Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 2505/96 opening and providing for the administration of autonomous Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural and industrial products
Date: 1999-10-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural product, chemical product, industrial product, tariff quota

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 21.10.1999
COM(1999) 495 final

Proposal for a

COUNCIL REGULATION

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 open,
increase and extend 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 the new quota 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

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,

Whereas:

(1)

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, avoiding any disturbance to the markets for these
products.

(2)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For the quota period from 15 October to 31 December 1999, Annex I to Regulation (EC) No
2505/96 is hereby amended as follows. The tariff quota shown in the Annex to this Regulation
shall be added to Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 2505/96.

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

Article 2

1

OJ L 345, 31.12.1996, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1969/99 (OJ L 244,
16.9.1999, p. 38).

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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

09.2989

CN code

TARIC code

Description

ex 1511 10 10
ex 1511 90 19
ex 1511 90 91
ex 1513 11 10
ex 1513 19 30
ex 1513 21 11
ex 1513 29 30

10
10
10
10
10
10
10

Palm oil, coconut (copra) oil or palm
kernel oil for the manufacture of:
- industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids of
subheading 3823 19 10,
- mixtures of methyl esters of fatty acids
of subheading 3824 90 95,
- methyl esters of fatty acids of heading
2915 or 2916
or
– stearic acid of subheading 3823 11 00

Amount of
quota

Quota duty
(%)

Quota period

64.000 t

0

15.10.1999 -
31.12.1999

(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.

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(S) 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)

Product
description

Quota volume
(Tonnes)

Estimated
price
€
/Tonne)

(

Normal duty (%)

(CCT 1999)

Quota
duty
(%)

Loss of revenue
(in

€
)

Oils

09.2989

+ 64.,000 t

price: 558

9

0

3,214,080

(initial volume:

0 t)

(average duty)

Total loss of revenue: + 3,214,080

€

.

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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