CELEX: 31974R2848
Language: en
Date: 1974-11-12 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2848/74 of the Council of 12 November 1974 on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for rosin, including 'brais résineux', falling within subheading 38.08 A of the Common Customs Tariff for 1975

15. 11 . 74                       Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 305/ 1
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                              REGULATION (EEC) No 2848/74 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                of 12 November 1974
                 on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for
                 rosin , including 'brais resineux', falling within subheading 38.08 A of the
                                         Common Customs Tariff for 1975
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                   system of utilization should, without derogating from
 COMMUNITIES,                                                 the Community nature of the tariff quota, be provided
                                                              based on a single allocation between the Member
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European        States ; whereas this allocation should be calculated by
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 28             the same method as is used to establish a total quota
 thereof ;                                                    of 1 5 % of the imports of each Member State from
                                                              third countries ; whereas, calculated in such a manner
                                                              this allocation should be as follows :
 Having regard to the draft Regulation submitted by
 the Commission ;                                                                                         metric tons
                                                                   Benelux                                     4 107
Whereas the production in the Community of rosin,                  Denmark                                       330
 falling within subheading 38.08 A of the Common
 Customs Tariff, is now insufficient to meet require­              Germany                                   10 658
                                                                   France                                      4 839
 ments of the processing industries in the Commu­                  Ireland                                          1
 nity ; whereas, consequently, Community supplies of
products of this type depend to a considerable extent              Italy                                       3 095
on imports from third countries ; whereas urgent                   United Kingdom                              2818
Community requirements of the products in question
should be met immediately on the most favourable              Whereas since the Kingdom of Belgium , the
terms ; whereas a tax-free tariff quota should therefore      Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of
be opened up to a limit of 15% of imports from                Luxembourg are jointly represented by the Benelux
third countries in 1973 ;                                     Economic Union, any measure concerning the admin­
                                                              istration of the shares allocated to that Economic
Whereas in 1973 the imports of rosin from third coun­         Union may be carried out by any one of its members,
tries were as follows :
                                             metric tons
           Benelux                             27  384
           Denmark                               2 200        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
           Germany                             71  056
           France                              32  259
           Ireland                                    7
                                                                                      Article 1
           Italy                               20 638
           United Kingdom                      18 780
                                                              During the period from 1 January to 31 December
                                              172 324 ;       1975 the Common Customs Tariff duty for rosin,
                                                              including 'brais resineux', falling within subheading
whereas 1 5 % of this total represents 25 848 metric          38.08 A shall be totally suspended in respect of a
tons ;                                                        Community tariff quota of 25 848 metric tons.
Whereas, in view of the negligible size of such a quota       The tariff quota rate of duty to be applied by the new
in comparison with the Community's requirements, a            Member States shall be nil .
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                       Article 2                             2.   The extent to which the shares of Member States
                                                             have been used up shall be determined on the basis of
The Community tariff quota referred to in Article 1         the imports of the product concerned entered for
shall be allocated as follows among the Member               home use .
States :
                                            metric tons                             Article 4
    Benelux                                    4 107
                                                            The Member States shall regularly inform the
    Denmark                                      330
                                                             Commission of imports actually charged against their
    Germany                                   10 658         shares .
    France                                     4 839
    Ireland                                         1                               A rticle 5
    Italy                                      3 095
    United Kingdom                             2818 .        The Member States and the Commission shall coop­
                                                             erate closely to ensure that this Regulation is
                                                             observed .
                       Article 3
                                                                                    Article 6
1 . The Member States shall ensure that importers
of the said product established in their territory have      This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
free access to the shares allocated to them .                1975 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 12 November 1974.
                                                                          For the Council
                                                                           The President
                                                                       J. SAUVAGNARGUES