CELEX: 51975PC0488
Language: en
Date: 1975-10-02
Title: Proposai for a Regulation of the Council on the tariff treatment applicable within the Community as originally constituted to certain products imported from the new Member States for use in the construction, maintenance and repair of certain aircraft (Presented by the Commission to the Council)

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                                                 COM(75)488 final.
                                                 Brussels , 2 October 1975 .
                                Proposai
                                 for a
                        Regulation of the Council
             on the tariff treatment applicable within the
             Community as originally constituted to certain
             products imported from the new Member States
              for use in the construction , maintenance and
                       repair of certain aircraft
            ( Presented by the Commission to the Council )
     COM ( 75 ) ^88 final .
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      The Commission has sent to the Council a draft Regulation on •
the tariff treatment of certain products intended for use in the
construction , maintenance and repair of aircraft ( Doc . COM(75)^64 final
of 10 September 1975 ).
      This proposal makes provision , inter alia , that from 1 January
1976 to 31 December 1976 the common customs tariff duties shall be
partially suspended on the following products provided they are
intended to be used for the construction , maintenance or repair of
certain aeroplanes of an unladen weight exceeding 15.000 kg .
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                                   - 2 -
        The Community in its original composition , by virtue of Articles
31 ( l ) and 32 ( l ) of the Act annexed to the Treaty of Accession , shall
apply , for the above-mentioned period , the following rates of customs
duty on these products imported from new Member States
- on products falling within heading 39*07       s 3-5
- on products falling within heading 76.03       : 2.k % ;
- on products falling within heading 83 . 09    '• 1.3
        The Government of the United Kingdom has asked the Commission ,
by virtue of Article 33 subparagraph 2 , of the Act annexed to the
Treaty of Accession , for Community preference of the new Member States '
for these three products to be maintained , and in consequence , for
customs duties applicable in the Community in its original composition
to be totally suspended in respect of these products imported from
the new Member States .
        The Commission considers that this request should be viewed
favourably , and thus propose to the Council the tariff measure
provided for in the accompanying Annex .
 ---pagebreak---                                            Draft Proposai
                                              for a       '
                  ■ .             Regulation of the - Council
                        on the tariff treatment applicable within, the
                        Community as originally -constituted to certain
  f   ■
                        products imported froth the new Member States
                        for use in the construction , maintenance and
                                 repair of certain aircraft                    ■ *1 '
  THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
  Having regard to the Act Accession'"^} • and ill psrticuloj? the .
 •second paragraph, of , Article 33 -. thereof ;                   ,
                    • ,  .   -       •         •            ■    •        ...    :     y '
  Having regard, to the proposal from the Commission ;
  Whereas Regulation (EEC ) No                      of               ( 2 ) suspends inter
  alia for the period from 1 January to 31 December 197° the customs
   duties laid down in the Common Customs Tariff for a number of products
  intended for use in the construction , maintenance or repair of cer­
  tain aircraft . of. an unladen weight exceeding 15-000 kg ; whereas these
  duties have been suspended to the following levels :
V .      4* » . • .                   * ''                   " '             -      . •
  - lb.1 % for flexible tubes and blowers of strengthened silicon falling
        within subheading 39-07 E II |
  - 9-6 % for pre-drawn aluminium plates and sheets of variable thick­
        ness of 8 mm or more and less than 180 mm , falling within heading
    ' No 76.03 ;
  - 5.2 % for tubular or bifurcated rivets falling within heading No
        83.09 ;
                                                                     )                     • • •/0*9
   (1 ) OJ-No L 73 , 27.3.1972 , p. 14
   (2)
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Whereas , m order to maintain the Community preference for
these products , the customs duties applicable within the
Community as originally constituted to any such products
imported from the new Member States , and intended to be used
for the same purposes , should be totally suspended during the
same period ,
HAD ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                             Article 1
During the period from 1 January to 31 December 1976 , the
customs duties applicable within the Community as originally
constituted to the products listed in the Annex hereto , which
are imported from the new Member States for use in the
construction , maintenance or repair of those aircraft of an
unladen weight exceeding 15.000 kg listed in colomn 3 of the
said Annex    shall be totally suspended .
                             Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1976 .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
applicable in all Member States .
                              Done at
                              For the Council
                              The President
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