CELEX: 51980PC0689
Language: en
Date: 1980-11-13
Title: DRAFT COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) TEMPORARILY SUSPENDING THE AUTONOMOUS COMMON CUSTOMS TARIFF DUTIES ON CERTAIN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS (presented by the Commission to the Council)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                    COM(80)689 final
                                                    Brussels, 13th November 1980
                     • RAFT COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
           TEMPORARILY SUSPENDING THE AUTONOMOUS COMMON CUSTOMS
              TARIFF DUTIES Off CERTAIN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS
              (presented by the Commission to the Council )
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 CON ( M ) 489 final
 ---pagebreak---                              EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
     1.     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 .
     2.     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      V
'           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 . (
 . 3,       The proposed measures are confined to six months because
  ■ "       of the difficulties of , estimating the evolution of. the
            basic factors .      '
   ' 4.     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 , Thisconcerndthe following items s           - ,
 ---pagebreak--- CCT heading No                     Description or goods
  ' 0.5,01 A i b ). Salmon ,, chilled or frozen ,, headless ,, gutless for
                    smoking                       ,
ex 03.01 B I h )    Cod ( Gadus morrhua or Gadus callarias ) , fresh ,, chi lled
                    or ' tfro2en ; whole , . headless or in pieces , for processing
ex 03.01    BI k    Haddock., fresh , chilled or frozen , whole , headless or
                    m piecss .                 tor processing
ex 03„01 B I qJ ;   Hake ( Pier luccius spp J fresh , c.hilled or frozen , whole ,,
                    headless or in pieces ,.        ' -     for processing
ex 03.01 8 II s )   Fillets of hake ( Merluccius spp ) , fresh , chilled or
    and 8 II b > 7  frozen,               for processing
ex 03.03 A IV a )   Prawns , whole , in shell and simply boiled in water ,
                    of the species Pandalus borealis , in paekings of a net
                    capacity of 3 kg or more
ex 06 ,, 03 B •     Cut flowers and flower buds , not further prepared than
                    dried
 ---pagebreak---                                    Draft .                                            •
     1                  COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
              temporarily suspending the autonomous Common
           . Customs Tariff duties on certain agricultural '
                                 products
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having' regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic                         •'/,
Community , arid in particular Article 28 thereof ,                 ;                            '
Having regard to the draft . Regulation submitted by the Commission , ,
Whereas production of the products referred to m this Regulation
is at present inadequate or non-existent within      s
                                                            the CommunityJ. and, whereas
producers are thus unable to meet the needs of user industries ;                    -           ^ -
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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 how the economic situation will develop in the sectors
concerned in the near future , such suspensory measures should be
taken only temporarily,                                                  j'r                  ■
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :          ■ "       f
                                Article 1
From i January to 30 June 198-j., the autonomous Common Customs Tariff
duties for the products listed in the Annex               •;                 ... shall
be suspended ^t the level indicated in respect of each of them .
                                Article 2
Ttus Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 19.81 ••
 ---pagebreak---      This Regulation eJiall b© binding in its entirety eiad
     directly applicable in-, all Maseber States „•  -
Done at Brussels ,   ;i .                           For the Council
                   "                                  The President
 ---pagebreak---                                        ANNEX
CCT heading No                Description of goods          Rate of autonomous
                                                                   duty ( % )
ex 03.01 A I a )     Salmon trout of the species " Salmo             5
                  gai rdneri i"or " Salmo irideus "
                     ( rainbow trout )/ fresh , chilled
                     or frozen , of a unit weight of •
                     not less than 1.5 kg for smoking
                     (b)
ex 03.01 Β i g)      Piked dog-fish ( Squalus acan­                  0
                     thias )/ fresh , chilled or frozen /
                     whole / headless or in pieces
ex 03.01 B II a )    Fillets of herring , fresh / chilled            0
   and B II b ) 7    or frozen / intended for processing
                     (a) (b)
ex 03.02 A I a )     Herring / dried / salted or in brine /          5'
                     whole / headless or in pieces
ex 03.02 A II d >    Fillets of herring / dried / salted          .  0
                     or in brine
ex 16.04 Β         - Salmon /           for the processing           0
                     industry for further manufacture
                                                                              *
                     into pastes or spreads ( b ) .
ex 16.04 C II        Spiced and satted herrings , in ;          /    0
                     packings of a net capacity of 10 kg
                     or  more
ex 16.04 C II        " Herring-flaps "/ prepared or preser~          0
                     ved in yinegar > in immediate packings
                     of a net capacity of 10 kg or more
ex 16.05 A           Crabs of the species "King " ( Parali-          0
                     thodes camtschaticus ) / " Hanasaki "
                     ( Paraplithodes brevipes )/ " Kegani "
                     ( Erimacrus isenbecki )/ " Queen "
                  '(Chionoecetes spp )/ "Geryon quin-
                     quedens " and " Neolithodes asperrimus "/
                     simply boiled in water and shelled
                     whether or not frozen in immediate
                     packings of a net qapacity of: 2 kg
                    or   more
 ---pagebreak---                                                                                                               ANNEX-
  ex 16.05 B                       Shrimps and prawns other than those                                 10
                                  of the genus " Crangon " and of the
                                  species "Pandalus borealis ", boiled
                                  in water and shelled , whether or not
                                   frozen or dried ,                           for the
                                  industrial manufacture or products
                                  falling within heading No 16.05 ( b )
(a) The suspension shall apply to fish intended to undergo any treatment unless they are intended to undergo exclusively one or more
    of the following treatments:
    – cleaning, gutting, heading, tailing,
    – cutting (excluding filleting or cutting of frozen blocks),
    – sorting,
    –   labelling,
•   –   packing,
    –   icing,                                           ;
    –   freezing,                                                                                 -
    –   deep freezing,
    –   thawing, separation.                                                 •
    The suspension if not allowed for products on which otherwise qualifying treatments are intended to be carried out at retail or
    catering level.
    The suspension shall apply only to fish intended for human consumption.
(b) Control erf die use for this special purpose shall be carried out pursuant to the relevant Community provisions.