CELEX: 51975PC0337
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Date: 1975-07-07
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for certain petroloum products falling within Chapter 27 of the Common Customs Tariff, refined in the Arab Republic of Egypt.#PROPOSAL FOR A REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for other woven fabrics of cotton falling within heading No of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the Arab Republic of Egypt. (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                          PROPOSAL FOR A                          "
                  / r                  REGULATION (EEC) 'Off THE COUNCIL
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   opening^ allocating and providing for the. administration of a Community
              tariff quota for certain petroloum products falling within
                                Chapter 27 of the; Common Customs Tariff,                           /
                                 refined in the Arab Republic of                                             ,
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                                      REGULATION (EEC) OP THE COUNCIL
   opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community
             tariff" quota- for other woven fabrics of cotton falling within
                       heading Ho*                          of the Common Customs Tariff,
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 ---pagebreak---                             EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1 * The Agreement "between the European Economio Community and the Arab
    Republic r»f Egypt (Article 2 arid Articles 1 , 3 and 4 of Annex I ),
    together with the Protocol laying down certain provisions relating
     bo that Agreement consequent , on the accession of new Member States to
    the European Economio Community (Artiole 2 ) t provides Sot the opening
    of Community tariff quotas for the following products :
    Common Customs                  Description of goods                 Annual quota
    Tariff heading No
    ex Chapter 27               Certain petroleum products            360 000 metrio tons
        53»09                   Other woven fabrics of cotton           3 250 metrio tona
               •          i   »
                                                                 !
    The abovomontioned Protocol ' (Article 5) also provides for these quotas to
                                                                 t
    dp allocated as follows among the Member States :
                    ;    ''           .                Certain petroleum Other woven
                                                       produots               fabrics of
                                                                              cotton
                                                             (metrio tons )
    (a) to the Community as or? '"i vCilly constituted 200 000     ■n
                                                                               2 500
     (b) to Denmark     . :                •             '5 000                    90
     (o) to Ireland                                        5 000                   10
    (d) to the United Kingdom                            150 000                  650
                                                                                 •••/ •••
 ---pagebreak---  The duties to be applied are fixed by the Agreement at"45%,.of the Common
 Customs Tariff duties for the produota concerned . - However , Articles 3
 and 4 of the abovemontioned Protoool also oontain speoial provisions
 concerning the duties to be applied by the new Member States . Similarly,
certain provisions of the AotHsonoerning the Conditions of Accession and
the Adjustments to the Treaties roust be complied with when fixing these
duties .                                  .  .  ■     %
To fulfil the Community 's obligation to the ARE in 1976 , regulations should be
adopted opening, allocating and providing for the administration of these
Community tariff quotas .
This is the purpose . of the proposals annexed hereto .
The following, remarks, aye Jieoessary oonceming the quota assigned to the
Member States , of the Community as originally constituted !
                 > .            < •
(a) The regulations provide , as is the rule , for eaoh of the quotas to
      be divided into two instalments , the first of which is allocated
      among the Member States 'oonoemed while the seoond constitutes the
      reserve .
                                                                                 r
(b ) The allocation of the first instalment is usually based on the statistics
      for the previous three years and the forecasts for the quota period
   , concerned * - Thus , each Member State 's imports of other woven fabrics of
      cotton (55*09 ) during the years 1972.-74- were compared with imports into
      the Community as; -originally constituted over the same period . Thfl
      resulting percentages have been applied to this first instalment by the
     Z'ihys'Ai'ft j/fca&er Z*.&iest
     However , it does not appear desirable to apply this prinoiple to
     petroleum products - (Chapter 27) » since s
     (i ) one Member State 's imports were insignificant ,
    (ii). there were no imports at all into the other five Member States ,       ,
  (iii ) total imports into the Community as originally constituted were
          small in comparison with the quota to be alJ^a+^ri
 ---pagebreak---        (iv) it is very difficult to draw up forecasts of future imports .
   However , in order to achieve , nevertheless ,- a fair and weighted allocation
   of this qtiota among the Member States concerned , the Commission is working
   on the assui^tion th£.t , in all but quite exceptional cases , each Member
   State must he able to play at the outset a significant part in the application
   of a Community measure such as the tariff quotas . Such an allocation must
  "be aimed at evening out as. far as possible amQng the Member States the
  advantages and responsibilities resulting from this measure . Obviously,
   Ihis formula will have to he adapted subsequently in the light of any trad©
  movements *
                  ■        .1
  The proposal for a regulation on other woven fabrics of cotton provides
  for all the Member States to apply the "as and when" method of administrac*
  tion. On the other hand , it is not yet possible to provide for a single
  method of administration (whether "as and when" or prior allocation) for
  the quota for certain petroleum products * The national provisions
  governing the market , ;in , these products vary from one Member State to      .!
  another and the ^embejp ; States consider that this makes it impossible to
  apply a common methoc^ .p ^.administration* In these circumstances , each
  Member State will be able,; by way of exception, to administer its shares
  in accordance with its own provisions, while guaranteeing importers of
  these produoto free aoodss to the quota*
                                          *
The Member States' experts who participated in the consultative meeting of
 the "Economic Tariff Problems" Group ( 14/18 April 1975 ) expressed agreement
 in principle to the scheme for allocation of shares proposed by the Commission
an the framework of the regulations annexed,                  '
                    »           »,  , ^
Annexes ;        ' 1 ■   >'   : ' < ; -
2 proposals of regulation , of.i the Council
 ---pagebreak---                                                                 4
                                                                                                       ANNEX A
                                                        Proposal f«r a
                                REGULATION (EEC) No . . ./75              THE COUNCIL
              opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota
              for certain petroleum products falling within Chapter 27 of the Common Customs
                                      Tariff, refined in the Arab Republic of Egypt
                                                         ( 1976 ) .
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            duties applied continuously to all imports 'of
                                                                    the sakl products until the quota has been used
                                                                    up ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community, and in particular
Article 113 thereof;
                                                                    in the light of the above principles the Com­
                                                                    munity nature of the quota may best be preserved
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;                 by an arrangement allocating it among the Mem- '
                                                                    ber States ; whereas in order to provide the most
Whereas the Agreement (' ) between the European                     accurate reflection of actual market trends for
Economic Community and the Arab Republic of                         the said products, such allocation should be
Egypt and the Protocol (2) laying down certain                      proportionate to the needs of the Member States,
provisions relating to the Agreement between the                    calculated both from the statistics for each Mem­
European Economic Community and the Arab                            ber State's imports from the Arab Republic of
Republic of Egypt consequent on the accession of                    Egypt over a representative reference period and
new Member States to the European Economic Com­                     from economic prospects for . the quota period in
munity provides for the opening of an annual                        question ;
Community tariff quota of 360 000 metric tons for
certain petroleum products falling within Chapter 27
of the Common Customs Tariff, refined in the Arab
Republic of Egypt; whereas the Protocol provides                    in view of the fact, however, that over the past
that the tariff quota should be allocated among the                 three years the said products have been imported
Member States as follows : 200 000 metric tons for                  into only one Member State, and in small
the Community as originally constituted, 5 000                      quantities, and that no estimates can be made
metric tons for Denmark, 5 000 metric tons for                      for 197 and, in order to ensure a fair
Ireland and 150 000 metric tons for the United King­                distribution among the Member States concerned,
dom ; whereas Annex I to the Agreement provides                     the initial percentage share, having regard to the
that the duties applicable to the quota shall be equal              potential demand for the said products in the
to 45% of the duties of the Common Customs                          various Member States, should be approximately
Tariff; whereas, as regards the duties applicable                   25% each ;
to the quota by the new Member States, the special
provisions of the Protocol and of the Act of
Accession should be complied with ; whereas to                      in order to take account of import trends for
comply with the special provisions of the Protocol,                 the products in question in the Member States
separate arrangements should be made for the'                       concerned, the quota amount should be divided
Member States of the Community as originally                        into two instalments, the first instalment being
constituted, on the one hand, and for the new                       allocated among the same Member States, the
Member States, on the other;                                        second instalment constituting a reserve intended
                                                                    to cover the later requirements of Member States
Whereas as regards the Community as originally                      which have used up their initial quota shares ;
constituted :                                                       whereas, in order to ensure a certain degree of
                                                                    security to importers in each Member State, the
                                                                    first instalment of the quota should be fixed in
– equal and uninterrupted access to the quota                       this case at approximately 70% ;
    should be ensured for all importers and quota
                                                                    the initial quota shares may be used up at
(') OJ No L 251 , 7. 9. 1973, p. 13 .                               different rates ; whereas, therefore, to avoid
(') OJ No L 2.51 , 7. 9. 1973, p . 3.                               disruption of supplies, any Member State which
 ---pagebreak---                                                                                                     ANNEX A
has almost used up its initial quota share must                               concerning the administration of the quota
draw an additional quota share from the reserve;                              shares allocated to that Economic Union may be
whereas this must be done by each Member                                       carried out by any one of its members;
State as each one of its additional quota shares
is almost used up, and as many times as the                               Whereas, as regards the new Member States:
reserve allows ; whereas the initial, and additional                      – the quota duties shall be calculated by the new
quota shares shall be valid until the end of the                               Member States in accordance with Articles 3
quota period; whereas this form of                                             and 4 of the Protocol ;
administration requires close collaboration
between the Member States concerned and the
Commission, and the Commission must be in                                 – equal and uninterrupted access to the quota
a position to follow the extent to which the .                                 should be ensured for all importers and quota
quota volume has been used up and inform                                       duties should be applied continuously to all
the Member States thereof;                                                     imports of the products in question until the
                                                                           * quota has been used up,
if, at a given date in the quota period, a
considerable quantity of the initial quota share                           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
is left over in one of the Member States
concerned, it is essential that that State should
                                                                                                       Article 1
 return a significant proportion to the reserve
 to prevent a part of the quota allocated to the
 Community as originally constituted from                                  Subject to any measures which may be taken in
 remaining unused in one Member State when it                              application of Article 3 (2) and (4) of .Annex I to
 could be used in others ;                                                 the Agreement between the European Economic
                                                                           Community and the Arab Republic of Egypt, a
 since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of                              Community tariff quota of 360 000 metric tons shall
  the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of                                   be opened from 1 January to 31 December 1976
  Luxembourg are united in 'and represented by                             for the products listed below refined in the Arab
  the  Benelux    Economic         Union,       any     measure            Republic of Egypt:
                  CCT
                 heading                                                     Description
                   No
           27.10                    Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous mineralsj other than
                                    crude ; preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing not
                                    less than 70% by weight of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bitumi­
                                     nous minerals, those oils being the basic constituents of the preparations .
                                     A. Light oils :
                                         III . For other purposes
                                     B. Médium oils :
                                         III. For other purposes
                                     C. Heavy oils :
                                           I. Gas oil :
                                               c) For other purposes                                                  «
                                          II. Fuel oil :
                                               c) For other purposes
                                         III. Lubricating oils ; other oils :
                                                c) To be mixed in accordance with the terms of Additional Note 7
                                                    to Chapter 27 (a)
                                               d) For other purposes
           («) Entrr under thi« rabheading it .ubiect to condition to be determined br the competent •mhorioe..
 ---pagebreak---                                                                                                         ANNEX A
                     CCT
                    hetding                                          Description
                      No
              27.11                 Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons :
                                    B. Other :                           -*
                                          I. Commercial propane and commercial butane :            <•.,   v
                                             c) For other purposes
             27.12                  Petroleum jelly :
                                    A. Crude :                                                 ,
                                        III. For other purposes
                                    B. Other :
             27.13                  Paraffin wax, micro-crystalline wax, slack wax, ozokerite, lignite wax,
                                    peat wax and other mineral waxes, whether or not coloured :
                                    B. Other :
                                          I. Crude :
                                             c) For other purposes
                                         II. Other
             27.14                  Petroleum bitumen, petroleum coke and other residues of petroleum oils
                                    or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals : '
                                    C. Other
The quota shall be allocated and administered in                                            Article 3
accordance with the following provisions.
                                                                    1 . A first instalment of 140 000 metric tons of the
                        SECTION I                                  amount mentioned in Article 2 shall be allocated
                                                                   among the Member States; the shares which, subject
    Provisions applicable to the Community                         to Article 6, are valid until 31 December 197f are
                as originally constituted                          as follows :
                                                                              Germany            35 000 metric tons
                          Article 2                                           Bénélux            30 000 metric tons
                                                                              France             35 000 metric tons
Common Customs Tariff duties shall be partially                                                  40000 metric tons
suspended at the rates indicated below for 200 000                            Italy
metric tons of the quota referred to in Article 1 :
                                                                   2. The second instalment of 60000 metric tons
                                                                   shall make up the reserve;
                                                 Rite 01 dut*
              OCT heading No                           %
                                                                                            Article 4
     27.10 A III                                     2-7
     27.10 B III
                                                                   1 . If 90% or more of a Member State's initial
                                                     27
     27.10 C I c)                                     1-5
                                                                   quota share specified in Article 3 ( 1 ), or of that
     27.10 C II c)                                   1-5
                                                                   share less the portion returned to the reserve where
     27.10 C III c)                                   1-8
                                                                   Article 6 is applied, has been used up, that Member
     27.10 C III d)                                  2-7
                                                                   State . shall without delay, by notifying the Com­
     27.11 BIc)                                      06
                                                                   mission, draw a second quota share, to the extent
     27.12 A III                                     0-9
                                                                   that the reserve is sufficient, equal to 15% of its
     27.12 Β                                         3-1
                                                                   initial quota share, rounded up to the next unit
     27.13 B I c)                                    0-9
                                                                   where necessary.
     27.13 B II                                      2-7
     27.14 C II                                      0-9 '         2. If, after its initial quota share has been used up,
                                                                   90% or more of the second quota share drawn
 ---pagebreak---                                                                                 ANNEX A
  by a Member State has been used up, that Member        It shall ensure (hat the drawing which uses up the
  State shall, in the manner provided for in             reserve i$ limited to the balance available and to
  paragraph 1 , draw a third quota share, equal to       this end shall specify the amount thereof to the
  7-5% of its initial quota share, rounded up where      Member State making the last drawing.
  necessary to the next unit.
                                                                                 Article 8
 3 . If, after its second quota share has been used
 up, 90% or more of the third quota share drawn
 by a Member State has been used up, that Member         Member States shall take all necessary measures to
 State shall, in the same manner, draw a fourth          ensure that additional shares taken up under Article
 quota share equal to the third.                         4 are so drawn as to allow for uninterrupted charges
                                                         against their accumulated shares of the Community
 This procedure shall be followed until the reserve
 has been used up.
                                                                               SECT ON II
 4. Notwithstanding paragraphs 1 to 3, a Member
 State may draw smaller shares than those fixed
 in these paragraphs if there is reason to believe that  Provisions applicable to the new Member States
 those fixed might not be used up. It shall inform
 the Commission of its reasons for applying this                                       Γ,
 paragraph.                                                                       Article 9
                          Article 5                      Within the tariff quota referred to in Article 1 , the
                                                         new Member States shall apply duties calculated in
                                                         accordance with the relevant provisions of the Act
 Additional     quota    shares    drawn  pursuant   to  of Accession, the Agreement and the Protocol .
 Article 4 shall be valid until 31 December 197&.
                         Article 6
                                                                                 Article 10
The Member States shall return to the
reserve , not later than 1 October 1976 ,
the unused portion of their initial sha­ Under the quota, 160 000 metric tons shall be
re which , on 15 September 1976 , is in                  allocated among the new Member States as follows :
excess of 20 % of the initial amount .
They shall return a greater portion if                           Denmark                  5 000 metric tons
there is reason to believe that it may                           Ireland                  5 000 metric tons
not be used up .                                       .         United Kingdom 150 000 metric tons
 Member States shall, not later than 1 October 197<f,
 notify the Commission of the total quantities of the
 products in question imported up to and including                             SECTION III
 15 September 197S and charged against the Com­
 munity tariff quota and any quantities returned to -                       General provisions
 the reserve.
                                                                                 Article 11
                          Article 7
 The Commission shall keep an account of the quota       1 . Every Member State shall take all measures
 shares opened by the Member States pursuant to          necessary to ensure that importers of the products
 Articles 3 and 4 and shall, as soon as information      in question established , in their territory have free
 reaches it, inform each State of the extent to which     access to the shares allocated to it.
 the reserve has been used up.
                                                         2. The extent to which a Member State has used
 It shall, not later than 5 October 1975, inform the     up its shares shall be determined on the basis of
 Member States of the amount still in the reserve after  the importations of the products in question entered
  returns have been made pursuant to Article 6.          with' the customs authorities for home use.
 ---pagebreak---                                                                  ,                     MÎTFX A
                     Article 12                            collaborate closely in order to ensure that this
                                                           Regulation is respected.
Member States shall regularly inform the Com­
mission of imports of products refined in the Arab
Republic of Egypt actually charged against their
quota shares. «
                                                                                  Article 14
                     Artide 13
                                                           This Regulation       shall   enter into force on
Member     States   and    the  Commission     shall       1 January 197£          •
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States*                                                     *    '       .
            Done at Brussels,
                                                                               For the Council
                                                                                The President
 ---pagebreak---                                                                                           AtWEX B
                                               Proposal for
                                REGULATION (EEC) • • • ./75                THE COUNCIL
               opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota
               for other woven fabrics of cotton falling within heading No 55.09 of the Common
                              Customs Tar if, originating in the Arab Republic of Egypt                    ,
                                                       ( 1976 )
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            duties applied continuously to all imports of the
                                                                    said products until the quota has been used up;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­
pean Economic Community, and in particular Art­                     in the light of the above principles, the Commu­
icle 113 thereof:   .                                               nity nature of the quota may best 'be preserved
                                                                    by an arrangement allocating it among these
                                                                    Member States ; whereas in order to provide the
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission;                   most accurate reflection of actual market trends
                                                                     for the said products, such allocation should be
Whereas the Agreement ( ') between the European                     proportionate to the needs of these Member
Economic Community and the Arab Republic of                          States, calculated both from the statistics for each
Egypt and the Protocol (z) laying down certain pro­                  Member State's imports from the Arab Republic
visions relating to the Agreement between the Euro- .                of Egypt over a representative reference period
pean Economic Community and the Arab Republic of                     and from economic prospects for the quota period
 Egypt consequent on the accession of new Member                     in question;          1      .
 States to the European Economic Community
provides for the opening of an annual Community                      over the past three years for which statistics are
tariff quota of 3 250 metric tons of other woven                     available, the following percentages represent the
fabrics of cotton falling within heading No 55.09 of
the Common Customs Tariff, originating in the Arab                   respective imports of the Member States con­
 Republic of Egypt; whereas the Protocol provides                    cerned in relation to imports of the said products
 that the tariff quota should be allocated among the                 from the Arab Republic of Egypt into the Com­
 Member States as follows : 2 500 metric tons for the                 munity as originally constituted:
 Community as originally constituted, 90 metric tons
 for Denmark, 10 metric tons for Ireland and 650
                                                                                               1972     1973
 metric tons for the United Kingdom; whereas Annex                                                                 1974
 I to the Agreement provides that the duties applicable
 to the quota shall be equal to 45% of the duties of            Germany                         4-3     10-4         5,7
 the Common Customs Tariff; whereas, as regards                 Bénélux                      • 29-3     31-9       35,0
 the duties applicable to the quota 'by the. new Mem­
 ber States, the special provisions of the Protocol and         France                         10-0       1-1      13,8
 of the Act of Accession should be complied with;
 whereas, to comply with the special provisions of              Italy                          56-4     5 66       45,5
 the Protocol, separate arrangements should be made
 for the Member States of the Community as originally
 constituted, on the one hand, and for the new Mem*
  ber States, on the other;                                           in view of these factors, of the foreseeable
                                                                      development during 197^T of the market for the
 Whereas as regards the Community as originally                       products in question and in particular of the
 constituted :                                                        estimates submitted by certain Member States
                                                                      initial quota shares may be fixed approximately
                                                                      as follows :
 – equal and uninterrupted access to the quota
      should be ensured for all importers and quota
                                                                              Germany                         16,6
                                                                              Bénélux                         24 ; 3
  (l) OJ No L 251 , 7. 9. 1973, p. 13.
                                                                              France                          14 i 6
  (') OJ No L 251 , 7. 9. 1973, p. 3.                                         Italy                           44,5
 ---pagebreak---                                                                           t
                                                                                                     ANNEXB
   in order to take account of import trends for the                    administration of the quota shares allocated to
   products in question in the Member States con­                 . . that Economic Union may be carried out by any
   cerned, the quota amount should be divided into                       one of its members;
   two instalments, the first instalment being allo­
   cated among the same Member States, the second                   Whereas, as regards the new Member States:
   instalment constituting a reserve intended to cover           . – the quota duties shall be calculated by the new
   the later requirements of Member States which                         Member States in accordance with Articles 3 and
   have used up their initial quota shares; whereas,                     4 of the Protocol
   in order to ensure a certaiin degree of security to
   importers in each Member State, the first instal­                –r equal and uninterrupted access to the quota
   ment of the quota should be fixed in this case                        should be ensured for all importers and quota
   at approximately 50% ;                                                duties applied continuously to all imports of the
                                                                         products in question until the quota has been
 ■ the initial quota shares may be used up at differ-'                   used, up,
    ent rates; whereas, therefore, to avoid disruption
   of supplies, any Member State which has almost
   used up its initial quota share shall draw an                   'HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
   additional quota share from the reserve; whereas
    this shall be done by each Member State when­
    ever one of its additional quota shares has been                                          Article 1
    almost used up, and as many times as the reserve
    allows; whereas the initial and additional quota                A Community tariff quota of 3 250 metric tons shall
    shares shall be valid until the end of the quota
    period; whereas this form of administration
                                                                    be opened from 1 January until 31 December 1976*
                                                                    for other woven fabrics of cotton falling within
    requires close collaboration between the Member                 heading No 55.09 of the Common Customs Tariff,
    States and the Commission, and the Commission
     must be in a position to follow the extent to
                                                                     originating in the Arab Republic of Egypt.
    which the quota volume has been used up and
    inform the Member States thereof;                                This quota shall be allocated and administered in
                                                                     accordance with the provisions set out below.        :
     if, at a given date in the quota period, a consider­
     able quantity of the initial quota share is left over
     in one of the Member States concerned, it is                                            SECTION I
     essential that that State should return a significant
     proportion to the reserve to prevent a part of the
     quota allocated to the Community as originally                         Provisions applicable to the Community as
      constituted rrom remaining unused in one Mem­                                     originally constituted
     ber State when it could be used in others;
                                                                                              Article 2
– since riie Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of
      the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxem-                  The Common Customs Tariff duties shall be par­
 , bourg are united in and represented by the Bene­                   tially suspended at the rate indicated below for 2 500
      lux Economic Union, any measure concerning the                  metric tons of the quota referred to in Article 1:
                     CCT                                                                             j  Rate of dutr
                                                                                                             %
                    heading                                Detcription
                      No
                55.09            Other woven fabrics of cotton :                                      i 5
                                 A< Containing 85% of more by weight of cotton :                         I
                                                                                                            5*8
                                     I. Of a width or less than 85 cm
                                                                                                            6-3   .
                                    II. Other                                      ' -
                                 B. Other :
                                     I. Of a width of less than 85 cm                                       6- 3
                              i
                                    IL Other                                                                 6-7 . ,
 ---pagebreak---                                                                                           ANWBX B
                                                                                    Article 4
                         Article 3
                                                            The Member States shall return to the re­
 1 . A first instalment of 1 235 metric tons of the         serve , not later than 1 October 1976 , the
 amount mentioned in Article 2 shall be allocated           unused portion of their initial share which
 among the Member States; the shares which, subject         on 15 September 1976 , is in excess of 20 $
 to Article 6, shall be valid until 31 December 1976"       of the initial amount . They shall return a
 shall be:                                                .
                                                            greater portion if there are grounds foj be
         Germany                   205 metric tons          jLieving that it may not be used up . . •
         Bénélux                   300 metric tons
                                   180 metric tons
                                                             Member States shall, not later than 1 1 October 1976",
         France
                                                             notify to the Commission the total quantities of the
         Italy                     550 metric tons           products i>n question imported up to and including
                                                             1,5 September 197(5" and charged against the Com­
2. The second instalment of 1 265 metric tons shall
                                                             munity tariff quota and any quantities returned to"
                                                              the reserve.
 make up the reserve.
                         Article 4                                                   Article 7
 1 . If 90% or more of a Member State's initial quota        The Commission shall keep an account of the quota
share specified in Article 3 ( 1 ), or of that share less   shares opened by the r Member States pursuant to
the portion returned to the reserve where Article 6         Article 3 and 4 and shall, as soon as information
is applied, has been used up, that Member State shall        reaches it, inform each State of the extent to which
without delay, by notifying the Commission, draw             the reserve has been used up.
a second quota share, to the extent that the reserve
is sufficient, equal to 15% of its initial quota share,
rounded up tc) the next unit where necessary.                It shall, not later than 5 October 1976, inform the
                                                            Member States of the amount still in reserve after
                                                            returns have been made pursuant to Article 6.
2. If, after its initial quota share has been used up,
90% or more of the second quota share drawn by               It shall ensure that the drawing which uses up the
a Member State has been used up, that Member                 reserve is limited to the balance available and to this
State shall, in the manner laid down in paragraph 1 ,       end shall specify the amount thereof to the Member
draw a third quota share equal to 7-5% of its initial       State making the last drawing.
quota share, rounded up where necessary to the next
unit.
3 . If, after its second quota share has been used up,                               Article 8
90% or more of the third quota share drawn by
a Member State has been used up, that Member State
shall, in the same manner, draw a fourth quota share         Member States shall take all necessary measures to
equal to the third.                                          ensure that additional shares taken up under Article
                                                            4 are so drawn as to allow for uninterrupted charges
This procedure shall be followed until the reserve          against their accumulated shares of the Community
has been used up.                                           quota.
4. Nothwithstanding paragraphs 1 to 3, a Member
State may draw smaller quota shares than those fixed                               SECTION II
in those paragraphs, if there is reason to believe that
those fixed might not be used up. It shall inform the           Provisions applicable to the new Member States
Commission of its reasons for applying this para­
graph.
                                                                                     11 .
                                                                                     Article 9
                         Article S                          Within the tariff quota referred to in Article 1, the
                                                            new Member States shall apply duties calculated in
Additional quota shares drawn pursuant to Article 4         accordance with the relevant provisions of the Act
shall be valid until 31 December 1975".                     of Accession, the Agreement and the Protocol.
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                      Article 10                                cover of a declaration that they have been made
                                                                available for consumption.
750 metric tons of the quota referred to in Article 1
 shall be allocated among the new Member States as              3 . The extent to which Member States' shares have
 follows:                                                        been used up shall be ascertained from imports
                                                                charged under the conditions laid down in para­
        Denmark                   90 metric tons                 graph 2.
        Ireland                   10 metric tons
        United Kingdom          650 metric tons
                                                                                        Article 12
                                                                 Member States shall regularly inform the Commis­
                     SECTION III
                                                                 sion of imports of the said products originating in
                                                                 the Arab Republic of Egypt actually charged against
                                                                 their quota shares.
                   General provisions
                                                                                        Article 13
                      Article 11
                                                                 Member States and the Commission shall collaborate
 1 . Member States shall ensure that the quota shares            closely in order to ensure that the provisions of this
 allocated to them are freely accessible to importers            Regulation are observed.     ■
 of the products in question established in their
territory.
                                                                                        Article 14
2. Member States „ shall charge imports of the
products in question against their quota shares as the          This     Regulation    shall    enter into   force  on
products are presented for customs clearance under               1 January 1975",
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
              Done at Brussels,      . .                  ,
                                                                                     For the Council
                                                                                   .  The President