CELEX: 31973R0987
Language: en
Date: 1973-04-09 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 987/73 of the Council of 9 April 1973 increasing the amount of the Community tariff quota for newsprint falling within subheading 48.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff for 1972

13 . 4. 73                         Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 99/5
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 987/73 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                   of 9 April 1973
             increasing the amount of the Community tariff quota for newsprint falling
                    within subheading 48.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff for 1972
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                   imported corresponding amounts of newsprint for
COMMUNITIES,                                                  which they paid customs duties ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         Whereas it therefore seems justifiable to increase, with
Economic Community ;                                          retroactive effect, the 1972 Community tariff quota for
                                                              newsprint by an amount equivalent to that imported
Whereas the Council, in Regulation (EEC) No                   in these exceptional circumstances ;
2776/71 ( 1) and Regulation (EEC) No 2742/72 (2),
opened and allocated among the Member States a
Community tariff quota for 1972 of a total of                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
1 161 000 metric tons of newsprint falling within
subheading 48 01 A of the Common Customs Tariff ;                                      Article 1
Whereas, on the basis of the supply situation of the          The quota amount fixed in Article 1 of Regulation
Community as regards newsprint, zero-duty Commu­              (EEC) No 2776/71 and increased pursuant to Article 1
nity tariff quotas are opened where it is established         of Regulation (EEC) No 2742/72 shall be raised from
that all supply possibilities on the internal market           1 161 000 metric tons to 1 164 500 metric tons .
have been exhausted ; whereas the Council considered
it could meet the existing situation at the time it                                    Article 2
decided to increase the quota initially provided for          The quota-shares allocated to the Member States in
1972 by 20 000 metric tons ;                                  Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 2776/71 and
Whereas, however, it became apparent that during the          amended pursuant to Article 2 of Regulation (EEC)
last few days of 1972 the supply requirements from            No ' 2742/72 shall be amended as follows :
outside the Community exceeded by an appreciable                      Benelux              281 500 metric tons
amount the previous estimates, in particular in the
case of the Benelux countries ; whereas importers were                                 Article 3
unable to establish the exact size of the increase of the
quota, decided on 19 December 1972 and published              This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
only on 28 December 1972, before the end of the               following its publication in the Official Journal of
period to which the quota applied, and therefore               the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Luxembourg, 9 April 1973.
                                                                          For the Council
                                                                            The President
                                                                             A. LAVENS
(1) OJ No L 287, 30. 12. 1971 , p. 13.
(2) OJ No L 291 , 28. 12. 1972, p. 143.