CELEX: 51993PC0452
Language: en
Date: 1993-09-30
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 3915/92 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas bound in GATT for certain agricultural and industrial products

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                           C0M(93) 452 final
                                                           Brussels, 30 September 1993
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                                             Proposal for a
                                        COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
                    amending Regulation (EEC) No 3915/92 opening and providing for
                      the administration of Community tariff quotas bound in GATT
                           for certain agricultural and industrial products.
                                      (presented by the Commission)
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                         EXPLANATORY pfynpANn^
1. Under its external relations policy, the Community 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. 600 000
   tonnes, 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%
    that part of the auota reserved for imports from Canada, if it is
    used up before the end of a given period of one year.
2.  From the economic data at present available, it is believed that the
    volume of 600 000 tonnes might not satisfy Community needs for
    products of this type in 1993. as about 559 000 tonnes of the tariff
    quota had already been used, as of 25 August.
    The purpose of the attached proposal is therefore to increase the
     quota in accordance with the Community's undertaking.
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                                               C O U N C I L R E G U L A T I O N (EEC) N o         /93
                                                                   of
                    amending Regulation (EEC) No 3915/92 opening and providing for the
          administration of Community tariff quotas bound in GATT for certain
          agricultural and industrial products.
    THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES.                                     print from Canada could reach a level higher than the
     Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                      said volume of 600 000 t o n n e s , whereas the volume of
     Economic C o m m u n i t y , a n d in particular Article 113                that part of q u o u reserved for these imports should be
     thereof.                                                                    increased, therefore, by 30 000 t o n n e s .
     Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
    Whereas, for newsprint, the C o m m u n i t y has reached an                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION
    agreement which provides in particular for the opening of
    a C o m m u n i t y tariff quota of 650 000 tonnes, of which
    600 000 tonnes are reserved, until 30 November of each                                                   Article I
    year, exclusively for products from Canada, in accordance
    with Article XIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs
    and Trade ; whereas this agreement provides equally for                      For order No 09.0015. the table in Article 1
    the obligation to increase, by 5 % , that p a n of the quota                  (1) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3915/92
    reserved for imports from Canada, in the event that that                      is hereby replaced by the following table:
    part is used u p before the e n d of a given period of one
    year ; whereas the q u o u of 650 0 0 0 tonnes was opened for
    1993» by Council Regulation (EEC) N o 3 9 i 5 / 9 2 j K ) ;
    Whereas the e c o n o m i c data at present available give rise
    to the belief that the r e q u i r e m e n t s for importing news-
    Older        CN code                                                                                               Quota      Rate of
                                                                                                     Quou
   number                                                  Description                                                             duty
                       M                                                                             period            volume
                                                                                                                                   (V.)
                   4801 00 10     Newsprint (') :                                             From 1 January
 09.0015                          — from Canada                                              to 31 December 330 000 tonnes            0
                                                                                              1993
                                                                                                      Article    2
                                                                          This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day
                                                                          following its publication in the Official Journal     of the
                                                                           European       Communities.
                 T h i s Regulation shall be b i n d i n g in its entirety and directly applicable in all M e m b e r
                 Sûtes.
                 D o n e at Brussels,
                                                                                       For the    Council
                                                                                        The    President
(1)      OJ No L 395 o f         3 1 . 1 2 . 1 9 9 2 . p.  15
 ---pagebreak--- FINANCIAL RECORD
      Budget  Iine concerned : Chap. 12 Art. 120
      Legal basis : Art. 113 of the Treaty
      Title of the tariff measure concerned : Proposal for a Council
      Regulation (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 3915/92 opening and
      providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas bound in
      GATT for certain agricultural and industrial products.
      Object ive : To fulfil GATT-commitments and to ensure that Community
      needs for newsprint are met.
      Method of calculation :
      CCT heading:                         4801 00 10 and 4801 00 90
      Volume of the quota:                 30 000 T
       Duty to be applied:                 0 %
       Normal CCT duty:                    4,9 and 9 %
       Duty-loss
       Average price per tonne                      759 ECU
       Value of 30 000 tonnes               22 770 000 ECU
       Imports under 4801 00 10 (±5   %)     1 138 500 ECU
       Imports under 4801 00 90 (+ 95 %)    21 631 500 ECU
       Duty-loss :
       4801 00 10 :   1 138 500 ECU X 4,9 %       55 786 ECU
       4801 00 90 : 21 631 500 ECU X 9    %    1 946 835 ECU
                                              2 002 621 ECU
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