CELEX: 31975R2877
Language: en
Date: 1975-10-29 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2877/75 of the Council of 29 October 1975 on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for rosin, including 'brais résineux', falling within subheading 38.08 A of the Common Customs Tariff (1976)

No L 292/4                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                12. 11.75
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 2877/75 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                  of 29 October 1975
              on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for rosin,
              including 'brais resineux', falling within subheading 38.08 A of the Common Customs
                                                      Tariff ( 1976)
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                                             in metric tons
                                                                        Benelux                           17 798
                                                                        Denmark                              280
                                                                        Germany                           33 163
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
                                                                        France                            10 922
 European Economic Community, and in particular
 Article 28 thereof;                                                    Ireland                                16
                                                                        Italy                             17 325
                                                                        United Kingdom                    18 368
 Having regard to the draft Regulation submitted by
 the Commission ;                                                       Total                            97 872 ;
                                                                 Whereas 25% of this total represents 24 468 metric
                                                                 tons ;
 Whereas the production in the Community and in
 Greece of rosin falling within subheading 38.08 A               Whereas, in view of the negligible size of such
 of the Common Customs Tariff is currently                       a quota in comparison with the Community's
 insufficient to meet the requirements of the                    requirements, a system of utilization should, without
processing industries in the Community ; whereas,                derogating from the Community nature of the tariff
 consequently, Community supplies of products of                 quota, be provided, based on a single allocation
this type currently depend to a considerable extent              between the Member States ; whereas this allocation
 on imports from third countries ;                               should be calculated by the same method as is used
                                                                 to establish a total quota of 25% of the imports
                                                                of each Member State from the same third countries ;
                                                                 whereas, calculated in such a manner, this allocation
Whereas, under Decision No 1/75 of the Association               should be as set out in Article 2 ;
Council on the application of paragraph 3 of
Protocol No 10 to the Agreement establishing an
Association between the European Economic Com­                   Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the
munity and Greece, the Community may open                        Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy
autonomous tariff quotas for rosin provided that,               of Luxembourg are united within and jointly
for the Community as a whole, the annual quotas                 represented by the Benelux Economic Union, any
do not exceed 25% of the Community's imports                    measure concerning the administration of the shares
from third countries not associated with or linked              allocated to that Economic Union may be carried
to it by a preferential agreement during the last year          out by any one of its members,
for which statistics are available; whereas the most
urgent Community requirements for the products in
question should be met immediately on the most
favourable terms ; whereas a nil duty Community                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
tariff quota should therefore be opened within the
limits of the above amount;
                                                                                        Article 1
Whereas, in 1974, the imports of rosin from third               During the period 1 January to 31 December
countries not associated with or linked to the Com­             1976, the Common Customs Tariff duty for rosin
munity by a preferential agreement were as follows :            including 'brais resineux' falling within subheading
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38.08 A shall be totally suspended within the limits           question established in their territory have free access
of a Community tariff quota of 24 468 metric tons.              to the shares allocated to them.
The tariff quota rate of duty to be applied by the             2. The extent to which a Member State has used
new Member States shall be nil.                                up its share shall be determined on the basis of the
                                                               imports of the product in question entered with the
                                                               customs authorities for home use.
                         Article 2
The Community tariff quota referred to in Article 1                                    Article 4
shall be allocated as follows among the Member
States :
                                                               At the Commission's request, Member States shall
                                       m metric tons
                                                               inform it of the imports actually charged against
          Benelux                            4 450             their shares.
          Denmark                               70
          Germany                            8 291
                                                                                       Article 5
          France                            2 730
          Ireland                                4
                                                               Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
          Italy                             4 331
                                                               closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied
          United Kingdom                    4 592.             with.
                         Article 3                                                     Article 6
1 . Member States shall take all appropriate                   This Regulation        shall   enter  into   force   on
measures to ensure that importers of the product in            1 January 1976.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                Done at Luxembourg, 29 October 1975 .
                                                                                  For the Council
                                                                                    The President
                                                                                    G. MARCORA