Nonwoven 
09.2972 

Mask 
09.2973 

+ 52,500 m^ 

28.67 

10.4 

+ 5,0001 

1,373 

+  15,000 u 

1,085 

+ 7,600,000  m^ 

0.223 

+ 250,000 u 

14.55 

6.8 

3.5 

4.9 

3.3 

156,538 

466,820 

569,625 

83,045 

120,037 

Total loss of revenue in relation to the previous quota period: 

+  3,407,335 ECU . 

Anti-fraud  measures:  Provisions  on  the  management  of  tariff  quotas  include  the 
measures needed to prevent and protect against frauds and irregularities. 

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