CELEX: 51976PC0675
Language: en
Date: 1976-12-10
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) temporarily and totally suspending the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duty on dried, dehydrated or evaporated onions of subheading 07.04 A (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                               Brussels » 10 December 1976
                           Proposal for a
                      COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
              temporarily and totally suspending the
              autonomous Common Customs Tariff duty
              on dried, dehydrated or evaporated
              onions of subheading 07.04 A
              ( submitted to the Council by the Commission)
COM(76 ) 675 final
 ---pagebreak---                        EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1. The United Kingdom government has made an urgent request to the Commission
   to suspend totally from 1 January to 30 June 1977 the autonomous Common
   Customs Tariff duty on dried , dehydrated or evaporated onions of
   subheading 07.04 A (CCT-duty : 18 % ). The UK has pointed out that the
   needs of the UK processing industry alone for the first three months
   of 1977 are 2,250 t with a value of 3,707,000 UA .
2. Because of the drought in 1976 Community producers can at present , not
   even partly , cover the needs of Community users .
3. In view of this situation the price of the onions in question has increased
   considerably in the Community .
4. To facilitate the supply of the Community market and to reduce the tendancy
   towards a rise in price the Commission thinks it is appropriate to propose
   a total duty suspension for the onions concerned . But it believes that the
   interests of the onion driers , especially in France have also to be taken
   into account and limits the validity of this tariff measures to the period
   from 1 January to 31 March 1977 .
5. This is the subject of the attached proposal of a regulation .           *
 ---pagebreak---                          Proposal for a
                   COUNCIL REGULA! ION (EEC ) .             1: .
            temporarily and totally suspending the autonomous
                Common Customs Tariff duty on dried , dehydrated or
                      evaporated onions of subheading 07.04 A
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
and in particular Article 103 thereof ,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
Whereas because of the drought during 1976 Community producers of dried ,
dehydrated or evaporated onions are at present in no position to cover ,
even partially, the needs of the Community consumers of this product j
Whereas this situation endangers the supply of these onions in the Community ;
whereas in view of the risk of the increase in the cost of living to which
this situation may give rise , the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duty
on these onions should "be totally suspended from 1 January until
31 March 1977 ;
Whereas the suddenness of the situation with which the Community is confronted ,
 the urgency of the measures to be taken and their temporary nature and
 the absence of any provisions in the rules on the common organization of the
market in processed fruit and vegetables for dealing with such a situation
with the necessary speed may be taken to justify recourse to Article 103
 of the Treaty as an exceptional measure , subject to its later integration
 into the common agricultural policy ,
 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                       Article 1
 From 1 January until 3i March 1977 , the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duty
 on dried , dehydrated or evaporated onions falling within subheading 07.04 A
 shall be totally suspended .
 ---pagebreak---                                Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1977 .
     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable
     in all Member States .
Done at Brussels .                                     For the Council
                                                       The President
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                       »
                                            Date 1 December 1976
I.   Budget line concerned : Chap . 12 , art . 120
2.  Title of activity ; Council Regulation temporarily and totally suspending
                           the Common Customs Tariff duties for dried , dehydrated
                           or evaporated onions of subheading 07 . 04 A
3.   Legal basis- : Art . 103 Treaty of Rome
4.   Objectives of the activity :
     Suspension of CCT duties for goods mentioned under 2 ,
5.0  Costs of the activity                                 1977
     to the account of the EC budget
     by non collection of duties                         667.260 UA