CELEX: 51993PC0533
Language: en
Date: 1993-10-29
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) CONCERNING A TECHNICAL ADAPTATION OF COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) NO 715/90 ON THE ARRANGEMENTS APPLICABLE TO AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AND CERTAIN GOODS RESULTING FROM THE PROCESSING OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS ORIGINATING IN THE AFRICAN, CARIBBEAN AND PACIFIC STATES (ACP STATES)

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMVIUNITIES
                                           COM(93) 533 final
                                           Brussels, 29 October 1993
                            Proposal for a
                       COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
        CONCERNING A TECHNICAL ADAPTATION OF COUNCIL REGULATION
     (EEC) NO 715/9 0 ON THE ARRANGEMENTS APPLICABLE TO AGRICULTURAL
      PRODUCTS AND CERTAIN GOODS RESULTING FROM THE PROCESSING OF
      AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS ORIGINATING IN THE AFRICAN, CARIBBEAN
                      AND PACIFIC STATES (ACP STATES)
                    (presented by the Commission)
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                              EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
Pursuant to the ACP-EEC Lomé convention and Regulation (EEC) No 715/9 0,
pineapples, advocados, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens originating in the ACP
states may be imported into the Community free of customs duty.
These arrangements date from the completion of the customs union.
Following the recent inclusion of these products in the common organization of
the market in fruit and vegetables, a technical adaptation is required to include
these products in Article 15 of Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 providing for
exemption from customs duties for fruit and vegetables.
Such a technical adaptation is the aim of the attached proposal for a Regulation.
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                                          Proposal for a
                                   COUNCIL REGULATION           (EEC) No
                                                    of
                          concerning a technical adaptation of Council
                   Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 on the arrangements applicable
                   to agricultural products and certain goods resulting from
                     the processing of agricultural products originating in
                     the African, Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP States)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in
particular Article 113 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas the African, Caribbean and Pacific States                   (ACP States) are granted
exemption from customs duties for pineapples, advocados, guavas, mangoes and
mangosteens pursuant to the Fourth ACP-EEC Convention' 1 ) and Regulation                        (EEC)
                2                                                                  3
No 7 1 5 / 9 0 ( ) , as last amended by Regulation           (EEC) No 4 4 4 / 9 2 < ) ;
Whereas, under Regulation         (EEC) No 6 3 8 / 9 3 < 4 ) , with effect from 1 January 1993,
the abovementioned products are included in Council Regulation                          (EEC) No 1035/72
of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the market in fruit and
vegetables(^) and avocados, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens are withdrawn from
Council Regulation         (EEC) No 827/68 of 28 June 1968 on the common organization of
the market in certain products listed in Annex II to the T r e a t y ' 6 ) ;
(1) OJ    No L 229, 17.8.1991, p. 1.
(2) OJ    No L 84, 30.3.1990, p. 85.
(3) OJ    No L 52, 27.2.1992, p. 7.
(4) OJ    No L 6 9, 20.3.1993, p. 7.
(5) OJ    No L 118, 20.5.1972, p. 1 (Regulation last amended by Regulation (EEC)
    No     638/9j(4)).
(6) OJ    No L 151, 30.6.1968, p. 16 (Regulation last amended by Regulation (EEC)
    No    2430/y3 (OJ No L 223, 2.9.1993, p. 9 . ) ) .
 ---pagebreak--- Whereas, following the abovementioned amendment to Regulation    (EEC) No 1035/72, a
technical adaptation should be made to Regulation    (EEC) No 715/90; whereas that
adaptation should include the products in question in the table given in Article
15 listing fruit and vegetables which may be imported free of customs duties;
whereas that technical adaptation should take effect on the same date as the
amendment to Regulation  (EEC) No 1035/72,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                     Article 1
The following products are hereby inserted in the table given in Article 15(1) of
Regulation  (EEC) No 715/90:
    CN code                              Description
"0804 30 00                   Pineapples
 0804 40                      Avocados
 0804 50 00                   Guavas, mangoes and mangosteens".
                                     Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in
the Official Journal of the European Communities.
It shall apply from 1 January 1993.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all
Member States.
L>one at,                                          For the council
                                                    The President
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