CELEX: 51973PC1900
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Date: 1973-11-12
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A REGULATION CEEC) OF TEED COUNCIL concerning the rate of import charges collected on (small non-commercial assignments) agricultural products and products coming under Regulation (EEC) No. 1059/69 (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                   PROPOSAL FOR A
                          REGULATION C EEC ) OF TEED COUNCIL
                concerning the rate of import charges collected on
            ( small non-commercial assignments ) agricultural products
              and products coming under Regulation (EEC) Ho . 1059/69
                    ( submitted to the Council "by the Commission)
   G01l(73 ) 1900 final
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                         EXPL/JTATORY ME:OR.'-NDU:I
The preliminary provisions of the common customs tariff provide , inter
alia, that customs duties shall be charged at the flat rate of 1 (Y/o ad
valorem on goods sent in small consignments to private individuals ,
provided that such importations are:not of a commercial nature .   Since
this flat rats applies only to customs duties , this measure has no real
effect as regards a certain number of agricultural products which are
subject to various special charges .
In ordor to nakc that measure as effective as possible , the attached
proposal for a Regulation is designed to introduce a flat rate charge
in place of all the charges imposed under the common agricultural
policy on imports of this nature .
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                PROPOSAL FOR A REGULATION (EEC ) OF TUB COUNCIL
concerning the rate of import charges collected on ( small non-commercial
assignments ) agricultural products and products coming under Regulation
(EEC ) Ho . IO59/69 .
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN CCWHUHETIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
and in particular Articles 43 and 235 thereof :
                                                    m
Having regard to the Act annexed to the Treaty v ' on the Accession of new
Member States to the European Economic Community and the European Atomic
Energy Community , signed 011 22 January 1972 , and in particular Article 62 ( 1 )
thereof ;
Having regard to the proposal „ from the . Commission ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parliament ;
VJhereas Section II paragraph B of the preliminary provisions of the
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common customs tariff in the annex to Council Regulation (EEC ) No . 950/68
of 28 June 1958, as last amended by Regulation (ESC) No. 2260/73^\ provide
that , where the interested party does not demand the application of the
normal rate , customs duty is to be charged at the flat rate of 10^ ad
valorem on goods sent in small consignments to private individuals ,
provided that such importations are not of a commercial nature ;
Whereas , it is useful and possible without endangering the aims of the
common agricultural policy , to lay down following the same methods , all
the other import charges on agricultural products as well as on certain
products coming under the system of exchanges laid down in Regulation
(EEC) No . 1059/67 of the Council , of 28 Hey 1969^, as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) Ho . 1491/73^ i
(1 )  GJ  No .  L '73,  ^7. 31972 ,    p. 5
 (2 ) OJ  No .. L 172,  2a '71958 ,    P-l'
 (3 ) OJ  No .  L 233,  " 23. " 81373, > 10
 00   OJ  No .  L lifl,   12. 61969,   P«1
( 51   OJ No . L 151 . 7.6.1973 , P.l
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  Koreas the same transaction can giva place to the collection of several
  different charges , in order to allow a system of flat rate taxation to
  achieve its aim , it is necessary to apply a single flat rate charge for the
  whple of these charges ;
  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                      Article 1
  1*   Section II paragraph B of the preliminary provisions of the common
       customs tariff appearing in the Annex to Regulation (EEC ) No . 950/68
       of the Council is applied to the collection of all the import charges
       as laid down within the framework of the common agricultural policy
       and in Regulation (EEC ) No . 1059/6?.
  2.   When the same transaction is liable t> the collection of several
     ■ different charges , the flat rate charge laid doxm "by virtue of
       paragraph 1 is collected for the whole of the charges .
                                      Article 2
             -    .    ν
■ This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its
  publication in the Official Journal of 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