CELEX: 51988PC0567
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Date: 1988-10-19
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for certain cod and fish of the species Boreogadus saida, dried, salted or in brine (1989) (presented by the Commission)

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                                                        COM ( 88 ) 567   final
                                                        Brussels , 19 October 1988
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                                    Proposal for a
                             COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
         opening , allocating and providing for the administration of a
        Community tariff quota for certain cod and fish of the species
         Boreogadus saida , dried , salted or in brine ( 1989 )
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                        EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
                                                                                    1
1. In the context of the GATT multilaterial negotiations the Comnunity
   has undertaken to open annually Cbmnunity tariff quota of 25 000
   tonnes at zero duty for ood , dried , salted or in brine of the species
   Gadus morhua , Boreogadus saida and Gadus ogac , falling within tariff
   subheading 03.02 A I b ) of the Common Customs Tariff or codes ex 0305 51 10
   ex 0305 51 90, 0305 59 11 , 0305 59 19, ex 0305 62 00 or 0305 69 10 of
   ex
   the Combineu Nomenclature which enters into force on 1 January 1988 .
2. The purpose of this proposal is to iinplanent the tariff quota for               I
   19§9 .
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3. The Oomnission 's proposal for these products is mainly based on                  i
   those usually put forward in the field of tariff quotas insofar
   as :
                                                                                      !
      the quota volume is divided into two parts , the first consisting
                                                                                     1
      of a fairly large quantity allocated among the Member States ,                 I
      and the second being a reserve intended to cover any
      supplementary needs ,                                                         j
                                                                                    1
      the allocation of initial shares to the Mesrber States is based
      on past imports from non-preferential third countries over the
      last 3 years for which statistics are available and on estimated
      needs over the quota period
   Figures for Community inports from non-preferential third countries
   over the last 3 years cure as follows :
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Member         1985           1986         1987
States     en t en %       en t en %     en t en %
Benelux     475     0,39      35    0,05    52 0 , 07
Denmark        7    0,01       5    0,01    45 0,06
Germany     529     0,44       0    0       27 0,04
Spain       926     0,77    2933    4,11  3173 4, 48
Greece     4573     3,80   14317   20,06 10962 15,47
France     6853     5,69    1734    2,43  1714 2,42
Ireland        0    0          0    0         0  0
Italy     16980    14,11    5218    7,31  5202 7,34
Portugal  89675    74 , 52 46808   65,58 49572 69,93
United       325    0,27     322    0,45   134 0,19
Kingdom
         120343            71372         70881
          Cn the basis of this information and estimated needs of Member
          States , the following initial percentages can be allocated to
          Member States :
           Benelux                           0,21
           Denmark                           0,02
           Germany                           0,21
           Spain                             4,07
           Greece                            9,98
           France                            3,92
           Ireland                           0,01
           Italy                            10,43
           Portugal                         70,85
           United Kingdom                    0,30
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                                         COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No                     /88
                                                      of
               opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for certain cod
               and fish of the species Boreogadus saida, dried , salted or in brine (1989)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
                                                                               Member States             1985        1986        1987
                                                                     Benelux                             0,39        0,05         0,07
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community , and in particular Article 113                   Denmark                             0,01        0,01         0,06
thereof,                                                             Germany                              0,44       0            0,04
                                                                     Greece                               3,80       4,11         4,48
                                                                     Spain                                0,77      20,06        15,47
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,                  France                               5.69        2 / 43       2,42
                                                                     Ireland                              0           0
                                                                     Italy                              14,11         7,31         ?, 34
Whereas the Community has undertaken to open an annual               Portugal                           74,52       65,58        69,93
duty free Community tariff quota at zero duty for 25 000             United Kingdom                       0,27        0,45         0,19
tonnes of cod of the species Gadus morhua and Gadus ogac,
and fish of the species Boreogadus saida, dried , salted or in
brine , whole , headless or in pieces ; whereas therefore , the
tariff quota in question should be opened on 1 January 1989
and allocated among the Member States ;
                                                                     Whereas , in view of these factors and of market forecasts for
                                                                     this product for 1989          initial percentage shares in the
                                                                     quota volume can be expressed approximately as follows:
                                                                             Benelux                                      0,21
                                                                             Denmark
                                                                                                                          0,02
                                                                             Germany                                      0,21
                                                                             Greece                                       4,07
                                                                             Spain                                        9,98
                                                                             France                                       3,92
                                                                             Ireland                                      0,01
                                                                             Italy                                      10,43
                                                                             Portugal                                   70,85
                                                                             United Kingdom                               0,30
                                                                    Whereas to allow for possible imports trends for these fish ,
Whereas equal and continuous access to the quota should be
                                                                    the quota volume should be divided into two parts; the first
ensured for all Community importers and the tariff quota             being allocated among the Member States and the second
rate should be applied consistently to all imports until the         held as a reserve to cover any subsequent requirements of
quota is used up ; whereas, in the light of these principles ,       Member States which have used up their initial share ;
allocation of the tariff quota among the Member States               whereas to afford importers some degree of certainty , the
would seem to preserve the Community nature of the quota;            first part of the tariff quota should be set at a high level ,
whereas in order to correspond as closely as possible to the         which in this case could be 60% of the quota volume ;
actual development of the market, the allocation should
reflect the requirements of the Member States based on
statistics of imports from third countries during a                  Whereas initial shares may be used up at different rates;
representative reference period and to the economic outlook         whereas in order to avoid disruption of supplies on this
for the tariff year in question ;                                    account , it should be provided that any Member State which
                                                                     has almost used up its initial share should draw an additional
                                                                     share from the reserve; whereas each time its additional share
Whereas , during the last three years for which complete             is almost used up a Member State should draw a further share
statistics are available , imports into each of the Member           and so on as many times as the reserve allows ; whereas the
States represented the following percentages of total imports        initial and additional shares should be valid until the end of
of the product in question from third countries which do not         the quota period ; whereas this form of administration
benefit from an equivalent preferential tariff measure:              requires close collaboration between the Member States and
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 the commission and the Commission must be able to keep                      Union , any measure concerti ng the adiunustta ton of the
  account of quota utilization rates and ts.'onr, ihe Member                 shares allocated to that economic union may Le ca : ltd Oui     out
 States accordingly ;                                                         by any one of its memoers ,
 Where as if at a given date in the quota period a considerable
 quantity c > a Member State’s intia! share remains unused , it is            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 essential that such State should return a significant
 proportion of ibis to the reserve in order to prevent part of the
 Community tariff quota from remaining unused in one
                                                                                                         Article 1
 Member State while it could be used in others ;
                                                                             From 1 January to 31 December 1989, the customs duty
 Whereas since the Kingdom of Belgium , the Kingdom of the                   applicable to imports of the following products shall be
 Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are united                    suspended at the level and within the limit of a Community
 within and jointly represented by the Benelux Economic                      tariff quota as shown herewith :
      Order No            CN code                                  Description                           Amounr of quota       Rate of duty
                                                                                                             ( tonnes )             (% >
09.0007               ex 0305 51 10         Cod of the species Gadus morhua, and Gadus ogac,
                      ex 0305 51 90         and fish of the species Boreogadus satda, dried , salted
                         0305 59 11         or in brine , whole, headless or in pieces                       25 000                  0
                         0305 59 19
                      ex 0305 62 00
                         0305 69 10
Within the limit of this tariff quota , the Kingdom of Spain                 forthwith , by notifying the Commission , and to the extent
and the Portuguese Republic shall apply customs duties                       that the reserve so permits, draw a second share equal to
calculated in accordance with the relevant provisions laid                   10% of its initial share , rounded up as necessary to the next
down by the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal .                         whole number .
                            Article 2                                        2 ..
                                                                             2      If a Member State , after exhausting its initial share , has
                                                                             used 90% or more of its second share as well , it shall
11 ..  The Community tariff quota referred to in Article 1
shall be divided into two instalments .
                                                                             forthwith , as provided in paragraph 1 , draw a third share
                                                                             equal to 5 % of the initial share , rounded up as necessary to
2 ..
2      A first instalment of 15 OOOtonnes shall be allocated                 the next whole number .
among the Member States; the shares which , subject to
Articles , shall be valid until December 1989 shall be as
follows:
                                                                             3 ..
                                                                             3      If a Member State , after exhausting its second share ,
                                                                             has used 90 % or more of its third share , it shall , as provided
                                                    (tonnes)                 in paragraph 1 , draw a fourth share equal to the third .
        Benelux                                          32
        Denmark                                           3
                                                                             This process shall apply until the reserve is used up .
        Germany                                          32
        Greece                                         611
        Spain                                     1 497                      4 ..
                                                                             4      By way of derogation from paragraphs 1 , 2 and 3 , a
        France                                         587                   Member State may draw shares smaller than those specified
        Ireland                                           2                  in the said paragraphs if there are grounds for believing that
        Italy                                     1 565                      those specified might not be used in full . Any Member State
        Portugal                                10 626                       applying this paragraph shall inform the Commission of its
        United Kingdom                                  45                   grounds for so doing .
3.     The second instalment of lOOOOtonnes shall constitute
the reserve .
                            Article 3                                                                    Article 4
1.     If a Member State has used 90 % or more of its initial
share as fixed in Article 2 ( 2), or of that share minus any                 Additional shares drawn pursuant to Article 3 shall be valid
portion returned to the reserve pursuant to Article 5 , it shall            until 31 December 1989 .
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                           Article 5                               are opened in such a way that imports may be charged
                                                                   without interruption against their accumulated shares of the
 By 1 November 1989, at the latest , Member States must            Community quota .
return to the reserve the unused portion of their initial share
which , on 15 October 1989, is in excess of 20 % of the initial    2
                                                                   2..    The Member States shall ensure that importers of the
volume . They may return a greater portion if there are            product in question have free access to the shares allocated to
grounds for believing that it may not be used in full .            them .
By 1 November 1989, at the latest , Member States must
                                                                   3 ..
                                                                   3      The Member States shall charge imports of the product
notify the Commission of the total quantities of the product
                                                                   in question against their shares as and when the product is
in question imported up to and including 15 October 198 9          entered with the customs authorities for free circulation .
and charged against the Community quota and of any
portion of their initial shares returned to the reserve .
                                                                   4 ..
                                                                   4      The extent to which a Member State has used up its
                                                                   share shall be determined on the basis of imports charged in
                                                                   accordance with paragraph 3 .
                           Article 6
The Commission shall keep an account of the shares opened
by the Member States pursuant to Articles 2 and 3 and shall                                   Article 8
inform each State as soon as the information reaches it of the
extent to which the reserve has been used up .
                                                                   At the request of the Commission , the Member States shall
                                                                   inform it of imports actually charged against their shares .
It shall inform the Member States , not later than 5 November
1989, of the amount still in reserve following any return of
shares pursuant to Article 5 .
                                                                                              Article 9
It shall ensure that the drawing which exhausts the reserve
does not exceed the balance available , and to this end shall
notify the amount of that balance to the Member State              The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
making the last drawing .                                          closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied with .
                           Article 7
                                                                                             Article 10
1.     The Member States shall take all appropriate measures
to ensure that additional shares drawn pursuant to Article 3       This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 198?.
                  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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X «       Ligne budgetaire concernée : Ciiap . 12 art . 120
2.        Base juridique : art . 113 du traité
3.        Intitulé de la mesure tarifaire : Proposition de règlement du
          Conseil portant ouverture , répartition et mode de gestion d' un
          contingent tarifaire communautaire pour certaines morues et
          poissons de l' es£:>èce Boreogadus saida , séchés , salés ou en saumure .
4.        Objectif : Respecter les engagements contractés par la Carmunauté
          au GATT .
5.        Mode de calcul :
          - Volune du contingent : 25 000 tonnes
          - Droit à appliquer : 0 %
          - Droit normal : 13 %
6.        Perte de recettes :
          Valeur d 1 une tonne : 4 046 , 50 écus
          Valeur totale : 101 162 500 écus
          Perte-- de recettes ( 13 % ) : 13 151 125 écus
          Par rapport à 1988 : augmentation des pertes de
                                  13 151 125 écus - 12 424 262 écus -
                                             726 863 écus
                                                                                    ?