CELEX: 51974PC0418
Language: en
Date: 1974-04-03
Title: Proposal for a REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL extending the Community tariff quota opened by Regulation (EEC) No 3590/73 of 28 December 1973 for newsprint falling within subheading No 48.01A of the Common Customs Tariff to include certain papers falling within subheading No 48.01E thereof. (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- ' COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                         COM(74 ) 418 Final
                                                         Brus sels , 3 April 1974
                                    Proposal for a
                            REGULATION (SEC ) OF THE COUNCIL
     extending the Community tariff quota opened "by Regulation (EEC ) No 3590/73
     of 28 December 1973 for newsprint falling within subheading No 43.01A of
        the Common Customs Tariff to include certain papers falling within
                          subheading No 43.01E thereof .
                    ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
      COM(74 ) 418 Final
 ---pagebreak---                                EXPLâMTOHY MEMORAMITÏI
1 . This proposal for a Regulation follows a request "by the Benelux countries
    that paper which meets all the requirements of newsprint ( see additional
    note to Chapter 48)1 except as regards watermarks , "be admitted free of
    customs duties on the same has is as newsprint falling within subheading
    No 48 . OIA .   This request was justified on account of the supply difficul­
    ties encountered "by industries using paper owing to the present acute
    world shortage of newsprint .
2 . The question was studied at a number of meetings organized "by the
    Commission and was "based on three possible solutions which emerged during
    the discussions , namely :
    (a ) the abolition , for a limited period of time , of the watermarks
          criterion in the definition of newsprint contained in the additional
          note to Chapter 48 of the Common Customs Tariff ;
    (b ) the creation of a tariff quota at a reduced rate of duty within sub­
          heading No 48 . OIE for paper meeting all the requirements of newsprint
          except as regards watermarks ;
    ( c ) the possibility of counting paper without watermarks , whether limited
          in quantity or not , under the Community tariff quota opened for
          newsprint by Regulation (EEC ) No 3590/73 of 28 December 1973 ( OJ
          No L 365 , 31 December 1973 )»
3 . At the end of these meetings it seemed that, given the likely temporary
    nature of the present shortage and the fact that the market in paper is
    very sensitive in the Community and has been the subject of special
    provisions in agreements made with certain supplying countries , unanimous
    agreement could only be reached on the last solution mentioned above on
    condition that the paper in question should be very strictly controlled
    in each Member State so as to ensure that it is used for the purpose
    described in the additional note to Chapter 48 .
 ---pagebreak---    The Commission believes , as regards the quantitative limitation about
   which Member States' are not .yet altogether agreed , that in the present
   situation , it - would be preferable to allow the imports to be counted -
   under the tariff quota only up to a limit of 5CfJa of the quota , shares allotted
   to Member States when allocating the quota volume .
4. The proposal for a Regulation provides , moreover , given the object in
   view , that imports of paper without watermarks falling within subheading
   Ho 48 . OIE and free from customs duties under the tariff quota in question
   shall not be counted under the ceilings fixed for that subheading within
   the framework of free trade agreeemBnts made by the Community with the
   non-candidate EFTA countries on accession .
 ---pagebreak---                          Proposal ro? a
                 Regulation (EEC ) of the Council •>
extending the Community tariff quota opened by Regulation (EEC ) No 3590/73
of 28 December 1973 for newsprint falling within subheading No 48 . OIA of
the Common Customs Okriff to include certain papers falling within
subheading No 48»01E thereof .
THE COUNCIL 0F THE EUROPEEN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
and in particular Articles 113 and 28 thereof ;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission;
Whereas by its Regulation (EEC ) No 3590/73^ of 28 December 1973 "the Council
opened and allocated among the Member States for 1974 a duty-free Community
tariff quota of 3 053 000 metric tons for newsprint falling within subheading
No 48 . OIA of the Common Customs Tariff ; whereas according to the additional
note to Chapter 48 the expression "newsprint " shall for the pu-rpose of
subheading 48.01A be taken to apply to white paper or to paper which has
been slightly coloured in the pulp , the mechanical pulp content of which
represents at least 70$ of the total fibre content , glazed to an extent not
exceeding 130 seconds Bekk , unsized, weighing not less than 40 g/m2 and hot
more than 57         with watermarks not less than 4 cm but not more than
10 cm apart , imported in reels of a width of not less than 31 cm , containing
8fo or less by weight of fillers , and intended for the printing of daily
newspapers , weekly papers or other periodicals of heading No 49 • 02 , published
at least ten. times per year ;
  OJ No L 365 of 31 December 197 3 1 P « 3^
 ---pagebreak--- Whereas , on account of the present world shortage of paper meeting the
aforementioned requirements , in particular that relating to watermarks ,
it is appropriate that provision should "be made on a temporary "basis for
extending , within appropriate quantitative limits , the tariff quota in
question to include certain types of paper which fulfil all the requirements
except that relating to watermarks and which , at present , fall within
tariff subheading No 48.OIE :
HAS ADOPTED THIS EDGULATION :
                           ' • ••   . :    i ■
                                   Article 1
1 . Member States are authorized , until 31 December 1974 » "to import , Tinder
    the Community tariff quota opened, "by Regulation (EEC ) No 3590/73^ of
    28 December 1973 for newsprint falling within subheading No 48.OIA of
    the Common Customs Tariff , paper falling within subheading No 48.OIE
    which meets all' the criteria for the. definition of newsprint contained
    in the additional note to Chapter 48 save that relating to watermarks ,
    provided that such imports shall not exceed 50$ bf the respective shares
    allocated to them in the said quota .
2 . Imports of the paper concerned free of duties under the said tariff
    quota shall not be counted against the ceilings fixed under certain free
    trade agreements .
                                   Article 2
Member States shall take all measures necessary to ensure that the paper
concerned is in fact intended for the printing of newspapers , weekly papers
or other periodicals of heading No 49*02 , published at least ten times
per year .
  0J No L 365 , 31 December 1973 , P. 36
 ---pagebreak---                                    - 3 -
                                 Article 3
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 ,
                                                    Por the Council
                                                    The Président