CELEX: 51980PC0698
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Date: 1980-11-11
Title: DRAFT FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) OPENING, ALLOCATING AND PROVIDING FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF A COMMUNITY TARIFF QUOTA FOR DRIED GRAPES IN IMMEDIATE CONTAINERS OF A NET CAPACITY OF 15 KILOGRAMS OR LESS FALLING WITHIN SUBHEADING 08.04 B I OF THE COMMON CUSTOMS TARIFF (1981) (presented by the Commission to the Council)

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                     DRAFT FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
       OPENING, ALLOCATING AND PROVIDING FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF A
      COMMUNITY TARIFF QUOTA FOR DRIED GRAPES IN IMMEDIATE CONTAINERS
    OF A NET CAPACITY OF 15 KILOGRAMS OR LESS           FALLING WITHIN SUBHEADING
                 08.04 B I OF THE COMMON CUSTOMS TARIFF ( 1981 )
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 ---pagebreak---                       EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
The draft Regulation annexed hereto concerns the orga omnes
Community tariff quota to be opened for 1981 in respect of
dried grapes in immediate containers of a net capacity of
15 kg or Less falling within subheading No 08.04 B 1 of the
Common Customs Tariff .
Provision was first made for such quota in the trade agreement
concluded between the Community and Iran . Since , however ,
that agreement expired on 30 November 1973 and was not renewed ,
the Community considered it desirable since 1974 to open an
autonomous tariff quota on the terms and conditions fixed for
that agreement .
At the consultation meeting held in May 1980 , the majority of
the delegations of the Member States pronounced themselves in
favour of the opening for the year 1981 of an autonomous tariff
quota at a duty of 1.2 % of whichthe amount is limited to 15 %
of actual Community imports in 1973 , coming from third countries
not associated with the Community nor linked with it by a pre­
ferential agreement .
Since the Community tariff quota in question is relatively small
compared with total imports into the Community and since all the
Member States will undoubtedly exhaust their shares rapidly , a
division of the quota into shares allocated definitively to
each Member State would not appear to compromise the Community
nature of the quota . This solution has been adopted in similar
situations in the past .
The shares to be allocated on this basis to the Member States ,
and their respective total 1973 imports from non-associated
third countries , are shown in the following table ; it being
understood that , to safeguard the Community character of the quot
it is necessary to allocate a share to Greece by removing an
equivalent amount from the shares of the other Member States .
 ---pagebreak---                                     ( in metric tons )
               Total 1973 imports       Quota share
Bénélux          ,     5 275                 790
Denmark                2 236                 334
Germany               15 567      •        2 334
Greece     >                0                  7
France                 3 81 1                571
Ireland                1 868                 279
Italy                    205                  30
United Kingdom        26 859               4 028
                      55 821               8 373
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 ---pagebreak---                                            DRAFT FOR A
                                 COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC)
              opening , allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff
              quota for dried grapes in immediate containers of a net capacity of IS kilograms
              or less falling within subheading 08.04 B I of the Common Customs Tariff < 1 981 )
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN
                                                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                               Artide 1
Economic Community, and in particular Article 28
thereof,          >                                       1.   During the period 1 January to 31 December
                                                          1981 a Community tariff quota of 8 373 tonnes shall
Having regard to the draft Regulation submitted by        be opened for dried grapes in immediate containers of
the Commission ,             ' ■                          a net capacity of 15 kilograms or less falling within
Whereas a Community tariff quota for dried grapes in : subheading 08.04 B I of the Common Customs Tariff.
immediate containers of a net capacity, erf 15 kilo­
grams or less, falling within subheading 08.04 B I of     2.    Within the limits of this tariff quota, the
the Common Customs Tariff, should be opened for j Common Customs Tariff duty shall be suspended at
 1981 at a duty of 1-2 % the volume of which shall be j the level of 1-2 % . ,
limited to 15% of Community imports in 1973 from Within the limits of this tariff quot
third countries not associated with the Community or
linked to it by a preferential agreement ; whereas, on quota , Greece shall apply duties
this basis, the volume of the quota is fixed at 8 373 calculated in accordance with the
tonnes ;                                                  relevant provisions laid down in the
                                                          Act_ of Accession                 .
 Whereas , in view of the negligible
  size of such a quota in comparison , 3. Imports of the product in question benefiting
                                                          from the same or lower customs duties under other
  with the Community 's requirements ,
                                                          preferential arrangements shall not be charged against
  a system of utilization should ,                        this tariff quota.
  without derogating from the Communi­
  ty nature of the tariff quota , be
  provided , based on a single alloca­
  tion between the Member States ;                                                  Anide. 2
  whereas this allocation should be
  calculated by the same method as is
  used to establish a total quota of                      The tariff quota set out in Article I shall be divided
  15 % of the imports of each                             among the Member States as follows :
  Member State from the same third                                                            tonnes
   countries ; whereas , in order to
                                                                 Bénélux                            790
   safeguard the Community nature of
                                                                 Denmark                            334
  the quota , a share should be alio-                   .
   cated to Greece by levying the same                           Germany                         2 334
                                                                 Greece                                7
  percentage on> the share allocated
   to each of the other Member States ;                           France                            571
                                                                  Ireland                           279
   whereas , calculated           in such a
                                                                  Italy                              30
   manner , this allocation should be
   as set out in Article 2 ;                                     United Kingdom                  4 028
                                                                                    ArticU 3
   Whereas, since the Kingdorn of Belgium, the
   Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of
   Luxembourg are united within and jointly represented    1.    Member      States   shall    take   all appropriate
   by the Benelux Economic Union, any measure measures to ensure that importers of the product in
   concerning the administration of the quotas allocated > question established in their territory have free access
   to that economic union may be carried out by any to the shares allocated to therp.                           .■ M
   one of its members.
 ---pagebreak--- 2.    The extent to which a Member State has used up
its share shall be determined on the basis of the
  imports of the product in question entered with the                               Article S
  customs authorities for free circulation .
                                                              Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
                                                              closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied
                        Article 4                             with.
  At the Commission s request, Member States shall                                  Article 6
  inform it of the imports actually charged against their     This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
  shares.                                                      1981 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels,
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                                                                          The President
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