CELEX: 31977R2337
Language: en
Date: 1977-10-24 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 2337/77 of 24 October 1977 on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for dried grapes in immediate containers of a net capacity of 15 kilograms or less falling within subheading 08.04 B I of the Common Customs Tariff (1978)

27. 10 . 77                         Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 275/ 1
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                                    COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 2337/77
                                                   of 24 October 1977
              on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for
              dried grapes in immediate containers of a net capacity of 15 kilograms or less
                falling within subheading 08.04 B I of the Common Customs Tariff ( 1978)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
COMMUNITIES,
                                                                                       Article 1
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          1 . During the period from 1 January to 31
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 28               December 1978 a Community tariff quota of 8 373
thereof,                                                        tonnes shall be opened for dried grapes in immediate
                                                                containers of a net capacity of 15 kilograms or less
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,             falling within subheading 08.04 B I of the Common
                                                                Customs Tariff.
 Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia­           2. Within the limits of this tariff quota, the
 ment (l),                                                      Common Customs Tariff duty shall be suspended at
                                                                the level of 1-2 % .
Whereas a Community tariff quota for dried grapes in                                   Article 2
 immediate containers of a net capacity of 15 kilo­
grams or less, falling within subheading 08.04 B I of           The tariff quota set out in Article 1 shall be divided
the Common Customs Tariff, should be opened for                 among the Member States as follows :
 1978 at a duty of 1-2 % ; whereas the volume of this                                                  in tonnes
quota should be limited to 15% of Community                             Benelux                            791 ,
imports in 1973 from third countries not associated                     Denmark                            335,
with the Community nor linked to it by a preferential                   Germany                          2 335,
agreement ; whereas, on this basis, the volume of the                   France                             572,
quota is fixed at 8 373 tonnes ;                                        Ireland                            280 ,
                                                                        Italy                               31 ,
Whereas, in view of the comparatively low volume of                     United Kingdom                   4 029 .
the quota compared with the needs of the Commu­
 nity, a system for its utilization based on a single                                  Article 3
allocation among Member States should be provided,
without derogating from the Community nature of                 1 . Member States shall take all appropriate
the tariff quota ; whereas, in accordance with the              measures to ensure that importers of the products in
needs forecast by each Member State, the shares may             question established in their territory have free access
be determined as set out in Article 2 ;                         to the shares allocated to them .
                                                                2.    The extent to which a Member State has used up
Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the                      its share shall be determined on the basis of the
Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of               imports of the products in question entered with the
 Luxembourg are united within and jointly represented           customs authorities for home use .
by the Benelux Economic Union, any measure
concerning the administration of the quotas allocated                                  A rticle 4
to that Economic Union may be carried out by any
one of its members,                                             At the Commission's request, Member States shall
                                                                inform it of the imports actually charged against their
(M OJ No C 241 , 10 . 10 . 1977, p. 46 .                        shares.
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                     Article 5                                                   Article 6
Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied         This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
with .                                                     1978 .
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Luxembourg, 24 October 1977.
                                                                     For the Council
                                                                       The President
                                                                       A. HUMBLET