CELEX: 51978PC0486
Language: en
Date: 1978-09-29
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) opening and providing for the administration of a Community preferential ceiling for certain petroleum products refined in Turkey and establishing Community supervision of imports thereof (1979) (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                 COM(78)486 final.
                                                 Brussels , 29 September 1978
                               Proposal for a
                          COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ?            .
        opening and providing for the administration of a Community
        preferential ceiling for certain petroleum products refined
        in Turkey and establishing Community supervision of imports
                                thereof ( 1979 )
               ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
C0M(78 ) 486 final
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i Ae a consequence of the Accession of the new Member States and.
  the ensuing negotiations with Turkey for tho purpose of adjusting
  her Aneoclation Agreement with the Community and its Additional          »
  Protoool , the Community signed at Ankara, on 30 June 1973 » a
  Supplementary Protoool which will enter into force on ratification .
  Ponding ancry into force of thp Protocol the Community conoluded on
  Interim Agreement , intended to "be valid only until the Protocol does
  enter into force , in order to secure the application from 1 January
  1974 of certaih provision© of the Protoool relating to trade in goodr .
     y.   ■  •     .                     ■                       . -         j
 The Supplementary Protocol and the Interim Agreement provide inter alia
 for the opening of an ermus.1 Community tariff <jo.ota of 340 000 motrio
 tons for certain petroleum product e falling under Chapter 27 of the •
 Common Customs Tariff *
        •              t
 It is not possible to eay at the moment whether the tariff measures
 laid down \jy these Agreements in Turkey 's favour should be granted
 for 197^ o*i 'tho basis of the Supplemental Protocol or of tho Interim
 Agreement , tho validity of which would have to be prolonged * The
 proposed Regulation annexed horeto is based on tho Interim Agreement
            md would therefore havo to be amended if the Supplementary
 Protoool entered into force before 1 January 1979..
 Aa a result of the decision         the Council of Association in Juno 1973
 that Turkey should be treated no less favourably than the countries
 benefiting from generalised tariff preferences , tfee Commission and tho
 Tvurkiuh authorities have studied the problem, of giving equivalent tariff
 treatment to both the developing oountrios and Turkey.         ^
 Tha Community tariff tfwotas' opened in favour of the developing countries
 during ths y«ays 1973- to 1973 were converted with effect from 1 January
 1974 Into Community oelHngSp volumes "boing oaXoulatod by tha usual
 method . Por 1975 thesa volumes were " fixed at tho 1974 lovole 'plus 12$,
     for 1976 they wwa'.fixed. at tha 1975 levol plus 15# , ■ for 1977 at
 the 1976 level, plus ( for the most pose ) 4.6% and for 1978/ at the 1977
_leve'.^.,                    '   ,■    \ ■' ' ■ 'V .       , and"1979
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                When tho problem hart been studied , "the Commission ultimately reoog^-
                                alreauj
                ni zed thai /For 1976 , in view of the provisions of paragraph 4 of "the
           . ■ Sole ArUole of Annex 1 to tho Additional Protocol , tho tariff quota
          I' of 34.0 000 wotrio tons laid down in Turkey 's favour should be oonver-
          ! '.• tod into a Community ceiling with the volume increased provisionally
                in the proportions used for *
                                                                                  ♦
                     only purpose of tho proposed Regulation xs to open in the case
            '   of these products for 1979 a Community ceiling fixed
                at 458 000 metrio tons •                           _ ^ and to set up Community • :
                supervision of importations of these products#
. 3 » Adoption of precise common rules •uniformly applied "by the Member                              r.
              States will be nooessary if tho ooilings system incorporating en­
        • titlement to reintroduce tho oustoms duties is to work successfully *
                                     >
 '•           These roctuirements can be mot by sotting up a Community system for " ■
    ' • supervising imports aotually made from tho partner oountry. Member
              States will accordingly roquir© to take steps, to ensure that etatisti- .
              cal data for the whole of the Community can be collected rapidly .
              For thia purpose importations will be counted only as the good .2                 t
       ; ■ actually entered With the customs authorities for homo ubqo                            ' . '
                                                                                                1
                               *                                    *                                   *
              Statistics will bo compiled by each Member State at the end of each
             month and vd'J.X be forwarded to reach tha Conwsiseion by tna fr'.ft'eenth day
              of the fellowi).»g mouth in ordc:-.- to 'enable it to' oommunioato to Member
             States by telox an. inclusive                of the import n eyaieir .■fill call fox5 '
        '         oxojrica of osce-^ful attonti^n '"y the                    d^pari^nts in tho
            Mombor Stetea'          tov qIcgio . ocop6re ^?/n           -thM* ' dspAr^fieais a-ftd ;
            " h<5 Cowii'sciojrw . ,                     :                : , >":•
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         The. following aystem will be adopted for Betting off the mechanism
         i*or reintroducing duties : when ono of the inclusive monthly returns
         drawn up by the Commission shows that 73 $ of the ceiling figure haa
        been - reached , the Com?)) isa .von td.ll inform the Member States and con­
       sultations may then be held – particularly in tho Group on Eoonomie
        Tariff Problems – ^ithor at the request of a Member State or on tho
        initiative of the CommisaAon * Tho purpose of the consultations will
       be to consider whether or net to recommenoo collecting' ouatoma duties
       at tho third-countjy rate wh«n tha oeiliuw has actually been reaohed .
                                                                 4
      A monthly return will continue to be made for tho product in question *
      If th-a Commission bo requiieto , returns will be made every ton days
     by telex , within a. time limit of 5 days .
     The Commission will thus be in a position to tako quiok aotion to
     restore by regulation       auotoms duties on imports from tho partner
     country until the end       of tha calendar year* Naturally , in ouoh a case ~
     reiutroduction of the       duties would bo effeotive from a date fixed by the
     regulation ending the       duty redv.otion laid down#
4* * he proposed R^Gulatioo provides that tha Council should dolegate autho­
    rity to the Commiaaion m ragarda application .of the rules on ooilin^a
    end introduotion of duties .
    The propoeyd Regulation only oket ohen a tfonoral framework for the exer–
    oiso of those powero^a'.n orcUir that tho Mechanism to be used oan be
    flexibly and repidly wijustod^ An consultation with tho Member States .
    It .(.0 precisely wiih thie aim of optimum efficiency and rapidity that
   "ths proposed ftotfulat.ion give a <iho OomroAeaion tho toak of reintroducing
   third-ooun^ii-y yfttd dut.-loa ,oa imports of tha goods An question from the
   pwrtaox* country.             • ,                     . •>.
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 M Trfi*             _                • #                     «■
             P^optfsftl for a Cornell fce.'ml&tion
 ---pagebreak---            •                        Proposât for a
                              nnnff.^TT. nKCTILATIOW ( EEC.).
           i
               opening and providing for . the administration of tt
               Cwnrnuiity preferential coilinff for certain petwr
               leum products refined in Turlwy and establishing
               Cominuni'fcy supervision of import e thereof
 \
   Ti£E COUNCIL OF HUTS iSUROPSANf CO^IUIOTIKS ,
   Having regard -to tha Treaty es'tfaliUohinfi tho European Economic
   Oomtn\mity t and in particular Artiolfl 3.3.3 thereof*
■ having regard to the proposal from "the Commission ,
   Whereas , pending the «?ntry into force of the Supplementary Protocol
   signed in Ankara on 30 June 1973 containing the adjustments to be
   made to the Agreement establishing an association between the
   European Economic Community and Turkey and to the Additional
   Protocol CI ) consequent on the accession of new Member States ,
   the Community has undertaken , in an Interim Agreement ( 2 ) which
    runs only for the period prior to the entry into force of this
    Supplementary Protocol / which is applicable until 31 December 1974
    but which has been extended for 197,9 in accordance with the
    terms laid down in Article 1*3 thereof / to implement certain
    provisions of the Supplementary Protocol, relating to trade in
    goods ;     whereas under Article 6 of the Interim Agreement
    amending the first paragraph of the Sole Article of Annex 1
    to the Additional Protocol , the Community must totally suspend
    the customs duties applicable to certain petroleum products
     falling within Chapter 27 of the Common Customs Tariff / refined
     in Turkey , within the limit of an - annual Community tariff
     auota of 340 000 tonnes ;            whereas,     for the products concerned
     a provisional adjustment should be made to these 'tariff preferences ,
    consisting essentially of substituting for the Community tariff
    quota a Community ceiling whioh amounts , after successive increases ,
    to 458 000 tonnes , above which the customs duties applicable to
     third countries may be reintroduced J •
      < 1 ) 0J L 293 of 29.12.1972 , p. 4 :
      ( 2 ) OJ L 277 of 3.10,1973 , p. 2 .
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Whereas the application of the ceiling requires that the Co-unity should
be regularly informed of the trend of imports of the products refined in
Turkey; whereas imports of these products should therefore
be subjected to a system of supervision;
Whereas this objective may be attained by means of an administrative procedure
based on setting off imports of the products 'in question against the ceiling,
at Community level, as and when these products are submitted to the customs
authorities under cover of declarations that they tUve been made available
fnr home use; whereas this administrative procedure must make provision for the
reint reduction of the Common .Customs Tariff duty as soon as the said
ceiling hais been reached at Community le /©l$                              i
Whereas this administrative procedure requires close and very . rapid
cooperation between the Member States and the Commission,, which must
               ■ be able to              monitor the          amounts set off against the
 ceiling end keep the Member Stat©# informed thereof; whereas this cooperation
 must be all tha closer to enable the Commission to take adequate measures
to reintroduce the Common Customs Tariff duty whenever the oeiling is
 reached,                                                              .
 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION t                  '
                                                  Article 1
 1# From 1 January to 31 December 1979 the Common Customs Tariff duties shall ,
     subject to Article 2,
     be totally suspended for the petroleum products , refined in Turkey ,
     specified below# within ® limit of a Community ceiling of 458 000 tonnes :
                               »
                                                                                  »        i
         CCT •
   heading - '           •             •   "■     Description  ■ •   4                   .
      • No ■                             ♦                         ♦                 -,
         1                                              2
                           I,                                                  ♦       •
   ',27.10 .               .■ Potroleum oils iwid oils obtained from "biifUminouB minnralo
                      t other than cmidoj propagations not elsewhere specified or ,
                                 inoludod , containing not less than 70 $ "by woi(jht of pe­
             w
                       ' 1
                                 troleum oil or of oils e&talnod from tMturoinous
                                                                         ,.
                                                                                    .minerals ,
                                                                                    I•
      t, • 1
                                 these               tho      constituent* of the '
                 \
                    .         -. Preparations 1 1 ,•
 ---pagebreak---      ■        27.10                                   A. Light oils )                                                      '       ••
      -(oontinued)
                                                             Ill * For other purposes t                                                    ■ .
                  •   ι
                                                 ' B « ïfedium oils t
                                                         ■ XXX * For other purposes
                                                     C * Heavy oils *                                           .            ■
                                                            X * Cas oils t
                                                                o) For o-j:her purposes
                                                         XX * Fuol oila s
                                            V '       .           .                                                              - ■ - ■ .
                                              . •        , •    o^ For other purposes
                                            . ' XiX# Lubricating oils , other oils :
                                                            f o)          be mixed in aooordanoe v/ith the terms
                                                                     of Additional Note 7 to Chaptor 27 (a),
                 •«  i      . ♦
                                                          , •' d) For other purposes
            27-11 , / i                               Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons t
                                                     B,* Other t                   '•        . ''-I fc--                                        >
                                                            X « Corameroial propane and oomraeroial butane t
                                                                 o) For other purposes
           27.12                                     Petroleum ^ elly i
                                                     A. Crud8 î
               ·Γ
                    » • .
                                                            XIX » For other purposes
                                  \ .     <
                                                     SU Other           .
                                    /       r
           27.13"'                v              • ~
 • · 'ι
                                    ■ • ' • Peraffin wax, micro-crystalline wax, slack wax , "
                                                     oaokerite , Halite wax , peat wax and other wine­
                » 4*      ,
                                       ; ' { r&l waxes , whether or not coloured i .
                                '« . ri 3* Other t
                                        /         ■
                                                                                          '•   •           . '    «
                                                                                                                                              .
                                  s            ■        ' X * Crude t
                                                                     W^      . I a
                                ♦          1
                                                                o ; For other purposes
                                                        XX * Other
       ■■ 27 * H.
                                                    Petroleum bitumen , potroleum ooke and other resi­
                                      t
                                                    dues of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from
                                                                      ,
                                                    bituminous minerals I.                                    "
                                        •           0 * Other -                        •;
                                                                          '*  M ■*.«•«                   i w* •     * « * •>         •
                                                                    ta eubjaoi; to conditions to bo determined
®y tho oompatwk ftuthorlWMr ■                                                              v. : . ■ •                          '
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                                                                            I
 2 . Imports of the petroleum products referred to in paragraph 1 shall be
      subject to Community supervision .
 3 . Imports of the products shall be set off against the ceiling as and when
     they are submitted to the customs authorities under cover of a declaration
     that they have been made available for home use .
4 . The reaching of the ceiling shall be determined at Community level on the
     basis of the imports set off against it in the manner defined in
     paragraph 3 .
5 . Member States shall inform the Commission at the intervals and within
     the time limits specified in Article 3 of any imports effected in
     accordance with the above rules .
                                   Article 2
    As soon as the ceiling referred to in Article 1 ( l ) has "been reached at
     Community level , the Commission may     issue a Regulation reintroducing the
     Common Customs Tariff duties applicable to third countries until the end
     of the oalendar year .
                                   Article 3
    Member States shall forward to the Commission not later than the
    fifteenth day of each month a statement of the imports effected during
    the preceding month . If the Commission so requests , they shall forward
     this statement , in respect of. ten day periods , within ten clear daye of
    •the expiry of each auoh 5 day period®
                                   Artici » 4
     The Commisaion shall tak;; all necessary measures for the implementation
     of this Regulation -'in close cooperation wi       the Member States .
                                                    \
                                                      \
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                                                 -5
                                      Article 5
     • . '.This Regulation shall enter Into force on 1 January 1979 . .
 f- '. v ' • '             Thie Regulation shall be binding in its entirety '
                           and direofcly applicable in all Member Staiea . .
    • ',        .   ,                    \              j' > v            Por the Counoil »
           Done at Brvao«els » ,                                      •r                 '
  ,   .                                       i1            *■ »V . V
         r\            ■■■          ; • .;y      •• V            7       ; - The President ' .
> \ .      ' Ο ;· " · . "'·"·· V.: -- ·'.Υ·'.
 ---pagebreak---  FINANCIAL               STATEMENT                             Pate :
 1 .,. Budget line concerned : Ch „ 12 Art , 120
 2 . Legal basis :     Art . 113 of the Treat /
3 . Title of the tariff measure :
       Proposal for a Regulation of the Council for the opening and method of'
       administration of a Community preferen.ee ceiling for certain petroleum
       products refined in Turkey and for establishing a Community surveillance
       system for imports of these products               '■%
4 . Objectives :                       . '     '
                                         ι
       Respect of engagements made with Turkey
5 . Method of calculation :
      - No of CCT            :   27.10 to 27 . H
      - Volume of ceiling ;      458 000 metric tons
      ~ Quota duty rate      :   0%
      - Duty rate CCT        : . various
6 . Loss of receipts :           1 2 > S"  S~    t    A