CELEX: 31976R3233
Language: en
Date: 1976-12-21 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 3233/76 of 21 December 1976 establishing indicative ceilings and Community supervision for imports of certain products originating in Norway (1977)

31 . 12. 76                       Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 367/15
                                   COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3233/76
                                                 of 21 December 1976
              establishing indicative ceilings and Community supervision for imports of certain
                                        products originating in Norway ( 1977)
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                   Member States and the Commission ; whereas the
 COMMUNITIES,                                                  latter must, in particular, be able to follow the pro­
                                                               gress of amounts set off against the indicative
                                                               ceilings and keeip the Member States informed ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                  whereas this cooperation must be all the closer since
 European Economic Community, and in particular                the Commission must be able to take adequate
 Article 113 thereof,                                          measures to reintroduce customs tariff duties when­
                                                               ever one of the ceilings has been reached ;
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                               Whereas the trend of imports should be followed for
 Whereas an Agreement (*) between the European                 certain products for which, under Article 4 of
 Economic Community and the Kingdom of Norway                  Protocol 1 , the Community has suspended the appli­
 was signed on 14 May 1973 ;                                   cation of ceilings and for products which are not
                                                               subject to the ceiling system ; whereas it is therefore
                                                               desirable that imports of such products should be
Whereas Articles 1 , 2 and 3 of Protocol 1 annexed             subject to supervision,
 to this Agreement make provision for a specific time­
 table for the progressive abolition of customs duties
 in respect of the products to which the Agreement
 applies ; whereas under Article 4 of that Protocol the
                                                               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
imports of these products are limited to annual indi­
cative ceilings above which the customs duties appli­
cable to third countries may be reintroduced ;
whereas, however, under Article 4 (b) the Community                                    Article 1
has to suspend the application of certain ceilings ;
whereas, therefore, the ceilings to be applied in 1977
must be established'; whereas in this situation it is          1 . From 1 January until 31 December 1977, imports
also necessary that the Commission be regularly in­            of products originating in Norway and indicated in
formed of the trend of the imports of the products             Annex I to this Regulation shall be subject to indi­
in question and, in consequence, it iis necessary to           cative ceilings and to Community supervision.
subject these imports to supervision ;
                                                              The description of the products referred to in the
Whereas this objective may be achieved by means of            preceding subparagraphs, their tartiff headings and
                                                              statistic numbers and the levels of the indicative
an administrative procedure based on setting off
imports of the products in question against the indi­          ceilings are given in Annex I.
cative ceilings at Community level, as and when these
products are submitted to the customs authorities             2. Amounts shall be set off against the indicative
under cover of declarations that they have been made          ceilings as and when products are submitted to the
available for consumption ; whereas this administra­          customs authorities under cover of a declaration that
tive procedure must make provision for the                    they have been made available for consumption and
reintroduction of customs tariff duties as soon as the
                                                              accompanied by a movement certificate conforming
ceilings have been reached at Community level ;               to    the   rules  contained   in  Protocol   3  to  the
                                                              Agreement.
Whereas this administrative procedure requires close
and particularly rapid cooperation between the                Goods shall be set off against the indicative ceiling
                                                              only if the movement certificate has been submitted
                                                              before    the   date  on   which   customs   duties  are
H OJ No L 171 , 27. 6. 1973, p. 2.                            redmposed.
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The reaching of a ceiling shall be determined at                                      Article 2
 Community level on the basis of imports set off
against it in the manner defined in the preceding            From 1 January until 31 December 1977, imports
subparagraphs.                                               of the products referred to in Annex II which
                                                             originate in Norway shall be subject to Community
                                                             supervision.
The Member States shall periodically inform the              Member States shall forward to the Commission
Commission of imports effected in accordance with            not later than the 15th day of each month statements
the above rules ; such information shall be supplied         of imports of the products in question effected during
under the conditions laid down in paragraph 4.               the preceding month ; to this end, only products sub­
                                                             mitted to the customs authorities under cover of
                                                             a declaration that they have been made available for
3 . As soon as the ceilings have been reached,      the      consumption and accompanied by a movement
Commission may issue a Regulation reimposing        the      certificate conforming to the rules contained in
customs duties provided for in Article 4 (f)         of      Protocol 3 to the Agreement shall be taken into
                                                             consideration .
Protocol 1 to the Agreement until the end of        the
calendar year.
                                                                                      Article 3
                                                             For the implementation of this Regulation the
4. Member States shall forward to the Commission             Commission shall take all necessary measures in
not later than the 15th day of each month statements         close cooperation with the Member States.
of the amounts set off during the preceding month.
They shall, if the Commission so requests, make up                                    Article 4
such statements for periods of 10 days and forward
them within five clear days of expiry of the preceding       This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
10-day period.                                               1977.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Brussels, 21 December 1976.
                                                                                For the Council
                                                                                  The President
                                                                          A. P. L. M. M. van der STEE
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                                                                    ANNEX I
                 LIST OF PRODUCTS SUBJECT TO INDICATIVE CEILINGS UPON IMPORTATION
                                                                     IN 1977
      Order            CCT                                                                                                 Level
        No         heading No                                  Description                      NIMEXE code             of ceiling
                                                                                                                       (metric tons)
         1               2                                         3                                   4                     5
                      28.56            Carbides (for example, silicon carbide, boron
                                       carbide, metal carbides):
     I N 1                            A. Of silicon                                         28.56-10                     41 935
                      48.01           Paper and paperboard (including cellulose
                                       wadding), machine-made, in rolls or sheets :
                                            C. Kraft paper and Kraft board :
                                               II. Other :
      I N 2                                         — Kraftliner (a)                        48.01-15, 21 , 27, 31        18 232
      I N 3                                         — Kraft paper for large bags (a)        48.01-16, 23 , 28             ceiling
                                                                                                                         delayed
      I N 4                                         — Other                                 48.01-08 , 09, 11 , 12,       ceiling
                                                                                                  13 , 17, 19, 25,       delayed .
                                                                                                  26, 29, 33
                                       ex E. Other :
      I N 5                                    — Bible paper (India paper), copying         48.01-58 , 61 , 62, 66       40 516
                                                    tissue ; other printing paper and other
                                                    writing paper, not containing mech­
                                                    anical wood pulp or in which mech­
                                                    anical wood pulp does not rep­
                                                    resent more than 5% (a)
      I N 6                                     — Printing paper and writing paper,         48.01-64, 65 , 69             ceiling
                                                    containg mechanical wood pulp (a),                                   delayed
                                                    excluding copying tissue
      I N 7                                     — Fluting paper for corrugated paper­       48.01-75                      ceiling
                                                    board (a)                                                            delayed
      I N 8                                     — Sulphite paper for wrapping purposes      48.01-71 , 73                 ceiling
                                                     (a)                                                                 delayed
      I N9                                      — Other, excluding cellulose wadding        48.01-41 , 43 ,  45,  52,     38 201
                                                    and tissues                                   53 , 54,   55 , 56,
                                                                                                  77,   82 , 84,  86,
                                                                                                  88 ,  91 , 93 , 95,
                                                                                                  97
     I N 10            48.03           Parchment or greaseproof paper and paperboard,       48.03 - all Nos               24 310
                                       and imitations thereof, and glazed transparent
                                       paper, in rolls or sheets
(a) Subjcct to compliance with the definitions given in Annex III.
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    Order        CCT                                                                                    Level
     No      heading No                       Description                      NIMEXE code            of ceiling
                                                                                                    (metric tons)
      1           2                               3                                   4                   5
               48.07    Paper and paperboard, impregnated , coated ,
                        surface-coloured , surface-decorated or printed
                        ( not being merely ruled , lined or squared and
                        not constituting printed matter within Chapter
                        49), in rolls or sheets :
                        B. Other :
  I N 11                    — Other, excluding coated printing . or        48.07-55 , 56, 64, 65 ,    26 741
                                 writing paper                                   66 , 68 , 70, 81 ,
                                                                                 85 , 91 , 97, 99
                73.02   Ferro-alloys :
                        A. Ferro-manganese :
  I N 12                    II . Other                                     73.02-19 , 40               ceiling
                                                                                                      delayed
                        D. Ferro-silico-manganese
  I N 13                C. Ferro-silicon                                   73.02-30                    ceiling
                                                                                                      delayed
  I N 14                E. Ferro-chromium and ferro-silico-chromium        73.02-51 , 55               ceiling
                                                                                                      delayed
                        G. Other :
  I N 15                    — Ferro-vanadium                               73.02-83                    ceiling
                                                                                                      delayed
   I N 16                   — Other, excluding ferro-molybdenuin           73.02-60, 70, 98            13 370
                76.01   Unwrought aluminium ; aluminium waste and
                        scrap :
  I N 17                A. Unwrought                                       76.01-11 , 15             217 999
   I N 18       76.02   Wrought bars, rods, angles, shapes and sections,   76.02 - all Nos             14 587
                        of aluminium ; aluminium wire
   IN 19        76.03   Wrought plates, sheets and strip, of aluminium ,   76.03 - all Nos             ceiling
                        of a thickness not exceeding 0-20 mm                                          delayed
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                                                  ANNEX U
                         LIST OF PRODUCTS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 2
      Order       CCT
       No     heading No                             Description                              NI MEXE code
        1          2                                     3                                           4
     II N 1    . 44.18   Reconstituted wood, being wood shavings, wood chips,             44.18 - all Nos
                         sawdust, wood flour or other ligneous waste agglomerated
                         with natural or artificial resins or other organic binding
                         substances, in sheets , blocks or the like
                 48.05   Paper and paperboard, corrugated (with or without flat surface
                         sheets), creped, crinkled, embossed or perforated, in rolls or
                         sheets :
     II N 2              B. Other                                                         48.05-21 , 29, 30, 50,
            s
                                                                                                80
     II N 3      48.09   Building board of wood pulp or of vegetable fibre, whether       48.09 - all Nos
                          or not bonded with natural or artificial resins or with similar
                          binders
                 56.01    Man-made fibres (discontinuous), not carded, combed or
                          otherwise prepared for spinning :
     II N 4               B. Regenerated textile fibres                                   56.01-21 , 23 , 25 , 29
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                                                  ANNEX 111
                                                DEFINITIONS
            ex 48.01 C II Kraftliner
                          'Kraftliner' means machine-finished or machine-glazed paper or paperboard,
                          in rolls, containing not less than 80°/o of chemical sulphate softwood pulp
                          calculated on total fibre content, weighing more than 115 g/m2 and having
                          a Mullen burst ratio of not less than 35 .
           ex 48.01 C II  Kraft paper for large sacks
                          'Kraft paper for large sacks' means machine-finished paper, in rolls,
                            containing not less than 80% of chemical sulphate softwood pulp calculated
                          on total fibre content, weighing not less than 60 g/m2 but not more than
                          115 g/m2, having a Mullen burst ratio of not less than 38, and having
                          a stretch factor of more than 4-5% in the cross direction and of more than
                          2% in the machine direction.
            ex 48.01 E    Other printing paper and other writing paper, not containing mechanical
                          wood pulp or containing not more than 5°/o of mechanical wood pulp
                          'Other printing paper and    other writing paper, not containing mechanical
                          wood pulp or containing      not more than 5% of mechanical wood pulp'
                          means paper other than       machine-glazed, used for printing or writing,
                          which contains not more      than 5°/o of mechanical wood pulp calculated
                          on total fibre content.
            ex 48.01 E     Printing paper and writing paper, containing mechanical wood pulp
                          'Printing paper and writing paper containing mechanical wood pulp' means
                          paper other than machine-glazed, used for printing and writing, containing
                           more than 5% of mechanical wood pulp calculated on total fibre content.
            ex 48.01 E     Fluting paper for corrugated paperboard
                           'Fluting paper for corrugated paperboard' means paper, in rolls, containing
                           not less than 65% of unbleached semi-chemical hardwood pulp (pulp
                           obtained from wood by light chemical treatment followed by mechanical
                           treatment) calculated on total fibre content and having a CMT (Concora
                           Medium Test) crush resistance exceeding 20 kp.
                                                             L.
            ex 48.01 E     Sulphite paper for wrapping purposes
                           'Sulphite paper for wrapping purposes' means machine-glazed paper,
                           containing more than 40% of chemical bisulphite wood pulp, calculated
                           on total fibre content, having an ash content of not more than 8°/» and
                           having a Mullen burst ratio of not less than 15.