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: 1999-05-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural product, chemical product, industrial product, tariff quota

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 28.05.1999
COM(1999) 264 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.

2.

In response to requests from several Member States, the Commission’s
departments, together with the government experts concerned, considered
whether to increase autonomous tariff quotas for certain industrial products.

Following the discussion, at a meeting of the Economic Tariff Questions
Group, it was concluded that the Member States could approve increases 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.

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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

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular
Article 26 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

(1) Whereas, by virtue of Regulation (EC) No 2505/961, 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;

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

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OJ L 345, 31.12.1996, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2780/98
(OJ L 347, 23.12.1998, p. 5).

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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For the quota period from 1 January to 31 December 1999, Annex I to Regulation
(EC) No 2505/96 is hereby amended as follows:

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order number 09.2887: the amount of the tariff quota shall be altered to
400 tonnes,

order number 09.2942: the amount of the tariff quota shall be altered to
3,000 tonnes,

order number 09.2966: the amount of the tariff quota shall be altered to
12,000 tonnes.

Article 2

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

This Regulation shall apply with effect from 1 January 1999.

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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FINANCIAL STATEMENT

1.

TITLE OF OPERATION

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.

2.

BUDGET HEADING INVOLVED

Chapter 12, Article 120

3.

LEGAL BASIS

Article 26 of the Treaty

4.

4.1

5.

5.1

DESCRIPTION OF OPERATION

General objective

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

FINANCIAL IMPACT

Method of calculating total cost of operation (relation between
individual and total costs)

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 (

/Unit)

Variation in
normal duty (%)

(CCT 1999)

Variation
in quota
duty
(%)

2,2,2-
Trifluoroethanol
09.2887

+ 50 t
(initial volume:
350 t)

Dodecanadioic
acid
09.2942

Disodium
disillicate
09.2966

+1,800 t
(initial volume:
1,200 t)

+ 4,000 t
(initial volume:
8,000 t)

0
(initial price:
646)

0
(initial price:
3,800)

0
(initial price:
650)

0
(initial duty: 5)

0
(initial duty: 6,3)

0
(initial duty: 5)

0

0

0

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

1,615

430,920

130,000

Total loss of revenue in relation to the previous quota period: + 562,535

€

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6.

FRAUD PREVENTION MEASURES

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

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