CELEX: 51983PC0208
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Date: 1983-04-18
Title: Draft of COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) temporarily suspending the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on a number of agricultural products (Submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                                  COM(83) 208 f i n a l .
                                                                  B r u s s e l s , 18 A p r i l 1983
                                                     Draft of
                                          COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
         t e m p o r a r i l y suspending   t h e autonomous          Common Customs T a r i f f      duties
                                   on a number o f a g r i c u l t u r a l       products
                               (Submitted  t o t h e C o u n c i l by t h e C o m m i s s i o n )
COM(83) 208 f i n a l .
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 1. The s u b j e c t o f t h e f o l l o w i n g         draft     regulation          i s t h e temporary      suspension
     of   d u t i e s i n t h e Common Customs T a r i f f                f o r a number o f a g r i c u l t u r a l     items,
     as    r e q u e s t e d by t h e Member S t a t e .
     It    is partly          a p r o l o n g a t i o n a n d p a r t l y a new m e a s u r e .
2.   I t seems a p p r o p r i a t e t o t h e C o m m i s s i o n t h a t a d u t y             suspension   i s justi­
     fied     f o r t h e goods l i s t e d          i n t h e annex t o t h i s          regulation.
    The     Commission proposes                   a total     suspension          f o r those products        f o r which
    Community p r o d u c t i o n d o e s n o t e x i s t             or i sminimal.              A partial   suspension
    i s proposed            i n c a s e s where t h e Community p r o d u c t i o n c o v e r s o n l y a p a r t
    of    the requirements.                   The r a t e o f t h e p a r t i a l l y      suspended duty       depends
    on t h e e x t e n t o f t h e p o s s i b l e          Community s u p p l y t o t h e Community u s e r s .
    The     Commission i s a l s o              looking      for the right           b a l a n c e between t h e i n t e r e s t s
    of    t h e s u p p l i e r s , u s e r s a n d t h e c o n s u m e r s i n t h e Community.
    It    also takes           i n t o account         t h e need t o p r o t e c t employment.
3. The C o m m i s s i o n p r o p o s e s ,                i n order t o avoid disturbance of the
    Community t r a d e f o r c e r t a i n a g r i c u l t u r a l           p r o d u c t s , t o make t h e t e m p o r a r y
    s u s p e n s i o n o f d u t i e s i n t h e Common Customs T a r i f f                   conditional on the
    observance            of the possible              reference price.
4_  The p r o p o s e d      measures a r e c o n f i n e d t o a f i x e d p e r i o d because o f t h e
    difficulties             of estimating the evolution of the basic                                factors.
5.  F o r a number o f i t e m s              f o r which     t h e Member S t a t e s a l s o        requested    duty
    suspensions             t h e Commission does not propose                      a tariff        measure b e c a u s e
    the necessary              c o n d i t i o n s are not f u l f i l l e d .       T h i s concerns     the following
    items :
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CCT
heading                                           Description
No
ex   03.01      A l b )             S a l m o n , f r o z e n and h e a d l e s s , f o r t h e           processing
                                    industry f o r manufacture into pastes                               or spreads
     03.01      A l b )             Salmon, intended                for    smoking
ex   03.01      B I e)       1      Flaps of p i k e d d o g - f i s h ( S q u a l u s           acanthias), fresh,
                                    c h i I led or f r o z e n
ex   03.01      B I h)       1       Cod (Gadus m o r h u a , B o r e o g a d u s s a i d a , Gadus o g a c ) ,
                                    fresh          or c h i l l e d ,                whole, headless or i n
                                    pieces intended for processing
ex   03.01      B I ij) 1           Saithe (Pollachius v i r e n s ) ,                   f r e s h or    chilled,       intended
                                     for processing
ex   03.01      B I k)              Haddock ( M e l a n o g r a m m u s a e g l e f i n u s ) , f r e s h , c h i l l e d
                                    or f r o z e n , whole, headless or i n p i e c e s , intended
                                     for processing
ex   03.01      B i t )              Hake M e r l u c c i u s s p p ) , f r e s h , c h i l l e d o r f r o z e n , whole,
                                     headless or i n p i e c e s , intended f o r p r o c e s s i n g
ex   03.01       B I I a)            F i l l e t s o f hake ( M e r l u c c i u s s p p ) , f r e s h ,           chilled
    and B I I b) 9                   or f r o z e n , intended f o r p r o c e s s i n g
ex   16.04      B I                  Salmon f o r t h e p r o c e s s i n g          i n d u s t r y f o r manufacture
                                     i n t o pastes or spreads
ex   16.04       C II                S p i c e d and s a l t e d h e r r i n g s , i n i m m e d i a t e p a c k i n g s
                                     o f a net c a p a c i t y o f 10 kg o r more w i t h an a v e r a g e
                                     weight f o r 4 whole h e r r i n g s or 6 h e a d l e s s h e r r i n g s
                                     e x c e e d i n g 1 kg
     02.01       A I I b)            Meat o f b o v i n e a n i m a l s         frozen
ex   24.01       B                   Tobacco r e f u s e f o r the manufacture of r e c o n s t i t u t e d
                                     t o b a c c o f a l l i n g w i t h i n s u b h e a d i n g 24.02 E o r s n u f f
                                     f a l l i n g w i t h i n s u b h e a d i n g 24.02 D
 6.    A t t e n t i o n i.-   drawn t o t h e          fact     that the        C o u n c i l R e s o l u t i o n o f 27.6.191
       simplifyini           the     task       of the     customs a d m i n i s t r a t i o n s        (0J    C 79/74)
       requires the            p u b l i c a t i o n of the a t t a c h e d       Regulation           at     least   s i x weeks
       before        this    entry       into        force.
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                                   COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
              tempor&rily suspending the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on a
                 /'                         number of agricultural products
THE COUNCIL OF T H E EUROPEAN
COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular Article 28
thereof,
Having regard to the draft Regulation submitted by
the Commission,
Whereas production in the Community of the
products specified in this Regulation is currently
inadequate or non-existent; whereas producers thus
cannot meet the needs of user industries in the
Community;
Whereas in certain cases it is in the interest of the
Community to suspend the autonomous Common
 Customs Tariff duties only partially, particularly since
 the goods in question are produced in the Commu­
 nity, and in the other cases to suspend them totally ;
 Whereas, in view of the difficulty of assessing accur­
 ately short-term trends in the economic situation in
 the relevant sectors, suspension measures should be
 taken only temporarily by fixing their period of vali­
 dity by reference to the interests of Community
 production,
  Whereas      Article     21 o f C o u n c i l    Regulation      (EEC)    No 3796/81        ' makes
  provision       f o rthe annual           fixing    of reference       prices f o rc e r t a i n
  products      valid    f o r t h e Community, f o r t h e p u r p o s e o f a v o i d i n g
  disturbance        o f Community           trade;
  Whereas      i t i s therefore           important,      i n order    not t o p r e j u d i c e the
  scope of these         p r o v i s i o n s , t o make t h e g r a n t o f temporary        suspension
  of   Common Customs T a r i f f           duties   f o r the products      which    are subject to
  reference       prices subject            to observance      of those     prices -
  1) OJ No L 3 7 9 , 3 1 . 1 2 . 1 9 8 1 , p . 1.
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     HAS A D O P T E D THIS R E G U L A T I O N :
                             Article 1
 1 . The autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties for
     the products listed in the tables annexed hereto shall
     be suspended at the level indicated against each of
     them.
     These suspensions shall be applicable :
    — from 1 July to 31 December 198 3 for the products
         listed in Table I,
    — from 1 July 1983 to 30 June 198 4 for the products
         listed in Table II.
2.    When a p r o d u c t    h a s b e e n made           subject    to a   fixed    reference
     price,      the concession              o f t h e temporary  suspension of duties             o f t h e Com
    Customs       Tariff     referred          t o i n paragraph  1   shall  be c o n d i t i o n a l  o n obsen
    of    that    price.
                             Article 2
    This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 198 3 .
  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
  States.
  Done at Brussels,
                                                               For the Council
                                                                 The President
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                                                          TABLE I
         CCT                                                                                                  Rate of
        heading                                        Description                                          autonomous
          No                                                                                                 duty (%)
 ex 03.01 B I e) 1   Piked dog-fish (Squaius acanthias), fresh, chilled or frozen, whole, headless
                     or in pieces                                                                                   6
ex  03.02 A I       Salmon, s a l t e d      or i n brine,           whole, headless or
               e)   in pieces                                                                                      4
ex   03.02 A I      Saithe (Pollachius v i r e n s ) , salted or i n brine,
                f)  whole, headless or i n p i e c e s , intended f o r
                    smoking o r d r y i n g (a)                                                                    8
ex  03.02 A I I     F i l l e t s of saithe (Pollachius v i r e n s ) , salted
               d)   or i n b r i n e , i n t e n d e d f o r smoking o r d r y i n g ( a )                         9
ex  03.03 A I       Crawfish        heads,
                                                for    the processing              industryla)
                   (c)                                                                                           10
 ex   08.10 D      Boysenberries,             frozen,        no s u g a r   added                                16.5
ex 15.07 D lb) 2    Purified soya-bean oil in glass bottles. Each bottle holds 10 litres of purified
                    soya-bean oil containing by weight :
                    — a minimum of 8-5 % and a maximum of 12 % of palmitic acid esters,
                   — a minimum of 2-5 % and a maximum of 4-7 % of stearic acid esters,
                   — a minimum of 224 % and a maximum of 29 % of oleic acid esters,
                   — a minimum of 46-6 % and a maximum of 53-7 % of linoleic acid esters,
                   — a minimum of 7-4 % and a maximum of 11 % of linoleic acid esters,
                   and containing :
                   — not more than 5 millimoles of free fatty acid per kg of oil,
                   — phosphalipids corresponding to a nitrogen content not exceeding
                        004 mg per gram of oil.
                   The soya-bean oil covered by this description is destined for the preparation     8 with a maximum
                   of emulsions for injections (a)                                                   duty of 125 ECU per
                                                                                                     100 kg net weight,
                                                                                                     plus a compensatory
                                                                                                     amount       in certain
                                                                                                     conditions
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 CCT                                                                                             Rate o f
hea d i ng                           D e s c r i pt i o n                                        autonomous
No                                                                                               d u t y (%)
             t
 ex  16.05 A   Crabs o f t h e s p e c i e s " K i n g " ( P a r a L i t h o d e s
               camtchatieus), "Hanasaki" (ParaLithodes
               b r e v i p e s ) , "Kegani" (Erimacrus i s e n b e c k i ) ,
               and "Queen" ( C h i o n o c e t e s s p p ) , " R e d "
               ( G e r y o n q u i q u e d e n s ) a n d "Rough s t o n e "
               ( N e o l i t h o d e s a s p e r r i m u s ) and L i t h o d e s
               a n t a r c t i c a , s i m p l y b o i l e d i n water and
               s h e l l e d , whether o r not f r o z e n , i n
               immediate packings o f a net c a p a c i t y
               o f 2 kg o r more                                                                         0
ex 16.05 B        Lobster flesh, cooked, to be used by the processing industry for the manu­
                  facture of butters based on lobster, pâtés and pastes, soups or sauces (a) (c)          10
ex 16.05 B        Shrimps and prawns of the species 'Pandalus borealis' boiled in water and
                  shelled, whether or not frozen or dried, intended for the industrial proces­
                  sing of products falling within heading No 16,05 (a)(c)                                 16
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           CCT                                                                                                           Raw of
          heading                                               Description                                           itutonomoUs
            No                                                                                                          duty (%)
ex 03.01 B i g ) &         Lesser or Greenland halibut       ( Re i n h a r d t i US h i p p o g LOSSO i d e s)
                                                              fresh, chilled or frozen, whole, headless or in
                           pieces                                                                                             0
ex 03.01 B I v)            Sturgeons, fresh, chilled or frozen, whole, headless or in pieces, intended for
                           processing (a) (b)                                                                                 0
ex 03.01 C                  Soft roes, frozen, intended for the manufacture of deoxyribonucleic acid
                            (DNA) (a)                                                                                         0
ex 03.01 C                  Hard fish roes, fresh, chilled or frozen                                                          0
 ex 03.02 C                 Hard fish roes, salted or in brine                                                                0
      07.01 G III           Horse-radish (Cochlearia armoracia) fresh or chilled                                             11
 ex 07.03 E                  Mushrooms, excluding cultivated mushrooms within the meaning of
                             subheading 07.01 Q I, in salted or sulphur water or to which other
                             substances ensuring their temporary preservation have been added, but not
                             specially prepared for immediate consumption                                                      0
 ex 07.04 B                  Mushrooms, excluding cultivated mushrooms within the meaning of
                             subheading 07.01 Q I, dried, dehydrated or evaporated, whole or in identi­
                             fiable slices or pieces, intended for treatment other than simple repacking
                             for retail sale (a) (c)                                                                           0
     ex 07.04 B               Sweet r e d o r g r e e n p e p p e r s , d r i e d , d e h y d r a t e d
                              or e v a p o r a t e d , i n p i e c e s , with a moisture
                                                                                                                 1
                               c o n t e n t n o t e x c e e d i n g 9.5% b u t n o t f u r t h e r
                               prepared                                                                                      10
  ex 07.05 B I                Beans, white, dried, of the species 'Phaseolus vulgaris'                                          0
  ex 08.01 A                  Dates, fresh or dried, intended for the processing industry, other than for
                              the production of alcohol (a)                                                                     0
   ex 08.01 A                  Dates, fresh or dried, for packing for retail sale into immediate packings of a
                               net capacity not exceeding 11 kg (a)                                                              0
   ex 08.09                    Rose-hips, fresh                                                                                 0
        08.10                  Fruit of the species Vaccinium, whether or not cooked, in frozen state, not
   ex B, C and ex D            containing added sugar                                                                            0
   ex 08.10 D                  Rose-hips, whether or not cooked, in frozen state, not containing added
                               sugar                                                                                             0
    ex 08.10 D                 Dates, frozen, in immediate packings of a net capacity of 5 kg or more, not
                               intended for the production of alcohol (a)                                                        0
    ex 09.04 B I               Ground paprika for use in animal feedingstuffs (a)                                                0
    ex 16.04 A I I              Hard fish roes, washed, cleaned of adherrent organs and simply salted or in
                                brine                                                                                            0
    ex 23.07 A            J     Fish or marine mammal solubles                                                                   0
    (a) Checks on their use for this special purpose shall be carried out pursuant to the relevant Community provisions.
     (b) The suspension shall apply to fish intended to undergo any operation unless they are intended to undergo exclusively one or
          more of the following operations :
          — cleaning, gutting, tailing, heading,
          — cutting (excluding filleting or cutting of frozen blocks),
          — sampling, sorting,
          — labelling,
          — packing,
          — chilling,
          — freezing,
          — deep freezing,
          — thawing, separation.
          The suspension is not allowed for products intended, in addition, to undergo treatment (or operations) qualifying for suspen­
          sion where such treatment (or operations) is (are) carried out at retail or catering level. The suspension of customs duties shall
          apply only to fish intended for human consumption.
      (c) However, the suspension is not allowed where the treatment is carried out by retail .-ile or catering undertakings.