CELEX: 31986R4125
Language: en
Date: 1986-12-22 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 4125/86 of 22 December 1986 opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for certain dried grapes, falling within subheading No 08.04 B I of the Common Customs Tariff and originating in Cyprus (1987)

31 . 12 . 86                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 380 / 47
                                             COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) No 4125 / 86
                                                            of 22 December 1986
                   opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for
                   certain dried grapes, falling within subheading No 08.04 B I of the Common Customs Tariff
                                                     and originating in Cyprus ( 1987)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                                 referred to in Articles 180 and 367 of the said Act ; whereas
                                                                          the tariff measure in question therefore applies to the
                                                                          Community of Ten ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community and in particular Article 113
thereof,                                                                  Whereas it is in particular necessary to ensure to all
                                                                          Community importers equal and uninterrupted access to
                                                                          the abovementioned quota and uninterrupted application
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,                       of the rates laid down for that quota to all imports of the
                                                                          products concerned into all Member States until the quota
Whereas the Supplementary Protocol to the Agreement                       has been used up ; whereas , in the present case , it seems
establishing an Association between the European                          advisable not to allocate this quota among the Member
Economic Community and Cyprus (') came to an end on                       States without prejudice to the drawing against the quota
31 December 1980; whereas , to avoid interruption of its                  volume of such quantities as they may need , under the
trade relations with that country , the Community has made                conditions and according to the procedure specified in
applicable , for 1984 , the provisions of the abovementioned              Article 1 ( 2 ); whereas this method of management requires
Protocol in Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 3700 / 83 of 22                 close cooperation between the Member States and the
December 1983 laying down the arrangements applicable                     Commission and the latter must , in particular, be able to
to trade with Cyprus ( 2 );                                               monitor the rate at which the quota is used up and inform
                                                                          the Member States thereof;
Whereas , pending the definition of arrangements applicable               Whereas , since the Kingdom of Belgium , the Kingdom of
beyond 31 December 1984 , it is necessary to extend                       the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are
provisionally for 1987 the arrangements which the                         united within the jointly represented by the Benelux
Community applies currently to trade with Cyprus on the                   Economic Union , all transactions concerning the
basis of the abovementioned Protocol ;                                    administration of shares allocated to that economic union
                                                                          may be carried out by any of its members ,
Whereas the abovementioned Protocol provides for the
opening of an annual duty-free Community tariff quota of
500 tonnes of certain dried grapes falling within
                                                                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
subheading 08.04 B I of the Common Customs Tariff and
originating in Cyprus ; whereas this Community tariff
quota should be opened for the period 1 January to
31 December 1987 ;                                                                                    Article 1
                                                                          1 . From 1 January to 31 December 1987 , on import into
Whereas , in the absence of a Protocol such as that provided              the Community of Ten , the duty for the following products
for in Articles 179 and 366 of the Act of Accession of Spain              shall be totally suspended within the limits of a Community
and Portugal , the Community must take the measures                       tariff quota as follows :
                     CCT                                                                                                   Quota
       Order                                                                                         Quota volume
                    heading                                  Description                                                    duty
        No                                                                                            ( in tonnes )
                      No                                                                                                    (% )
      09.1413     08.04 B I       Dried grapes, in immediate containers of a net capacity of
                                  15 kg or less and originating in Cyprus                                  500              free
(») OJ No L 172 , 28 . 6 . 1978 , p . 2 .
( 2 ) OJ No L 369 , 30 . 12 . 1983 , p . 1 .
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2 . If an importer notifies an imminent importation of the         against their drawings as and when the goods are entered
product in question in a Member State and requests the             for free circulation .
benefit of the quota , the Member State concerned shall
inform     the   Commission      and   draw     an   amount        4 . The extent to which the quota has been used up shall
corresponding to these requirements to the extend that the         be determined on the basis of the imports charged in
available balance of the reserve permits this .                    accordance with paragraph 3 .
3 . The shares drawn pursuant to paragraph 2 shall be
valid until the end of the quota period .                                                      Article 3
                                                                   At the request of the Commission , Member States shall
                          Article 2                                inform it of imports actually charged against the quota .
1 . Member States shall take all appropriate measures to
ensure that their drawings pursuant to Article 1 ( 2) are                                      Article 4
carried out in such a way that imports may be charged
without interruption against their accumulated shares of           The Member States and the Commission shall collaborate
the Community quota .                                              closely in order to ensure that this Regulation is complied
                                                                   with .
2. Each Member State shall ensure that importers of the
said goods have access to the quota so long as the residual
balance of the quota volume so permits .                                                       Article 5
3 . Member States shall charge imports of the said goods           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1987 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels , 22 December 1986 .
                                                                                          For the Council
                                                                                           The President
                                                                                             G. SHAW