CELEX: 51988PC0610
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Date: 1988-11-04
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (presented by the Commission)

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                                Proposai for a
                          COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
      amending Regulation ( EEC ) No 2658 / 87 on the tariff and
     statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff
                       ( presented by the Commission )
 ---pagebreak---                             EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
 Proposal for       a Council Regulation amending Regulation ( EEC ) No
2658 /87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the common
customs tariff •
The attached draft proposal for a Council Regulation aims to remedy the
situation whereby products intended for the equipping of drilling or
production platforms receive a less favourable tariff treatment than the
same goods intended for the equipping of ships , boats or other vessels .
This is because the requirement for " incorporation", upon which the
granting of this tariff benefit depends , exists only for the products
intended for the equipping of such platforms .
This situation has existed since 1 January 1985 . From that date fixed
drilling or production platforms were included in the " preliminary
provisions " of the CCT in order for them to also receive the benefit of a
favourable tariff treatment and , at the same time , they became the subject
of separate rules , reproduced in a paragraph distinct from that reserved
for ships , boats or other vessels ( see paragraph I I –A 2 a ) with which the
platforms were previously " associated".
This situation was examined by the CCT Nomenclature Committee at its 528th
meeting and by the Nomenclature Committee at its 39th meeting . On both
occasions , all delegations expressed the opinion that the abovementioned
difference was justified neither technically nor economically and requested
that the text in question be amended as necessary .
The Commission therefore proposes that the Council adopt the annexed draft
Regulation at one of its forthcoming sessions .
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                             COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
       amending Regulation ( EEC ) No 2658 / 87 on the tariff and statistical
                   nomenclature and cn the Common Customs Tariff
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,
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Whereas Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 2658 / 87 , as last amended by
Régulation (EEC) No 1315/882, laid down in paragraph 2(a),
first subparagraph , of Section II A of the "Preliminary provisions"
a system whereby customs duties are to be suspended in respect of goods intended
for incorporation in drilling or production platforms ;
Whereas this system differs from that provided for in paragraph 1
of said Section II A on ships , boats or other vessels in that , for platforms ,
there is no provision for the suspension of customs duties on products intended
to equip the said platforms, when thjey are not incorporated ;
  uJ L 256 , 7.9.1987 , p. 1 .
 20J L 123, 17.5.1988, p. 2 .
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   Whereas this system does not seem justified* since vessels and platforms are in
   a similar situation ;         whereas , therefore , par^jraph 2(a ), first subparagraph , of
   Section II A of the " Preliminary provisions " of the combined nomenclature
   annexed to Regulation ( EEC ) No 2658 / 87 should be amended ;
    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                              Article 1
    Paragraph 2(a ), first subparagraph, of Section n A of the " Preliminary provisions "
    of the combined nomenclature annexed to Regulation ( EEC ) N * 2658/ 87 is hereby
    replaced by the following :
       " 2 . Customs duties shall be suspended in respect of :
             ( a ) goods intended for incorporation in drilling or production
                     platforms :
                  ( 1 ) whether fixed , ex subheading 8430 49 00 , operating in the
                         territorial sea of Member States , I
                  ( 2 ) or floating or submersible , subheading 8905 20 00 ,
                       for the purposes of their construction , repair , maintenance or
                       conversion , and in respect of goods intended for equipping the
                       said platforms ".
                                               Article 2
    This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its
    publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable
    in all of the Member States .
    Done at Brussels ,                                              For the Council ,
                                                                   The President
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