CELEX: 51987PC0704
Language: en
Date: 1987-12-23
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) suspending certain customs duties applicable by the Community of Ten to imports from Spain and Portugal (submitted by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                             COM(87 ) 704 final
                                             Brussels , 23 December 1987
                                 Proposal for a
                           COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
    suspending certain customs duties applicable by the Community of Ten
                     to imports from Spain and Portugal
                        ( submitted by the Commission )
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                               Explanatory Memorandum
1 . Articles 31 and 190 of the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal lay down
    the procedures for dismantling the customs duties applicable by the
    Community of Ten to imports from Spain and Portugal of products not listed
    in Annex II to the Treaty .
2 . Application of those provisions leads in certain cases to such low levels
    of customs duties that the ratio between customs receipts and the
    administrative expenses involved in collecting them does not justify their
    collection .
    The following examples illustrate this situation :
                                  I Customs duties applicable by the Community
                                  I of Ten to imports from Spain
             1987 CCT No          I
                                  I 1988 I 1989 I 1990 1991 1992 1993
                                  I         I        I
       25.11 B                     I 0.2 I 0.1 1 0.1           0      0      0
       ( Barium carbonate )       I         I        1
                                   II       I        I
       70.01 B II                 I     0.6 I    0.5 1   0.3   0.2    0.1    0
       ( Glass in the mass )        I       I        1
                                            I
                                  I         I
       85.07 B                      I   1    I   0.7 1   0.5   0.3    0.1
       ( Electric hair clippers ) I         I        1
                                    I       I        1
3 . In order to remedy this situation ,        and in view of the fact that the non¬
    collection of customs duties which have fallen to the level of 1 % or less
    does not represent an economic threat to the Community of Ten , this
    proposal for a Regulation would , on the basis of the second paragraph of
    Article 33 and the second paragraph of Article 192 of the Act of Accession
    of Spain and Portugal , suspend totally the customs duties applicable by the
     Community of Ten to imports from Spain and Portugal pursuant to that Act of
    Accession as soon as they fall to the level of IX .
     Since Articles 75(4 ), 243(4 ) and 268(4) contain spécifie provisions
     concerning the suspension of customs duties on agricultural products
     excluding fisheries products ( management committee procedures ), this
    proposal concerns only industrial products and fisheries products .
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                              Proposal for a
                         COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
suspending certain customs duties applicable by the Community of Ten
                    to imports from Spain and Portugal
  THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Caimrity,
  Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal , and in particular
  Articles 33 and 192 thereof ,
  Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
  Whereas it has been found that during the transitional period laid down by the
  Act of Accession certain customs duties applicable by the Community of Ten to
  imports from Spain and Portugal reach a level such that their collection
  becomes uneconomic ; whereas their collection should therefore be suspended
  totally as soon as their level falls to 1% or less , -
  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                        Article 1
  1 . The collection of customs duties applicable in the Community of Ten
       pursuant to the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal to products imported
       from Spain and Portugal which are not listed in Annex II to the EEC Treaty
       or are covered by Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 3796/81 of 29.. December 1981
       on the common organization of the market in fishery products1 shall be sus¬
       pended totally as soon as those duties fall to the level of 1% or less .
  2 . Paragraph 1 shall apply mutatis mutandi s to the ad valorem equivalent of
       customs duties which are not ad valorem duties .
   1
     OJ No L 379, 31.12.1981 , p. 1
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                                    Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
It shall apply from 1 January 1988 .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in
all Member States .
Done at Brussels ,
                                                      For the Council
                                                      The President
 ---pagebreak---                  CQMPE1 I. fTUENFSS AND  EMPI OVMENT  IMPACT STAT CME H T
  I.   Uihat is Irlie main reason for i ntroduci no the measure ?
       Il s' agit d' une mesure qui vise à simplifier certaines tâches des
       àtlnri ni s trati ons douani ères .
 II .  Features of the business in question
       11   n' y aura pas d' effet négatif pour les PME .
III .  What obligations does this measure i moose directly on businesses ?
       Aucune .     -
 Id .  Uihat indirect obl igations are national . regional or local authorities
       likely to impose on businesses ?
        Aucune .
  U.    Are they anv special        provisions   in respect of SMF 's ? Please specify
        Mon .
  Ut .  Uihat is the likely effect on         :
        a)    the    competitiveness of    business ?
        b > on employment ?
        il n' y aura pas d' effet .
  UH    Nave thè rei evant representati ve organi sations ueen consu I ted '<
        Mon .