CELEX: 51998PC0107
Language: en
Date: 1998-02-27
Title: Proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) on the import into the Community of agricultural products originating in Turkey, repealing Regulation (EEC) No 4115/86 and amending Regulation (EC) No 3010/95

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                Brussels, 27.02.1998
                                                COM(1998) 107 final
                                                98/0069 (ACQ
                                 Proposal for a
                        COUNCIL REGULATION (EC)
  on the import into the Community of agricultural products originating in Turkey,
repealing Regulation (EEC) No 4115/86 and amending Regulation (EC) No 3010/95
                        (presented by the Commission)
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak---                                      EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
 The purpose of this proposal for a Regulation is to enable the Commission to implement
the concessions provided for in the latest decision of the EC-Turkey Association Council
on the trade regime for agricultural products.
For fishery products, there is a special provision making application of the preferential
tariff subject to observance of import and reference prices.
It also provides lor the abolition of the former concessions by repealing Council
Regulation (EEC) No 4115/86' as regards the concessions provided for in Decision
No 1/80 of the Association Council, and certain provisions on Turkey laid down in
Council Regulation (EC) No 3010/W.
In view of the very strict lime limits, it is proposed that this Regulation should enter into
force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European
Communities.
1
     OJ 380, 31.12.1986, p. 16.
     O.I 314, 2 8 . I 2 . I W 5 , p. I. Regulation amended by Council Regulation (IÎC) No 540/96, OJ 79,
     29.3.1996, p. 8.
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 ---pagebreak---                                              Proposal for a
                               Council Regulation (KC) No
     on the import into the Community of agricultural products originating in Turkey,
   repealing Regulation (EEC) No 4115/86 and amending Regulation (EC) No 3010/95
 THE COUNCIL OF I I I E EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular
Article 1 13 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas Decision No .../98 of the EC-Turkey Association Council of                     1998 on the
trade regime for agricultural products establishes the system of preferences applicable to
imports into the Community of agricultural products originating in Turkey; whereas
provision should be made to allow the Commission to adopt special detailed rules for the
application of that new import regime, without prejudice to Articles 6 and 7 of Council
Regulation (EC) No           1981/94 opening and providing for the administration                 of
Community tariff quotas for certain products originating in Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt,
Israel, Jordan, Malta, Morocco, West Bank and Gaza strip, Tunisia and Turkey, and
providing detailed rules for extending and adapting these tariff quotas 5 ;
Whereas, in the case of products for which Community regulations require a certain
import price to be observed, application of the preferential tariff system is subject to
observance of that price;
1
    OJ 199, 2.8.1994, p. I. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (liC) No 1667/97 (OJ
    216, 27 8.1997, p. 1.)
 ---pagebreak--- Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 4115/86 of 22 December 19864 lays down the
arrangements applicable to imports into the Community of agricultural products
originating in Turkey on the basis of Decision No 1/80 of the EEC-Turkey Association
Council; whereas the provisions on agriculture of that Decision were repealed by
Decision No ...798 of the Association Council; whereas, as a result, Regulation (EEC)
No 4115/86 should be repealed;
Whereas the tariff concessions for the three products originating in Turkey laid down in
Council Regulation (EC) No 3010/95 of 18 December 1995 totally or partially
 suspending the customs duties applicable to certain products falling within Chapters 1 to
24 and Chapter 27 of the Combined Nomenclature originating in Malta and Turkey5, as
amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 540/96 of 25 March 1996(\ should also be
abolished;
 Whereas the Decision of the Association Council applies from 1 January 1998; whereas,
in view of the urgency, this Regulation should enter into force on the day following its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                          Article I
l;or the products listed in Annex II to the EC Treaty originating in Turkey and allowed
for importation into the Community under the conditions laid down in Decision No ...798
of the EC-Turkey Association Council, detailed rules for the application of the import
regime shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 38 of
Regulation No 136/66/EEC7 or, where applicable, in the corresponding Articles of the
other regulations on the common organisation of agricultural markets, without prejudice
to Articles 6 and 7 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1981/94.
2
    OJ380, 31.12.1986, p. 16.
1
    OJ 314, 28.12.1995, p. I.
4
    OJ 79, 29.3.1996, p. 8.
5
    OJ 172, 30.9.1966, p. 3025/66.
 ---pagebreak---                                            Article 2
In the case of products for which Community regulations require a certain import price to
be observed, application of the preferential tariff system shall be subject to observance of
that price.
In the case of fishery products for which a reference price is set, application of the
preferential tariff shall be subject to observance of that reference price.
                                            Article 3
Council Regulation (EEC') No 4115/86 is hereby repealed.
                                            Article 4
Regulation (EC) No 3010/95 is hereby amended as follows:
 1.    The title is replaced by the following:
      "Council Regulation (EC) No 3010/95 of 18 December 1995 totally or partially
      suspending the customs duties applicable to certain products falling within Chapters
      I to 24 of the Combined Nomenclature originating in Malta".
2.     The text of Article 1 is replaced by the following:
      "Imports into the Community of the products originating in Malta listed in the
      Annex to this Regulation shall be subject to the customs duties indicated for each
      product".
3.     The text of Article 2 is replaced by the following:
      "Tor the purposes of applying this Regulation, the rules of origin shall be those in
      force at any given lime for the purposes of the Agreements establishing an
      association between the European Economic Community and Malta".
 4.   Annex I with the list of products falling within Chapters I to 24 originating in Malta
      is entitled "Annex".
 ---pagebreak--- 5.    Annex II with the list of products falling within Chapters 1 to 24 originating in
      Turkey is repealed.
                                          Article 5
 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official
Journal of the European Communities.
 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
Slates.
Done at Brussels,               1998
                                                                  •or the Council
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          FINANCIAL STATEMENT
      BUDGET HEADING.                                                                APPROPRIATIONS:
      Chapter 10 - agricultural duties                                               ECU 623.8 million
       TITLE:
      Council Regulation on the import into the Community of agricultural products originating in Turkey, repealing Regulation
      (EEC) No 41 15/86 and amending Regulation (EC) No 3010/95
      LEGAL BASIS:
      Article I 13 of the Treaty
      AIMS:
      'To implement the concessions provided for in Decision No .../98 of the EC- Turkey Association Council.
5.    FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS                                        PERIOD OF 12             CURRENT               FOLLOWING
                                                                       MONTHS               FINANCIAL               FINANCIAL
                                                                                               YEAR                     YEAR
                                                                                                (97)                      (98)
                                                                    (ECU million)          (ECU million)           (ECU million)
5.0   EXPENDITURE
           CHARGED TO THE EG BUDGET
           (REFUNDS/IN TERVEN HON)
       - NATIONAL AUTUORITIES
      - OTHER
5.1.  REVENUE
       - OWN RESOURCES Ol •THE I'C
           (LEVIES/CUS TOMS DUTIES)
       - NATIONAL
                                                                       1997             1998             1999                2000
50 I   ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE
5.1 I  ESTIMATED REVENUE
5.2    METHOD OF CALCULATION:
6.0   CAN IIII- PROJECT BE: FINANCED FROM APPROPRIATIONS ENTERED IN THE                                                       YES/NO
       RELEVANT CHAPTER OF Till- CURRENT BUDGET?
6 1    CAN THE PROJECT BE FINANCED BY TRANSFER BETWEEN CHAPTERS OF THE                                                        YES/NO
      CURRENT BUDGET?
6.2    WILL A SUPPLEMENTARY BUDGET BE NECESSARY?                                                                              Y-ES/NO
6.3    WILL FUTUR!- BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS BE NECESSARY?                                                                       YES/NO
OBSERVATIONS:
         This proposal lor a Council Regulation implements the concessions provided Tor in Decision No .../98 of the EC-Turkey
        Association Council, for which statement No 002/1II /CG/da was drawn up. This proposal has no additional financial
        implications.
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