CELEX: 51977PC0528
Language: en
Date: 1977-10-25
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) amending Council Regulations (EEC) Nos 3050/76 and 3051/76 opening, allocating and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain textile fibres and for men's and boys' outer garments falling within headings Nos 56.04 and 61.01 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Cyprus (1977) (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION or THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                            COM(77)528 final
                                            Brussels , 25 October 1977
                               Proposal for a
                          COUNCIL  REGULATION ( EEC )
        amending Council Regulations ( EEC ) Nos 3050 / 76 and
        3051 / 76 opening , allocating and providing for the
        administration of Community tariff quotas for certain
        textile fibres and for men 's and boys' outer garments
        falling within headings Nos 56.04 and 61.01 of the
        Common Customs Tariff , originating in Cyprus ( 1977 )
          ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
COM(77 ) 528 final
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                           EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1. Under Article 2 of Annex I to the Agreement establishing an association
   between the EEC and the Republic of Cyprus , and the related arrangements
   provided for in the Protocol laying down certain provisions concerning
   that Agreement as a result of the accession of new Member States to
   the European Economic Community, the Community opened , pursuant to
   Regulations ( EEC ) Nos 3050/76 and 3051 /76, two Community tariff quotas
   for 1977, namely :
   (i )   a quota of 100 tonnes carrying duties of 2.5% and 3% in respect
          of certain textile fibres falling within Tariff heading No 56.04;
   ( ii ) a quota of 500 tonnes carrying a duty of 5.1% for certain garments
          falling within Tariff heading No 61.01 .
   Each quota is split into two instalments , one allocated to the original
   Member States and the other to the new Member States .
2. The Additional Protocol to the above Agreement , which was singed on
   15 September 1977, provides for the same tariff quotas to be opened
   upon its entry into force (probably 1 December 1977), albeit with
   the following differences :
   (i )   imports of these products will be exempt from customs duties ,
          and
   ( ii ) there will no longer be separate instalments for the original
          and the new Member States .
   In addition, these quotas are to be opened prorata temporis .
3. The Community should , therefore, cancel the quotas mentioned in 1 .
   above and open two new quotas valid for the month of December 1977 .
   However, in view of the very short period of validity of these
   quotas and particularly since the volume of imports of the products
   in question originating in Cyprus is traditionally negligible ,
 ---pagebreak--- it would appear th<nt such an arrangement would be neither beneficial
nor prejudicial to the Community or Cyprus .
Accordingly/ the Community would seem justified in maintaining in
force Regulations ( EEC ) Nos 3050 / 76 and 3051 / 76 mentioned above
provided it totally suspends / by way of regulation / the duties
applicable as of 1 December 1977 1n respect of these two tariff
quotas .
This is the purpose of the proposal annexed hereto .
 ---pagebreak---                                  Proposal for a
                     COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
                   amending Council Regulations ( EEC ) Nos 3050 / 76 and 3051 / 76
                   opening , allocating and providing for the administration of
                   Community tariff quotas for certain textile fibres and for
                   men 's and boys' outer garments falling within headings Nos
                   56.04 and 61.01 of the Common Customs Tariff , originating
                   in Cyprus ( 1977 )
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
and in particular Article 113 thereof ,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
Whereas , under the Agreement establishing an association between the
European Economic Community and the Republic of Cyprus ( 1 ), and the
Protocol laying down certain provisions concerning that Agreement as
a result of the accession of new Member States to the European Economic
Community ( 2 ), the Commission opened , for 1977, pursuant to Regulations
( EEC ) Nos 3050 / 76(3 ) and 3051 / 76 ( 4 ):
       a Community tariff quota of 100 tonnes carrying duties of 2.5% and
       3% in respect of man-made fibres ( discontinuous or waste ), carded ,
       combed or otherwise prepared for spinning , falling within heading
       No 56.04 of the Common Customs Tariff , originating in Cyprus , and
       a Community tariff quota of 500 tonnes carrying a duty of 5.1%
       in respect of men 's and boys' outer garments falling within heading
       No 61.01 of the Common Customs Tariff , originating in Cyprus ;
(1)   0J No L 133 ,  21.5.1973 , P. 2 .
( 2)  0J No L 133,   21.5.1973 , p. 88 .
(3)   0J No L 350 ,  20.12.1976 , p. 92 .
( 4) 0J  No L 350 ,  20.12.1976 , p. 96 .
 ---pagebreak---    Whereas the Additional Protocol to the Agreement establishing an
   association between the European Economic Community and the Republic
  of Cyprus ( 1 ) provided that ,, as of its entry into force, these tariff
  □uotas
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            shall be exempt from customs duties and hence... shall not carry
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   the duties specified above; whereas this provision is actual ly / appTi cable
   prorata temporis , that is for a twelfth of the annual volumes ; whereas it
   seems certain , however / that the imports of these goods will not ^
   exceed such a fraction of these volumes in December ; whereas it is
   necessary , therefore, to amend Regulations ( EEC ) Nos 3050/ 76 and
   3051 / 76 accordingly ,
  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                    Article 1
  With effect from 1 December 1977, goods imported under the Community
  tariff quotas opened by Regulations ( EEC ) Nos 3050 / 76 and 3051 /76
  shall , by way of derogation from Article 2(1 ) and ( 2 ) thereof , be
  exempt from customs duties .
                                    Article 2
Jhis Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following
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  its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
         This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
i        directly applicable in all Member States .
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  Done at Brussels ,                                    For the Council
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