CELEX: 31986R4019
Language: en
Date: 1986-12-16 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 4019/86 of 16 December 1986 opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for a certain variety of polyvinylpyrrolidone falling within subheading ex 39.02 C XIV a) of the Common Customs Tariff

31 . 12 . 86                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                   No L 375 / 9
                                           COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 4019 / 86
                                                          of 16 December 1986
                   opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for a
                   certain variety of polyvinylpyrrolidone falling within subheading ex 39.02 C XIV a) of the
                                                        Common Customs Tariff
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                                 requirements which cannot be determined with sufficient
                                                                          accuracy, it seems possible to avoid allocating among the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                     Member States , without prejudice to the drawing against the
Economic Community, and in particular Article 28                          quota volume of such quantities as they may need, under
thereof,                                                                  conditions and according to a procedure to be specified ;
                                                                          whereas this method of management requires close
Whereas production in the Community of polyvinyl­                          cooperation between the Member States and the
pyrrolidone for pharmaceutical use falling within                          Commission and the latter must in particular be able to
subheading ex 39.02 C XIV a ) of the Common Customs                        monitor the rate at which the quota is used up and inform the
Tariff in currently insufficient to meet the requirements of the           Member States thereof;
processing industries in the Community; whereas,
consequently, Community supplies of products of this type                  Whereas , since the Kingdom of Belgium , the Kingdom of the
currently depend to a considerable extent on imports from                  Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are united
third countries ; whereas the most urgent Community                        within and jointly represented by the Benelux Economic
requirements for the product in question should be met                     Union , all transactions concerning the administration of
immediately on the most favourable terms; whereas a nil                    shares allocated to that economic union may be carried out
duty Community tariff quota should therefore be opened                     by any one of its members ,
within the limits of an appropriate amount for a period from
 1 January to 31 July 1987 ; whereas , in order not to
jeopardize the balance of the market for this product, the                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
volume of the Community tariff quota should be fixed at
 30 tonnes ;
                                                                                                        Article 1
 Whereas it is necessary , in particular , to ensure to all
 Community importers equal and uninterrupted access to the                 1.     From 1 January to 31 December 1987 the common
 abovementioned quota and uninterrupted application of the                 customs duty applicable on import of the products
 rates laid down for that quota to all imports of the products             mentioned below shall be suspended at the level and within
 concerned into all Member States until the quota has been                 the limit of the Community tariff quota indicated for
 used up ; whereas , however , since the quota is to cover                 each :
                             heading                                                                             Quota        Quota
      Order No                CCT                                     Description                               volume         duty
                               No                                                                              ( tonnes )      (% >
      09.1931          ex 39.02 C XIV a )      Polyvinylpyrrolidone , presented in powder form , the
                                               particles of which are less than 38 micrometres and
                                               which has a solubility in water at 25 °C of less than or
                                               equal to 1,5 % by weight .                                          30           0
 Within the limit of this tariff quota the Kingdom of Spain and                                         Article 2
 the Portuguese Republic shall apply customs duties
 calculated in accordance with the relevant provisions laid                 1.    Member States shall take all appropriate measures to
 down by the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal .                       ensure that their drawings pursuant to Article 1 (2 ) are
                                                                            carried out in such a way that imports may be charged
                                                                           without interruption against their accumulated shares of the
 2 . If an importer notifies an imminent importation of the
                                                                            Community quota .
 product in question in a Member State and requests the
 benefit of the quota , the Member State concerned shall                    2.    Each Member State shall ensure that importers of the
 inform the Commission and draw an amount corresponding                     said goods have access to the quota so long as the residual
 to these requirements to the extent that the available balance             balance of the quota volume allows this .
 of the reserve permits this .
                                                                            3.    Member States shall charge imports of the said goods
  3.     The shares drawn pursuant to paragraph 2 shall be                  against their drawings as and when the goods are entered for
  valid until the end of the quota period .                                 free circulation .
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4.    The extent to which the quota has been used up shall be                               Article 4
determined on the basis of the imports charged in accordance       The Member States and the Commission shall collaborate
with paragraph 3 .
                                                                   closely in order to ensure that this Regulation is complied
                                                                   with .
                          Article 3
                                                                                             Article 5
At the request of the Commission, Member States shall
inform it of imports actually charged against the quota .          This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1987 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels , 16 December 1986 .
                                                                                               For the Council
                                                                                                The President
                                                                                                  G. HOWE