CELEX: 51989PC0295
Language: en
Date: 1989-06-16
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING ANNEX 1 OF REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 288/82 ON COMMON RULES FOR IMPORTS

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                             C0MC89) 295 final
                                             Brussels,  16  June 1989
                      Proposal for a
                 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
       amending Annex 1 of Régula;Ion (EEC) N° 288/82
                 on common rules for Imports
                (presented by the Commission)
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                          EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
In the multilateral trade negotiations under the GATT which started in
1986, following the Ministerial Declaration adopted at Punta del Este,
the Tropical Products sector was identified as a priority sector. This
priority applied to both the timing of the negotiations and the
implementation of the results.
The Community's commitment to this objective was demonstrated by it
being the first developed country to submit a detailed offer in October
1987 an example which was not followed until much later by the other
participants. However, as the Mid-term Review in Montreal approached
other participants, both developed and developing, tabled their
proposals. In November 1988 the Commission sent to the Council a
proposal which elaborated the Community's position on Tropical Products.
It consisted of four elements:
    a special action in favour of the least-developed developing
    countries;
    tariff reductions on a selected list of tropical products;
    elimination of certain quantitative restrictions on tropical
    products applied by Member States;
     invitation to Member States applying excise duties on tropical
    beverages to indicate their intentions, if possible, on their
    eventual reduction or elimination;
The Council gave its agreement to the Commission proposal and at
Montreal accepted that further small modifications were necessary in
order to reach a result in the negotiations that was acceptable to all
parties. The Community's contribution provides for tariff concessions on
trade amounting to more than 10 bn Ecu, the elimination of certain
national quantitative restrictions and a number of specific measures in
favour of the LLDCs. The aim of this proposal for a Council Regulation is
to put into effect the elimination of certain quantitative restrictions
on tropical products applied by Member States.
 ---pagebreak---                       Coupe* 1 Reguf at loo (EEC) H*
                               of          1989
             amending Annex t of Regulation (EEC) N* 288/82
                       on common rules for import»
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUWITIESr
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 the multilateral trade negotiations under the GATT opened
pursuant to the Ministerial Declaration adopted at Punta del Este on 20
September 1986 resulted in an interim result in the Tropical Products
Negotiating Group at the Montreal Mid-term Review in December 1988;
Whereas the Community's contribution to this result on Tropical products
consists of three elements: first, a significant number of tariff
reductions on a mfn basis, secondly, the elimination of a number of
quantitative restrictions on tropical products applied by Member States
and finally a series of concessions for least-developed developing
countries that would ensure duty free access for practically all
tropical products as well as improved access where necessary for
tropical roots and rice;
Whereas the Community has found the concessions made by other countries
participating in the negotiations constitute an acceptable result;
Whereas the Punta del Este Ministerial Declaration provides for the
early implementation of results obtained in the area of Tropical
Products and the Community has found it necessary, therefore, to
implement its contribution on Tropical Products on an autonomous basis,
pending the end of the current round of multilateral trade negotiations;
 ---pagebreak--- Whereas it is now necessary to delete those quantitative restrictions on
tropical products, set out in the Community's contribution to the result
obtained at the Montreal Mid-term Review, from Annex I of Regulation
(EEC) N° 288/82;
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                 Article 1
1.   The quantitative restrictions on certain products originating in
     third countries maintained by certain Member States as set out in
     the Annex shall be abolished from 1 July 1989.
2.   The products to which these quantitative restrictions apply shall be
     deleted from Annex I of Regulation N* 288/82.
                                 Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in
the Official Journal of the European Communities.
 It shall apply with effect from the 1 July 1989.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable
 in all Member States concerned.
Done at Brussels,
                                        For the CounciI
                                        The President
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 ---pagebreak---                                                         ANNEX
CN code                   Descr iption
   1302       Vegetable saps and extracts; pectic
              substances, pectinates and pectates;
              agar-agar and other mucilages and
              thickeners, whether or not modified,
              derived from vegetable products:
              -   Vegetable saps and extracts:
   1302 19           Other:
   1302 19 30           Intermixtures of vegetable
                        extracts for the manufacture of
                        beverages or of food
                        preparations
   3203 00    Colouring matter of vegetable or animal
              origin (including dyeing extracts but
              excluding animal black), whether or not
              chemically defined; preparations as
              specified in note 3 to this chapter
              based on colouring matter of vegetable
              or animal origin:
              -   Colouring matter of vegetable origin
                  and preparations based thereon:
ex 3203 00 19 -   -  Other
   5310       Woven fabrics of jute or of other
              textile bast fibres of heading N° 5303:
   5310 10    -   Unbleached:
   5310 10 10        Of a width not exceeding 150 cm
   5310 10 90 - -    Of a width exceeding 150 cm
   5310 90 00 -   Other
                                                              5"
 ---pagebreak--- CN code                    Description
   5311 00    Woven fabrics of other vegetable textile
              fibres; woven fabrics of paper yarn:
ex 5311 00 90 -   Other than woven fabrics of paper
                  yarn
   5608       Knotted netting of twine, cordage or
              rope; made up fishing nets and other
              made up nets, of textile materials:
ex 5608 90 00 -   Other than wool or fine animal hair
                  or cotton
   5702       Carpets and other textile floor
              coverings, woven, not tufted or flocked,
              whether or not made up, Including
              'Kelem', 'Schumacks', 'Karamanle' and
              similar hand-woven rugs:
   5702 20 00 -   Floor coverings of cononut fibres
                  (coir)
              -   Other, of pile construction, not made
                  up:
   5702 39    - -    Of other textile materials:
   5702 39 90            Other
              -   Other, of pile construction, made up:
   5702 49    —      Of other textile materials:
   5702 49 90            Other
              -   Other, not of pile construction, not
                 made up:
ex 5702 59 00 —      Of other textile materials other
                      than cotton
              -   Other, not of pile construction, made
                 up:
ex 5702 99 00 —      Of other textile materials other
                      than cotton
                                                        £
 ---pagebreak--- CN code                  Description
   5705       Other carpets and other textile floor
              coverings, whether or not made up:
ex 5705 00 90 - Of other text H e mater ials other than
                 cotton
   5905 00    Textile wait coverings:
   5905 00 50 -  Of Jute
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 ---pagebreak---                              Impact on SME
This proposal will eliminate a number of national          quantitative
restrictions on certain tropical products imported into the Community.
It is difficult to evaluate the impact of such measures on SME. However
given that the products concerned are of tropical origin the impact is
I ike I y to be smalI.
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COM(89) 295 final
Proposal for a
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
amending Annex 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 288/82 on common rules for
imports
(submitted to the Council by the Commission)
 16.6.1989
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 1989 — 8 pp. - Format: 21.0 * 29.7 cm
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ISSN 0254-1475
ISBN 92-77-51108-7
Catalogue number: CB-CO-89-255-EN-C
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COM(89) 295 final
DOCUMENTS
Proposal for a
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
amending Annex 1 of Regulation (EEC)
No 288/82 on common rules for imports
(submitted to the Council by the Commission)
11                                       16.6.1989
Catalogue number: CB-CO-89-255-EN-C
ISBN 92-77-51108-7
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