CELEX: 51982PC0011
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Date: 1982-01-25
Title: Proposal for COUNCIL REGULATION (CEE) amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 1798/75 on the importation free of Common Customs Tariff duties of educational, scientific and cultural materials of Common Customs Tariff duties of educational, scientific and cultural materials (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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      of Common Customs Tariff duties of educational ,- scientific and cultural
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               ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
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                             EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1.      By a decision of 8 May 1979 ( 1 ) the Council on behalf of the Community
        approved the Protocol known as the Nairobi Protocol, which widens the scope of
        the Florence Agreement , drawn up under the auspices of UNESCO, on the
        importation of educational, scientific and cultural materials.
2.      Regulation (EEC) No 1798/75 (2) on the importation free of Common Customs
        Tariff duties of educational, scientific and cultural materials was amended by
        Regulation (EEC) No 1027/79 (3) to permit the transposition into Community
        law of the provisions of the Nairobi Protocol .
( 1 ) 03 No. L 134 , 31.5.1979 , p. 13
(2) OJ No. L 184, 15.7.1975 , p. 1
(3) OU No. L 134 , 31.5.1979 , p. 1
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 3.  In the light of the two years' experience acquired in applying Regulation (EEC)
     No 1798/75 as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1027/79, it has become apparent
    that the correct interpretation of the provisions of Annex A (i) to the Nairobi
    Protocol ( 1 ) requires children's picture books to be admitted duty free and such
    duty-free admission to be thus extended to all products falling within heading
    ^ 9.03 of the Common Customs Tariff .
    Since the materials provided for in Annex A to the above mentioned Protocol
    have been admitted into the Community duty free since 1 January 1980, it is
    desirable that the draft proposal for a Regulation annexed hereto, the purpose of
    which is to extend relief from customs duties to children's picture books, be
    adopted as rapidly as possible .
5.  Based on Article 28 of the EEC Treaty, this proposal does not require the
    Opinion of the European Parliament . Such an Opinion does not, moreover , appear
    necessary in so far as Parliament has already declared itself in favour of the
    transposition into Community law of the provisions of the Nairobi Protocol when
    it was consulted on the draft Regulation which subsequently became Council
    Regulation (EEC) No 1027/79 (2). The sole purpose of this Regulation is, in fact,
    to ensure the correct interpretation of that Protocol .
(1) Text of Annex A to the Nairobi Protocol
    Books , publications and documents
    (i) Printed books, irrespective of the language in which they are printed and
        whatever the amount of space given over to illustrations, including the
        following:
        (a) luxury editions,
        (b)     books printed abroad from the manuscript of an author resident in the
                importing country;
        (c)     children's drawing and painting books;
        (d)     school exercise books (workbooks with printed texts and blank spaces to
                be filled in by the pupils ;
        (e)     crossword puzzle books containing printed texts;
        (f)     loose illustrations and printed pages in the form of loose or bound sheets
                and reproduction proofs or reproduction films to be used for the
                production of books.
        (ii)...
(2) Cf. 03 C 296 of 11.12.1978 , p. 57
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amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 1798/75 on the importation free of Common
Customs Tariff duties of educational , scientific and cultural materials.
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in
particular Article 28 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ( 1 ),
Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 1798/75 (2), as Last amended by Regulation ( EEC )
No 1028 / 79 ( 3 ), the Council laid down the conditions governing the importation
 free of Common Customs Tariff duties of educational , scientific and cultural material
Whereas the provisions of that Regulation are essentially based on those of the
Agreement on the importation of educational , scientific and cultural materials drawn
up under the auspices of the United Nations Educational , Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO);
Whereas on 26 November 1976 the 19th General Conference of UNESCO adopted a
Protocol to that Agreement with a view to extending relief from customs duties to
certain products hitherto excluded from such relief ;
Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 1027/79 (4 ), the Council amended Regulation (EEC )
No 1798/75 in order to take account of the provisions of that Protocol , to the extent
compatible with the Community's aims;
(1)   OJ No
(2)   03 No L 184 , 15.7.1975 , p. 1
(3)   OJ No L 134 , 31.5.1979 , p. 8
( 4)  OJ No L 134 , 31 . 5.1979 / p.1
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  Whereas the experience acquired in applying Regulation (EEC) No 1798/75 , as
 amended , has demonstrated that , in order to ensure the correct interpretation of the
 Protocol in question , it is necessary to extend relief from customs duties to all
 products coming within heading 49.03 of the Common Customs Tariff ;
  Whereas it is appropriate to provide for this Regulation to '   apply       with effect
 from 1 January 1982
 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                         Article 1
 In Annex I (A) to Regulation (EEC) No 1798/75 , the following text:
"ex.   49.03    Children's picture books and painting books:
                - Children's drawing or painting books"
 is hereby replaced by the following :
     " 49.03    Children's picture books and painting books."
                                         Article 2
 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April 1982 .      it shall apply with effect
 from 1 January 1982 .
 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
 States.
                                       Done at Brussels ,
                                        For the Council ,
                                          The President