CELEX: 51987PC0598
Language: en
Date: 1987-11-30
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for weet, clear-fleshed cherries, marinated in alcohol, falling within code ex 20.08.60-39 of the Combined Nomenclature and intended for the manufacture of chocolate products (1988) (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                    COM(87 ) 598 final
                                                    Brussels , 30 November 1987
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                                 Proposal for a
                            COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
  opening , allocating and providing for the administration of a Community
   tariff quota for sweet , clear–fleshed cherries , marinated in alcohol ,
    falling within code ex 20.08.60-39 of the Combined Nomenclature and
          intended for the manufacture of chocolate products ( 1988 )
                 ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
C0M(87 ) 598 final
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1.      Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 3809/86 of 11 December 1986 opened for
         1987 a unilateral Coranunity tariff quota of 3 000 tonnes at a duty
        of 10 % for cherries marinated in alcohol and intended for the
        manufacture of chocolate products ( 1 ) .
2.      The opening of a new quota for 1988 vjas discussed at a meeting of
        the Economic Thriff Problems Group on 7 and 8 May . A quota on the
         same terms would be accpetable to all the Member States .
3.       Since the Member States' requirements under this Carmunity tariff
        quota cannot be forecast accurately, it is proposed that there
        would be no allocation by country . The Member States would draw
        on the quota for the quantities needed to cover their actual
        requirements .
        That is the purpose of this draft Regulation .
( 1 ) OJNo L 355 , 16.12.1986 , p. 1
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                                                   l t~C>ï        Or
                                         COUNCIL REGULATION      (EEC) No
                                                     of
                   opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff
                   quota for sweet, clear-fleshed cherries, marinated in alcohol, falling within
                     code ex 20.08.60-39 of the Combined Nomenclature and intended
                                    for the manufacture of chocolate products     ( 1983 )
  THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
  Economic Community, and in particular Article 28
  thereof,
 Having regard to the
ρνσρι         frorn the Commission ,
  Whereas Community production of sweet, clear-fleshed
  cherries marinated in alcohol and intended for the manu­
  facture of confectionery (in particular chocolate products)
  is currently insufficient to meet the requirements of the
  user industries in the Community ; whereas the Commu¬
  nity depends to a considerable extent on imports from
  third countries for its supplies of products of this type ;
  whereas it is in the Community’s interest to suspend
 partially the customs duty                            for the
  products in question, within a Community tariff quota of
  an appropriate volume ; whereas, in order not to interfere
  with the prospects for developing production in the
  Community and at the same time ensure an adeauate
  supply to satisfy user industries, it is advisable that
 the tariff quota snould cover only
 products which meet certain criteria
 relating            use , to open the quota for
 the period 1 January to 31 December 1988 ,
 and to set the volume at 3 QOO tonnes ,
 this being the quantity it is necessary
 to import from third countries during
 that period , and to set the quota
 duty at 10 % ;
Whereas the Community has adopted , with effect from 1 January 1988 , a
Combined Nomenclature for goods which meets the requirements of the Common
Customs Tariff and the Nomenclature of Goods for the External Trade
Statistics of the Community and Statistics of Trade between Member States ;
whereas , in order to accommodate specific Community measures , this
Nomenclature has been expanded into an integrated tariff of the European
Communities ( TARIC ) ; whereas , with effect from the date given above ,
the Combined Nomenclature and , where appropriate , the TARIC code
numbers , should be used for the description of the products covered by
this Regulation .
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                Whereas it is in particular necessary to allow all Commu¬
                nity importers equal and uninterrupted access to the
                quota and to ensure uninterrupted application of the rates
                laid down for the quota to all imports of the products
                concerned into all Member States until the quota has
               been used up ; whereas, in the present case, it seems advi¬
               sable not to allocate this quota among the Member States
               but to allow them to draw against the quota volume such
               quantities as they may need, under the conditions and
               according to the procedure specified in Article 1 (2) ;
               whereas this method of administration requires close
               cooperation between the Member States and the Commis¬
               sion and the latter must, in particular, be able to monitor
              the rate at which the quota is being used up and inform
              the Member States accordingly ;
              Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of
              the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
              are united within, and jointly represented by, the Benelux
              Economic Union, all transactions concerning the admi¬
              nistration of shares allocated to that economic union may
              be carried out by any of its members,
              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                          Article 1
        From 1 January to 31 December 1988 the customs duties applicable to imports
        of the products specified below shall be suspended at the level indicated
        and within the limits of a Community tariff quota as follows :
Order   Combined Nomenclature                    Description                      Volume of        Rate of
No      code                                                                      quota ( tonnes ) duty ( % )
09.2713 ex 20.08.60-39                           Sweet , clear-fleshed cherries ,
                                                 marinated in alcohol , of a
                                                 diameter not exceeding 18.9 mm
                                                 stoned , intended for the
                                                 manufacture of chocolate
                                                                                     3 000             10
                                                 products ( 1 )
           (') Checks on their prescribed end-use shall be carried out pur¬
               suant to the relevant Community provisions .
         Within the limits of t h i S tariff quota ,
         Spain and Portugal shall apply customs duties calculated
         in accordance with the relevant provisions in the 1985
         Act of Accession.
          2.      If an importer indicates that he is about to import
          the product in question into a Member State and applies
          to use            the quota, the Member State concerned
          shall inform the Commission and draw an amount corres¬
          ponding to i ts requirements to the extent that the avai¬
          lable balance of the reserve so permits.
          3.      The shares drawn pursuant to paragraph 2 shall be
          valid until the end of the quota period.
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                                 Article 2
        1.    Member States shall take all appropriate measures to
        ensure that they draw from the quota in accordance with
        Article 1 (2) in such a way that imports may be charged
        without interruption against their accumulated
         shares of the Community quota .
        2.    Each Member State shall ensure that importers of the product
     concerned           have access to the quota so long as the
        residual balance of the quota volume so permits.
        3.    Member States shall charge imports of the product              concerned
               against the amounts they have drawn as and when
        the goods are entered for free circulation .
        4. The extent to which the quota has been used up
        shall be determined on the basis of the imports charged
        in accordance with paragraph 3.
                                    Article 3
           At the request of the Commission, Member States shall
           inform it of imports actually charged against the quota.
                                    Article 4
           The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
                    closely in order to ensure that this Regulation is
           complied with.
                                    Article 5
           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1988 .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.
Done at Brussels,
                                                              For the Council
                                                               The President