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Date: 1974-02-21
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL amending Regulation (EEC) No 3574/73 of the Council of 27 December 1973 wholly or partially suspending Common Customs Tariff duties on certain agricultural products originating in Turkey (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                        COM(74)231 final
                                                        Brussels , 21 February 1974 ■
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                                PROPOSAL FOR A
                      REGULATION (EEC ) OF THE COUNCIL
           amending Regulation (EEC) No 3574/73 of the Council of
                               27 December 1973
         wholly or partially suspending Common Customs Tariff duties
           on certain agricultural products originating in Turkey
                ( submitted to the Council by the Commission)
  C0M(74) 231 final
 ---pagebreak---                           EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
At its meeting on 4 and .5 June 1973 t the Council agreed that Turkey
must be accorded , as from 1 January 197^-j treatment not less favourable
than that granted under the generalized preferences .
Council Regulation No 357^/73 of 27 December 1973 was intended to
implement this decision ; it extends to Turkey , autonomously and from
1 January to 31 December 197^» the total or partial suspension of
Common Customs Tariff duties on products falling within Chapters 1 to
2lf covered by generalised preferences and for which treatment under the
EEC-Turkey Agreement is less favourable .
At the same time the Commission submitted proposals to the Council
on the countries benefiting from " generalized preferences " and Turkey .
It was stipulated in the explanatory memorandum that the operative part
and the Annex of the Turkey Regulation should be harmonized with the
text of the " generalised preferences " Regulation . However , despite its
intention to carry out this harmonization , the Council ultimately
adopted a text which , as regards the Article specifying the duties to
be applicable in the new Menber States , is not the same in the two
Regulations a,nd , contrary to what was intended , results in . different
customs duties being specified .
The purpose of this proposal is to rectify this situation .
FINANCIAL CONSEQUENCES
The financial consequences are negligibla .
 ---pagebreak---                       Propos?! for a
                    Regulation (EEC ) of the Council
amending Regulation ( EEC ) No 357V73 of the Council
of 27 December 1973
wholly or partially suspending Cornmon Customs Tariff
duties on certain agricultural products
originating in Turkey
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic
Community , and in particular Articles k-3 and 113 thereof ;
Having regard to Regulation (EEC) No 1039/69^"       the Council of
28 May 1969 laying down the trade arrangements applicable . to certain
goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products , as last
amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 1^91/73 , and in particular Article 12
thereof ;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parliament ;
Whereas the second subparagraph of Article 1(1 ) of
Regulation (EEC) No 357^/73^ of the Council of 27 December 1973
wholly or partially suspending Common Customs Tariff duties on certain
products originating in Turkey refers in error to the duty actually
applied to Turkey on 1 January 1972 instead of to the lowest duty
applied on that date in the new Heriber States to couiVtaiifi-E regarded as
developing countries ; whereas this error should be corrected ;
 OJ No L 141 , 12 June 1969 , p. 1
20J No L 1S1 , 7 June 1973 , p. 1
^OJ No L 359, 28 December 1973 , p. 17
 ---pagebreak--- HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                 Article 1
With effect from 1 January 197^t the second subparagraph of
Article; 1(1 ) of Regulation ( EEC) No 357^/73 is replaced by the
following :
"On importation into Denmark , Ireland and the United Kingdom , there
shall be applied to the abovemrentioned products the customs duties
determined by multiplying , by a coefficient equal to the margin of
preferences existing between the duties given in Annex A and the
Common Customs Tariff duties applicable , the duties obtained by
reducing, by 20% in respect of the products mentioned in Annex B
and by k0% in respect of the products mentioned in Annex A , the
difference between the lowest duty applied to the developing countries
on 1 January 1972 and the duty under - the Common Customs Tariff ."
                                 Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of 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
                                                     The President "