CELEX: 31987R4180
Language: en
Date: 1987-12-21 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 4180/87 of 21 December 1987 opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for onions originating in Egypt (1988)

31 . 12 . 87                                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                       No L 399 / 21
                                                 COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) No 4180 / 87
                                                                  of 21 December 1987
                     opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for onions
                                                              originating in Egypt ( 1988 )
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                                           whereas this Regulation takes account of that fact by using
                                                                                    the combined nomenclature code of the products
                                                                                    concerned;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community , and in particular Article 113
thereof,                                                                            Whereas it is in particular necessary to ensure to all
                                                                                    Community importers equal and uninterrupted access to the
                                                                                    abovementioned quota and uninterrupted application of the
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,                                 rates laid down for this quota to all imports of the products
                                                                                    concerned into all Member States until the quota has been
                                                                                    used up ; whereas , in the present case , it seems advisable not
Whereas the Additional Protocol to the Cooperation                                  to allocate this quota among the Member States without
Agreement between the European Economic Community                                   prejudice to the drawing against the quota volume of such
 and the Arab Republic of Egypt ( J ) provides in Article 1 for a                   quantities as they may need , under the conditions and
 Community tariff quota to be opened for the importation                            according to the procedure specified in Article 1(2); whereas
 into the Community of 4 900 tons of onions falling within                          this method of management requires close cooperation
code No 0712 20 00 of the combined nomenclature and
                                                                                    between the Member States and the Commission and the
originating in Egypt; whereas , within the limits of this tariff                    latter must, in particular, be able to monitor the rate at which
 quota the customs duty shall progressively be abolished over                       the quota is used up and inform the Member States
the same periods and in accordance with the same timetables                         thereof;
 as those laid down in Articles 75 and 243 of the Act of
Accession of Spain and Portugal ; whereas , for 1988 , the                          Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium , the Kingdom of the
 quota duty will be equal to 6,2 % as long as the erga omnes                        Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are united
 quota of 12 000 tonnes at 10% , laid down by Regulation                            within and jointly represented by the Benelux Economic
(EEC ) No 4072 / 87 (2 ), is not exhausted; whereas , after the
                                                                                    Union , all transactions concerning the administration of
possible exhaustion of the said erga omnes quota , a                                shares allocated to that economic union may be carried out
preferential duty of 10% will apply ;                                               by any of its members ,
Whereas , within the limits of this tariff quota , the Kingdom
of Spain and the Portuguese Republic will apply the customs
duty calculated according to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No
2573 / 87 of 11 August 1987 laying down the arrangements                            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
for trade between Spain and Portugal on the one hand and
Algeria , Egypt, Jordan , Lebanon , Tunisia and Turkey on the
other ( 3 ); whereas the Community tariff quota in question                                                       Article 1
should therefore be opened for 1988 ;
                                                                                    1.      From 1 January to 31 December 1988 , the duty
Whereas from 1 January 1988 the nomenclature used in the                            applicable to imports into the Community of the products
Common Customs Tariff will be replaced by the combined                              listed below originating in Egypt shall be suspended at the
nomenclature based on the International Convention on                               level , and within the limit of a Community tariff quota , as
Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System ;                                shown herewith :
       Order No              CN code                »                     Description
                                                                                                                    Volume of quota    Quota duty
                                                                                                                        (tonnes )         (% )
09.1701                  0712 20 00             Onions                                                                   4 900           6,2(i )
(') This duty shall apply until exhaustion of the erga omnes tariff quota opened by Regulation (EEC) No 4072 / 87 .
0 ) OJ No L 297 , 21 . 10 . 1987 , p. 11 .
( 2 ) OJ No L 381 , 31 . 12 . 1987 , p . 10 .
( 3 ) OJ No L 250 , 1 . 9 . 1987 , p. 1 .
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Within the limits 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                against their drawings as and when the goods are entered for
calculated in accordance with Regulation (EEC ) No                    free circulation .
2573 / 87 .
                                                                      4.    The extent to which the quota has been used up shall be
2.    If an importer notifies an imminent importation of the          determined on the basis of the imports charged in accordance
product in question in a Member State and requests the                with paragraph 3 .
benefit of quota , the Member State concerned shall inform
the Commission and draw an amount corresponding to these
requirements to the extent that the available balance of the
reserve so permits .                                                                            Article 3
3.    The shares drawn pursuant to paragraph 2 shall be               At the request of the Commmission , 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
ensure that their drawings pursuant to Article 1 ( 2) are             Member States and the Commission shall collaborate closely
carried out in such a way that imports may be charged                 in order to ensure that this Regulation is complied 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 so permits .                              This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 Januairy 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