CELEX: 31986R4018
Language: en
Date: 1986-12-16
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 4018/86 of 16 December 1986 opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for certain polyethylene terephtalate films falling within subheading ex 39.01 C III a) of the Common Customs Tariff

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31 . 12 . 86
                                            COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC ) No 4018 / 86
                                                          of 16 December 1986
                    opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for
                    certain polyethylene terephtalate films falling within subheading ex 39.01 C III a) of the
                                                        Common Customs Tariff
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES                                     used up ; whereas , however , since the quota is to cover
                                                                            requirements which cannot be determined with sufficient
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                       accuracy, it seems possible to avoid allocating it among the
Economic Community , and in particular Article 28
                                                                            Member States , without prejudice to the drawing against the
thereof,
                                                                            quota volume of such quantities as they may need , under
                                                                            conditions and according to a procedure to be specified;
                                                                            whereas this method of management requires close
Whereas the production of polyethylene terephtalate film ,                  cooperation between the Member States and the
having a thickness of not less than 22 and not more than 25                 Commission and the latter must in particular be able to
micrometres , in currently insufficient in the Community to                 monitor the rate at which the quota is used up and inform the
meet the requirements of the user industries in the                         Member States thereof;
 Community; whereas, consequently Community supplies of
 products of this type currently depend to a considerable                   Whereas , since the Kingdom of Belgium , the Kingdom of the
 extent on imports from third countries ; whereas it is in the              Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are united
 Community's interest to suspend partially the Common                       within and jointly represented by the Benelux Economic
 Customs Tariff duty for the products in question , within the              Union , all transactions concerning the administration of
 Community tariff quota, of an appropriate volume for a                     shares allocated to that economic union may be carried out
 relatively limited period ; whereas , in order not to call into            by any one of its members ,
 question the development prospects of this production in the
 Community while ensuring an adequate supply to satisfy user
 industries , it is advisable to limit the benefits of the tariff
                                                                             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 quota to products used for the manufacture of magnetic
 cassette tapes , to open this quota free of duty from 1 January
 to 30 June 1987 and to fix the volume at 850 tonnes ;
                                                                                                           Article 1
 Whereas it is necessary , in particular , to ensure to all
 Community importers equal and uninterrupted access to the                   1.     From 1 January to 30 June 1987 the common customs
 abovementioned quota and uninterrupted application of the                   duty applicable on import of the products mentioned below
 rates laid down for that quota to all imports of the products               shall be suspended at the level and within the limit of the
 concerned into all Member States until the quota has been                   Community tariff quota indicated for each :
                                                                                                                    Quota       Quota
        Order .                CCT
                                                                      Description                                  volume        duty
          No                heading No                                                                            ( tonnes )     (% )
       09.1939           ex 39.01 C III a )     Polyethylene terephtalate film , having a thickness of not
                                               less than 22 and not more than 25 micrometers for use
                                                in the manufacture of magnetic cassette tapes                        850          0
  Within the limit of this tariff quota , the Kingdom of Spain               inform the Commission and draw an amount corresponding
  and the Portuguese Republic shall apply customs duties                     to these requirements to the extent that the available balance
  calculated in accordance with the relevant provisions laid                 of the reserve permits this .
  down by the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal .
                                                                             3.     The shares drawn pursuant to paragraph 2 shall be
  Control of the use of the products for the particular purpose              valid until the end of the quota period .
  laid down shall be carried out by applying the relevant
  Community provisions .
                                                                                                           Article 2
  2 . If an importer notifies an imminent importation of the
  product in question in a Member State and requests the                      1.     Member States shall take all appropriate measures to
  benefit of the quota , the Member State concerned shall                    ensure that their drawings pursuant to Article 1 ( 2) are
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carried out in such a way that imports may be charged                                        Article 3
without interruption against their accumulated shares of the
Community quota .
                                                                    At the request of the Commission , Member States shall
                                                                    inform it of imports actually charged against the quota .
2.    Each Member State shall ensure that importers of the
said goods have access to the quota so long as the residual                                   Article 4
balance of the quota volume allows this .
                                                                    The Member States and the Commission shall collaborate
3.     Member States shall charge imports of the said goods         closely in order to ensure that this Regulation is complied
against their drawings as and when the goods are entered for        with .
free circulation .
4.     The extent to which the quota has been used up shall be                                Article 5
determined on the basis of the imports charged in accordance
with paragraph 3 .                                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1987 .
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States .
                   Done at Brussels , 16 December 1986 .
                                                                                                For the Council
                                                                                                 The President
                                                                                                   G. HOWE