CELEX: 51975PC0618
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Date: 1975-12-01
Title: Proposal for A COUNCIL REGULATION amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 1599/75 of 24 June 1975 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 or in the overseas countries and territories. (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                     COM(75)618 final.
                                                     Brussels . 1 December 1975
                                         Proposal for
                                    A COUNCIL REGULATION
                amending Council Regulation ( EEC ) NO 1599 /75 of 24 June 1975
                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 or in the overseas countries and territories .
                          ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
C0î.:( 75 ) 618 final .
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                              EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1 . When the ACP-EEC Convention of Lome was signed on 28 February 1975i "the
    Community declared its intention of admitting products falling within
    heading No 06.03 or 06.04 of the Common Customs Tariff free of customs duties
    and of informing the ACP States as soon as possible of the date of entry
    into force of those arrangements , it being first necessary for the Community
    to settle the problems relating to the common import arrangements for those
    products .  The Community also declared its intention of settling those problems
    by the end of 1975 *
    Since the discussions on a proposal for common import arrangements resulted
    in an agreement which enables that proposal to be submitted for approval by
    the Council at its meeting of 15 December 1975 » under item A , and the entry
    into force of the common import arrangements to be set at 1 January 1976,
    products falling within heading No 06.03 or 06.04 and originating in the
    African , Caribbean and Pacific States or the overseas countries and territories
    should be exempted from customs duties from that date .
2 . Whereas Regulation ( EEC ) NO 1599/75 lays down in respect of the products subject
    to levies or variable components total or partial exemption from such charges ;
    whereas deflections of trade could occur during the period of application of
    accession compensatory amounts in trade in these products between the Community
    as originally constituted and "the new Member States j whereas appropriate
    provisions should be made to enable measures to b© taken in cases where there
                                                      V
    is a danger of deflection of trade .
 ---pagebreak---                         PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION
  amending CounolX Regulation ( EEC ) No 1599 /75 of 24 June 1975         arrangements
  applicable to agricultural products and certain goods resulting from the proces­
  sing of agricultural products originatingin the African , Caribbean and Pacific
                  States or in the overseas countries and territories .
  THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economio Community , and
  in particular Articles 43 and 113 thereof :
                                                      «
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
 Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parliament ;
 Whereas Article 19 of Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 1599/75 ( l ) of 24 June 1975
 on the arrangements applicable to agricultural products and certain goods re­
 sulting from the processing of agricultural products originating in the African ,
 Caribbean and Pacific States or in the overseas countries and territories lays
 down that the products referred to in Regulation (EEC) No 234/68 are to be
        %
 imported free of customs duties , with the exception of         products falling
within heading No 06.03 or 06.04 of the Common Customs Tariff ;
 Whereas the exemption of those products from customs duties was deferred until
 the problems relating to the tsnification of the import arrangements applied by
 each Member State with regard to non-member countries in respect of live plants
 and flowers could be settled ;
lifhereas Council Regulation ( EEC ) No    /75 of                          ( 2 ) has
established the necessary common import arrangements ; whereas ,
consequently , products falling within heading No 06.03 or 06.04 and
originating in the African , Caribbean and Pacific States or the
overseas countries and territories should be exempted from customs
duties from the date of entry into force of the said common import
arrangements :                                                 ""
                                                                           •     •
 ( 1 ) OJ iio L 166, 28.6.1975, p. 67
 ( 2 ) OJ No
 ---pagebreak--- Whereas Regulation ( EEC ) HO 1599 /75 lays down, in respect of the products
 subject to levies or variable components total or partial exemption from
 such charges ; whereas deflections of trade should "be prevented during the
period of application of accession compensatory amounts in trade in those
products between the Community as originally constituted and the new Member
                                                      «
 States ; whereas appropriate provision    should be made to enable measures to
be taken in cases where there is a danger of deflection of trade j
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                    Article 1
Article 19 of Regulation ( EEC ) NO 1599/75 is amended to read as follows :
"The products referred to in Regulation ( EEC ) Nos 234/68 , 827/68 , 1308/70,
I696/7I , 2358/71 and IO67/74 shall be imported free of customs duties".
                                                                        »
                                    Article 2
Article 22 of Regulation ( EEC ) NO I599/75 is amended to read as follows :
" The reductions provided for by this Regulation shall be calculated by reference
  to :
  - the variable components of levies where the levies contain such components ,
  - the levies in other cases ,
  applicable to imports from third countries into the Community as
  originally constituted ,                          v
However , during the period of application of accession compensatory amounts in
trade between the Community as originally constituted and the new Member States ,
measures     to    prevent      deflections of trade shall be taken in accordance
with the procedure referred to in Article 23 , if this proves necessary".
 ---pagebreak---                                 Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1976 .
                                          j
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in
all Member States .
Done at                                     For the Council
                                            The President
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                       FINANCIAL                  STATEMENT
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                                                                                                   18.11.1975
         1« Line of the Oudgat concerned t Chapter 12 ( customs duties )
        2, Title of the action s Draft proposal for a 'Council Regulation amending Council Regulation
     ( EEC) Bo 1599/75 of 24 . June I975 on the arrangements applicable to agricultural product
    and certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products originating
.   ries «
                African , Caribbean and Pacific States or in the overseas countries and territo–
       3, Legal basis : Article 43 of the Treaty
       K. Objectives of the action : It is proposed that products falling within heading No 06.03
      or O0 . O4 and originating in the ACP States or OCT should be exempted from customs
      duties from the date of the entry into force of the common import arrangements for
      live plants .
        5.0  Cost of the action exemption from               during the campaign    currwt exercice (    ) folloBlnq exerclseí " ó ]
              customs duties                –'
                cnarge to the tt ttjdoer
                charge toihtfnational administrations
               .charge to other national sectors                                                                593.000 u.a .
        5.1 Estimated costs 1       Year .J.9.7.6.      Year .1.97.7 .     Year a^S .
                                                                       0,6 Mio u.a .
 !      5.2 Method of calculation On the basis of trade ( 1973 for the EEC of 6 ; 1972 for the new
   Member States of the EEC ), the non-collection of customs duties gives risa to the
   following figures for the whole of 1976 i
   4 Mo u.a . , of which 29 . 000 u.a . at 8 $£, 2,3 Mio u.a . at 10 jS, 593.000 u.a. at 17
     and 1,07 Mio u.a . at 24 # = 593.000 u.a .
       6.1  Possible financing by credits written Into the relative chapter of the current Budget
                                 Yes               Ho                                ,
    , 6.2 Possible financing by transfers between chapters of the currs»t--8ll3get^
                                 Yes               No
       6.3  Necossity for a suppl ementjty-BSjcwat .             Yes             No
       6.^  Ccccri-ts to be written Into future budgets
       Comments :The provisions of the Lome Convention stipulate the abolition of customs duties
       for the abov<-|m_mtioned products upon entry into force "of common import arrangements
       for live plants .                                                                                                         *