CELEX: 51991PC0271
Language: en
Date: 1991-07-18
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) INCREASING THE VOLUME OF THE COMMUNITY TARIFF QUOTA OPENED FOR 1991 FOR NEWSPRINT

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                             C0M(91) 271 final
                                             Brussels, 18 Jul y 1991
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                              Proposal for a
                         COUNCIL REGULATION TEECn
            increasing the volume of the Community tariff quota
                        opened for 1991 for newsprint
                      (presented by the Commission)
 ---pagebreak---                       EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
Under its external relations policy, the Commupity reached an agreement
providing for the annual opening for a duty-free Community tariff quota
for newsprint.  The volume of this quota, amounting to 650 000 tonnes, is
divided into two parts : the first, 600 OÛ0 tomes, is assigned to products
coming from Canada, and the second, 50 000 tonnes, to products coming from
other non-member countries.
The agreement provides also for the necessity of increasing by 5 X
that part of the quota reserved for imports from Canada, if it should
be used up before the end of a given period    of one year.
From the economic data, at present available, it is believed that
the volume of 600 000 tonnes might.not satisfy Community neecjs for
products of this type, as about 435 000  tonnes of the tariff quota had
already been used, as of  15 June.
The attached proposal aims at increasing the quota, in compliance with
the obligations undertaken.
 ---pagebreak---                                                        Proposât f o r a
                                     C O U N C I L R E G U L A T I O N (EEC) N o        .../91
                                                    of
                  increasing the volume of the C o m m u n i t y tariff quota opened for 199'                for
                                                           newsprint
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                              newsprint from Canada could reach a level higher than
                                                                     the said volume of 600 000 tonnes ; whereas the volume
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               of that part of quota reserved for these imports should be
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 113                    increased, therefore, by 30 000 tonnes.
thereof.
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas, for newsprint, the Community has reached an                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION
agreement which provides in particular for the opening of
a Community tariff quota of 650 000 tonnes, of which
600 000 tonnes are reserved, until 30 November of each                                         Article 1
year, exclusively for products from Canada, in accordance
with Article XIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs                The volume of the Community tariff quota opened by
and Trade ; whereas this agreement provides equally for              Regulation (EEC) No32o/VO for newsprint from Canada
the obligation to increase, by 5 %, that part of the quota           shall be increased from 600 000 tonnes to 630 000 tonnes.
reserved for imports from Canada, in the event that that
part is used up before the end of a given period of one
year ; whereas the quota of 650 000 tonnes was opened for                                      Article 2
199 1by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3275/90 (') ;
                                                                      This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day
Whereas the economic data at present available give rise             following its publication in the 0///W..7 Journjl <>f tin
to the belief that the requirements for importing                    European Communities.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels,
                                                                                 For the Council
                                                                                   The President
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 ---pagebreak--- FICHE FINANCIERE
1.    Liane budgétaire concernée : Chap. 12 art. 120
2.    Base juridique : art. 113 du traité
3.   . Intitulé de la mesure tarifaire : Proposition de règlement du Conseil
      portant augmentation du volume du contingent tarifaire communautaire
      pour le papier Journal (1991).
*•    Objectif : Respect des engagemcmtt contractés au GATT et assurer
       la couverture des besoins de l& Communauté en papier Journal
5.    Hpcfr tfg Calcul :
      Codes N.C.                 4801 00 10 et 4801 00 90
      Volume du contingent       30 000 tonnes
      Oro i t a app i i quer          OX
      Droit normal               4,9 et 9 X
      Perte de recettes
      Prix moyen à la tonne                                609 écus
      Valeur des 30 000 tonnes                      18.270.000 écus
       Importations sous le 4801 00 10 (± 5 X)         913.500 écus
       Importations sous le 4801 00 90 (t 95 X)     17.356.500 écus
      Perte :
      4801 00 *Û     i 033 500 écus X 4,9 X -     44.761 écus
      4801 00 30 : 19 536 500 écus X 9 X    - 1.562.085 écus
                                               I.606.346 écus
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