CELEX: 31987R4175
Language: en
Date: 1987-12-21 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 4175/87 of 21 December 1987 opening and providing for the administration of a Community preferential ceiling for certain petroleum products refined in Turkey and establishing Community surveillance for imports thereof (1988)

31 . 12 . 87                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                   No L 399 / 5
                                            COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 4175 / 87
                                                          of 21 December 1987
                 opening and providing for the administration of a Community preferential ceiling for certain
                 petroleum products refined in Turkey and establishing Community surveillance for imports thereof
                                                                   1988
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                               other ( 4 ); whereas the tariff quota in question applies
                                                                         therefore to the current Community with the exception of
                                                                         Greece;
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
  Economic community , and in particular Article 113
 thereof,                                                                Whereas the application of ceilings requires the Community
                                                                         to be regularly informed of the trend of imports of the
                                                                         relevant products originating in Turkey; whereas imports
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,                     should , therefore , be made subject to a system of
                                                                         surveillance ;
 Whereas Article 7 of the Supplementary Protocol to the                  Whereas this objective may be achieved by means of an
 Association Agreement between the European Economic                     administrative procedure based on offsetting imports of the
 Community and Turkey consequent on the accession of new                 products in question against the ceiling at Community level
 Member States to the Community ( 1 ), which was signed in               as and when these products are entered with the customs
 Ankara on 30 June 1973 and entered into force on 1 March                authorities for free circulation ; whereas this administrative
  1986 ( 2 ), provides for the total suspension of customs duties        procedure must make provision for the possible
 applicable to certain petroleum products refined in Turkey              re-establishment of customs tariff duties as soon as the ceiling
 falling within Chapter 27 of the Common Customs Tariff                  is reached at Community level ;
 within the limits of an annual Community tariff quota of
 340 000 tonnes ; whereas , for the products concerned , a
 provisional adjustment should be made to those tariff                   Whereas this administrative procedure requires close and
 preferences, consisting essentially of substituting for the            particularly swift cooperation between the Member States
 Community tariff quota a Community ceiling amounting ,                  and the Commission ; whereas the latter must, in particular,
 after successive increases , to 705 000 tonnes , above which            be able to follow the progress of quantities charged against
 the customs duties applicable to third countries may be                the ceiling and keep the Member States informed ; whereas
 re-established ;                                                       this cooperation has to be particularly close since the
                                                                        Commission must be able to take the appropriate measures
                                                                        to re-establish customs tariff duties if the ceiling is
 Whereas the Community has adopted , with effect from                   reached,
 1 January 1988 , a combined nomenclature for goods which
 meets the requirements of the Common Customs Tariff and
 the external trade statistics of the Community and statistics
 of trade between Member States; whereas in order to
 accomodate specific Community measures this
 nomenclature has been expanded into an integrated tariff of            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 the European Communities (Taric); whereas , from the date
 given above , the combined nomenclature and , where
 appropriate, the Taric code numbers should be used for the
 description of the products covered by this Regulation ;                                              Article 1
Whereas , in accordance with Article 119 of the Act of                   1.     From 1 January to 31 December 1988 the duties
Accession of Greece , the Council adopted Regulation (EEC)              applicable to imports into the current Community with the
No 3555 / 80 of 16 December 1980 determining the                        exception of Greece of the petroleum products refined in
arrangements to be applied with regard to imports into                  Turkey indicated below shall be suspended in full within the
Greece originating in Algeria , Israel , Malta , Morocco ,              limits of a Community ceiling of 705 000 tonnes .
Portugal , Syria , Tunisia or Turkey ( 3 ); whereas , the Council
has also adopted Regulation ( EEC ) No 2573 / 87 of 11                  Within the limits of this ceiling , the Kingdom of Spain and the
August 1987 laying down the arrangements for trade                      Portuguese Republic shall apply the duties calculated in
between Spain and Portugal , on the one hand , and Algeria ,            accordance with Regulation (EEC ) No 2573 / 87 .
Egypt , Jordan , Lebanon, Tunisia and Turkey, on the
                                                                        2.      The petroleum products to which paragraph 1 applies
0 ) OJ No L 361 , 31 . 12 . 1977, p. 2 .                                shall be the following:
(2) OJ No L 48 , 26 . 2 . 1986 , p. 36 .
( 3 ) OJ No L 382 , 31 . 12 . 1980 , p. 1 .                             ( 4 ) OJ No L 250 , 1 . 9 . 1987 , p. 1 .
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                  Order
                           CN code                                         Description
                   No
             13.0010     2710 00        Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals , other than crude;
                                        preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing by weight 70 % or
                                        more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals , these oils
                                        being the basic constituents of the preparations:
                                        — Light oils :
                                        — — For other purposes :
                                        — — — Special spirits :
                         2710 00 21     — — — — White spirit
                         2710 00 25     — — — — Other
                                        — — — Other :
                                        — — — — Motor spirit:
                         2710 00 31    — — — — — Aviation spirit:
                                        — — — — — Other , with a lead content:
                         2710 00 33    — — — — — — Not exceeding 0,013 g / 1
                        2710 00 35     — — — — — — Exceeding 0,013 g / 1
                        2710 00 37     — — — — Spirit type jet fuel
                        2710 00 39     — — — — Other light oils
                                       — Medium oils :
                                       — — For other purposes :
                                       — — — Kerosene :        ^
                        2710 00 51     — — — — Jet fuel
                        2710 00 55     — — — — Other
                        2710 00 59     — — — Other
                                       — Heavy oils :
                                       — — Gas oils :
                        2710 00 69     — — — For other purposes
                                       — — Fuel oils :
                        2710 00 79     — — — For other purposes
                                       — — Lubricating oils ; other oils :
                        2710 00 95     — — — To be mixed in accordance with the terms of additional note 6 (CN)
                                                 to this chapter ( x )
                        2710 00 99     — — — For other purposes
                        2711           Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons:
                        2711 12        — — Propane :
                                       — — — Other :
                        2711 12 99     — — — — For other purposes
                        2711 13        — — Butanes :
                        2711 13 90     — — — For other purposes
                        2712           Petroleum jelly, paraffin wax, microcrystalline petrolum wax , slack wax ,
                                       ozokerite , lignite wax, peat wax, other mineral waxes, and similar products
                                       obtained by synthesis or by other processes, whether or not coloured:
                        2712 10        — Petroleum jelly :
                        2712 10 10     — — Crude
                        2712 10 90     — — Other
                        2712 20 00     — Paraffin wax containing by weight less than 0,75 % of oil
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                     Order
                       No
                                      CN code                                              Description
               13.0010              2712 90           — Other :
               (cont'd)                               — — Other :
                                                      — — — Crude :
                                    2712 90 39        — — — — For other purposes
                                    2712 90 90        — — — Other
                                    2713              Petroleum coke, petroleum bitumen and other residues of petroleum oils or of
                                                      oils obtained from bituminous minerals :
                                    2713 90           — Other residues of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous
                                                          minerals :
                                    2713 90 90        — — Other
               (*) Entry under this subheading is subject to conditions laid down in the relevant Community provisions .
3.     Imports of the petroleum products referred to in                                                         Article 3
paragraph 1 shall be subject to Community surveillance .
                                                                                  Member States shall send the Commission statements of the
4.     Quantities shall be charged against the ceiling as and                     quantities charged for the preceding month no later than the
when products are entered with the customs authorities for                        15th day of each month . At the Commission's request, they
free circulation .                                                                shall send statements of the quantities charged for periods of
                                                                                  ten days , to be forwarded within five clear days of the end of
5.     The extent to which the ceiling is used up shall                           each ten-day period .
be determined at Community level on the basis of the
imports charged against it , in the manner specified in
paragraph 4 .                                                                                                   Article 4
6.     Member States shall inform the Commission , at the                         The Commission shall take all appropriate measures , in close
intervals and within the time limits specified in Article 3 , of                  cooperation with the Member States , to ensure the
imports effected in accordance with the rules referred to in                      implementation of this Regulation.
this Article .
                                                                                                                Article 5
                              Article 2
                                                                                  This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following
As soon as the ceiling referred to Article 1 ( 1 ) has been                       that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European
reached at Community level , the Commission may adopt a                           Communities .
Regulation re-establishing, until the end of the calendar year,
the collection of Common Customs Tariff duties .                                  It shall apply with effect from 1 January 1988 .
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                    States.       ;
                    Done at Brussels, 21 December 1987 .
                                                                                                       For the Council
                                                                                                         The President
                                                                                                         B. HAARDER