CELEX: 51991SC1109
Language: en
Date: 1991-07-09
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 3833/90 IN RESPECT OF THE SYSTEM OF GENERALIZED TARIFF PREFERENCES APPLIED TO CERTAIN PRODUCTS ORIGINATING IN COSTA RICA, EL SALVADOR, GUATEMALA, HONDURAS, NICARAGUA AND PANAMA

25. 7. 91                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                                          No C 194/17
                             Family                                          and to extend support, including financial
                                                                             support, to persons who, by reason of the need to
    — to develop family benefits, so as to avoid that a                      raise c h i l d r e n o r c a r e for a n elderly o r disabled
        lack of resources will not dissuade anyone from                      r e l a t i v C ) h a v e tQ r e d u c e QJ. c e a s e W Q r k 5
        having children; to develop, in particular, the
        benefits paid to the most disadvantaged families
        and to adapt them for single-parent families and             AND TO THIS END REQUESTS THE COMMISSION:
        for families where there is a disabled child,
                                                                     1. to submit regular reports to the Council on progress
        to contribute to fostering the integration of
                                                                        achieved in relation to these objectives, to determine
        persons who, having raised children, wish to enter
                                                                        and develop the use of appropriate indicators to this
        the labour market, and to give them opportunities
                                                                        effect, and to present suitable proposals taking into
        for supplementary training to enable them to
                                                                        account demographic, economic and social changes in
        acquire the qualifications needed to find a job,
                                                                        the Community;
        to remove obstacles to occupational activity by
        parents through measures allowing the reconcil-              2. to organize regular consultation with Member States
        iation of family and professional responsibilities              on the development of social protection policy.
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              Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending
                                                          amendin Council Regulation (EEC) No 3833/90 in
                                                          preferen
              respect of the system of generalized tariff preferences    applied to certain products originating in
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                          Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras,             Nicaragua and Panama
                                                        (91/C 194
                                                                194/26)
                                                      SEC(91) 11C
                                                      SEQ91)    1109 final
                                        (Submitted by the Commission
                                                           Commis,        on 9 July 1991)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                             countries to halt the growth in the production of and
                                                                     trade in cocaine, which is threatening their social
                                                                     integrity and so damaging their economies that their
                                                                     development is at risk;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular Article 113
thereof,
                                                                     Whereas it has been established that the countries of the
Having regard to the proposal from Commission,                       Central American isthmus are being increasingly used as
                                                                     a staging post on the route of illegal drugs from the
                                                                     Andean region to North America;
Having regard        to the    opinion   of  the   European
Parliament,
                                                                     Whereas the illegal cultivation of poppies and cannabis
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                     and the production of drugs and other psychotropic
Social Committee,                                                    substances in the Central American countries is
                                                                     expanding alarmingly;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3835/90 (*)
extends the application of tariff preferences to Bolivia,
Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in order to assist these                  Whereas the growing trade in and cultivation of drugs
                                                                     threatens the economic and social stability of the
(') OJ No L 370, 31. 12. 1990, p. 126.                               countries of the isthmus;
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Whereas Article 4 (1) of the Cooperation Agreement of             them exceptional, temporary assistance by extending to
 12 November 1985 between the European Economic                   their agricultural exports generalized tariff preferences
 Community, of the one part, and the countries parties to         similar to those granted to Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador
the General Treaty on Central American Economic Inte-             and Peru; whereas these concessions should be granted
gration (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras             to the Central American countries for the same period,
and Nicaragua) and Panama, of the other part, of which            without prejudice to the annual nature of the
the overall purpose is to help resolve the problems of the        Community's system of generalized tariff preferences,
Central American isthmus, which have, in particular,
been worsened by the effects of the current economic
recession, provides that the Contracting Parties shall            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
undertake to promote by means of appropriate measures
the harmonious development, diversification and quali-
tative improvement of their trade, with a view to maxi-                                    Article 1
mizing such trade;.                                               Subject to the provisions of Article 2 (2) of this Regu-
                                                                 lation, Common Customs Tariff duties shall be totally
Whereas the countries of the Central American isthmus            suspended until 31 December 1991 for products orig-
are today engaged in the consolidation of peace and              inating in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala,
democracy, which calls for the mobilization of all their         Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama listed in the Annex to
economic resources and backing from the international            this Regulation. Article 1 (4) and Articles 7 to 12 of
community;                                                       Regulation (EEC) No 3833/90 (') shall, without
                                                                 prejudice to the levying of any supplementary duties that
                                                                 may apply, apply to those countries and to the products
Whereas the Community has been constant in its support
                                                                 listed in the Annex to this Regulation.
for peace and development in the Central American
isthmus;
                                                                                           Article 2
Whereas the Central American Presidents at Puntarenas
on 15 December 1990 appealed to the Community to                  1.   Regulation (EEC) No 3833/90 shall continue to
extend to their countries the tariff preferences granted to      apply to products originating in countries mentioned in
                                                                 Article 1 and not listed in the Annex to this Regulation
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru;
                                                                 but in Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 3833/90.
Whereas this appeal was backed by the Governments of
Colombia and Ecuador in the San Andres Declaration of            2.    Regulation (EEC) 3833/90 shall continue to apply
15 January 1991;                                                 to products from Chapter 3 of the Common Customs
                                                                 Tariff originating in Panama.
Whereas the ministerial meeting between the Community
and the Central American countries, Panama and the                                         Article 3
cooperating     countries    (Colombia,      Mexico     and
Venezuela) held in Managua on 18 and 19 March 1991               This Regulation shall enter into force on the fifth day
dealt constructively with this matter at the urgent request      following its publication in the Official Journal of the
of the Central American Ministers;                               European Communities.
                                                                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
Whereas the Community considers it necessary to
                                                                 directly applicable in all Member States.
continue to support peace and democratization in
Central America and Panama in the present period of
consolidation and therefore, in order to increase these
countries' export earnings and their growth, to grant            (') OJ No L 370, 31. 12. 1990, p. 86.
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                                                                 ANNEX
                                            List of products covered by Article 1 (a) (b)
                    CN code                                                     Description
            0106 00                          Other live animals
            CHAPTER 3                        FISH AND CRUSTRACEANS, MOLLUSCS A N D O T H E R AQUATIC
                                             INVERTEBRATES
            0409 00 00                       Natural honey
            CHAPTER 5                        PRODUCTS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN, N O T ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED
                                             OR INCLUDED
            CHAPTER 6                        LIVE TREES AND O T H E R PLANTS, BULBS, ROOTS AND T H E
                                             LIKE; C U T FLOWERS A N D ORNAMENTAL FOLIAGE
            0708                             Leguminous vegetables, shelled or unshelled, fresh or chilled
            0709 60 99                       Other vegetables, fresh or chilled:
                                             Other
            0709 90 90                       Other
            0710                             Vegetables (uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water), frozen
            all     codes       except
            0710 80 10
            0803 00 90                       Bananas, including plantains, dried
            0804 30 00                       Pineapples
            0804 50 00                       Guavas, mangoes and mangosteens
                                             Citrus fruit, fresh or dried:
            0805 30 90                       Limes
            0805 40 00                       Grapefruit
                                             Melons (including watermelons) and papaws (papayas), fresh
            0807 10 10                       Watermelons
            0807 10 90                       Other
            0807 20 00                       Papaws (papayas)
            0809 40 90                       Sloes, fresh
        ex 0809 20 10                        Sour cherries (prunus cerasus), fresh
        ex 0809 20 90
            0810 90 80                       Other fruit, fresh
            0811                             Fruit and nuts, uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water,
                                             frozen, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
        ex CHAPTER 9                         COFFEE, TEA, MATE AND SPICES, EXCLUDING PRODUCTS
                                             FALLING WITHIN CN CODES 0905 00 00 AND 0907 00 00
        (a) Notwithstanding the rules for the interpretation of the combined nomenclature, the wording for the description of the
            goods shall be considered as having no more than an indicative value, the preferential scheme being determined,
            within the context of this Annex, by the coverage of the C N codes. Where ex CN codes are indicated, the preferential
            scheme is to be determined by application of the C N code and the corresponding description taken together.
        (b) Agricultural products which under standard procedure enjoy exemption from, or the temporary suspension of, all
            CCT duties are listed only pro memoria.
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                      CN code                                            Description
            ex CHAPTER 12                 MISCELLANEOUS GRAINS, SEEDS AND FRUIT; INDUSTRIAL
                                          AND MEDICINAL PLANTS; STRAW AND FODDER; EXCLUDING
                                          SUGAR BEET A N D SUGAR CANE FALLING WITHIN
                                          SUBHEADINGS 1212 91 AND 1212 92
               CHAPTER 13                 GUMS, RESINS AND O T H E R VEGETABLE SAPS AND EXTRACTS
               CHAPTER 14                 VEGETABLE PLAITING MATERIALS; VEGETABLE PRODUCTS
                                          N O T ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED OR INCLUDED
               1504                       Fats and oils and their fractions, of fish or marine mammals, whether or
               except code 1504 30 11     not refined but not chemically modified
               1519                       Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining, industrial
                                          fatty alcohols
               1520                       Glycerol (glycerine), whether or not pure; glycerol waters and glycerol
                                          lyes
                                          Other prepared or preserved meat, meat offal or blood:
               1602 50 90                 of bovine animals
               1604                       Prepared or preserved fish; caviar and caviar substitutes prepared from fish
                                          eggs
               CHAPTER 18                 COCOA AND COCOA PREPARATIONS
               CHAPTER 20                 PREPARATIONS OF VEGETABLES, FRUIT, NUTS OR O T H E R
                                          PARTS OF PLANTS
            ex CHAPTER 21                 MISCELLANEOUS EDIBLE PREPARATIONS, EXCLUDING SUGAR
                                          SYRUPS FALLING WITHIN SUBHEADINGS 2106 90 30, 2106 90 51,
                                          2106 90 55 A N D 2106 90 59
            ex CHAPTER 22                 BEVERAGES, SPIRITS A N D VINEGAR, EXCLUDING PRODUCTS
                                          FALLING W I T H I N SUBHEADINGS 2204 10 11 T O 2204 30 10,
                                          2206 00 10, 2208 40 90, 2208 90 11 AND 2208 90 19
               CHAPTER 24                TOBACCO A N D MANUFACTURED TOBACCO SUBSTITUTES
           Proposal for a Council Directive on the adoption of standards for satellite broadcasting of
                                                      television signals
                                                       (91/C 194/27)
                                             COM(91) 242 final — SYN           350
                                    (Submitted by the Commission on 15 July 1991)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                   In cooperation with the European Parliament,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular Article 100a                Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and
thereof,                                                          Social Committee,