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Date: 1978-03-16
Title: Draft COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) temporarily suspending the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on certain agricultural products (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                             COM(78)112 final.
                                                              Brussels , 16 March 1978 .
                                                                           I
                                         Draft
                                COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC )
                 -temporarily suspending the autonomous Common Customs
                     Tariff duties on certain agricultural products
                       ( submitted to the Council by the Commission)
CCM(78 ) 112 final .
 ---pagebreak---                 EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
The subject of the following draft regulation is the
temporary suspension of duties in the Common Customs Tariff
for a number of agricultural items , as requested by the
Member States .
It is partly a prolongation and partly a new measure .
It seems appropriate to the Commission that a duty suspension
is justified for the goods listed in the annex to this
regulation .
The Commission proposes a total suspension for those products
for which Community production does not exist or is minimal .
A partial suspension is proposed in cases where the Community
production covers only a part of the requirements . The rate
of the partially suspended duty depends on the extent of the
possible Community supply to the Community users . The Commission
is also         looking for the right balance between the
interests of the suppliers , users and the consumers in the
Community .
It also takes into account the need to protect employment .
                                                         or twelve
The proposed measures are in most cases confined to si*/ months
because of the difficulties of estimating the evolution of the
basic factors .
For a number of items for which the Member States also requested
duty suspensions the Commission does not propose a tariff measure
because the necessary conditions are not fulfilled . This
concerns the following items :
 ---pagebreak--- CCT heading No                    Description of goods
ex 03.01 B I h )   Cod ( Gadus morrhua or Gadus callarias ), fresh , chilled
                   or frozen , whole , headless or in pieces , intended for
                   the processing industry
ex 03.01 B I ij )  Coalfish ( Pollachius virens or Gadus virens ), fresh ,
                   chilled or frozen , whole , headless or in pieces ,
                   intended for the processing industry
ex 03.01 B I k )   Haddock , fresh , chilled or frozen , whole , headless
                   or in pieces , intended for the processing industry
ex 03.01 B I m ) 2 Mackerel , fresh , chilled or frozen , whole , size 1 ,
                   intended for the processing industry
ex 03.01 B I q )   Hake , fresh , chilled or frozen , whole , headless or
                   in pieces , intended for the processing industry
ex 03.01 B II a )  Fillets of hake , fresh , chilled or frozen
and b ) 7
ex 20.07 A II a )  Pear juice of a specific gravity exceeding 1.33
                   at 15° C of a value exceeding 22 UA per 100 kg net
                   weight , for use in the manufacture of perry
 ---pagebreak---                                  Draffc
                       COUFCIIi REGULATION ( EEC)
                           ι
                temporarily suspending- the e-uionoraous Common Cuatcms
                Tariff duties on certain agricultural products
THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing: the European Economic Community,
and in particular Article 28 theraofj,
Having regard to the draft Regulation submitted by the Commission ,
Whereas production of the products referred to in this Regulation is at present
inadequate or non-existent within the Community and producers are thus unable
to , meet the needs of user industries ;
Whereas it is in the Community 's interest in certain cases to suspend the
autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties only partially, chiefly because of
                   Community production , and in other cases to suspend them
completely ;
Whereas ,    in view      of the difficulties involved in accurately assessing
low the economic situation will develope in the sectors concerned in the near
future , these suspension measures should be taken only temporarily, by fixing
their term of validity to coincide with the interests of Community production ,
 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                  Article 1
The autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties for the produots listed
-in the tables annexed to this Regulation shall be suspended at the level
 indicated in respect of each of them .
 ---pagebreak---    These suspensions shall be valid :
   " tIV "1" 10 31 D"e"ber '             f°r                      i„
                                   1979
     from 1 July 1978 to 30 June /~fn ,
     Tabu „                          for the P"1ucts listed in
                                 Article 2
 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1973
            This Regulation shall be binding in      entjrety and
             irectly applicable in all Member States
Done at Brussels,
                                                     For the Council
                                                      The President
 ---pagebreak---                                        ANNEX
                                      TABLE I
  CCT heading No                 Description of goods    •              Rate of
                                                                       autonomous
                                                                           duty
03.01 Alb )        Salmon
                   frozen
                           , fresh ( live or dead ), chilled or             0
ex 03.01 B II a )   Filets of herring , fresh , chilled or frozen ,         0
  and B II b ) 7   intended for the processing industry ( a )
ex 03.02 Ala )     Herring , dried , salted or in brine , whole ,           0
                   headless or in pieces , intended for the
                   processing industry ( a )
ex 03.02 A I f )   Sprats , salted or in brine , whole , headless           0
                   or in pieces
ex 03.02 A II d )  Fillets of herring , dried , salted or in brine ,        0
                   intended for the processing industry ( a )
ex 16.04 B         Salmon , intended for the processing industry            0
                   for further manufacture into pastes or
                   spreads ( a )
ex 16.04 C II      Spiced and salted herrings , in packings of a            0
                   net capacity of 10 kg or more , intended for
                   the processing industry ( a )
ex 16.04 C II      " Herring-flaps ", prepared or preserved in              0
                   vinegar , in packings of a net capacity of
                   10 kg or more , intended for the processing
                   industry Ca )
ex 16.05 B         Shrimps and prawns other than those of the             10
                   " Crangon " variety , boiled in water and shelled ,
                   whether or not frozen or dried , intended for
                   the industrial manufacture of products
                   falling within heading No 16.05 ( a )
                                      TABLE II
ex 03.01 B I e)    Piked dog-fish ( Squalus acanthias ), fresh ,            0
                   chilled or frozen , whole , headless or in
                   pieces
ex 03.01 Big )     Lesser or Greenland halibut ( Hippoglossus               0
                   reinharrltius ), fresh , chilled or frozen ,
                   whole , headless or in pieces
                                                                                ■ * • •
(a)  The application of this suspension will be subject to
     the conditions to be determined by the competent authorities .
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     ex 03.01 B I q )        Sardinops sagax crocettata ("pi Ichards")
                             fresh , chitted or frozen , wbote , of a
                             Length of 20 cm or more , intended for
                            the processing industry ( a )
    ex 03.01 B I q)         Sturgeons , fresh , chitted or frozen
                            whole , headtess or in pieces , intended
                            tor the processing industry ( a )
    ex 03.01 C
                           Hard fish roes , fresh , chitted or
                           frozen
    ex 03.02 A I c )      Anchovies ( Engraulis sp.p .) salted or
                           in brine , whole , headless or in pieces
                           in packings of a net capacity of 8 kq
                          or    more
             A 1 e)       Salmon, salted, or in brine , whole,
                          headless or in pieces
   ex 03.02 A I f )       Coalfish ( Pollachius virens or Gadus
                          virens ), salted or in brine , whole ,
                          headless or in pieces , intended for
                         the processing industry ( a )
   ex 03.02 A II d)      Fillets of coalf isKPol lachius virens
                         or Gadus virens ), salted or in brine
  ex 03.02 C             Hard fish roes, salted or in brine               0
  ex 03„03 A I           Tails    of crawfish, chilled or frozen ,
                         shelled or not                                 10
 ex 03.03 B I b)        Oysters, fresh ( live ), weighing no more         0
                        than 12 g each
 ex 03.03 B I b)       Oysters, fresh ( live ), of the " Crassostrea
                       gigas
                       each
                                   variety , weighing more than 100 a3
 ex 07.03 E
 ?X °7" 03 E           Mushrooms, excluding cultivated mushrooms, '
                       preserved in brine , in sulphur water or
                       in other preservative solutions , but not
                       specially prepared for immediate consumption
ex 07.04 B
     07.04 B          Mushrooms, excluding cultivated mushrooms,        I
                      dried, dehydrated or evaporated, whote or
                      in identifiable pieces or sli ces, intended
                      tor the processing industry ( a )
  x 07.04 B
ex 07.04 B
                      sweet red peppers, dried, dehydrated or          r0
                      evaporated , whole , cut or sliced, but not
                      further prepared
     07.05 B I        Beans,
                      vulgaris
                                 dried, white of the species Phaseolus o
a The application of this suspension will be subject to the
     conditions to be determined by the competent aithor?t is
 ---pagebreak---    ex
             31 A         Dates , fresh or dried, in immediate packings
                          of a net capacity not exceeding 35 kg , for
  £                       repacking for retail sale ( a )
   ex
             01 A         Dates , fresh or dried, intended for processing
0>
                          other than for the production of alcohol ( a )
   e>      ; 09            Rose-hips , fresh
   e ie io A               Bilberries ( fruits of Vaccinium myrtillus),
                            whether or not cooked , preserved by freezing ,
                           not containing added sugar
         38.10 B            Blue-black fruits of the species Vaccinium,
                            other than those of Vaccinium myrtillus , whether
                            or not cooked, preserved by freezing , not con­
                            taining added sugar
         08.10 B            Cranberries ( fruits of Vaccinium vitis idaea),
                            whether or not cooked , preserved by freezing ,
                            not containing added sugar
      < 08.10 B              Red or rose fruits of the species Vaccinium,
                             other than those of Vaccinium vitis idaea ,
                             whether or not cooked, preserved by freezing ,
                           - not containing added sugar
    ,x 08.10 B               Rose-hips, whether or not cooketf, preserved
                             by freezing , not containing added sugar
          08.10 B            Dates, frozen in immediate packings of a net
                             capacity of 5 kg or more , not intended for
                             the production of alcohol ( a )
    ex 09.04 B I              Paprika, ground, for use in animal feeding-
                              stuffs ( a )
          09.10 C I           Saffron, neither crushed or ground
    ex 16.04 A II             Hard fish roes, washed, cleaned of adherent .
                              organs and simply salted or in brine
     ex i6 05 A               Crabs    of the "King", "Hanasaki", 'Kegani"
                               and "Queen" varieties , simply boiled in
                               water and shelled, whether or not frozen ,
                               in packings of a net capacity of 2 kg or
                               more, intended for the processing industry ( a )
      P * 16 05 A              Crabs, excluding the species "Cancer pegarus",
      eX °                     Si mpi'y boiled in water and shelled, whether or
                               not frozen, in packings of a net capacity of
                               2 kg or more, for repacking for retail sale ( a )
             23.07 A            Pish or marine mammal solubles
               The application of this suspension nil be subject to the
               conditions to be determined by the competent authorities.
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       FICHE        FINANCIERE
                                                     Date    : 14.1.1978
1 . Ligne budgétaire concerne :   Chap . 12 , art . 120
2 . Intitulé de l' action :   Règlement du Conseil portant suspension temporaire
                              des droits autonomes du tarif douanier commun pour
                              un certain nombre de produits agricoles
3 . Base juridique :          Article 28 du Traité-CEE
4 . Objectifs de 1 action :
    Suspension des droits du TDC pour les produits indiqués sous 2
5.0    Coût de 1 action
       à la charge du Budget de là Ct!              Impossible évaluer sérieusement
                                                    faute de statistiques communau­
                                                    taires .
                                                    Les indications des seuls Etats
       non-perceptibn des droits                    membres demandant la suspension
                                                    en cause montrent un coût minimal
                                                    de l' action pour la période :
                                                 A - 1.7 - 31.12.78 : 13.353.305 UCE
                                                    - 1.1 - 30.6.79 :     4.452.395 UCE