CELEX: 51981PC0427
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Date: 1981-07-28
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) on the treatment applicable to imports of wine originating in Algeria (presented by the Commission to the Council)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                    COM(81)427 final
                                    Brussels / 28th July 1981
              PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
     on the treatment applicable to imports of wine origina­
     ting in Algeria
          ( presented by the Commission to the Council )
 ---pagebreak---  1 . Article 20 of the Cooperation Agreement between' the Community and Algeria
 established the treatment to be applied to imports of wine originating in
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 Algeria for a transitional period of five years . This period ended on 30 June
 1981 . On 17 June the Algerian Mission to the European Communities presented
 a Note Verbate containing a request by the Algerian Government that the
 treatment continue to be applied beyond the transitional period and that
 certain of the detailed arrangements be modified .                              r
 in order to place this request in its context , the Commission would point
 out that the treatment set out in Article 20 of the Cooperation Agreement
 was the result of long and difficult negotiations , as Algeria had initially
 asked for bigger concessions . For both political and economic reasons ,
Algeria set a very high priority on obtaining preferential treatment for
wine , which was far and away its most important agricultural export * The
Community , mindful of the chaning situation in this sector , both in Algeria
and within its own frontiers , preferred not to commit itself to permanent
arrangements but rather to make preferential arrangements valid for a
transitional period of five years only .
2 - Since the entry into force of the arrangements on T July 1976, Algeria has been enga­
ged in a vast programme of vineyard conversion and modernization . As the
Algerian Government 's request confirms , however , Algeria wishes to maintain
certain export flows - notably to the Community - within the framework of
this programme . Furthermore , it should be emphasized that wine is one of the
few agricultural products exported by Algeria to the Community . Consequently
the termination of preferential treatment for wine could have repercussions
on the balance of the Cooperation Agreement . It could also have repercussions
on the balance that the Community sought to establish between the Agreements
concluded with the three Maghreb countries , which were negotiated in parallel
and all of which embody concessions for wine .       In this context it - is necessary#
therefore , to consider from various angles , the- importance of the Community 's
relations with Algeria .
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3 . The application of the treatment established for Algerian wine in the
Cooperation Agreement has not caused any particular problems for the Community ,
as is apparent from the figures for imports since 1 July 1976 . Algeria , on
the other hand , refers in the Note Verbale mentioned above to a whole range
of difficulties which its wine exports are said to have come up against on
the Community market . Apart from certain technical matters connected with
the application of Community rules , these difficulties concern in particular
the detailed arrangements relating to transport and presentation for, sale
which accompanied the , concessions accorded in the Agreement for wine with
a designation of origin . This is the reason for Algeria 's request that the
preferential arrangements be renewed in a modified form . It will be recalled
that similar questions have been raised by other Mediterranean countries
accorded concessions - for wine . Algeria 's requests could not therefore be
examined in isolation .
In this context the outcome of the study on the CAP and the prospect of
enlargement of the Community should of course also be taken into consideration .
4 . Accordingly the Commission considers that the time is not yet ripe for
renegotiating the treatment of imports into the Community of Algerian wine .
Consequently , in order not to prejudge one way or the other any future
arrangements , the preferential treatment existing on 30 June 1981 for wine
originating in Algeria should simply be renewed .
Such renewal could be for a period of approximately one year . It would seem
advisable that this solution be implemented unilaterally by means of a Council
regulation based on Article 113 of the Treaty .
To this end the Commission presents herewith a proposal for a Council regulation
renewing until 30 June 1982 the treatment which was applicable on 30 June 1981
to wine originating in Algeria .
 ---pagebreak---               PROPOSAL FOR COUNCIL REGULATION ON TEE
           TREATMENT' APPLICABLE TO IMPORTS OF     WlivE
                      ORIGINATING IN ALGERIA "
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THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
                                                   /
Eawing regard to the Treaty establishing the - European Economic Community ,
and in particular - Article 113 thereof ,                  -
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Having regard to tfte proposal froa the Commission ,                          " •
Whereas Article 20 of the Cooperation Agreement "between the European
Economic Community and the People 's Democratic Republic of Algeria ,
signed on 26 April 197 6 , established the treatment applicable -until 30
June 1981 to imports of wine originating in Algeria 5
Whereas as a /transitional measure the provisions applicable on 30 juin 1981
to imports of - wine originating in in Algeria should be unilaterally renewed
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
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                              Article 1
                                             .                 r
The import treatment applicable on 30 June 1981 to wine originating in
Algeria pursuant to Article 20 of the Cooperation Agreement between the
European Economic Community and the People 's Democratic Republic of Algeria
shall be maintained until 30 June 198?.
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 ---pagebreak---                              Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication
in the Official Journal of the European Communities .  It shall be applicable
at the request of the parties concerned from 1 July 1981 onwards .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in
all Member States .                   -                               v
 ---pagebreak---                                ZECKC FIUAITCIERE
Préparée par VTII/1 pôur les importations de vins algériens :                                •
1 . ligne budgétaire concernée : chap . 12 - art . 120
2o Base juridique : Article 113 du Traité
                                                           *
3 . Intitulé de la mesure tarifaire :          -                 -                         ■
      . proposition de règlement du Conneil portant jjrorogation du régime
       . applic'able aux importations de vins originaires d' Algérie ( 1981/
         1982 )    '                     - ■ -
4 . Objectif : Reconduction pour im an , à partir du 1er juillet Iptfl , des
     dispositions applicables aux importations de vins originaires d' Algérie
     conformément à l' article 20 cle l' Accord de coopération .
5 . iîocle de calcul :           -   •
     IT0 du TLC : ex . 22.05 C I et II                            '      .     1
     Droit du TDC : 1 /1,5 IlCU/hl et 1 6,9 ECU/hl
                        0 = 15,7 ECU/hl
   • a) vins de qualité : franchise tarifaire dans le . cadre d' un contingent
                              de 450.000 hl
     b ) vins courants     : réduction de 80        sans limitation .
6 . Portes de recèttes :                                     '
     Cotte mesure tarifaire a été appliquée en 1980/81 . Les importations de
     vins d' Algérie restant sensiblement        - constantes ,     il n' y a donc pas
     de pertes de recettes à inscrire pour 1981/1982 .
     Pertes réelles sur la base des importations prévisibles :
     a) vins cle qualité :         2.000 hl x 15>7 ECU         =           31.400 LC'J
     b ) vins courants     : . 277".770 hl x ( 15 » 7 x 80 )                  7   „
                                                       100     =      -5                 .
                                                                      1            ■"» 1     β
          Porter; totales                                             3.520.190 ECU