CELEX: 31974R3257
Language: en
Date: 1974-12-19 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3257/74 of the Council of 19 December 1974 increasing the Community tariff quota opened for 1974 by Regulation (EEC) No 3590/73 for newsprint falling within subheading 48.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff

No L 349 / 6                             Official Journal of the European Communities                            28 . 12. 74
                                REGULATION ( EEC) No 3257/74 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                      of 19 December 1974
              increasing the Community tariff quota opened for 1974 by Regulation ( EEC) No
              3590/ 73 for newsprint falling within subheading 48.01 A of the Common
                                                         Customs Tariff
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                       Article 1
Economic Community, and in particular Article 28
thereof ;
                                                                    1 . The volume of the Community tariff quota
                                                                    opened by Regulation (EEC) No 3590/73 for news­
Having consulted the Commission ;
                                                                    print falling within subheading 48.01 A of the
                                                                    Common Customs Tariff is hereby increased from
Whereas, for newsprint falling within subheading                    3 053 000 to 3 068 000 metric tons .
48.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff, a duty-free
Community tariff quota, the amount of which has                     2.     This increase of 15 000 metric tons shall consti­
been fixed at 3 053 000 metric tons, has been opened                tute a reserve .
by the Council and allocated among the Member
States by Regulation ( EEC) No 3590/73 (') ; whereas,
by Regulation (EEC) No 1 409/74 (2 ), the benefit of the
tariff quota in question was extended to certain types                                      Article 2
of paper falling within subheading 48.01 E which ,
apart from the criterion of watermarks, correspond to
                                                                     1.    As soon as a Member State has used 90 % or
the definition of newsprint given in the Additional
Note to Chapter 48 of the Common Customs Tariff ;                   more of its share as fixed in Article 2 of Regulation
                                                                    ( EEC) No 3590/73 , it shall forthwith , by notifying the
                                                                    Commission , draw a second share to the extent that
Whereas , on the basis of the most recent data on this
                                                                    the reserve so permits, equal to 10 % of its initial
product for 1974, it may be estimated that the addi­                share rounded up as necessary to the next whole
tional imports from non-member countries required                   number .
by the Community amount to 15 000 metric tons ;
whereas the size of the quota should be increased by
this quantity to take account of the requirements                   2.     As soon as a Member State, after exhausting its
 noted ; whereas, in order to safeguard the Community               initial share, has used 90 % or more of the second
 character of the tariff quota in question , a Community            share drawn by it, that Member State shall forthwith ,
 reserve equal to the proposed increase should be set                in the manner and to the extent provided in para­
 up ;                                                               graph 1 , draw a third share equal to 5 % of its initial
                                                                    share .
 Whereas the initial shares allocated to Member States
 may be exhausted at different rates ; whereas to take               3.    As soon as a Member State, after exhausting its
 account of this and to avoid disruption of supplies it              second share, has used 90 % or more of the third
 should be provided that any Member State which has                  share drawn by it, that Member State shall forthwith ,
 almost used up its initial share should draw an addi­               and in accordance with the same conditions and to
 tional share from the reserve ; whereas each time its               the extent provided in paragraph 1 , draw a fourth
 additional share is almost exhausted a Member State                 share equal to the third .
 should draw a further share, and so on as many times
 as the reserve allows ; whereas the initial and addi­               It shall continue in this fashion until the reserve is
 tional shares should be valid until the end of the
                                                                     exhausted .
 quota period ; whereas this form of administration
 requires close collaboration between the Member
 States and the Commission , and the Commission                      4.     By way of derogation from paragraphs 1 , 2 and
 must be in a position to keep account of the extent to              3 , the Member States may draw shares lower than
 which the quotas have been used up and to inform                    those specified in those paragraphs if there are
 the Member States accordingly,                                      grounds for believing that those specified may not be
                                                                     used in full . Any Member State applying this para­
 (!) OJ No L 365, 31 . 12 . 1973 , p. 36 .                           graph shall inform the Commission of its grounds for
 (2 ) OJ No L 150 , 7 . 6 . 1974, p. 3 .                             so doing.
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                        Article 3                             amount of that balance to the Member State making
                                                              the last drawing.
Additional shares drawn pursuant to Article 2 shall be
valid until 31 December 1974.
                                                                                     Article 5
                        Article 4
                                                              Member States shall take all appropriate measures to
The Commission shall keep an account of the shares            ensure that additional shares drawn pursuant to
opened by the Member States pursuant to Article 2 of         Article 2 are opened in such a way that imports may
Regulation ( EEC) No 3590/73 and Article 2 of this            be charged without interruption against its accumu­
Regulation and, as soon as the information reaches it,        lated share of the quota .
shall inform each Member State of the extent to
which the reserves have been used up .                                              Article 6
It shall ensure that when an amount exhausting the           This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
reserve is drawn the amount so drawn does not exceed          publication in the Official Journal of the European
the balance available , and to this end shall notify the      Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 19 December 1974 .
                                                                          For the Council
                                                                           The President
                                                                         J. P. FOURCADE