CELEX: 51981PC0121
Language: en
Date: 1981-03-20
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) suspending the application of ceilings established by Regulation (EEC) No 3517/80 for imports of certain products originating in Malta (presented by the Commission to the Council)

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                        PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
           suspending the application of ceilings established by Regulation
           ( EEC ) No 3517/ 80 for imports of certain products originating in
           Malta
                     (presented by the Commission to the Council )
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 ---pagebreak---                       EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1.1 . The Agreement between the Community and Malta provides in Article 2
      of Annex I that imports of certain products originating in Malta be subject
      to an annual ceiling above which customs duties can be reintroduced.
      The Community has accordingly fixed, under Council Regulation, the
      ceilings applicable in the first half-yeaTyl981 to imports of a number of
      products. (Regulation (EEC) No 3517/80, see 03 No L 370 of 31.12.1980).
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1.2.  However, provision is also made in Article ^ ifi~Ior two successive years,
      imports of a product subject to a ceiling are less than 90 % of the level
      fixed, the Community shall suspend application of this ceiling. The
      Community totals of amounts set off against the ceilings for 1979 and
      1980 show that imports of certain products did not reach 90 % in those
      years. This being so, the Community is obliged to suspend application of
      ceilings already fixed for 1981 and to amend the above mentioned
      Regulation accordingly.
2.1 . It is submitted that the proposal for the Council Regulation annexed
      hereto be approved, i.e. providing for :
      suspension of the application of two ceilings to which imports of certain
      products originating in Malta are subject.
2.2.  This is the subject of the present proposal for a Regulation (see Annex).
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                                                      Proposal for a
                        COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
          suspending the application of ceilings established by Regulation (EEC)
             No. 3517/80 for imports of certain products originating in Malta
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and
in particular Article 113 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 of Annex I to the Agreement establishing an
association between the European Economic Community and Malta, the Community
has, by Regulation (EEC) No 3517/80 ( 1 ), established the ceilings applicable in 1981
to imports of certain products originating in Malta; whereas that Article
provides             that if, for two successive years, imports of a product subject to
a ceiling are less that 90 % of the amount fixed, the Community shall suspend the
application of this ceiling; (            .
Whereas the Communities' statistical summaries for 1979 and 1980 show that
imports of certain products which are subject to ceilings did not, during those
years, reach 90% of the ceilings indicated; whereas, therefore, the Community
should suspend application of the ceilings valid for imports of the products in
question from 1 January 1981 ; whereas, however, it is desirable to follow the
development of these imports means of statistical surveillance .
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(1 ) OJ No L 370, 31.12.1980,' p. 12.
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                                      Article 1
The application of the ceilings established by Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No
3517/80 shall be suspended from 1 January 1981 for imports of cotton yarn, not put
up for retail sale,failing within heading 55.0£*of the Common Customs Tariff and
of man-made fibres (discontinuous or waste), carded, combed or otherwise prepared
for spinning ,failing within heading 56.04 of the Common Customs Tariff, listed
under Serial Nos I M 1 and I M 3 in Annex I to the said Regulation.
These imports shall remain under Community surveillance.
                                      Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in
the Official Journal of the European Communities.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all
Member States.                                                  *
Done at Brussels,         1981
                                                             For the Council
                                                              The President