CELEX: 31987R1862
Language: en
Date: 1987-06-25 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1862/87 of 25 June 1987 opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for certain polyester films falling within subheading ex 39.01 C III a) of the Common Customs Tariff

1 . 7 . 87                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                       No L 176 / 3
                                         COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC ) No 1862 / 87
                                                            of 25 June 1987
                  opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for
                  certain polyester films falling within subheading ex 39.01 C III a) of the Common Customs
                                                                   Tariff
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                                  product concerned into all Member States until the quota
                                                                           has been used up ; whereas , however , since the quota is to
                                                                           cover requirements which cannot be determined with
                                                                           sufficient accuracy, it seems possible to avoid allocating it
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                      among the Member States , without prejudice to the
Economic Community , and in particular Article 28                          drawing against the quota volume of such quantities as
thereof,                                                                   they may need , under conditions and according to a
                                                                           procedure to the specified ; whereas this method of
                                                                           management requires close cooperation between the
Whereas the production of polyester film for use in the                    Member States and the Commission and the latter must in
manufacture of magnetic video tapes is currently                           particular be able to monitor the rate at which the quota is
insufficient in the Community to meet the requirements of                  used up and inform the Member States thereof;
the user industries in the Community ; whereas ,
consequently Community supplies of products of this type                   Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of
currently depend to a considerable extent on imports from                  the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are
third countries ; whereas it is in the Community's interest to             united within and jointly represented by the Benelux
suspend partially the Common Customs Tariff duty for the                   Economic Union , all transactions concerning the
product in question , within the Community tariff quota , of               administration of shares allocated to that economic union
an appropriate volume for a relatively limited period;                     may be carried out by ahy one of its members,
whereas, in order not to call into question the development
prospects of this production in the Community while
ensuring an adequate supply to satisfy user industries , it is
advisable to limit the benefits of the tariff quota to                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
products used for the manufacture of magnetic video tapes,
to open this quota free of duty from 1 July to 31 December
1987 and to fix the volume at 500 tonnes ;
                                                                                                      Article 1
Whereas it is necessary , in particular , to ensure to all                  1 . From 1 July to 31 December 1987 the common
 Community importers equal and uninterrupted access to                     customs duty applicable on import of the products
the abovementioned quota and uninterrupted application                     mentioned below shall be suspended at the level and within
of the rates laid down for that quota to all imports of the                the limit of the Community tariff quota indicated :
         Order               CCT
                                                                                                               Quota            Quota
                                                                      Description                             volume             duty
          No              heading No                                                                         ( tonnes )          (% )
       09.2779        ex 39.01 C III a )     Polyester film , uncoated , having a thickness of not
                                             more than 12 micrometres with modulus values of not
                                             less than 820 and not more than 915 kilograms per
                                             square millimeter (machine direction ) and not less than
                                             380 and not more than 460 kilograms per square metre
                                             ( transverse direction ) for use in the manufacture of
                                             magnetic video tapes                                               500               0
Within the limit of this tariff quota , the Kingdom of Spain               2 . If an importer notifies an imminent importation of the
and the Portuguese Republic shall apply customs duties                     product in question in a Member State and requests the
 calculated in accordance with the relevant provisions laid                benefit of the quota , the Member State concerned shall
 down by the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal .                      inform     the   Commission       and        draw an     amount
                                                                           corresponding to these requirements to the extent that the
                                                                           available balance of the reserve permits this .
Control of the use of the product for the particular purpose
laid down shall be carried out by applying the relevant                    3 . The shares drawn pursuant to paragraph 2 shall be
Community provisions.                                                      valid until the end of the quota period .
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                           Article 2                                                        Article 3
1 . Member States shall take all appropriate measures to          At the request of the Commission , Member States shall
ensure that their drawings pursuant to Article 1 ( 2 ) are        inform it of imports actually charged against the quota .
carried out in such a way that imports may be charged
without interruption against their accumulated shares of
the Community quota .
                                                                                            Article 4
2 . Each Member State shall ensure that importers of the
said goods have access to the quota so long as the residual       The Member States and the Commission shall collaborate
balance of the quota volume allows this .
                                                                  closely in order to ensure that this Regulation is complied
                                                                  with .
3 . Member States shall charge imports of the said goods
against their drawings as and when the goods are entered
for free circulation .
4 . The extent to which the quota has been used up shall                                    Article 5
be determined on the basis of the imports charged in
accordance with paragraph 3 .                                     This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1987 .
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States .
                  Done at Luxembourg , 25 June 1987 .
                                                                                       For the Council
                                                                                        The President
                                                                                        H. DE CROO