CELEX: 31973R3592
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-28 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3592/73 of the Council of 28 December 1973 on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for dried grapes falling within subheading No 08.04 B I of the Common Customs Tariff (1974), in immediate containers of a net capacity of 15 kg or less

31 . 12. 73                             Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 365 /43
                                  REGULATION (EEC) No 3592/73 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                     of 28 December 1973
               on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for dried grapes
               falling within subheading No 08.04 B I of the Common Customs Tariff (1974), in im­
                                     mediate containers of a net capacity of 15 kg or less
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                                 France                   436 metric tons
                                                                          Ireland                  385 metric tons
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community, and in particular                            Italy                     80 metric tons
Article 28 thereof;
                                                                           United Kingdom        6 021 metric tons
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission;
                                                                   Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the
 Having regard to the Opinion of the European                      Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand-Duchy
 Parliament;                                                       of Luxembourg are jointly represented by the
                                                                   Benelux Economic Union, any measure concerning
                                                                   the administration of the quotas allocated to that
 Whereas a Community tariff quota for dried grapes                 Economic Union may be carried out by one of its
 in immediate containers of a net capacity of 15 kg or             members,
 less, falling within subheading No 08.04 B I of the
 Common Customs Tariff, should be opened from
 1 January 1974 at a duty of 1-2% ; whereas the
 volume of this quota might be 10 616 metric tons ;                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Whereas, as regards the product in question, Article
 39 of the Act of Accession (*) requires that new                                         Article 1
 Member States make an initial movement towards
 alignment of their customs duties on 1 January 1974;              1 . For the period from 1 January to 31 December
 whereas the import needs of the Member States                     1974, a Community tariff quota of 10 616 metric tons
 during the quota period must be covered from this                 shall be opened in the Community for imports from
 date under the Community tariff quota in question;                third countries of dried grapes falling within
 whereas the duties to be applied by these Member                  subheading No 08.04 B I of the Common Customs
 States within the said tariff quota shall be calculated           Tariff, in immediate containers of a net capacity of
 in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Act             15 kg or less.
 of Accession ;
                                                                   2. Within this tariff quota, the Common Customs
 Whereas, in view of the comparatively low volume of               Tariff duty shall be suspended at the level of .1*2 % .
 the quota compared with the needs of the
 Community, a system based on a single allocation
 among Member States should be provided, without                   3 . New Member States shall, within the said tariff
 derogating from the Community nature of the tariff                quota, apply duties calculated in accordance with the
 quota ;                                                           relevant provisions of the Act of Accession.
 Whereas, in accordance with the needs forecast by
 each Member State, the shares may be determined as                                       Article 2
 follows :
          Benelux                   450 metric tons                The tariff quota mentioned in Article 1 shall be
                                                                   divided among the Member States as follows :
          Denmark                   437 metric tons
                                                                           Benelux                 450 metric tons
          Germany                 2 807 metric tons
                                                                           Denmark                 437 metric tons
 (*) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14 .                                    Germany               2 807 metric tons
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        France                  436 metric toils                                     Article 4
        Ireland                 385 metric tons
                                                              Member States shall inform the Commission at
        Italy                    80 metric tons               regular intervals of imports actually charged against
                                                              their share.
        United Kingdom        6 021 metric tons
                       Article 3                                                     Article 5
1 . Member States shall take all appropriate                  Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
measures to ensure that importers of the said goods           closely in order to ensure that the provisions of this
established in their territory have free access to the        Regulation are observed.
share allocated to them .
2.    The extent to which a Member State has used                                    Article 6
up its share shall be determined on the basis of the
imports of the product concerned entered for home             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
use .                                                         1974.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 28 December 1973 .
                                                                                For the Council
                                                                                 The President
                                                                                Ove GULDBERG