CELEX: 51976PC0498
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Date: 1976-09-20
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) temporarily suspending application of the Common Customs Tariff duties on certain agricultural products for use as feedingstuffs. (submitted to the Council toy the Commission)

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                                             COM(16)498 final.
                                             Brussels . 20 September 197 ".
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                               Proposal for a
                          COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC )
      temporarily suspending application of the Common Customs Tariff
    duties on certain agricultural products for use as feedingstuffs .
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               ( submitted to the Council toy the Commission)
 COM(76 ) 498 final .
 ---pagebreak---                        EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
 As -the Commission has already pointed out to the Council ^ , as a
result of the drought during the 1976 season , there is a serious supply
 problem in the Community regarding products "for use as animal feed .
 In addition to the measures already adopted and in particular those
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designed to discourage exports of straw and fodder products              , the
 Commission considers it necessary to facilitate the access to the Community
market of substitute products which can be used for animal feeding or be
incorporated in compound feedingstuffs .       A temporary total suspension of the
Common Customs Tariff duties applicable to those products may ease
the Community supply situation and thereby prevent further increases in
products costs , which constitute one of the causes of a rise in the
cost of living .
'Die proposed measure is therefore intended to offset temporarily the
harmful effects of the drought in the sector in question ; such a measure
of an essentially provisional nature should normally have been taken under
thf. powers conferred upon the Council by Articles 40 and 43 and in accordance
with the procedure laid down in those Articles , in particular after
consulting the European Parliament .       It should be pointed out , hovfever , that
the proposed Commission procedure which , in emergencies such as this ,
would enablo the necessary measures to be taken rapidly , has not yet been
adopted^
In these circumstances the Commission considers that it should propose to
tho Council the tariff measure contained in the attached Regulation , subject
to its being subsequently inserted in the common agricultural policy .
( 1 ) Commission Communication to the Council concerning the consequence of
       the: drought in agriculture ( R/2096/76 ( AGRI 6ll ) ( FIN 55l )*
( 2 ) Commission Regulation (EEC ) No 1667/76 of 8 July 1976 (OJEC No 185 ,
       9.7.1976 , p. 26 laying down protective measures applicable to exports
       of fodder products , as last amended by Regulation (EEC ) No 203l/76
       ( OJRC No L 233 , 24.8.1976 , p. 26 )
( 3 ) Proposal for a Council Regulation concerning the procedure for the
       notification and suspension of customs duties applicable to agricultural
       products subject to the common organization of markets (OJEC No C
       25/H of 14.3.1972 ).
 ---pagebreak---                              . PROPOSAL
               for Council Regulation ( EEC )     ~         ^
               temporarily suspending application of the
               Common Customs Tariff duties on certain
               agricultural products for use as
               feedingstuff 3
TfiE COUÏICIL OP TOE EUROPEAN COMMUKITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
and in particular Article 103 thereof ,
Havinr regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
Whereas the drought in 1976 has severely reduced the availability in the
C eonunity of a number of     products normally used for cattle feed ; v;'nereas
thi3 situation has led to an increased demand for substitute products
for uce in feeding animals or for incorporation in compound feed ; whereas
as a result the prices for these products on the Community market have
risen to a degree which appreciably increases production costs and is
indirectly likely to increase the cost of living ;
Whereas to forestall such a development and increase supplies of these
products on the Community market , it i6 necessary that the Common Customs
Tariff duties on these products should be totally suspended ;
Whereas the suddenness of the situation with which the Community is
confronted , the urgency of the measures to be taken and their temporary
nature and. the absence of any provision in the Regulation on the
consnon organization of the market in certain products listed in Annex II
to the Treaty for dealing with such a situation with the necessary speed
may be taken to justify recourse to Article 103 of the Treaty as an exceptional
nearrure , subject to later integration . of this measure into the common
agricultural policy ,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
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 ---pagebreak---                         Article 1
Until 31 March 1977 the Common Customs Tariff duties on the products
listed in the Annex hereto shall be totally suspended .
                        Article 2
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 ,                                  For the Council
 ---pagebreak---                  ANNEX I
CCT heading No                          Description
               I                              *
   07.05         Dried leguminous vegetables , shelled , whether
                 or not skinned or split :
                 B.   Other ( than those for sowing ):
                      I. Peas ( including chick peas ) and "beans
                           ( of the species Phaseolus )
                      II . Lentils
                     III . Other
   O7.O6         Manioc , arrowroot , salep , Jerusalem artichokes ,
                 sweet potatoes and other similar roots and
                 tubers with high starch or insulin content ,
                 fresh or dried , whole or sliced ; sago pith :
                 B.   Other
   12.00         Locust beans , fresh or dried , whether or not
                 kibbled or ground , but not further prepared ;
                 fruit kernels and other vegetable products of
                 a kind used primarily for human food , not
                 falling within any other heading :
                 A.   Locust beans
 • 12.10         Mangolds , swedes , fodder roots ; hay , lucerne ,
                 clover , sainfoin , forage kale , lupines , vetches
                 and simi tar forage products :
                 A.   Mangolds , swedes and other fodder roots
   23.02         Bran , sharps and other residues derived from
                 the sifting , milling or working of cereals or
                 of leguminous vegetables :
                 B.   Of leguminous vegetables
   23.06         Products of vegetable origin of a kind used for
                 animal food , not elsewhere specified or
                 inoluded :
                 B.   Other ( than acorns , horse chestnuts and
                      pomace or marc of fruit )
   23.07         Sweetened forage ; other preparations of a kind
                 used in animal feeding :
                 A.   Pish or marine mammal solubles
                 C. Other ( containing no starch , glucose or
                      glucose syrup falling within subheadings
                      17.02 B and 17*05      nor milk products )
 ---pagebreak---                       FINANCIAL               STATEMENT                                                      "
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                                                                                      datb t 15 September 1976 «           #
  1 . budslt lin's concerned «          Chapter 12 .                                                                         Ï
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  2. acti oil « Proposed Council Regulation providing for the temporary suspension of duty*'
  under the common custims tariff for certain agricultural products intended for U6c 1
   as animal feed .                                                           w                                               I
  3 . legal da'; is « Temporary suspension of customs duty for                       certain animal foodstuffs to
   alleviate the effects of the drought .
  4 . OBJECTIVES I
  5 . FINANCIAL CCNSEQ'JIJICE                     FOR TIE KARKETI tIG YEAR CURRENT PINANCIAL YEAH  FCLLOWINC FINANCIAL YEAR
  5.0 K.xr~:niTUHE                                                               UL1                      (  II     )
       -CHARGED TO TIIB EC BUDGET
        ( RKVUN ir>/l HT."H VENTI ONS )
       –CHARGL'D TO NATIONAL ADKINISTR .
       -CHARCED TO OTHER NATIONAL GROUPS
 5.1 RECEIPTS
       -o >r,i n:r:ctmcLS op rrs ec
        ( LEVI ETj/ CUST0H5 DUTIES )                   -8-10 M u.a. I -2-3 M u.a .                      -2-3 M u.a .
       -NATIONAL
                                                  TEAR                     YEAR                    YEAR
 5.0.1 PLURI ANNUAL PATTERN OK EXFEVDIT1JRE
 5.1.1 PLURIANNUAL PATTERN OK RECEIPTS                                                   .  .
                                                   Measure limited to the period ending 1 /4/ 197T *
 ,.2 kkt.iod OK calculaticn Import value figure for 1974 with duty Calculated at autonomous
and conventional rates ; the result has been reduced by 50^                                     take account , firstly ,
of the duration limited to 6 months , and seoondly , of the expected exemption for all
the products when consigned from ACP countries and for most of the products from GS;
6.0 FINANCING POSSIBLE KITH CREDITS INSCRIBED IN RELEVANT CHAPTER OF CURRENT BUDGCT ?                          KES/ »r».
6.1 FINANCING P0:>31 BLL' i)Y Ti!ANStrJ< BiT/.'ilM CHAPTERS OF CUIUENT BUDCET ?                               ZUi/ HC
6.2 ULOiZZlTI FOH A SUPf'LEi.il.'TAilY BUDGET 1                                                                WT./ H Q.
6.3 CR^jlTS TO BE WHITITiJ INTO FUTURE BL'WiTO ?                                                               IHUi
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