CELEX: 31977R2302
Language: en
Date: 1977-10-18 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 2302/77 of 18 October 1977 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 (1978)

No L 269/4                         Official Journal of the European Communities                            21 . 10 . 77
                                 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 2302/77
                                                 of 18 October 1977
               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 ( 1978)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                   Whereas, in view of the negligible size of such a quota
COMMUNITIES,                                                  in comparison with the Community's requirements, a
                                                              system of utilization should, without derogating from
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         the Community nature of the tariff quota, be
Economic Community, and in particular Article 28              provided, based on a single allocation between the
thereof,                                                      Member States ; whereas this allocation should be
                                                              calculated by the same method as is used to establish
                                                              a total quota of 25 % of the imports of each Member
Having regard to the draft Regulation submitted by            State from the same third countries ; whereas, calcu­
the Commission,                                               lated in such a manner, this allocation should be as
                                                              set out in Article 2 ;
Whereas the production in the Community and in
Greece of rosin falling within subheading 38.08 A of          Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the
the Common Customs Tariff is currently insufficient           Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of
to meet the requirements of the processing industries         Luxembourg are united within and jointly represented
in the Community ; whereas, consequently, Commu­              by the Benelux Economic Union, any measure
nity supplies of products of this type currently depend       concerning the administration of the shares allocated
to a considerable extent on imports from third coun­          to that economic union may be carried out by any
tries ;
                                                              one of its members,
Whereas, under Decision No 1 /75 of the Association
Council on the application of paragraph 3 of Protocol
10 to the Agreement establishing an Association
between the European Economic Community and
                                                              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Greece, the Community may open autonomous tariff
quotas for rosin provided that, for the Community as
a whole, the annual quotas do not exceed 25 % of the
Community's imports from third countries not associ­
ated with or linked to it by a preferential agreement                                Article 1
during the last year for which statistics are available ;
whereas the most urgent Community requirements
for the products in question should be met immedi­            For the period 1 January to 31 December 1978 , the
ately on the most favourable terms ; whereas a nil duty       Common Customs Tariff duty for rosin, including
Community tariff quota should therefore be opened            'brais resineux', falling within subheading 38.08 A
within the limits of the above amount ;                       shall be totally suspended within the limits of a
                                                              Community tariff quota of 21 013 tonnes.
Whereas, in 1976, the imports of rosin from third
countries not associated with or linked to the Commu­
nity by a preferential agreement were as follows :
                                                                                     Article 2
                                        (tonnes)
        Benelux                          15 961
        Denmark                             259              The Community tariff quota referred to in Article 1
        Germany                          26 443               shall be allocated as follows among the Member
        France                            9 767               States :
        Ireland                             214                                                      (tonnes)
        Italy                            10 206                       Benelux                         3 990
        United Kingdom                   21 199                       Denmark                            65
                                                                      Germany                         6611
                            Total        84 049
                                                                      France                          2 442
                                                                      Ireland                            54
Whereas 25 % of this total represents 21 013 tonnes ;                 Italy                           2 551
                                                                      United Kingdom                  5 300
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                       Article 3                                                  Article 5
1 . Member States shall take all appropriate
measures to ensure that importers of the product in
question established in their territory have free access    Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
to the shares allocated to them .                           closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied
                                                            with .
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
customs authorities for home use .
                                                                                   Article 6
                       Article 4
At the Commission's request, Member States shall
inform it of the imports actually charged against their      This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
shares.                                                      1978 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Luxembourg, 18 October 1977.
                                                                       For the Council
                                                                        The President
                                                                         H. SIMONET