CELEX: 51973PC0841
Language: en
Date: 1973-05-30
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL on the tariff treatment applicable to agricultural products contained in travellers' personal luggage (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                             Brussels . 30 May 1973
                                   PROPOSAL FOR A
                          REGULATION (EEC ) OP THE COUNCIL
                on the tariff treatment applicable to agricultural
                products contained in travellers * personal luggage
                    (submitted to the Council "by the Commission)
  CO!î(73 ) 841 final
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                           EXPLANATORY  NOTE
Council Regulation (iCEC ) Ho 1544/69 of 23 July 1969 on      tariff
treatment applicable to agricultural products contained in travellers *
personal luggage made provision for an excemption from duties under the
Common Customs Tariff for these products , to the extent that the
importations concerned have no commercial character .
For reasons identical to those which lead to the adoption of
Regulation (EEC ) 1 544/^9 » the present proposal for a Regulation aims to
extend the provisions of the above mentioned Regulation to the amounts
which are imposed within the framework of the Application of the Common
Agricultural Policy , as well as those under Regulation (EEC ) NO 1059/69-
In view of the field in which the exemption concerned applies the
financial implications which will result from it cannot be quantified .
 ---pagebreak---                       PROPOSAL FOR A
               REGULATION f EEC ) 07 THE OOTITOTL
          on the tariff treatment applicable to agricultural
          products contained in travellers' personal luggage
 THE COUIIC IL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic
 Community and in particular Articles 43 aM 235 thereof :
Having regard to the proposal from the Commissions
Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parliament 5
Whereas Article 1 of Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 1544/69 ( l ) of
 23 July 1969 provides that goods contained in travellers' personal
 luggage shall "be exempt from eomnon oustoms duties ;
Whereas , for the same reasons as led to the adoption of Regulation ( EEC )
No 1544/69 , the exemption set out in that Regulation should "be
extended to amounts to "be levied within the framework of the common
agricultural policy and to those established by Council Regulation ( EEC )
No 1059/69 ( 2) of 28 May 1969 1 laying down the trade arrangements
applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of
agricultural products , as last amended by Regulation ( EEC ) No 609/72 (3 )5
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION 1
                                   Article 1
Regulation (EEC ) No 1544/69 shall be applicable to the levies , duties
and other amounts imposed on the crossing of a frontier within the
framework of the common agricultural policy or the rules relating to
trade in certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural
products .
The Regulation shall also apply to amounts levied on the crossing of
frontiers between two member states .
( 1 ) OJ No L 191 » 5 August 1969
( 2 ) OJ No L 141 . 12 June I969
( 3) OJ No L 75 » 28 Farch 1972
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                               Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following the
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publication in the Official Journal of the European Cocmtmities .
This Regulation shall bo binding in its entirety and direotly
applicable in all Member States ,
Done at Brussels .            '              For the Commission
                                             The President