CELEX: 31973R3590
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-28 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3590/73 of the Council of 28 December 1973 on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for newsprint falling within subheading No 48.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff

No L 365/36                          Official Journal of the European Communities                               31 . 12. 73
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 3590/73 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                  of 28 December 1973
              on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for newsprint
                        falling within subheading No 48.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          at 2 428 000 metric tons; whereas the fixing of the
                                                                  autonomous supplementary quantity at this level
                                                                  does not however exclude the possibility of an
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                      adjustment during the tariff period; whereas, a
European Economic Community, and in particular                    Community tariff quota of 3 053 000 metric tons
Articles 28 and 113 thereof;                                      should therefore be opened for the said goods for
                                                                  1974;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission;                Whereas equal and continuous access to the quota
                                                                  should be ensured for all importers and the rate of
                                                                  levy for the tariff quota should be applied
Whereas, as regards newsprint falling within tariff               consistently to all imports until the quota is used up ;
subheading No 48.01 A, the European Economic                      whereas, in the light of the principles outlined above,
Community has undertaken to open an annual                        a Community tariff arrangement based on an
duty-free Community tariff quota for 625 000 metric               allocation between the Member States would seem to
tons ;
                                                                  preserve the Community nature of the quota;
                                                                  whereas to represent as closely as possible the actual
Whereas, under Article 39 of the Act of Accession the             development of the market in the said goods the
new Member States must on 1 January 1974 make                     allocation should follow proportionately the
the first move towards alignment of their national                requirements of the Member States calculated both
tariffs on the Common Customs Tariff as regards the               from statistics of imports from third countries during
said goods ; whereas, therefore, the requirements of              a representative reference period and from the
those Member States for imports from third countries              economic outlook for the tariff year in question;
should from that date onwards be covered by the
tariff quota in question during the period thereof;               Whereas, however, the available statistics of imports
whereas the duties to be applied by those Member                  from third countries into the new Member States
States under the said tariff quota must be in                     only cover the year 1972 and the first few months of
conformity with the relevant provisions of the Act of             1973 , save as regards Ireland, in respect of which
Accession ;                                                       representative data for the last-mentioned months are
                                                                  not available; whereas during the year 1972 imports
                                                                  from third countries by each of the Member States
Whereas in view of current Community production                   represented the following percentages of total Com­
potential the volume of the said quota will not suffice           munity imports of the said goods ; whereas, on the
to cover the anticipated import requirements ;                    basis of an extrapolation of the available data for the
whereas provision must therefore be made for an                   first few months of 1973 , the imports of the Member
autonomous         supplementary      quantity     which,         States for the whole year of 1973 are as follows, and
according to the estimates put forward, can be fixed              are in roughly the same proportions as in 1972 :
                                                                           1972                     1973
                                                            in metric tons        in %         in metric tons
              Benelux                                           288 129           11-53            289 932
              Denmark                                           175 642             7-02            96 364
              Germany                                           666 000           26-65            652 000
              France                                            191 097             7-64           324000
              Ireland                                            48 896             1-95
              Italy                                               1511              0-06             3 760
              United Kingdom                                  1 127 400           45-15          1 286 000
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Whereas, however, to understand fully the statistics          3 . Within this tariff quota the Common Customs
given above, it should be borne in mind that the              Tariff duties shall be totally suspended.
opening of a Community tariff quota in the
enlarged Community could still change the
traditional trade relations of the Member States with         4. Within this tariff quota the new Member States
third countries; whereas, in view of these factors and        shall apply duties calculated in accordance with the
of market forecasts for newsprint in general, and of          relevant provisions of the Act of Accession.
production in particular, for 1974, the percentage
shares in the quota volume can be expressed roughly
as follows :                                                                          Article 2
              Benelux                13*30                    1 . The Community tariff quota referred to in
                                                              Artice 1 shall be allocated amongst the Member
              Denmark                  6-20                   States as follows :
              Germany                23-00                                Benelux                   400 000
              France                  9-90                                Denmark                   185 000
              Ireland                 2-30
                                                                          Germany                   720 000
              Italy                    1-30                               France                    320 000
              United Kingdom         44-00                                Ireland                    68 000
                                                                          Italy                      40 000
Whereas it seems possible to provide for a system of
use based on only one allocation, such that no risk of                   United Kingdom           1 320 000
exceeding the volume of the quota shall arise, and at
the same time preserve the Community nature of the
quota; whereas such an allocation may therefore be                                    Article 3
based on the percentage figures shown in the table
above ;
                                                              1 . Member States shall ensure that importers of
                                                              the said goods established in their territory have free
Whereas since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom             access to the shares allocated to them .
of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of
Luxembourg are jointly representated by the Benelux           2.    The extent to which a Member State has used
Economic Union        any    measure    concerning the
administration    of the    shares  allocated   to  that      up its share shall be determined on the basis of the
economic union may be carried out by one of its               quantities of the said goods imported from third
                                                              countries and entered for home use.
members,
                                                                                      Article 4
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                              Member States shall inform the Commission at
                                                              regular intervals of imports actually charged against
                        Article 1                             their shares .
1 . During the period from 1 January to 31                                            Article 5
December 1974 a Community tariff quota of
3 053 000. metric tons shall be opened in the
Community for newsprint falling within subheading             Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
No 48.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff.                      closely in order to ensure that this Regulation is
                                                              observed.
2. Imports of the said goods may not be counted
under this tariff quota if they are already free of                                   Article 6
customs duties under other preferential tariff
treatment applied by certain Member States in                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
particular under free trade agreements.                       1974.
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             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Brussels, 28 December 1973.
                                                                             For the Council
                                                                              The President
                                                                             Ove GULDBERG