CELEX: 51987PC0635
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Date: 1987-12-02
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) opening and providing for the administration of a Community preferential ceiling for certain petroleum products refined in Turkey and establishing Community surveillance for imports thereof (1988) (submitted by the Commission)

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                                                   COM(87 ) 635 final
                                                   Brussels , 2 December 1987
                                    Proposal for a
                              COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
 opening and providing for the administration of a Community preferential
           ceiling for certain petroleum products refined in Turkey and
              establishing Community surveillance for imports thereof
                                        ( 1988 )
                           ( submitted by the Commission )
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                              EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1 . Following negotiations held with Turkey with a view to amending the
        EEC-Turkey Association Agreement and the Additional Protocol thereto
       consequent on the accession of new Member States , the Community signed
       on 30 June 1973 in Ankara a Supplementary Protocol , which entered
       into force on 1 March 1986 .
       This Supplementary Protocol provides inter alia for the opening of an
       annual Community duty-free tariff quota of 340 000 tonnes for certain
       petroleum products falling within Chapter 27 of the Common Customs
       Tariff or the Combined Nomenclature due to enter into force on
       1 January 1988 .
       The Commission is aware that this concession might still be modified
       during negotiations to be held with Turkey ( 1 ). Pending a decision
       on the subject , this proposal enables the commitments contracted by
       the Community to be met .
       Moreover , the Commission is aware that the transposition of certain
       tariff concessions from the Common Customs Tariff to the Combined
       Nomenclature might raise problems which would need to be settled
       between the parties concerned .
       It may therefore amend its proposal in the course of the procedure in
      order to adapt it , where necessary , to requirements .
2.     In addition , the decision taken by the Council of Association in
       June 1973 that Turkey should not receive less favourable treatment than
      that granted to the countries qualifying for generalised tariff
      preferences led the Commission and the Turkish authorities to study
      the problem of giving Turkey and the developing countries equivalent
      tariff treatment .
 ( 1 ) By reason of the accession of Greece and of Spain and Portugal .
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   The Community tariff quotas opened for the developing countries during
   the years 1971 to 1973 were converted with effect from 1 January 1974
   into Community ceilings , the levels of which were calculated by the
   usual method . For 1975 these vc Lumes wr re fixed at the 1974 levels plus
   12 % , for 1976 at the 1975 levels plus 15 % , for 1977 at the 1976
   levels plus   4.6 % overall , for 1978 , 1979 and 1980 at the same levels
   as in 1977 ,  for 1981 at the 1980 levels plus 2 % , for 1982 at the
   1981 levels   plus 10 % , for 1983 at the 1982 levels plus 5 % , for 1984
   at the 1983   levels , for 1985 at the 1984 levels plus 25 % , for 1986
   at the 1985   levels plus 4.527 % , and for 1987 and 1988 at the 1986 levels .
   After studying the problem , the Commission finally recognized that ,
   in view of the provisions of paragraph 4 of the Sole Article of
   Annex I to the Additional Protocol , the tariff quota of 340 000 tonnes
   laid down for Turkey should be converted , as from 1976 , into a
   Community ceiling , the volume of which should be increased in the same
   proportions as had been applied under the Generalized System of
   Preferences .
   The only purpose of the attached proposal for a Regulation is to open ,
   for the products in question , a Community ceiling for 1988 of 705 000
   tonnes and to establish Community surveillance of imports of these
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   products , taking into account the need to incorporate the relevant
   Combined Nomenclature code numbers in place of the Common Customs
   Tariff code numbers .
3. The application of ceilings and the possibility of re-establishing
   customs duties require the adoption of precise common rules to be
   applied uniformly by all Member States . These requirements may be met
   by the establishment of a Community surveillance system for goods
   actually imported from the partner country . To this end , the Member
   States must take adequate measures to ensure that statistical returns
   can be collected quickly at Community level . In this respect , account
   should be kept only of imports of the products in question as and
   when they are entered with the customs authorities for free circulation .
   Statistics will be compiled by each Member State at the end of each
   month and will be forwarded to the Commission by the fifteenth day of
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   the following month in order to enable it to telex to all Member States
   complete statistics of imports of the products in question during the
   preceding month . The system of surveillance will require a diligent
   effort as well as close cooperation between the Member States'competent
   authorities and the Commission departments .
   As regards implementation of the mechanism for re-establishing customs
   duties , the following system will be applied : as soon as the total
   monthly statistics compiled by the Commission departments indicate
   that 75 % of the ceiling has been used up , the latter will notify
   the Member States and consultations may then be held , for instance
   within the Economic Tariff Problems Group , either at a Member State 's
   request or on the Commission 's initiative . The purpose of such consul ¬
   tations will be to examine whether the customs duties applicable to
   third countries should be re-established when the ceiling has been
   used up .
   Imports of the products in question will continue to be notified on a
   monthly basis or , at the request of the Commission , by telex every ten
   days . In the latter case , a five-day forwarding deadline will apply .
   The Commission will thus be able to act quickly to adopt a regulation
   re-establishing customs duties on imports from the partner country
   until the end of the calendar year .
   In such a case , customs duties will naturally be re-established from
   the date indicated in the regulation ending the reduction of
   customs duties .
A. The attached proposal lays down that authority to apply the rules on
   ceilings and the re-establishment of customs duties should be trans¬
   ferred from the Council to the Commission .
   This proposal for a regulation merely gives a general framework within
   which such authority is to be exercised so as to enable the mechanisms
   envisaged to be adjusted flexibly and quickly in consultation with the
   Member States .
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     Moreover , it is precisely with this aim of optimum efficiency and
     speed that , under the proposed regulation , the task of re-establishing
     the customs duties applicable to third countries in respect of imports
     from the partner country will fall to the Commission .
Anne *: Proposai for a Council Régulation .
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                                     Proposal for
                           COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
          opening and providing for the administration of a Community preferen¬
          tial ceiling for certain petroleum products refind in Turkey and
          establishing Community surveillance for imports thereof ( 1988 )
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     Article 7 of the Supplementary Protocol to the Association Agree ¬
ment between the European Economic Community and Turkey consequent on the
accession of new Member States to the Community ( 1 ), which was signed in
Ankara on 30 June 1973 and entered into force on 1 March 1986 ( 2 ), provides
for the total suspension of customs duties applicable to certain petroleum
products refined in Turkey falling within Chapter 27 of the Common Customs
Tariff within the limits of an annual Community tariff quota of 340 000
tonnes ; whereas , for the products concerned , a provisional adjustment
should be made to those tariff preferences , consisting essentially of
substituting for the Community tariff quota a Community ceiling amounting ,
after successive increases , to 705 000 tonnes , above which the customs
duties applicable to third countries may be re-established .
Whereas the Community has adopted , with effect form 1 January 1988 , a
Combined Nomenclature for goods which meets the requirements of the Common
Customs Tariff and the external trade statistics of the Community and
statistics of trade between Member States ; whereas in order to accomodate
specific Community measures this Nomenclature has been expanded
into an integrated tariff of the European Communities ( TARIC ); whereas ,
from the date given above , the Combined Nomenclature and , where appropriate ,
the TARIC code numbers should be used for the description of the products
covered by this Regulation ;
Whereas , in accordance with Article 119 of the Act of Accession of Greece ,
the Council adopted Regulation ( EEC ) No 3555 / 80 determining the arrangements
to be applied with regard to imports into Greece originating in Algeria ,
Israel , Malta , Morocco , Portugal , Syria , Tunisia or Turkey ( 3 ); whereas ,
the Council has also adopted Regulation ( EEC ) No 2573 / 87 laying down the
arrangements for trade between Spain and Portugal , on the one hand , and
Algeria , Egypt , Jordan , Lebanon , Tunisia and Turkey , on the other ( 4 );
whereas the tariff quota in question applies therefore to the Community
of Nine ;
Whereas the application of ceilings requires the Community to be regularly
 ( 1 ) 0J No L 361 , 31.12.19 77 , p. 2 .
 ( 2 ) 0J No L 48 , 26.2.1986 , p. 36 .
 ( 3 ) 0J No L 382 , 31.12.1980 , p. 1 .
 ( 4 ) 0J No L 250 , 1.9.1987 , p. 1 .
 ---pagebreak---   informed of the trend of imporls of the relevant products originating
  in Turkey ; whereas imports should , therefore , he made subject to a system
  of surveillance ;
  Whereas this objective may be achieved by Keans or an administrative pro¬
  cedure based on offsetting imports of the products in question against
  the ceiling at Community level as and when these products are entered with
  the customs authorities for free circulation ; whereas this administrative
  procedure ust make provision for the possible re-establishment of customs
  tariff duties as soon as the ceiling is reached at Community level ;
  Whereas this administrative procedure requires close and particularly
  swift cooperation between the Member States and the Commission ; whereas
  the latter must , in particular , be able to follow the progress of quantities
  charged against the ceiling and keep the Member States informed ; whereas
  this cooperation has to be particularly close since the Commission must be
  able to take the appropriate measures to re-establish customs tariff
  duties if the ceiling is reached .
  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                   Article 1
  1 . From 1 January to 31 December 1988 the duties applicable to imports
      into the Community of Nine of the petroleum products refined in Turkey
      indicated below shall be suspended in full within the limits of a
      Community ceiling of 705 000 tonnes :
  2 . The petroleum products to which paragraph 1 applies shall be the
      fol lowing :
Serial       Combined                                          «
  No       Nomenclature                  Description
               No
13.0010     2710 00      Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous
                         minerals , other than crude ; preparations not elsewhere
                         specified or included , containing by weight 70 % or
                         more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bi ¬
                         tuminous minerals , these oils being the basic con ¬
                         stituents of the preparations :
                         - Light oi Is :
                         – For other purposes :
                         - Special spirits :
            2710 00 21   - White spirit
            2710 00 25   - Other
                         - Other :
                         - Motor spirit :
            2710 00 31   - Aviation spirit
                         - Other , with a lead content :
            2710 00 33   - Not exceeding 0.013 g per litre
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   No        Nomenc lature           Description
                 No
13.0010       2710 00 35   - Ëxc^eding 0.013 g per litre
( cont * d )
              2710 00 37   - Spirit type jet fuel
              2710 00 39   - Other light oils
                           - Medium oi Is :
                           – For other purposes :
                           - Kerosene :
              2710 00 51   - Jet fuel
              2710 00 55   - Other
              2710 00 59   - Other
                           - Heavy oils :
                           – Gas oi ls :
              2710 00 69   - For other purposes
                           – Fuel oi ls :
              2710 00 79   - For other purposes
                           – Lubricating oils ; other oils :
              2710 00 95   - To be mixed in accordance with the terms of
                               additional note 6 to this chapter ( 1 )
              2710 00 99   - For other purposes
              2711         Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons :
              2711 12      – Propane :
                           - Other :
              2711 12 99   - For other purposes
              2711 13      – Butanes :
              2711 13 90   - For other purposes
              2712         Petroleum jelly , paraffin wax , microcrystalline
                           petroleum wax , slack wax , ozokerite , lignite wax ,
                           peat wax , other mineral waxes , and similar products
                           obtained by synthesis or by other processes ,
                           whether or not coloured :
              2712 10      - Petroleum jelly :
              2712 10 10   – Crude
              2712 10 90   – Other
              2712 20 00   - Paraffin wax containing by weight less than 0.75 X
                             of oi l
              2712 90      - Other :
                           – Other :
                           - Crude :
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   No        Nomenc lature               Descript ion
                  No
13.0010       2712 90 39            For other purposes
( cont 'd )
              2712 90 90           Other
              . 713           Petroleum coke , petroleum bitumen and other residues
                              of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from
                              bituminous minerals :
              2713 90         - Other residues of petroleum oils or of oils
                                obtained from biuminous minerals :
              2713 90 90         Other
(1 )   Entry under this subheading is subject to conditions to be determined by
       the competent authorities .
   3 . Imports of the petroleum products referred to in paragraph 1 shall be
       subject to Community surveillance .
   4 . Quantities shall be charged against the ceiling as and when products
       are entered with the customs authorities for free circulation .
   5 . The extent to which the ceiling is used up shall be determined at
       Community level on the basis of the imports charged against it , in
       the manner specified in paragraph 4 .
   6 . Member States shall inform the Commission , at the intervals and within
       the time limits specified in Article 3 , of imports effected in
       accordance with the rules referred to in this Article .
                                Article 2
   As soon as the ceiling referred to Article 1(1 ) has been reached at
   Community level , the Commission may adopt a regulation re-establishing ,
   until the end of the calendar year , the collection of Common Customs
   Tariff duties .
                                Article 3
   Member States shall send the Commission statements of the quantities
   charged for the preceding month no later than the fifteenth day of each
   month . At the Commission 's request , they shall send statements of the
   quantities charged for periods of ten days , to be forwarded within five
   clear days of the end of each ten-day period .
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The Commission shall take all appropriate measures , in close cooperation
with the Member States , to ensure the implementation of this Regulation .
                                Article 5
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1988 .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable
in all Member States .
Done at Brussels ,
                                               For the Council
                                               The President
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considération lors de la prise de décision d' adoption de ce contingent et
il n' aura pas un caractère sérieux sur la canpétitivité et 1 ' emploi dans la
Cormunauté .