CELEX: 31974R0613
Language: en
Date: 1974-03-20 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 613/74 of the Council of 20 March 1974 on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for certain oils and fats of fish and marine mammals

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                                        (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                            REGULATION ( EEC) No 613/74 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                 of 20 March 1974
              on the opening , allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for
                              certain oils and fats of fish and marine mammals
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN
COMMUNITIES,                                                        CCT
                                                                   heading                     Description
                                                                     No
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular Article 28              ex 15.12          Animal or vegetable oils and fats, whol­
thereof ;                                                                       ly or partly hydrogenated, or solidified
                                                                                or hardened by any other process, whe­
                                                                                ther or not refined , but not further pre­
                                                                                pared :
Whereas difficulties exist in supplying Community                               ex B. Other :
processing industries with oils and fats of fish and                                    — Fats ;' nd oils obtained exclus­
marine mammals ; whereas, to facilitate adjustment by                                     ively from fish and marine
undertakings and enable them to receive supplies of                                       mammals
these products as quickly as possible on the most
favourable terms the Common Customs Tariff duty
should be reduced within the limits of a tariff quota ;       The new Member States shall apply the duties calcu­
                                                               lated in accordance with the relevant provisions of the
                                                              Act of Accession .
Whereas, however, in view of the negligible volume of
such a quota in relation to the actual needs of the
 Community, without thereby derogating from the                                         Article 2
 Community nature of the tariff quota, a system should
be envisaged based on an allocation between the               The Community tariff quota mentioned in Article 1
Member States which takes particular account of the            shall be allocated among Member States as follows :
 interests of those States which in recent years have
                                                                                                         (metric tons)
 relied on imports for their supply, namely the United
 Kingdom , Denmark and Ireland,                                         United Kingdom                     10 000
                                                                        Denmark                             9 000
                                                                        Ireland                             1 500
                                                                        Benelux                                  3
                                                                        Germany                                  1
                                                                        France                                   1
                                                                        Italy                                    1
 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                                        Article 3
                        Article 1                               1 . Member States shall ensure that importers of
                                                               these products established on their territory have free
                                                               access to the shares allocated to them .
 Until 31    December 1974, the Common Customs
 Tariff duty for the following products shall be               2.     The extent to which the Member States' shares
 suspended at 10 % within the limits of a Community            have been used up shall be established on the basis of
 tariff quota of 20 506 metric tons .                          imports of the said products entered for home use.
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                        Article 4                                                    Article 6
The Member States shall periodically inform the
Commission of the imports actually charged against
their shares .                                                The Tariff quota provided for in this Regulation is
                                                              hereby opened for 1974.
                        Article 5
The Member States and the Commission shall coop­              This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
erate closely to ensure that this Regulation is               following that of its publication in the Official
observed .                                                    Journal of the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels , 20 March 1974 .
                                                                        For the Council
                                                                          The President
                                                                           W. SCHEEL