CELEX: 51990PC0117
Language: en
Date: 1990-04-02
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) OPENING AND PROVIDING FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY TARIFF QUOTAS FOR CERTAIN AGRICULTURAL AND CHEMICAL PRODUCTS ( 1990 )

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                      COM(90) 117fInal
                                       Brussels, 2 April 1 990
                            Proposal for a
                      COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
     opening and providing for the administration of autonomous
        community tariff quotas for certain agricultural and
                       chemical products (1990)
                    (presented by the Commission)
 ---pagebreak---                    EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
Subsequent to requests made by various Member States, the Services o f
the Commission nave examined, in conjunction with the Government experts
concerned, the question of renewal in 1990 of autonomous tariff quotas
which had been opened during 1989, and also the opening in 1990 of a
tariff quota for a new proauct.
 Following this examination, which took place during the "Economic Tariff"
group meetings held in particular on 19 January 1990, it has been determined
that the opening of tariff quotas for the following products could have
the agreement of the Member States without disturbing the markets for such
products:
- eels: 5 000 tonnes at 0%
- t-butyl-hydroperoxide: 500 tonnes at 0%
- sodium 3,5-bis(methoxycarbonyl)benzenesulphonate: 280 tonnes at 0%
- aniline: 8 500 tonnes at 0%
This is the purpose of this proposal.
                                                                           9.
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                                                COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) N o
                                                              of
                            opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for
                                      certain agricultural and chemical                        products (1990)
           THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                              Whereas, it is appropriate to take the necessary measures
                                                                                 to ensure efficient Community administration of these
           Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 tariff quotas while offering the Member States the
           Economic Community, and in particular Article 28                      opportunity to draw from the quota volumes the
           thereof,                                                              necessary quantities corresponding to actual imports ;
                                                                                 whereas this method of administration requires close
           Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                    cooperation between the Member States and the
                                                                                 Commission and the latter must in particular be able to
           Whereas production in the Community of certain                        monitor the rate at which the quotas are used up and
           agricultural 3rd chamical              products is currently          inform the Member States accordingly ;
           unable to meet the specific requirements of the user
           industries in the Community ; whereas, consequently,                  Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of
           Community supplies of products of this type currently                 the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
           depend to a considerable extent on imports from third                 are united within and jointly represented by the Benelux
           countries ; whereas the most urgent Community                         Economic Union, all transactions concerning the
           requirements for the products in question should be met               administration of the quantities draw by that economic
           immediately on the most favourable terms ; whereas zero               union may be carried out by any one of its members.
           duty Community tariff quotas should therefore be opened
           within the limits of appropriate volumes for a period up t o 31 December
1990 or 30 June 1991               ; whereas, in order not to upset the
           balance of the markets for these products, the volume of
           certain of these Community tariff quotas should be set at             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION
           provisional levels which cover immediate requirements ;
           whereas the setting of the quota volumes at this level does
           not rule out an adjustment during the year ;
                                                                                                          Article 1
           Whereas it is necessary, in particular, to ensure for all
           Community importers equal and uninterrupted access to                  1.    From 1 July 1990 t o 30 June 1991. the customs
           the said quotas and to ensure the uninterrupted                       duties applicable to imports into the Community of the
           application of the rates laid down for the quotas to all              product listed below shall be suspended at the level nd
           imports of the products concerned into all Member States              within the limits of the Community tariff quota
           until the quotas have been used up ;                                    indicated:
                             CN codes                                                                           Amount of      Quota dutv
              Order No                                               Description
                               (a)
                                                                                                            (in ftxines)
           09.2701      |exU301 92 001 Eels (Anguilla spp.), live, fresh, chilled or
                         exQ302 66 00, frozen, intended for processing by curina or
                         ex0303 76 00 skinning enterprises or for use in the industrial
                                          manufacture of products falling within CN code
                                          1604 (1)                                                             5 000
          (a) Taric codes       0301 92 00 *10
                                0302 66 00 *10
                                0303 76 00 *10
            (1) Control.of the use for this special purpose shall be carried out pursuant to the relevant Community
                  provisions.
          £. From the date of entry into force of this Regulation until 31 December 1990, the customFdutiei
               applicable to imports into the Community of the products listed below shall be suspended at
               the levels and within the limits of the Community tariff quotas shown below:
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                                                                                                     Amount •:•!      Quot.i dutv
                   CN codes                               Description
   Order No                                                                                            quotJ
                                                                                                       quo::*
                      (»)
09.2745        ex2909 60 90         t-Butyl-hydroperoxide containing by weight 28%
                                    or more but not more than 32X of water                             500
 09.2749       ex2917 39 90         sodiurn 3,5-bi s(methoxycarbonyI)benzenesuIphonate1                280
 09.2795        ex2921 41 00        Aniline                                                           8500
   (a) Taric codes: 2909 60 90 *10
                          2917 39 90 *60
                          2921 41 00 *10
    3 . Within the limits of these tariff quotas the Kingdom           notifying the Commission, draw an amount corre-
of Spain and the Portuguese Republic shall apply customs              sponding to its requirements from the appropriate quota
duties calculated in accordance with the relevant                     volume.
provisions of the 1985 Act of Accession.
                                                                      Requests for drawings, indicating the date on which the
                            Article 2                                 entries were accepted, must be sent to the Commission
                                                                      without delay.
The tariff quotas referred to in Article 1 shall be managed
by the Commission, which may take any appropriate
administrative measures to ensure that they are managed
efficiently.
                                                                      Drawings shall be granted by the Commission in chrono-
                                                                      logical order of the dates on which the customs
                                                                      authorities of the Member States concerned accepted the
                                                                      entries for release for free circulation, to the extent that
                            Article 3                                 the available balance so permits.
Where an importer presents a present covered by this
Regulation for release for free circulation in a Member
State, applying to take advantage of the preferential                 If a Member State does not use a drawing in full it shall
arrangements, and the entry is accepted by the customs                return any unused portion to the corresponding quota
authorities, the Member State concerned shall, by                     volume as soon as possible.
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If the quantities requested are greater than the available       the quotas for as long as the balance of the relevant quota
balance of the    quota volume, the balance shall be             volume so permits.
allocated among    applicants pro rata. The Commission
shall inform the   Member States of the drawings made.                                     Article 5
                                                                 The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
                                                                 closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied with.
                         Article 4
                                                                                           Article 6
Each Member State shall ensure that importers of the
products in question have equal and continuous access to         This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh 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 Member
States.
Done at Brussels,
                                                             For the Council
                                                              The President
                                                                                                                             S
 ---pagebreak---     FICHE FINANCIERE
    1.        Ligne budgétaire concernée : Chap. 12 art. 120
    2.        Base Juridique : art. 28 du traité
    3.        Intitulé de la mesure tarifaire : Proposition de règlement
              du Conseil portant ouverture et mode de gestion de
              contingents tarifaires autonomes pour certains produits
              agricole et chimiques (1990).
    4.        Objectif : Assurer la couverture à des conditions
              favorables, des besoins communautaires.
    5.        Mode de calcul :
 Designation des   QuantItes   Prix en   Droit        Droit contin-       Perte de
    prodults                 ecus/unite normal (en %) gentaire (en %) recettes (en ecus)
Anguilles          5 000 t     5 100         3                0             765 000
Hydroperoxycte de    600 t     1 667         6.6 •            0              54 681
tert-butyle
3,5-bls-methoxy-     280 t     6 260        13                0             227 864
carbonyl benzene
sulfonate de
sodium
Aniline            8500 t        927        12                0             945 540
                                                                          1 993 085
    Par rapport à la période contingentais précédente, augmentation
    des pertes de 1 993 085 écus - 1 927 146 ecus - 65 939 ecus.
 ---pagebreak---          FICHE D'IMPACT SUR LA COMPETITIVITE EEJL1EMELQI
La présente proposition vise l'ouverture de contingents
tarifaires communautaires autonomes destinés à couvrir, à des
conditions favorables, les besoins des industries utilisatrices.
Elle aura pour effet de permettre à ces industries de
concurrencer celles des pays tiers sur les marchés de la
Communauté et des pays tiers et de maintenir ou même d'améliorer
l'emploi dans la Communauté.
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