CELEX: 31991R2488
Language: en
Date: 1991-08-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2488/91 of 16 August 1991 reintroducing the levying of the customs duties applicable to the products of CN code 3102, originating in Poland, to which the preferential tariff arrangements of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3831/90 apply

No L 228 /58                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                    17. 8 . 91
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2488/91
                                                      of 16 August 1991
                  reintroducing the levying of the customs duties applicable to the products of CN
                  code 3102, originating in Poland, to which the preferential tariff arrangements of
                                       Council Regulation (EEC) No 3831 /90 apply
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                      products in question must be reintroduced with regard to
                                                                  Poland,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3831 /90
of 20 December 1990 applying generalized tariff prefer­                                     Article 1
 ences for 1991 in respect of certain industrial products
 originating in developing countries ('), as amended by           As from 20 August 1991 , the levying of customs duties,
 Regulation (EEC) No 3835/90 (2), and in particular Article       suspended pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 3831 /90,
 9 thereof,                                                       shall be reintroduced on imports into the Community of
                                                                  the following products, originating in Poland :
 Whereas, pursuant to Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No
 3831 /90, customs duties on certain products originating
 in each of the countries or territories listed in Annex III          CN code                      Description
 are totally suspended, and the products as such are, as a
general rule, subject to statistical surveillance every three        3102          Mineral or chemical fertilizers, nitrogenous :
 months on the reference base referred to in Article 8 ;
                                                                     3102 10 91    — — — In aqueous solution
Whereas, as provided for in Article 8, where the increase            3102 10 99    — — — Other
 of preferential imports of these products, originating in                         — Ammonium sulphate ; double salts and
 one or more beneficiary countries, threatens to cause                               mixtures of ammonium sulphate and
 economic difficulties in a region of the Community, the                             ammonium nitrate :
 levying of customs duties may be reintroduced, once the             3102 21 00    — — Ammonium sulphate
 Commission has had an appropriate exchange of informa­              3102 29       — — Other :
 tion with the Member States ; whereas for this purpose the          3102 29 90    — — — Other
 reference base to be considered is equal, as a general rule,        3102 50 90    — — Other
 to 6,3 % of the total importations into the Community,              3102 60 90    — Double salts and mixtures of         calcium
 originating from third countries in 1988 ;                                          nitrate and ammonium nitrate
Whereas, in the case of the products of CN code 3102
                                                                     3102 70 00    — Calcium cyanamide
originating in Poland the reference base is fixed at ECU             3102 90 00    — Other, including mixtures not specified in
276 000 ; whereas that reference base was reached on 14                              the foregoing subheadings
March 1991 by charges of imports into the Community of
the products in question originating in Poland ; whereas                                    Article 2
the exchange of information organized by the Commis­
sion has demonstrated that continuance of the preference          This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
threatens to cause economic difficulties in a region of the       following its publication in the Official Journal of the
Community ; whereas, therefore, customs duties for the            European Communities.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 16 August 1991 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                             Karel VAN MIERT
                                                                       Member of the Commission
(>) OJ No L 370, 31 . 12. 1990, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 370, 31 . 12. 1990, p. 126.