CELEX: 31987R1861
Language: en
Date: 1987-06-25 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1861/87 of 25 June 1987 opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for a certain variety of polyvinylpyrrolidone falling within subheading ex 39.02 C XIV a) of the Common Customs Tariff

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                                               (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                          COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1861 / 87
                                                           of 25 June 1987
                   opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for a
                   certain variety of polyvinylpyrrolidone falling within subheading ex 39.02 C XIV a) of the
                                                       Common Customs Tariff
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                                 cover requirements which cannot be determined with
                                                                          sufficient accuracy , it seems possible to avoid allocating
                                                                          among the Member States , without prejudice to the
                                                                          drawing against the quota volume of such quantities as
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                     they may need, under conditions and according to a
Economic Community, and in particular Article 28                          procedure to be specified ; whereas this method of
thereof,                                                                  management requires close cooperation between the
                                                                          Member States and the Commission and the latter must in
                                                                          particular be able to monitor the rate at which the quota is
Whereas         production     in     the    Community         of         used up and inform the Member States thereof;
polyvinylpyrrolidone intended for the pharmaceutical
industry and falling within subheading ex 39.02 C XIV a )
of the Common Customs Tariff is currently insufficient to                 Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of
meet the requirements of the processing industries in the                 the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are
Community; whereas, consequently, Community supplies                      united within and jointly represented by the Benelux
of products of this type currently depend to a considerable               Economic Union , all transactions concerning the
extent on imports from third countries ; whereas the most                 administration of shares allocated to that economic union
urgent Community requirements for the product in                          may be carried out by any one of its members,
question should be met immediately on the most
favourable terms; whereas a nil duty Community tariff
quota should therefore be opened within the limits of an
appropriate amount for a period from 1 July to 31
December 1987 ; whereas, in order not to jeopardize the                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
balance of the market for this product , the volume of the
Community tariff quota should be fixed at 60 tonnes;
                                                                                                        Article 1
Whereas it is necessary , in particular, to ensure to all
Community importers equal and uninterrupted access to                     1 . From 1 July to 31 December 1987 the common
the abovementioned quota and uninterrupted application                    customs duty applicable on import of the product
of the rates laid down for that quota to all imports of the               mentioned below shall be suspended at the level and within
product concerned into all Member States until the quota                  the limit of the Community tariff quota indicated for
has been used up ; whereas, however, since the quota is to                each :
                             CCT                                                                                Quota       Quota
       Order No             heading                                  Description                                volume      duty
                              No                                                                               (tonnes)      (% )
       09.1931        ex 39.02 C XIV a)      Polyvinylpyrrolidone , presented in powder form , the
                                             particles of which are less than 38 micrometres and
                                             which has a solubility in water at 25 °C of less than , or
                                             equal to, 1,5 % by weight and which is intended for the
                                             pharmaceutical industry                                              60          0
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Within the limit of this tariff quota the Kingdom of Spain         3 . Member States shall charge imports of the said goods
and the Portuguese Republic shall apply customs duties             aginst their drawings as and when the goods are entered for
calculated in accordance with the relevant provisions laid         free circulation .   \
down by the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal.
                                                                   4 . The extent to which the quota has been used up shall
2 . If an importer notifies an imminent importation of the         be determined on the basis of the imports charged in
product in question in a Member State and requests the             accordance with paragraph 3 .
benefit of the quota , the Member State concerned shall
inform    the    Commission      and   draw     an   amount
corresponding to these requirements to the extent that the
                                                                                             Article 3
available balance of the reserve permits this .
3 . The shares drawn pursuant to paragraph 2 shall be              At the request of the Commission, Member States shall
valid until the end of the quota period.                           inform it of imports actually charged against the quota .
                          Article 2
                                                                                             Article 4
1 . Member States shall take all appropriate measures to           The Member Sates and the Commission shall collaborate
ensure that their drawings pursuant to Article 1 (2 ) are          closely in order to ensure that this Regulation is complied
carried out in such a way that imports may be charged              with .
without interruption against their accumulated shares of
the Community quota .
2 . Each Member State shall ensure that importers of the                                     Article 5
said goods have access to the quota so long as the residual
balance of the quota volume allows this .                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1987 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Luxembourg, 25 June 1987 .
                                                                                        For the Council
                                                                                          The President
                                                                                          H. DE CROO