CELEX: 51983PC0700
Language: en
Date: 1983-11-23
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) increasing the Community tariff quota opened for 1983 by Regulation (EEC) No 3425/82 for newsprint, falling within subheading 48/01 A of the Common Customs Tariff (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                 C0«<83> 700 fin a l
                                                 Brussels, 23 November 1983
                             Proposal for a
                        CQUNCIL_REGULATION_(EEC)
  increasing the Community t a r i f f quota opened for 1983 by Regulation
             (EEC) No 3425/82 for newsprint, f a l l i n g within
            subheading 48/01 A of the Common Customs Tariff
              (submitted to the Council by the Commission)
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1. Council Regulation (EEC) N° 3425/82 of 17 December 1982 (1), opened for
   1983 a Community t a r i f f quota of 2 500 000 tonnes for newsprint; the
    figure being subject to review in the course of the quota period with
    regard to requirements.
    The adoption of t h i s Council Regulation was linked to a decl aration
    in which the Commission declared i t s wil l i ngness to make every effort
    to contact the I t a l i a n producers and the community consumers with the
    view to come to an arrangement si mi l ar to the one sought for in the case
    of ferro-chromium.
2. The contacts, tha t were estab lished throughout 1983 as provided for by
    t h i s declaration, have not re sulted in s e t t l i n g there and then the
    problem of flow of the I t a l i a n production, but they have shown the
    presence of some willingness on the part of the consumers to make the
    desir abl e e f f o r t to improve the s i t u a t i o n in the course of the year 1984.
    Under these circumstances the Commission considers it advisable not to
     discourage t h i s ef f or t and to t h i s aim i t proposes to increase the
     volume of the t a r i f f quota in question within the l i mi t s, however, of
    the t o t a l ant i ci pat ed additional requirements reduced by the exist ing
    p o s s i b i l i t i e s of supplies from I t a l i a n i n d u s t r i e s .
     When considering the e f f e c t i v e use of the quota in 1982 (2 750 000
     tonnes), the drop in consumption and the observed increase in the                        . '
     production capacity of the Community in 1983 in r e l a t i o n to 1982,
     i t is rendered pos sib le to place the estimate of the anticipated
     additional requirements on the 200 000 tonnes mark. Since the current
     a v a i l a b i l i t y of the I t a l i a n production is in the order of 20 000
     tonnes, the proposed increase is s i t u a t e d at 180 000 tonnes.               . ' V"i
 3. As is customary in similar cases, the proposed increase has been divided
      into two tranches, the f i r s t (175 000 tonnes) being allocated among t h e .
      Member States on a pro - rat a basis according to t h e i r predicted imports
      from t h ir d coun tries, while the second (representing the balance) forms
      a Community reserve. The c o n s t i t u t i o n of such a reserve is all the more
      j u s t i f i e d in t h i s case, since c e r ta i n Member States have not pur forward
 (1) O.J. N° L 361, 22.12.1982, p. 2
 ---pagebreak--- additional requirements and t her ef or e they should be able to draw upon
the reserve when the need a r i s e s , and since the shares a l l o t t e d to
other Member States cannot be determined as accurat el y as might be
desi red.
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                                                        Proposal for a                                                            ''
                                             C O U N C IL REGULATION (EEC)                                                .    <
                         increasing the C om m unity tariff quota opened for 1983 by R egulation (EEC) No
                       3 4 2 5 /8 2 for new sprint falling w ithin subheading 48.01 A of the C om m on
                                                              C ustom s Tariff
         THE CO U N CIL O F TH E EUROPEAN
         COMMUNITIES,                                            .                                                    ,        1
         Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
         Economic Community, and in particular Articles 28                                                                       ./
         and 113 thereof,                                                                                          .          ^
         Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                                                           ,
         Whereas the Council, by Regulation (EEC) No
      3 4 2 5 /8 2 ('), opened and allocated among the Member
         States a duty-free Community tariff quota for news-
         print, falling within subheading 48.01 A of the
         Common Customs Tariff, the amount of which was                                                      >
         fixed at 2 500 000 tonnes ; whereas by that Regulation
         the benefit of the tariff quota in question was extended
         to certain other types of paper which, apart from the                                                 1                ^ ■·"
         criterion of watermarks, correspond to the definition
         of newsprint given in the Additional Note to Chapter                                                               .   ' ’vj
         48 of the Common Customs Tariff;
         Whereas, on the basis of the most recent data on this                                                          . '
         product for 1983, it is estimated that the additional                                                      -
         imports from third countries required by the Commu­
         nity currently amount to 180000 tonnes ; whereas the
         size of the quota should be increased by this quantity
         to take account of the requirements noted ; whereas, in
         order to safeguard the Community character of the                                                           ■ ..
         tariff quota in question, part of the volume of the                                  1                   ,v
         proposed increase should be allocated to the Commu-
         nity reserve, the balance being allocated among certain
         Member States on a pro rata basis according their                                              ·   -
         foreseeable requirements for imports originating in                                                    'r '
         third countries,                                                                '· ;   - '
          HAS AD OPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                     Article 1             :; -     ;                               >·· . ·
          The volume of the Community tariff quota opened by              ,    . , ‘ .                ' -
          Regulation (EEC) N o 3 4 2 5 /8 2 for newsprint falling              -1
          within subheading 48.01 A of the Common Customs                                                           ,
          Tariff is hereby increased from 2 5 00 0 0 0 to 2 6 8 0     000
         tonnes.                                                                       -                              ·
    (1) O.J. N° L 361, 22.12.1982, p. 2
-.T.
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                         Article 2
 1.     The first tranche 'of the additional volume
 referred to in Article 1, amounting to 175 0 0 0 t o n n e s
 shall be allocated as follows among the Member States
 concerned :
                                            (tonpes)
         Benelux                             13 720
         Denmark                             13 720
         Germany                             44 625
         Greece                              10 290
         United Kingdom                      92 645
 2.     The second tranche, amounting to 5 000 tonnes,
 shall constitute the reserve.
 The reserve provided for in Article 2 (3) of Regulation
 (EEC) No 3 4 2 5 /82is thus increased from 150 000 to
 155000 tonnes.
                         Article 3
 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
 following its publication in the Official Journal o f the
 European Communities.
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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