CELEX: 51973PC0359
Language: en
Date: 1973-03-02
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A DECISION OF THE COUNCIL introducing quantitative restrictions on the imports of certain categories of wood (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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COM (73) 359
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 ---pagebreak---   COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                         COM(73)359 final
                                                         Brussels , 2 March 1973
                                 PROPOSAL FOR A
                             DECISION OF THE COUNCIL
                 introducing quantitative restrictions on the
                 imports of certain categories of wood
                   ( submitted to the Council lay the Commission)
COM(73 ) 359 final
 ---pagebreak---                        PROPOSAL TOR A ,
                   DECISION OP THE COUNCIL
           introducing quantitative restrictions on
          the imports of certain categories of .wood
THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community and in particular Article 113 thereof ;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
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 ---pagebreak--- Whereas the German Government has informed the Commission that
a hurricane occurring on 13 November -1 972 in the Federal
Republic of Germany destroyed an acreage of trees equivalent
to 17*6 million metric cubic tons of wood or approximately
68?b of the normal annual production of that country ;
Whereas the distribution of, this quantity of wood on a rigid
market' which combines an excessive supply and an inelastic
demand creates considerable difficulties which are likely
to provoke serious disturbances in that industry ; whereas
these difficulties of disposal also risk hindering the
uprooting of these trees that have been destroyed thus
endangering the preservation of forests in the regions
affected ;
Whereas in order to resolve the consequences of this natural
disaster the Federal Republic of Germany introduced a
programme involving in particular a maximum possible
reduction of the felling plants for 1973 together with a .
series of financial and fiscal measures whoso total cost is
estiraated in excess of 1,000.000,000 German Marks ;
 ---pagebreak---                                  - 3 -
Whereas this programme is nevertheless inadequate to solve
all the aspects of the programme and in particular to ensure
the disposal of tho excess quantity of wood on the market ;
Whereas the size of this natural catastrophe and its con­
sequences for the sector concerned and the preservation of
the forests in the regions affected justifies the intro­
duction on an exceptional and • temporary basis of quantitative
restrictions on imports into the Federal Republic of Cermaiiy
of similar types of wood originating in and coming from
third countries notwithstanding Council Regulation ( EEC )
No 109/70 0 ) of 19.12.1969 establishing common rules for
imports from state trading countries and from Council
Regulation ( EEC ) No 1025/70 ( ) laying down common rules
for imports from third countries :
                                                               ( .
Whereas in settling these quantitative restrictions , the
importance of maintaining traditional trade patterns and
contracts concluded previously under normal conditions should ,
insofar as possible be taken into account ;
                                                  # • •/ • • •
( 1 ) OJ No L 19 , 26.1.1970 , io . 1
r ) OJ No L 124 ,   8.6 . 1970 , p . 6
 ---pagebreak--- HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :      ...       -
                             . Article 1 '
      Imports into the Federal Republic of Germany of the products
listed hereafter originating in and coming from third countries
shall "be subject to the following quantitative restrictions :
 Commcjn Customs                                         Qualitative
 Tariff heading            Description of goods          restrictions
       • No    ■
 ex 44.01         *•     Fuel wood  ■                    Import
                                                       . forbidden
 éx 44.01    •           Slabs                           Import
                                                         forbidden
 ex 44.03                Coniferous Pulpwood             Inport
                                                         forbiddon
 ex 44.03 , .            Barks of Conifera               Import
                                                         forbiddon
 ex 44.03                Hardwood Pulpwood            1 Import
  ■      ■ ■         • !                                 forbidden
 ex 44.03                Coniferous Pitprops          I Import
                                                         forbidden
 ex 44.03                Pitprops other than             Import
                         coniferous                      forbidden-
 ex 44.03 . . ;          Coniferous wood for sawing ,    Import
                         or for making veneer sheets     forbidden ,
                         or sheets for plywood                     /
 ex 44.05                Sawn coniferous wood            Quota       o
                                         I               2.000.000m
                               Article 2
      The Federal Republic of Germany will take all the necessary
                 *
steps to ensure the application of this decision . It may
excluder from the application of the restrictions referred to in
Article 1 imports in transit to the Federal Republic of Germany
or those imports effected pursuant to contracts previously
concluded under normal conditions . The Federal Republic of
Germany may also permit variations to the restrictions referred
to in Article 1 .
 ---pagebreak---                             Article 3
     This decision is addressed to the Federal Republic of
Germany ♦
     It shall be applicable until 31 December 1973 «
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                                Done at Brussels ,
                                        For the Council
                                         The President