CELEX: 31976R0090
Language: en
Date: 1976-01-20 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 90/76 of 20 January 1976 establishing indicative ceilings and Community supervision for imports of certain products originating in Norway (1976)

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                                      COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 90/76
                                                    of 20 January 1976
                  establishing indicative ceilings and Community supervision for imports of certain
                                          products originating in Norway ( 1976)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                        the reintroduction of customs tariff duties as soon as
                                                                 the ceilings have been reached at Community level ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­
                                                                 Whereas this administrative procedure requires close
pean Economic Community, and in particular
                                                                 and particularly rapid cooperation between the
Article 113 thereof,
                                                                 Member States and the Commission ; whereas the
                                                                 latter must, in particular, be able to follow the pro­
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,               gress of amounts set off against the indicative ceilings
                                                                 and keep the Member States informed ; whereas this
                                                                 cooperation must be all the closer since the Com­
Whereas an Agreement between the European                        mission must be able to take adequate measures to
Economic Community and the Kingdom of Nor­                       re-introduce customs tariff duties whenever one of the
way i 1) was signed on 14 May 1973 ;                             ceilings has been reached ;
Whereas Articles 1 , 2 and 3 of Protocol 1 annexed to            Whereas the trend of imports should be followed
this Agreement make provision for a specific time­               for certain products for which, under Article 4 of
table for the progressive abolition of customs duties            Protocol 1 , the Community has suspended the
in respect of the products to which the Agreement                application of ceilings and for products which are
applies ; whereas under Article 4 of that Protocol the           not subject to the ceiling system ; whereas it is there­
imports of these products are limited to annual                  fore desirable that imports of such products should
indicative ceilings above which the customs duties               be subject to supervision,
applicable to third countries may be re-introduced;
whereas, however, under Article 4 (b) the Community
has to suspend the application of certain ceilings;              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
whereas, on the other hand, in the event of short­
term economic difficulties, the Community may,
under Article 4 (c) of Protocol 1 , maintain the ceiling                                Article 1
amounts of the preceding year ; whereas, however,
application of this measure must be limited to prod­              1 . From 1 January until 31 December 1976, imports
ucts most affected by the short-term difficulties ;              of products originating in Norway and indicated in
whereas, therefore, the ceilings to be applied in 1976           Annex I to this Regulation shall be subject to
must be established ; whereas in this situation it is            indicative ceilings and to Community supervision.
also necessary that the Commission be regularly
informed of the trend of the imports of the products
in question and, in consequence, it is necessary to              The description of the products referred to in the
subject these imports to supervision ;                           preceding subparagraphs, their tariff headings and
                                                                 statistic numbers and the levels of the indicative
                                                                 ceilings are given in Annex I.
Whereas this objective may be achieved by means of
an administrative procedure based on setting off
imports of the products in question against the                  2. Amounts shall be set off against the indicative
indicative ceilings at Community level, as and when              ceilings as and when products are submitted to the
these products are submitted to the customs auth­                customs authorities under cover of a declaration that
orities under cover of declarations that they have               they have been made available for consumption and
been made available for consumption ; whereas this               accompanied by a movement certificate conforming
administrative procedure must make provision for                 to the rules contained in Protocol 3 to the Agreement.
                                                                 Goods shall be set off against the indicative ceiling
(*) OJ No L 171 , 27. 6. 1973, p . 2.                            only if the movement certificate has been submitted
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before   the  date    on which  customs    duties  are                            Article 2
reimposed.
                                                            From 1 January until 31 December 1976, imports
                                                            of the products referred to in Annex II which
The reaching of a ceiling shall be determined at            originate in Norway shall be subject to Community
Community level on the basis of imports set off             supervision.
against it in the manner defined in the preceding
subparagraphs .                                             Member States shall forward to the Commission not
                                                            later than the 15th day of each month statements of
The Member States shall periodically inform the             imports of the products in question effected during
Commission of imports effected in accordance with           the preceding month ; to this end, only products
                                                            submitted to the customs authorities under cover
the above rules ; such information shall be supplied
under the conditions laid down in paragraph 4.              of a declaration that they have been made available
                                                            for consumption and accompanied by a movement
                                                            certificate conforming to the rules contained in
3 . As soon as the ceilings have been reached,     the      Protocol 3 to the Agreement shall be taken into
Commission may issue a Regulation reimposing       the      consideration .
customs duties provided for in Article 4 (f)        of
Protocol 1 to the Agreement until the end of       the                             Article 3
calendar year.
                                                            For the implementation of this Regulation the Com­
4. Member States shall forward to the Commission            mission shall take all necessary measures in close
not later than the 15th day of each month statements        cooperation with the Member States.
of the amounts set off during the preceding month.
They shall, if the Commission so requests, make                                    Article 4
up such statements for periods of 10 days and for­
ward them within five clear days of expiry of the           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
preceding 10-day period.                                     1976 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 20 January 1976.
                                                                            For the Council
                                                                             The President
                                                                               G. THORN
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                                                                        ANNEX 1
                   LIST OF PRODUCTS SUBJECT TO INDICATIVE CEILINGS UPON IMPORTATION
                                                                         IN 1976
       Order            CCT                                                                                                  Level
                                                                  Description                       Nimexe code            of ceiling
        No           heading No
                                                                                                                         (metric tons)
         1                2                                           3                                   4                    5
                       28.56            Carbides (for example, silicon carbide, boron
                                        carbide, metal carbides):
   INI                                  A. Of silicon                                          28.56-10                     39 938
                       48.01            Paper and paperboard (including cellulose
                                        wadding), machine-made, in rolls or sheets :
                                             C. Kraft paper and Kraft board:
                                                  II . Other :
   I N 2                                               — Kraftliner ( a)                       48.01-15,21,31               17 364
   I N 3                                               — Kraft paper for large bags (a)        48.01-16, 23                 32 992
   I N 4                                               — Other                                 48.01-08,09 , 11 , 12,       31 255
                                                                                                     13 , 17, 19 , 25,
                                                                                                     26, 27, 18 , 29 ,
                                                                                                     33
                                        ex E. Other :
   I N 5                                         — Bible paper (India paper), copying          48.01-58 , 61 , 62, 66       38 587
                                                       tissue ; other printing paper and other
                                                       writing      paper,    not   containing
                                                       mechanical wood pulp or in which
                                                       mechanical wood pulp does not
                                                       represent more than 5%> (a)
   I N 6                                         — Printing paper and writing paper,           48.01-64, 68                131 969
                                                       containing mechanical wood pulp (a),
                                                       excluding copying tissue
    I N 7                                        — Fluting          paper     for   corrugated 48.01-75                     50 357
                                                       paperboard (a)
    I N 8                                        — Sulphite paper for wrapping purposes        48.01-71 , 73                23 153
    I N 9                                        — other, excluding cellulose wadding          48.01-41 , 43 , 45 , 52,     36 382
                                                       and tissues                                   53 , 54,  55,  56 ,
                                                                                                     77, 82,   84,  86,
                                                                                                     88 , 91 , 93 , 95 ,
                                                                                                     97,
   I N 10              48.03            Parchment           or     greaseproof    paper    and 48.03-all Nos                23 152
                                        paperboard, and imitations thereof, and glazed
                                        transparent paper, in rolls or sheets
(a) Subject to compliance with the definitions given in Annex III.
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   Order        CCT                                                                                   Level
                                               Description                     Nimexe code          of ceiling
    No       heading No
                                                                                                  (metric tons)
     1            2                                3                                 4                  5
               48.07    Paper and paperboard, impregnated, coated,
                        surface-coloured, surface-decorated or printed
                        (not being merely ruled, lined or squared and
                        not constituting printed matter within Chapter
                        49 ), in rolls or sheets:
                        B. Other :
 I N 11                      — Other, excluding coated printing or        48.07-55 , 56, 64, 65,   25 468
                                  writing paper                                 66, 68 , 70, 81 ,
                                                                                85 , 91 , 97, 99
               73.02    Ferro-alloys:
                        A. Ferro-manganese :
 I N 12    ·
                              II. Other                                   73.02-19 , 40             156 279
                        D. Ferro-silico-manganese
 I N 13                 C. Ferro-silicon '                                73.02-30                  208 373
 IN 14                  E. Ferro-chromium and ferro-silico-chromium       73.02-51 , 55              26 625
                        G. Other :
 I N 15                      — Ferro-vanadium                             73.02-83                        567
 I N 16                      — Other, excluding ferro-molybdenum          73.02-60, 70, 98            12 733
               76.01    Unwrought aluminium; aluminium waste and
                        scrap :
 I N 17                 A. Unwrought                                      76.01-11 , 15             207 618
 I N 18         76.02   Wrought bars, rods, angles, shapes          and   76.02-all Nos               13 892
                        sections, of aluminium ; aluminium wire
 I N 19         76.03   Wrought plates, sheets and strip, of aluminium,   76-03-all Nos               20 837
                        of a thickness not exceeding 0-20 mm
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                                               ANNEX 11
                      LIST OF PRODUCTS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 2
     Order    CCT
                                                    Description                              Nimcxe code
       No  heading No
        1       2                                        3                                           4
  UNI        44.18      Reconstituted wood, being wood shavings, wood chips,             44. 1 8 -all Nos
                        sawdust, wood flour or other ligneous waste agglomerated
                        with natural or artifical resins or other organic binding
                        substances, in sheets, blocks or the like
             48.05      Paper and paperboard, corrugated (with or without flat sur­
                        face sheets), creped, crinkled, embossed or perforated, in rolls
                        or sheets :
  II N 2                B. Other                                                         48.05-21 , 29, 30, 50,
                                                                                                  80
  II N 3     48.09      Building board of wood pulp or of vegetable, fibre, whether      48.09-all Nos
                        or not bonded with natural or artifical resins or with similar
                        binders
             56.01      Man-made fibres (discontinuous), not carded, combed or
                        otherwise prepared for spinning:
  II N 4                B. Regenerated textile fibres                                    56.01-21 , 23 , 25, 29
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                                               ANNEX 111
                                             DEFINITIONS
           ex 48.01 C II Kraftliner
                         'Kraftliner' means machine-finished or machine-glazed paper or
                         paperboard, in rolls, containing not less than 80% of chemical sulphate
                         softwood pulp calculated on total fibre content, weighing more than 115
                         g/m2 and having a Mullen burst ratio of not less than 35 .
           ex 48.01 C II Kraft paper for large sacks
                         'Kraft paper for large sacks' means machine-finished paper, in rolls,
                         containing not less than 80 % of chemical sulphate softwood pulp
                         calculated on total fibre content, weighing not less than 60 g/m2 but not
                         more than 115 g/m2, having a Mullen burst ratio of not less than 38, and
                         having a stretch factor of more than 4-5% in the cross direction and of
                         more than 2% in the machine direction.
           ex 48.01 E      Other printing paper and other writing paper, not containing mechanical
                         wood pulp or containing not more than 5% of mechanical wood pulp
                         ' Other printing paper and other writing paper, not containing mechanical
                         wood pulp or containing not more than 5% of mechanical wood pulp'
                         means paper other than machine-glazed, used for printing and writing, which
                         contains not more than 5% of mechanical wood pulp calculated on total
                         fibre content.
           ex 48.01 E    Printing paper and writing paper, containing mechanical wood pulp
                          'Printing paper and writing paper containing mechanical wood pulp'
                         means paper other than machine-glazed, used for printing and writing,
                         containing more than 5% of mechanical wood pulp calculated on total
                         fibre content.
           ex 48.01 E    Fluting paper for corrugated paperboard
                          'Fluting paper for corrugated paperboard' means paper, in rolls,
                          containing not less than 65% of unbleached semi-chemical hardwood
                          pulp (pulp obtained from wood by light chemical treatment followed by
                          mechanical treatment) calculated on total fibre content and having a CMT
                          (Concora Medium Test) crush resistance exceeding 20 kp.
           ex 48.01 E     Sulphite paper for wrapping purposes
                          'Sulphite paper for wrapping purposes' means machine-glazed paper,
                          containing more than 40% of chemical bisulphite wood pulp, calculated
                          on total fibre content, having an ash content of not more than 8% and
                          having a Mullen burst ratio of not less than 15.