CELEX: 51995PC0536
Language: en
Date: 1995-11-14
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1808/95 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas bound in GATT for certain agricultural, industrial and fisheries products and establishing the detailed provisions for adapting these quotas

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                     Brussels, 14.11.1995
                                                     COM(95) 536 final
                                                     95/0277 (ACC)
                                      Proposal for a
                           COUNCIL REGULATION (EC)
               amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1808/95 opening and
providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas bound in GATT for certain
agricultural, industrial and fisheries products and establishing the detailed provisions for
                                    adapting these quotas
                            (presented by the Commission)
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak---                       EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1. With Council Regulation (EC) No 1808/95, the Community undertook to open
   each year, within the framework of GATT and subject to certain conditions,
   Community tariff quotas at reduced or zero duty for a certain number of
   agricultural, industrial andfisheriesproducts.
2. In accordance with the offer it made within UNCTAD, the Community
   introduced tariff preferences in 1971 for certain jute and coconut-fibre products
   from a number of developing countries; these preferences took the form of a
   gradual reduction in CCT duties, culminating in the total suspension, without
   quantitative limits, of the duties in question from 1978 to 31 December 1994.
3. The graduation of duties introduced by the new scheme of generalized preferences
   in force since 1 January this year threatens to have an adverse effect on both the
   countries producing these goods and their customers in the Community.
4. Given that the previous special arrangements were aimed at facilitating the access
   of jute and coconut-fibre products to the Community market, the Community
   announced, in the context of GATT, that it was ready to suspend CCT duties on
   these products within annual tariff quotas.
5. Because the quota year in question runs from 1 January to 31 December, and will
   do so until the new scheme of preferences expires, quotas will have to be opened
   from 1 July to 31 December 1995 for this year's entire quota volume.
 ---pagebreak---  Proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1808/95
 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas bound in GATT
    for certain agricultural, industrial andfisheriesproducts and establishing the detailed
                              provisions for adapting these quotas
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular
Article 113 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas in Council Regulation (EC) No 1808/95,1 the Community undertook to open,
within the framework of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and subject
to certain conditions, annual Community tariff quotas at reduced or zero duty for a certain
number of agricultural, industrial andfisheriesproducts;
Whereas, in accordance with the offer it made within the United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development (UNCT AD) in the light of the special nature of the trade in jute
and coconut-fibre products, the Community introduced tariff preferences in 1971 for such
products from certain developing countries; whereas these preferences took the form of a
gradual reduction in CCT duties, without quantitative limits, culminating in the complete
suspension of these duties in 1978;
Whereas the new scheme of generalized preferences applicable since 1 January 1995
provides for the graduation of duties; whereas this change threatens the continuation and
development of traditional trade flows between the countries supplying the products in
 question and the Community; whereas the Community, in the context of GATT, should
therefore open autonomous zero-duty tariff quotas for determined quantities of products
 manufactured from jute and coconut fibres for the period from 1 January 1995 to
 31 December 1998; whereas, in view of the fact that, for the year in course, this
 Regulation will apply only from 1 July, provision should be made for quotas to be opened
 from that date to 31 December 1995 for the entire annual quota volume;
 Whereas provisions should therefore be adopted, in accordance with the relevant
 WTO/GATT rules, in order to maintain the previous conditions of access for the products
 in question,
 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
  lOJNoL 176, 27.7.1995.
                                                      3
 ---pagebreak---                                             Article 1
Regulation (EC) No 1808/95 is hereby amended as follows:
1.       The attached Annex V shall be added.
2.       Article 1(2) shall become Article 1(4).
         The following paragraphs 2 and 3 shall be inserted.
         "2.     All Community import duties on the products listed in Annex V to this
                 Regulation shall be suspended within the limits of the quantities laid down
                 according to their origin and the period laid down.
         3.      Access to the tariff quotas in Annex V shall be subject to compliance with
                 the rules governing the origin of products laid down in Articles 47 to 55 of
                 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 of 2 July 1993 laying down
                 provisions for the implementation of the Community Customs Code,2 as
                 last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1762/95 of 19.7.1995 3 "
                                            Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following that of its publication
in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
It shall apply from 1 July 1995 to 31 December 1998.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.
Done at Brussels,....
                                                                For the Council
                                                                The President
 2      OJ No L 253, 11.10.1993.
 3      OJNoL 171, 21.7.1995.
 ---pagebreak---                                                                  ANNEXV
         List of Community tariff quotas for products manufactured from jute and coconut ( a )
 Order     CN codes       Taric                      Description of goods                             Quota               Recipient    Quota    |Rate of|
number                     sub-                                                                       period               countries   volume     duty
09.0107       5310                Woven fabrics of jute and other textile bast fibres of     from 1 July to           Bangladesh       33 381
                                  code 5303                                                  31 December 199S and India                31 146
                                                                                             from 1 January 1996 to Other countries     2 759
                                                                                             31 DaceniDor 1998
                                  Twine, cordage, ropes and cables, whether or not
                                  plaited or braided, coated, covered or sheathed with
                                  rubber or plastics
           560710 00              -of jute and other textile bast fibres of heading
                                  No 5303
                                  Carpets and other textile floor coverings, wove, not
                                  tufted or flocked, whether or not made up, including
                                  "Kelem". "Schumacks", "Karamanie" and similar
                                  hand-woven rugs:
                                  -Floor coverings, of pile construction, not made up, ot
         ex 5702 39 90      •10   jute and other textile bast fibres of heading No 5303
                                  -Floor coverings, of pile construction, made up, of
                                  jute and other textile bast fibres of heading No 5303
         ex 5702 49 90      •10
                                  -Floor coverings, not of pile construction, not made
                                   up, of jute and other textile bast fibres of heading
                                   No 5303
         ex 5702 59 00      •10
                                   -Floor coverings, not of pile construction, made up, of
                                  jute and other textile bast fibres of heading No 5303
                                   Carpets and other textilefloorcoverings, tufted,
         ex5702 9900        •10    whether or not made up:
                                   -Other, of jute and other textile bast fibres of heading
                                   No 5303
                                   Narrow woven fabrics, other than goods of heading
                                   No 5807; narrow fabrics consisting of warp without
         ex 5703 90 90      •10    weft assembled by means of an adhesive (bolducs):
                                   -Other, of jute and other textile bast fibres of heading
                                    No 5303
                                    -Fabrics consisting of warp without weft assembled
                                    by means of an adhesive (bolducs), of jute and other
                                    textile bast fibres of heading No 5303
          ex 5806 39 00      •10
                                    Textile wall coverings:
          ex 5806 40 00      •10    -Other, of jute and other textile bast fibres of heading
                                    No 5303
            5905 00 50
09.0109 B702 20 00                   Floor coverings of coconut                                from 1 July to          India             8 201
                                     fibres                                                    31 December 1995 and Other countries       775
                                                                                               from 1 January 1995 to
                                                                                               31 December 1998
109.0111 6305 10 90                  Sacks and bags, of a kind used for the packing of         from 1 July to          Bangladesh       26 587
                                     goods:                                                     31 December 1995 and   China             35 722
                                     -of jute and other textile bast fibres of heading         from 1 January 1996 to  India             32 093
                                      No 5303, other                                            31 December 1998       Other countries    2 759
v*v     Without prejudice to the rules for the interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature, the description of the goods is deemed purely
        indicative, tariff treatment being determined for the purposes of this Annex by the scope of the CN codes. Where a code is
        preceded by "ex", tariff treatment is determined both by the scope of the CN code and by the corresponding description.
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 ---pagebreak---                                FINANCIAL STATEMENT
1.     Budget heading involved
       Chapter 12, Article 120
2.     Legal basis
       Article 113 of the EC Treaty
3.     Title of operation
       Proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) amending Council Regulation (EC) No
       1808/95 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas
       bound in GATT for certain agricultural, industrial and fisheries products and
       establishing the detailed provisions for adapting these quotas
4.     Objective
       To maintain the previous arrangements for the access of jute and coconut-fibre
       products to the Community market
5.     Method of calculation
                Quota volume (ECU):            101 026 000            66 146 000
               Rate of duty to be applied:            0%                     0%
               Normal rate (average):                  7.9%                  8.1%
6.     Forecast loss of revenue
       ECU 101 026 000 x 7.9% = ECU             7 981 054
        ECU 66 146 000 x 8.1% = ECU             5 357 826
                                               13 338 880
 Annual loss: ECU 13 338 880
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