CELEX: 51994PC0505
Language: en
Date: 1994-11-18
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) temporarily suspending totally or partially the autonomous duties of the Common Customs Tariff for certain fishery products (1995)

COMMISSION OP THE EUROPEAN COMVttJNITIES
                                                        C0M(94) 505 final
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                                                        Brussels, 18.11.1994
                                       Proposal for a
                                COUNCIL REGULATION (EC)
    temporarily suspending totally or partially the autonomous duties of the Common Customs
                            Tariff for certainfisheryproducts (1995)
                            (presented by the Commission)
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                          EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
   In the third quarter of this year, the Commission, with the assistance ~5f the Economic
   Tariff Questions Group, examined all requests, submitted by Member States, for
   temporary suspension of common customs tariff duties, including the requests for
   prolongation of the suspensions currently in force.
   The attached proposal concerns a number of fishery products. The proposal for
   industrial products is being prepared.
3. Requests for suspension relating to the above products were examined in the light of
   the criteria defined in the Commission communication to the Council and the Member
   States, concerning autonomous tariff suspensions (cf. O.J. No. C 235 of 13.9.89, p. 2).
   As a result of this examination, the Commission deems it justifiable to suspend the
   duty on those products listed in the Annex to the attached draft Regulation.
   As stated in Article 1 of the aforementioned proposal for a Regulation, the proposed
   period of validity is 12 months.
 ---pagebreak---                                                    Proposal for a
                                                                                                ?
                                COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No                        194
                                                of                1994
                 temporarily suspending totally or partially the autonomous duties of the
                      Common Customs Tariff for certain fishery products (1995) _
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
UNION,
                                                                                     Article 1
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Community, and in particular Article                    1. From 1 January to 31 December 1995, the
28 thereof,                                                     autonomous duties of the Common Customs
                                                                Tariff applicable to the products listed in the
Having regard to the proposal from the                          Annex shall be suspended at the level indicated
Commission,                                                     in respect of each of them.
Whereas Community supplies for certain                          2. Imports of the products in question shall not
fishery products currently depend on imports                    be covered by the suspensions referred to in
from third countries; whereas it is in the                      paragraph 1 unless the free-at-frontier price,
Community's interest to suspend totally or                      which is determined by the Member States in
partially the customs duties for the products in                accordance with Article 22 of Council
question; whereas, in order not to jeopardize                   Regulation (EEC) No 3759/92 of 17 December
the development prospects of production of                      1992 on the common organization of the
competitive products in the Community and to                    market in fishery and aquaculture products (l),
ensure an adequate supply to satisfy user                       is at least equal to the reference price fixed, or
industries, it is advisable to limit these suspen-              to be fixed, by the Community for the products
sion measures to a period 1 January to 31                       under consideration or the categories of the
December 1995;                                                  products concerned.
Whereas the decision for the suspension of
these autonomous duties should be taken by the                                       Article 2
Community,
                                                                This Regulation shall enter into force on 1
                                                                January 1995.
       This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
       Done at           ,               1994.
                                                                   For the Council
                                                                   The President
C1) OJNo L 388, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1891/93 (OJ No L 172,15. 7.
    1993, p. 1).
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   CN code        TASIC Description of goods                                                      Autonomous duties (X) ?
 1   63826526           Dogfish of the species Squalus acanlhias,         fresh, chilled or
     63637520           frozen
   6x63641698     •66
   8x6364969?     • 31
 2 ex8362699?     «36   Sturgeons, fresh, chilled or frozen, for processing               (a) (b)
   ex83837997     «36
 3 ex8362699?     (48   Luap fish (.Cycloplerus   tuapus) «ith roe, fresh or chilled,
                        for processing (a)
 4 ex63826997     (58   Bed Snapper (Luijanus purpureas),       fresh, chilled or frozen,
   6x63637997     (48   for processing (a) (c)
 5 6x63627886     (11   Hard fish roes, fresh, chilled or frozen
   6x63627686     (91
   6x63638666     (21
   6x63638666     (29
 6 6x63631666     (16   Pacific salaon (Oncorhynchus spp.), frozen and headless,
                        for the processing industry for aanufaclure into pastes or
                        spreads (a)
 7 GxG3Q38G99     Ml    Soft roe, frozen, for the aanufacture of deoxyribonucleic acid
   ex83638888     (19   or prolaaine sulphate (a)
 9 ex63842685     (18   Fillets and aeat of Alaska pollack (Theraqra             chalcograaaa),
   6x63649661     (18   in the fora of industrial blocks, frozen, for processing (a)
                        (b)                                                                        16
18 ex638S269e     (18   Hard fish roes, salted or in brine
11 6x63861996     (16   Krill for processing (a)
   ex63862998     (16
12 exl6041188     (26   Pacific salaon (Oncorhynchus spp.), for the processing
   GK160.42610    (26   industry for aanufacture into pastes or spreads (a)
13 6x16043699     (18   Hard fish roes, «ashed, cleaned of adherent organs and siaply
                        salted or in brine, for processing (a)
14 exl69S1969     (11   Crabs of the species 'Xing'        (Paralithodes
   exl6951899     (19   caachaticus),   'Hanasaki' (Paratithodes         brevipes),
                        'Kegani' (Eriaacrus   isenbecki),    'Queen' and
                        'Snow' (Chi'onoecetes spp.),     'Red' (Geryon
                        quinquedans),   'Rough stone' (Neoii thodes          asperriaus),
                        Lithodes anlarclica,    'Hud' (Scytta       serrala),
                        'Blue* (Portunus spp.), siaply boiled in water and
                        shelled, whether or not frozen, in iaaediale packings of a net
                        content of 2kg or aore
15 exl68S3686     (16   Lobster flesh, cooked, for the processing industry for the
                        aanufacture of butters based on lobster, or of pastes, pâtés,
                        soups or sauces (a) (c)
 ---pagebreak--- (a) Control of the use for this special purpose shall be carried out pursuant to
    the relevant Coaaunity provisions.
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(b) The suspension shall apply to fish intended to undergo any operation unless
    they are intended to undergo exclusively one or aore of the following
    operations:
    - cleaning, gutting, tailing, heading,
    - cutting (excluding filleting or cutting of frozen blocks),
    - saapling, sorting,
    - labelling,
    - packing,
    - chilling,
    - freezing,                     ''
    - deep freezing,
    - thawing, séparation.
    The suspension is not allowed for products intended, in addition, to undergo
    treataent (or operations) qualifying for suspension where such treataant (or
    operations) is (are) carried out at retail or catering level. The suspension
    of cusloas duties shall apply only to fish intended for huaan consumption.
(c) However, the suspension is not- allowed where processing is carried out by
    retail or catering undertakings.
 ---pagebreak---                                 FINANCIAL RECORD
1. Budget line concerned : Chap. 12 Art. 120
2. Title of the tariff measure concerned : Proposal for a Council Regulation, temporarily
   suspending totally or partially the autonomous duties of the Common Customs Tariff
   for certainfisheryproducts (1995).
3. Legal basis : Art. 28 of the EC-Treaty
4. Objective : suspension of CCT duties on the abovementioned products
5. Cost of this tariff-measure :                                           -
   To be borne by the EC-budget :
        for the same exercise in 1994, the loss of own resources was expected to be of
        the order of 35 300 000 ECU.
        for the current exercise, based on the Community statistics available, a reasonable
        estimate for the cost of the operation for the period covered by the attached draft
        Regulation would be of the order of 37 000 000 ECU.
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