CELEX: 31973R3464
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-17 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3464/73 of the Council of 17 December 1973 on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for rosin, including 'brais résineux' falling within subheading No 38.08 A of the Common Customs Tariff for 1974

27. 12 . 73                         Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 356/21
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 3464/73 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                 of 17 December 1973
               on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for rosin,
               including 'brais resineux' falling within subheading No 38.08 A of the Common
                                                Customs Tariff for 1974
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       Whereas, in view of the negligible size of such a
                                                               quota in comparison with the Community's
                                                               requirements, a system of utilization should, without
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                   derogating from the Community nature of the tariff
European Economic Community, and in particular                 quota, be provided based on a single allocation
Article 28 thereof;                                            between the Member States ; whereas this allocation
                                                               should be calculated by the same method as is used
Having regard to the draft Regulation submitted by             to establish a total quota of 15 % of the imports of
the Commission;                                                each Member State from third countries ; whereas,
                                                               calculated in such a manner this allocation should be
                                                               as follows :
Whereas the production in the Community and in
Greece of resin, falling within subheading No 38.08 A                   Benelux               3 559 metric tons
of the Common Customs Tariff, is now insufficient
to meet the requirements of the processing industries                   Denmark                 270 metric tons
in     the     Community;      whereas,    consequently,
Community supplies of products of this type depend                      Germany               8 954 metric tons
to a considerable extent on imports from third                          France                2 863 metric tons
countries ;
                                                                        Ireland                   2 metric tons
Whereas by virtue of Protocol No 10 annexed to the                      Italy                 2 532 metric tons
Agreement creating an Association with Greece, the
                                                                        United Kingdom        2 585 metric tons
Community may open autonomous tariff quotas on
condition that these do not exceed annually for the
rosins in question 15 % of the total imports in the            Whereas since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom
Community from third countries during the latest               of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of
year for which statistics are available ; whereas urgent       Luxembourg, are jointly represented by the Benelux
                                                               Economic       Union  any    measure     concerning  the
Community requirements of the products in question             administration     of the   shares   allocated   to that
should be met immediately on the most favourable
terms ; whereas a tax free tariff quota should                 Economic Union may be carried out by one of its
                                                               members,
therefore be opened within the abovementioned limit;
Whereas in 1972 the imports of rosin from third                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
countries were as follows :
                                                                                       Article 1
         Benelux             23 729 metric tons
                                                               During the period from 1 January 1974 to 31
         Denmark               1 800 metric tons               December 1974 the duty of the Common Customs
         Germany             59 695 metric tons                Tariff for resin including 'brais resineux' falling
                                                               within subheading No 38.08 A shall be totally
         France               19 087 metric tons               suspended in respect of a Community tariff quota of
                                                               20 765 metric tons .
         Ireland ,                14 metric tons
         Italy                16 882 metric tons               The tariff quota rate of duty to be applied by the
                                                               new Member States shall be nil .
         United Kingdom       17 233 metric tons
                                                                                       Article 2
                            138 440 metric tons
                                                               The Community tariff quota referred to in Article 1
Whereas 15 % of this total represents 20 765 metric            shall be allocated as follows among the Member
tons ;                                                         States :
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        Benelux                3 559 metric tons               basis of the imports of the product concerned entered
                                                               for home use .
        Denmark                  270 metric tons
        Germany                8 954 metric tons                                      Article 4
        France               ' 2 863 metric tons
                                                               The Member States shall regularly inform the
        Ireland                    2 metric tons
                                                               Commission of imports actually charged against their
                                                               shares.
        Italy                  2 532 metric tons
        United Kingdom         2 585 metric tons                                      Article 5
                        Article 3                              The Member States        and the   Commission   shall
                                                               cooperate closely to ensure that this Regulation is
                                                               observed .
1 . The Member States shall ensure that importers
of the said product established in their territory have
free access to the shares allocated to them .                                         Article 6
2.    The extent to which the shares of Member                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
States have been used up shall be determined on the            1974.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 17 December 1973 .
                                                                                    For the Council
                                                                                     The President
                                                                                    I. N0RGAARD