CELEX: 51989PC0554
Language: en
Date: 1989-11-06
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) REDUCING THE LEVIES ON CERTAIN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS ORIGINATING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                           COM (89) 554 final
                                                           Brussels, 6  November 1989
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                                         COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
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 ---pagebreak---                          EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
The Commission's Action Plan for coordinated aid to Poland and
Hungary, which was approved by the Council on 3 October, provides for
the extension of the benefits of the Community's Generalised System of
Preferences to Poland and Hungary and for additional agricultural
concessions as a means for improving their access to the Community
market. A proposal to extend the benefits of the Generalised System of
Preferences to Poland and Hungary was transmitted to the Council on
13 October and modified by the proposal transmitted to the Council on
31 October.
In this context, the Commission considers it appropriate to accord to
the beneficiaries of the Generalised System of Preferences certain
concessions for agricultural products In the form of fifty per cent
levy reductions within quantitative limits.
 ---pagebreak---                      Proposal for a Council Kegulatlon
           reducing the levies on certain agricultural products
                    originating in developing countries
THE OOTNCIL OP THE EOBDPEAN (X3MMDNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Cfcxramunity,
and in particular Article 43 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parliament,
Whereas, in view of the situation on agricultural inarkets both inside and
outside the Community and taking account of the Community's interest in
maintaining harmonious relations in agricultural trade with developing
countries, adjustments should be made to certain specific aspects of the
common organizations of the agricultural markets;
Whereas to this end a preference should be granted consisting, according to
the product concerned, either in a reduction of the import levy within the
limits of a fixed quota or in a reduction of the levy without quantitative
restriction;
whereas all interested Community traders should be ensured equal and
continuous access to the said quotas and the levy laid down for the quotas
should be applied consistently to all imports of "tine products in question
into all Member States until the volumes laid down are exhausted; whereas,
to this end, a system for using the Community quotas should be established
based on presentation of a certificate of authenticity certifying the
nature, country of last export and country of origin of the products;
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whereas the procedure for implementing this Regulation should be adopted in
accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 24 of Pegulation (EEC)
No 2759/75 of the Council of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of
the market in pigmeat or the corresponding procedure in the Regulation on
the common organization of the market for any other product concerned,
HAS ADOPTED THIS RBSOLATICN:
                                 Article  2
1. From 1 January to 31 December 1990 a reduced levy shall apply to imports
   into the Community of the products listed in Annex I, as indicated in
   the said Annex.
2. 2ne arrangements laid down in paragraph 1 shall apply only to products
   originating in the countries or territories listed in Annex III to
   Council Regulation (ESC) No         excluding Korea.
                                 Article  2
The procedure for implementing Article 1(1) shall be adopted in accordance
with the procedure laid down in Article 24 of Regulation (EEC) No 2769/75
or the corresponding Articles of the Regulation on the common organization
of the market for any other product concerned, with regard in particular
to:
(a)     provisions concerning the certification of the nature, country of
        last export and country of origin of the products;
(b)     provisions enabling the certification referred to in point (a) to
        be verified.
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                                 Article S
Imports subject to a reduced levy under other Community preferential
arrangements shall not be charged against the amounts listed in Annex I.
                                 Article 4
If the Commission discovers that products covered by the arrangements laid
down in Article 1 are being imported into the Community in such quantities
or at such prices that they cause or threaten to cause serious injury to
Community producers of like or directly competing products, the levies
applied in the Community may be partly or completely re-established for the
products concerned with regard to the countries or territories causing the
injury. Such a measure' may also be taken in the case of serious injury or
the threat of serious injury to a region of the Community.
                                 Article 5
1. In order to apply Artiole 4, the Commission may decide, by adopting a
   regulation, to re-establish the normal levy for a given period.
2. Should a Member State ask the Commission to take such action, the
   Commission shall take a decision within ten working days of receipt of
   the request and shall inform the Member States of its decision.
3. Any Member State may refer to the Council the measure taken by the
   Commission within ten working days following the day on which it was
   informed thereof. Such referral shall not have the effect of suspending
   the measure. The Council shall meet forthwith. It may, acting by a
   qualified majority, amend or cancel the measure in question.
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                                 Article 6
Articles 4 aid 5 shall not prejudice the application of the safeguard
clauses adopted pursuant to Article 43 of the Treaty within the framework
of the common agricultural policy or pursuant to Article 113 of the Treaty
within the framework of the common commercial policy.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in
all Member States.
 ---pagebreak---    Serial         CN code                       Description                      Rate    Volume of
   Number                                                                       of levy fixed amount
                                                                                         (tonnes)
    (1)              (2)                            (3)                           (4)       (5)
50.0001         Q2.02-C6*       Ducks, pluciced and drawn, known as "63% ducks" 50* (L)   3000
50.0002         02.02-14*       Geese, plucked and drawn                        50% (L)  25 000
                02.02-51* •     75% geese
               02.02-71*        cuts.... legs... .paletots
               02.02-81*
               02.02-87* ,
50.0003        0203 29 13       Frozen loins and cuts thereof of domestic swine 50% (L)   4000
50.0004        02.06-21*        Hans, bacons and parts...                       50% (L)   2 000
               02.06-27*        Loins and parts...
               02.06-29*        Bellies and parts...
50.0003         16.01-92*       Sausages, dry or for spreading                  50% (L)   4 000
50.0006         16.01-98*       Sausages, cooked, other than IIver              50% (L)   1 500
50.0006        16.02-39*        PI great preparations                           50% CL)   6800
52.1585        1106 13 00       Potato starch                                   50% (L) no limit
* NIMEXE codes; to be convert*id Into CN codes by DG XXI
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