CELEX: 51979PC0757
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Date: 1979-12-17
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) establishing ceilings and Community surveillance in respect of imports of certain products originating in Portugal (1980) (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                             Proposal tor a                  .,y
                        COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
establishing ceilings and Community surveillance in respect of imports
          of certain products 'originating in Portugal ( 1980 )
             ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
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C0M(79 ) 757 final
 ---pagebreak---             EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
 The Supplementary Protocol between the European Economic
 Community and the Portuguese Republic , annexed to the
 Agreement between the Community and Portugal provides for the •
 exemption from duty for certain types of paper and paperboard
 ( subheadings ex 48.01 C II and 48.01 F of the CCT ), originating
 in Portugal imported into the Community as originally
 constituted and Ireland . Nevertheless , these imports are
 limited to annual ceilings .
                                         ψ
 When a ceiling 'is reached , the residual customs duties aoolicable
 to Portugal may be reimposed by the Community until the end
 of the calendar year .
 The volumes of the annual ceilings are fixed by the Supplementary
 Protocol itself .                                             -
 The implementation of the system of ceilings and the option of
 reintroducing customs duties require the adoption of precise common
 rules to be applied uniformly by the Member States concerned . .
 These requirements may be met by setting up a Community system of
 surveillance of actual imports from the partner concerned .
 To that end the Member States must take appropriate measures
 to permit the rapid collection of satistical returns for the
 whole Community
 In this connection imports of the products in question should
 be recorded only as and when they are entered for free
'circulation accompanied by a movement certificate conforming
 to the rules of the Agreement referred" to in 1 above .
 ---pagebreak---   The returns will be drawn up by the Member States at the end
                                                                 *1
  of each month and forwarded before the fifteenth day of the
  following month to the Commission in-order to enable the latter
  to send by telex to the Member States a comprehensive product-
  by-product statement of the imports in question effected during
  the preceding month . The surveillance system will require quick .
  action and close cooperation between the relevant departments
  of the Member States and the Commission . Since the products in
  question belong to the sensitive products category and duty-free
  imports in excess of the ceilings may disturb the Community
  market , it is absolutely iessential that the Member States observe
  strictly the above-mentioned time limit of fifteen days .
  The following' procedure will be used for setting in train the
  machinery for reintroducing duties : as soon as one of the
  comprehensive monthly statements compiled by the Commission showijifs
  that 75 % of the ceiling fixed for a given product has been
  reached , the Commission will inform the Member States and
  consultations may take place , in particular within the Economic Tariff
  Problems Group , either at the request of a Member States or on
  the Commission 's own initiative . The purpose of these consultations
  will be to examine in each individual case whether the customs
  duties applicable to Portugal should be reimposed when the ceiling
  is actually reached .
  Imports of the product in question will continue to be the subject
  of monthly returns or , if the Commission so requests , of a telex
  message covering each period of ten days . This message must reach
  the Commission within five days .
   f
. The commission can thus take within the shortest possible time the
  measures required for the adoption of a regulation reintroducing
   customs duties in respect of the partner country until the end of
  the calendar year . In that event , the customs duties on the product
 ---pagebreak--- in question would naturally be reimposed within the time
limit laid down by the regulation ending exemption from
duties .
The attached proposal provides for the delegation by the
Council to the Commission of the power to apply the rule on
ceilings and the reintroduction of duties .
The proposal for a regulation merely outlines how these
powers are to be exercised so that the machinery to be used
may be adjusted flexibly and rapidly in consultation with
the Member States . Again with a view to maximum efficiency and
rapidity / the proposal lays down that the Commission will be
responsible for reintroducing , in respect of the partner
country / the duties applicable .
ANNEX :
 Proposal far a Council Regulation
 ---pagebreak---                                  Proposal for a
                           COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
          establishing ceilings and Community surveillance in
       respect of imports of certain products originating in
                                Portugal ( 1980 )
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic
Community , and in particular Article 113 thereof ,
Having regairi to the proposal from the Commission ,
Whereas the Supplementary Protocol ( 1 ) annexed to the Agreement
between the European Economic Community -?nd the Portuguese®
Republic ( 2 ) provides for the exemption from duties for Kraftliner
and for other paper and pa^erboard falling within subheadings
ex 48.01 C II and 48.01 F of the Common Customs Tariff , originating
in Portugal when imported into the Community as originally constituted
and Ireland ; whereas , however , the benefit of the exemption of
duties is limited to annual ceilings of 60 000 tonnes and 2 000 tonnes
respectively above which the residual customs duties for each
 product may be reimposed until the end of the.calendar year ; whereas
 the application of ceilings requires that the Community be regularly
 informed on imports of the products in question originating in Portugal ;
 whereas it is therefore desirable that imports of these products be
 subjected to a system of surveillance ;
 Whereas this objective may be achieved by means of a method of administration
 based on charging imports of the products in question against
 the ceilings at Community level as and when the products are entered
 with customs authorities for free circulation ;, whereas this administrative
 procedure must make provision for the possibility of the residual
 customs tariff duties being reintroduced as soon as the ceilings
 are reached in respect of the Community as originally constituted
 and Ireland
                             ?
 ( 1 ) 0J
 ( 2 ) 0J „ N * L 30 ? * 31 . 1 ?. 1972 , p. 165 .
 ---pagebreak--- Whereas this method of administration requires close and
particularly rapid cooperation between the Member States
and the Commission and the latter must in particular be
able to follow the progress of quantities charged against the
ceilings and keep the Member States informed; whereas this
cooperation has to be particularly clgse since the Commission
must be able to take the appropriate measures to reintroduce
customs tariff duties if one of the ceilings is reached .
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : '
                                       '                         s .
                          Article 1
1 . From 1 January until 31 December 1980 , imports to the
     Community as constituted originally and Ireland of
     the products listed in the Annex originating in Portugal
     shall be subject to annual ceilings and Community
     surveillance .                    -
     The description of the products referred to in the first
         %
     subparagraph , their tariff headings and stati sti cal 'numbers
                                           ν  «
     and the ceilings are set out in the Annex hereto .        -
2 P Quantities shall be charged against the ceilings as and when
     products are entered with customs authorities for free ~
     circulation accompanied by' a' movement certificate.
     Goods may be charged against the ceiling only if the
     movement certificate is submitted before the date on which
     custom duties are reimposed .
   ' The extent to which a ceiling is used up shall be determined •
      at Community level on the basis of the imports charged against
      it in the manner defined in the preceding subparagraphs .
 ---pagebreak---                                      -   3
              the Member States concerned shall inform the Commission
              at the intervals and within the time limits specified
              in paragraph 4 of imports effected in accordance with "
              the above procedures .
          3 . As soon as the ceilings have been reached , the Commission .
              may adopt a Regulation reimposing until the end of the
              calendar year the residual customs duties .
          4 . Member States concerned shall forward to the Commission
              not later than the fifteenth day of each month statements of the
              quantities charged during the preceding month . If the
               Commission so requests , they shall provide such statements 'in
               respect of periods of ten days and forward them within five
               clear days of the end of each ten-day period .
                                        Article 2
              The Commission shall take all appropriate measures , in
               close cooperation with the Member States , for the purposes
              of applying this Regulation .
                                        Article 2
               This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1980 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
               applicable in all Member States .
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- Done at Brussels ,                           .    .       For the Council
                                                       . .  The President
 ---pagebreak---                                        ANNEX v
                      List of products subject to import ceilings in 1980
Sériai N°.        CCT                      Description            Nimexe               Level
                  heading N°                                       code                 . of
                                                                                    cei ling
                                                                                    ( tonnes )
   1               2                           3                    4                  5
                                                                I
                                                                I
                  48.01         Paper and paperboard
                                ( including cellulose
                                wadding )/ machine-made , in
                                rolls or sheets :
                                C. Kraft paper and kraft
                                    board :
                                    ex II . Other :
 Ρ 1                                        - Kraft liner ( a )   48.01 - 14 / 15 ,
                                                        *   •
                                                                          21 / 27 /
                             I                                            31            60 000
                                 F. Other                         48.01 - 41 til
 Ρ 2                                                                      97              2 000
             t  •
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                        Ν               *
                                  k
  ( a) " Kraft liner" means machine-finished or m»chine-g lazed paper or
         paperboard , in rolls / containing not less than 80 X of chemical
         sulphate softwood pulp calculated on total fibre content / weighing
         more than 115 g/m2 and having a Mullen burst ratio of not less
         than 35 .
 ---pagebreak--- ne ;..-: FINANCIÈRE                                                 Date
1 . Lip, ne budgétaire concernée : Chap . 12 art . 120
2 . Base juridique :        Article 113
3 . Intitulé de la mesure tarifaire :                                            "
         Proposition de rèqlement ( CEE ) du Conseil portant , établ i ssement de
         plafonds et d' une surveillance communautaire des importations de
         certains produits originaires du Portugal ( 1980 )
4 . Objectif *:
         Exécution d' une obligation contractuelle
         ( Protocole complémentaire CEE / Portugal à signer le 20.12.79 )
5 . Mode de calcul :
    - N° du T.D.C.                           :   ex 48.01 C II           48.01 F •
    - Volume cjjx/ des 0(<xxKlaxg:ocae:((£)<XX plafonds ? ôî.HOO tonnes  2.000 tonnes
    - Droits à appliquer                         exemption               exemption
    - Droi t s du T. D. C., rédui t s        î                                     .
         vis - à - vis du Portugal                 6%                  -     6%
6 . Perte de recettes :
          La même réduction de droits de douane pour l' es mêmes volumes est
         déjà applicable en 1979 ; donc pas de perte de recettes à inscrire
          au budget 1980 .                                •