CELEX: 51978PC0415
Language: en
Date: 1978-09-08
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION amending Decision 77/186/EEC on the exporting of crude oil and petroleum products from one Member State to another in the event of supply difficulties (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                  COM(78)415 final
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                \                Proposal for a
                                COUNCIL DECISION
               amending Decision 77 / 186 / EEC on the exporting of
               crude oil and petroleum products from one Member
               State to another in the event of supply difficulties
                   ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
C0M(78 ) 415 final
 ---pagebreak---                            EXPLANATORY   MEMORANDUM
 1.   The     discussions which the Commission departments have held with the
    Member States concerning the formulation of detailed rules for the
    application of the Council Decision have brought to light a '
    problem      in the text of the Council Decision ; this must be rectified at
    the earliest opportunity       ,   '       '             *              '
     i.e. it must be possible to revoke export licences which have be6n issued
    and which can haveone month 's validity . The absence of such a procedure from
    the text of the Decision may impede the operation of the Community-wide
    emergency machinery because the exporting Member
    States may apply the national safeguard clause ( art . 4 of the Decision )
    sooner than necessary . In order to avoid this situation, the Commission
    has decided to introduce a proposal of amendment to the Council .
2 . The present proposal aims to incorporate in the legal machinery set up by
    the Decision a Community procedure by which Member States may , under certain
    circumstances , revoke export licences which have been issued . This procedure
    is based on two main principles :
    - an export licence may be revoked solely by Commission decision
       subject to revocation or modification by the Council ^ which precludes
       unilateral revocation by Member States ; and               .      '
    - revocation is restricted to only those cases of abuse liable to compro­
       mise the security of suppt?»of one or mo.re Member States .
 ---pagebreak---                                      Proposal for a
                                    COUNCIL DECISION
               amending Decision 77 / 186 / EEC on the exporting of crude oil
               and petroleum products from one Member State to another in
               the event of supply difficulties
     THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
     Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community / and in
    particular Article 103(4 ) thereof :
    Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
     Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament .
    Whereas Article 1 of Council Decision 77 / 186 / EEC of 14 February 1977 on the ex­
    porting of crude oil and petroleum products from one Member State to another in
    the event of supply difficulties ^ provides that export licences shall be granted
    for a minimum period of 15 working days and a maximum of one month ;
    Whereas in certain cases the revocation of export licences may be authorized to
    prevent any abuse prejudicial to the supply of one or more Member States , and
    whereas the aforementioned Decision should be amended accordingly ,
    HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                                        Article 1
    Decision 77 / 186 / EEC is hereby amended as follows :
1 . The second subparagraph of      Articte 1(1 ) is amended to read as follows :
    " Licences shall be granted     without delay and free of administrative charges
    in respect of any quantity      requested , for a minimum of 15 working days and a
    maximum of one month , save     as otherwise provided in Article 4a ."
2 . An Article 4a worded as follows is inserted after Article 4 :       " The Commission
    may , at the request of a Member State and after consulting the group provided
    for in Directive 73 / 238 / EEC , authorize that Member State to revoke or shorten
    the period of validity of export licences issued to the extent necessary to          ,
    prevent any abuse which might compromise the security of supply of the Member
    State concerned .
  0J No L 61 , 5.3.1977 , p. 23
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The Council shall , at the request of a Member State , meet within 48 hours to
amend or revoke , by a qualified majority , the Decision of the Commission ."
                                - Arti ele 2
This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
Done at Brussels ,
                                             For the Council