CELEX: 51979PC0702
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Date: 1979-12-03
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) extending Council Regulation No 3310/75 on agriculture in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                   COM(79)702 final.
                                                   Brussels - 3 December 1979
                                 Proposal for a
                        COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
extending Council Regulation No 3310/ 75 on agriculture in the
                       Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
             ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
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 ---pagebreak---                                EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1. It is laid down in Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC ) N° 541/70 of
   20 March 1970 on agriculture in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg that tho
   provisions of the second subparagraph of Article 1 ( l ) of the , Protocol
   on the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are to remain applicable until full
   harmonization of specific duties on wine in the Community is achieved.
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   The second subparagraph of Article l(l ) of the Protocol referred to
   above days down to Belgium , the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
   Netherlands should apply the system provided for in the third paragraph
   of Article 6 of the Convention on the Economic Union of Belgium and
   Luxembourg of 25 July 1921 .-
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   The second paragraph of Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) n® 541/70 lays
   down that if suche harmonization is not achieved, and in any event not
   later than 31 December 1973 , the Council shall , aoting by a qualified
   majority on a proposal from the Commission , decide to what extent these
    provisions must be retained amended or abolished.
    Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) N® 3535/732 of 1? December 1973
    extends this period until 31.12.197 4«
    Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) N® 3192/743 of 17 December 1974
    extends this period until 31 December 1975*
    Council Regulation (EEC) N® 3310/754 of. 16 December 1975 extends this
    period a long as the excise duties charged in the Benelux countries on
    products falling within sub-headings Nos 22.05 CI -br II of the Common
    Customs Tariff do not exceed the level in foroe on 1 January 1973 »
    in any event not later than 3.1 December 1976«
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 X0J N® L 68 , 25.3.1970 P. 3 '
 20J. N® L 361 , 29.12.1973 P. 1
 30J N® L 341 » 20.12.1974 p. 6
 40J N® L 328 . 20.12.1975 P* lá
 ---pagebreak---                                       2
   It provides that , should these . excise duties be increased in
   whatever form it may be in one or another Benelux country , the
   tax exemption accorded on the market of concerned countries to
   Luxembourg wines may not exceed the degree of exemption in force
   on 1 January 1975 * '    ■
                         ί
   This provision , whis is in accordance with the Commission 's Recom­
   mendation to the Member States^ on taxation of wine , aims at assu­
   ring that the commercial adventage hold on 1.1.1975i       Luxembourg
   wines on the market of the Benelux countries is not increased.     An
   increase of this kind could cause a distorsion of competition which
   would not be compatible with the proper functioning of the common
   market in agriculture .
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   Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC ) N° 3166/76 of 21. 12*76 retains
   provisions of Council Reg. (EEJj ) H° 3310/75 until 31*12.77*
   Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) N* 2875/77^ of 19*12.77 retains
   provisions of Council Reg. (EEC) H*- 3310/75 until 31* 12.78*
   Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) N° 3043/78* of 18.12.78 retains
   provisions of Council Regulation CEEC > N° 3310 /75 until 31.12.1979 .
  0J N® L   2 , 7.01.1976
2 0J N® L 357» 29.i2.i976 p. 13
3 0J N® L 332, 24.12.1977 » P. 3 #
4 OJ NO L 361 , 23.12.1978, p. 9
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2, With regard to specific duties , the Commission proposed to the Council
   a directive on the harmonization of the exoise duties on wine.     The
   Council has not yet taken a decision on this matter , however.
3. In 1970 , The Council adopted Regulation (EEC)- N° 816/702 laying down
   additional provisions for the common organization of the market in
   wine , including a system of intervention for table wines . However
   the maintenance of the more favourable system on the Benelux market
   for wine originating . in Luxembourg will continue over the next few
   years to be of benefit to the agricultural income of the Grand Duchy
   of Luxembourg in the sector concerned.
   This system has not created any appreciable barrier to the free move­
   ment _of wines of other origins in the Benelux countries.   On the
   contrary , the absorption capacity of those markets is constantly on
   the increase,              '  *
4* Belgium and the Netherlands having put into effect , in 1976 , a special
   excise duty on wine concerned , it is proposed that the exceptionnal
   system provided in the second sub-paragraph of Article 1 ( l ) of the
   protocol should be extended until '31 December 1980 , while maintaining
   above mentionned provisions of Counoil Regulation (EEC) N# 3310/75 of
   16 Deoember 1975 *
1 OJ N° C 43 , 27.04.1972
2 OJ N° L 99 , 5.05.197Ô
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  PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
  extending Council Regulation N® 3310/75 on
  agriculture in the Orand Duchy of Luxembourg.
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  THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community {
 Having regard to the Protocol on the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg annexed thereto
                                            »
 Having regard to Counoil Regulation (EEC) N° 541/70 of 20 March 1970 on
  agriculture in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg* ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC ) N° 3310/75 of 16 December 1975
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  on agriculture in the Grand Duch/" of Luxembourg , as last amended" by Regula­
 tion (EEC) N# 3043/78 V"' and in particular the second paragraph of Article
  2 thereof j
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission j
 Whereas , under the second subparagraph of Article l(l ) of the Protocol on
  the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands are to apply
  the system provided for in the third paragraph of Article 6 of the Conven­
  tion on the Economic Union of Belgium and Luxembourg of 25 July 1921 ;
   whereas the application of this system was last extended by Regulation^        __
• ( EEC ) No 3043/ 78 until-such time as full harmonizat4on-©f -specific duties
   on wine in the Community is achieved, but not beyond 31 . December 1979;
  .whereas , however , the Council has to decide to what extent" these provisions
   should be retained , amended or discontinued ;
    OJ N° L    68 , 25.03.1970 , p. 3
   2OJ P L 328 , 20.12 . 1975 » P* 12
  3oj    N° L 361 , 23.12.1978, p.  1
 ---pagebreak---  Whereas at the present time the harmonization of specific duties on wine
 in the Community has not been achieved { whereas the application of the
 said system in favour of Luxembourg wines will continue to be of benefit
 to the agricultural income of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in the sector
 concerned,                                         ,
Whereas having regard to the other reasons set out in Regulations , (.EECX-
 Nos 541 / 70 and 3310/ 75 , this latter Regulation should not be
 extended,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION t
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                                      Article 1
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  In the first paragraph of Article 2 of Regulation ( EEC ) n° 3310 /75 , _
~tfre expression " 31 December ~1 979' is replaced by^1 31 December 1980 rV
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                                      Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1980
 This Regulation shall binding in its entirety and direotly applicable
 in all Member States *
Done at Brussels
             %                                          For the Council
                                                        The President