CELEX: 51987PC0464(02)
Language: en
Date: 1987-10-01
Title: Proposal for a Commission Regulation opening a Community tariff quota for highquality fresh, chilled or frozen beef and veal falling within heading Nos 0201 and 0202 of the combined nomenclature (1988)

No C 286/8                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                 24.10. 87
             Proposal for a Commission Regulation opening a Community tariff quota for high-quality fresh,
             chilled or frozen beef and veal falling within heading Nos 0201 and 0202 of the combined
                                                   nomenclature (1988)
                                                    COM(87) 464 final
                             (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 7 October 1987)
                                                      (87/C 286/10)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         Whereas the detailed rules to implement these provisions
                                                                 should be drawn up in accordance with the procedure
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            laid down in Article 27 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
Economic Community, and in particular Articles 43 and            805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of
113 thereof,                                                     the market in beef and veal (l), as last amended by Regu-
                                                                 lation (EEC) No 467/87 (2),
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par-
liament,                                                                                     Article 1
Whereas the Community has undertaken, within the                  1. A Community tariff quota for high quality, fresh,
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), to                chilled, or frozen beef and veal falling within heading
open an annual Community tariff quota at a rate of duty          Nos 0201 and 0202 of the combined nomenclature shall
of 20 % for a quantity, expressed in product weight,             be opened for 1988.
fixed at 29 800 tonnes of high-quality, fresh, chilled or        The total volume of this quota shall be 29 800 tonnes,
frozen beef and veal falling within heading Nos 0201             expressed in product weight.
and 0202 of the combined nomenclature; whereas this
quota should therefore be opened for 1987; whereas,               2. Under this quota the applicable duty of the
however, under the terms of Article 282 of the 1985 Act          Common Customs Tariff shall be fixed at 20 °/o.
of Accession, the Portuguese Republic is authorized to                                       Article 2
postpone, until the beginning of the second stage, the
progressive application to imports of preferences                 Detailed rules for the application of this Regulation shall
granted, unilaterally or by agreement, by the Community          be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down
to certain third countries;                                       in Article 27 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68, and in
                                                                 particular:
Whereas there should be a guarantee of equal and                  (a) provisions to guarantee the nature of the products,
continuing access by all interested importers within the              where they come from and their origin;
Community to the said quota and of uninterrupted                  (b) provisions concerning recognition of the document
application of the rate laid down for that quota, to all              to enable verification of the guarantee provided for
imports of the products in question, in all the Member                in (a).
States up to the limit of the volume of the quota;
whereas it seems appropriate, to this end to set up a                                        Article 3
system of use of the Community tariff quota, based on
the presentation of a certificate of authenticity                This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1988.
guaranteeing the nature of the products, where they are          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
imported from and their origin;                                   directly applicable in all Member States.
                                                                  (*) OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 24.
                                                                  O OJ No L 48, 17. 2. 1987, p. 1.