CELEX: 51995PC0554
Language: en
Date: 1995-11-15
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) temporarily suspending totally or partially the autonomous duties of the Common Customs Tariff for certain fishery products (1996)

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                         Brussels, 15.11.1995
                                                         COM(95) 554 final
                                          Proposal for a
                              COUNCIL REGULATION (EC)
temporarily suspending totally or partially the autonomous duties of the Common Customs Tariflf
                               for certainfisheryproducts (1996)
                                (presented by the Commission)
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak---                             EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1. In the third quarter of this year, the Commission, with the assistance of the Economic Tariff
   Questions Group, examined all requests, submitted by Member States, for temporary
   suspension of common customs tariff duties, including the requests for prolongation of the
   suspensions currently in force.
   The attached proposal concerns a number of fishery products. The proposals for
   Regulations temporarily suspending the autonomous common customs tariff duties on
   industrial products are also in preparation.
   Requests for suspension relating to the above products were examined in the light of the
   criteria defined in the Commission communication to the Council and the Member States,
   concerning autonomous tariff suspensions (cf. O.J. No. C 235 of 13.9.89, p. 2).
   As a result of this examination, the Commission deems it justifiable to suspend the duty on
   those products listed in the Annex to the attached draft Regulation.
4. As stated in Article 1 of the aforementioned proposal for a Regulation, the proposed period
    of validity is 12 months.
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 ---pagebreak---                                                       Proposal for a
                                   COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No                        195
                                                    of               1995
                  temporarily suspending totally or partially the autonomous duties of the
                          Common Customs Tariff for certain fishery products (1996)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                                              Article 1
European Community, and in particular Article
28 thereof,                                                         1. From 1 January to 31 December 1996, the
                                                                   autonomous duties of the Common Customs
Having regard to the proposal                 from      the        Tariff applicable to the products listed in the
Commission,                                                        Annex shall be suspended at the level indicated in
                                                                   respect of each of them.
Whereas Community supplies for certain fishery
products currently depend on imports from third                    2. Imports of the products in question shall not be
countries; whereas it is in the Community's                        covered by the suspensions referred to in
interest to suspend totally or partially the customs               paragraph 1 unless the free-at-frontier price,
duties for the products in question; whereas, in                   which is determined by the Member States in
order not to jeopardize the development prospects                  accordance with Article 22 of Council Regulation
of production of competitive products in the                        (EEC) No 3759/92 of 17 December 1992 on the
Community and to ensure an adequate supply to                       common organization of the market in fishery and
satisfy user industries, it is advisable to limit these             aquaculture products (*), is at least equal to the
suspen-sion measures to a period 1 January to 31                    reference price fixed, or to be fixed, by the
December 1996;                                                      Community for the products under consideration
                                                                    or the categories of the products concerned.
Whereas the decision for the suspension of these
autonomous duties should be taken by the
Community,                                                                                Article 2
                                                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 1
                                                                    January 1996.
        This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
        Done at            ,              1995.
                                                                    For the Council
                                                                    The President
 C1) OJ No L 388, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1891/93 (OJ No L 172,15. 7. 1993, p.
     1.
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 ---pagebreak---    CN code     TARIC Description of goods                                                    Autonoaous duties (X)
 !    93626529       Dogfish of the spocios Squalus      acanlhias,     fresh, chiliad or
      93837526       frozen
   0x83841698  168
   6x63640867  «31
2  0x63026998  <36   Sturgeons, fresh, chilled or frozen, for processing            (s) (b)
   6*03037996  138
3  6x83826999  •48   Luap fish (Cyclopterus     luapus)  aith roe, fresh or chilled,
                     for processing (a)
 4 ex83826999  158   Red Snapper (.Luljanua purpureua),       fresh, chilled or frozen,
   ex83637996  *48   for processing (a) (c)
 5 ex83827686  «11   Hard fish roes, freBh, chilled or frozen
   6x63827880  «91
 6  ex63831(   116   Pacific salaon (Oncorhynchus spp.),         frozen and headless,
                     for the processing industry for aanufacture into pastes or
                     spreads (a)
 8  ex83642857  «34  Fillets and aeat of hake of the genus Harluccius,           excluding
    ex63642857  *44   the species Harluccius aerluccius, Harluccius           bilinearis
    ex63849847  (36  and HerLuccius hubbsi, in the fora of industrial blocks,
                      froren, for processing (a) (b)                                           16
 9  6x83642685  (18   Fillets and «eat of Alaska pollack (Tharagra            chalcograaaa),
    6x83649661  (18   in the fora of industrial blocks, frozen, for processing (a)
                      (b)                                                                       8.5
19  ex63652866  (11   Hard fish roes, sailed or in brine
    ex6365266e  (19
11  ex83861999  (16   Krill for processing     (a)
    ex83862998  (16
12  exl6G41198  (26   Pacific salaon (Oncorhynchus spp.),         for the processing
    exl6842818  (28   industry for aanufacture into pastes or spreads (a)
13  8x16843098  (18   Hard fish roes, «ashed, cleaned of adherent orgens and siaply
                      salted or in brine, for processing (a)
14  6x16651868  (11   Crabs of the species 'King*         (Paralithodas
    exl665109e  (19   cBachalicus), 'Hanasaki' (.Paralithodas bravipas),
                       'Kegani' (Eriaacrus isanbecki), 'Queen' and
                       'Snox' (Chionoeceies spp.), 'Red* (Gar yon
                      quinquadens), 'Rough atone* (Heolilhodas           asparriaus),
                      Lilhodes anlarclica,     'Hud* (.Scylla sarrala),
                       'Blue' (Portunus spp.),    siaply boiled in water and
                      shelled, ahether or not frozen, in ieaediate packings of a net
                      content of 2kg or «ore
                                                                                                                   <t
 ---pagebreak--- (a) Control of the use for this special purpose shall be carried out pursuant to
    the relevant Coaaunity provisions.
(b) The suspension shall apply to fish intended to undergo any operation unless
    they are intended to undergo exclusively one or aore of the following
    operations:
    - cleaning, gutting, tailing, heading,
    - cutting (excluding filleting or cutting of frozen blocks),
    - saapling, sorting,
    - labelling,
    - pecking,
    - chilling,
    - freezing,
    - deep freezing,
    - thaaing, separation.
    The suspension is not allowed for products intended, in eddilion, to undergo
    treataent (or operations) qualifying for suspension «here such treataent (or
    operations) is (are) carried out at retail or catering level. The suspension
    of custoas duties shell apply only to fish intended for huaan consumption.
(c) Hoaever, the suspension is net allowed where processing is carried out by
    reteil or catering endartakings.
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 ---pagebreak---                                    FINANCIAL RECORD
1. Budget heading involved : Chap. 12 Art. 120
2. Title of operation : Proposal for a Council Regulation, temporarily suspending totally or
   partially the autonomous duties of the Common Customs Tariff for certainfisheryproducts
   (1996).
3. Legal basis : Art. 28 of the EC Treaty
4. Objective of operation : Suspension of CCT duties on the above-mentioned products
5. Cost of the measure:
          to be borne by the EC budget (in uncollected customs duties - UCD):
   The cost is difficult to estimate in advance, mainly because of the lack of recent Community
   statistics coupled with the arrival of the three new Member States for whom full economic
   data are not available.
   On the basis of :
          latest available Eurostat statistics (1993)
          Member States' declarations on use of suspensions
          the period of validity of the Regulation (1.1.96 / 31.12.96)
          the presence of three new Member States
          the extension of the Regulation in identical form
   the best estimate of UCD for 1996 would be 39 MECU. This measure, which would apply
    for a year, would account for an equivalent amount.
    Estimated cost of this measure (1.1.96 / 31.12.96V
    39 000 000 ECU
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