CELEX: 51979PC0489
Language: en
Date: 1979-09-20
Title: DRAFT FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC), ON THE OPENING, ALLOCATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF A COMMUNITY TARIFF QUOTA FOR DRIED GRAPES IN IMMEDIATE CONTAINERS OF A NET CAPACITY OF 15 KILOGRAMS OR LESS, FALLING WITHIN SUBHEADING 08.04 B 1 OF THE COMMON CUSTOMS TARIFF (1980) (presented by the Commission to the Council)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                            COM(79 ) 489 final
                                            Brussels / 20th September 1979
                      DRAFT FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
             ON THE OPENING , ALLOCATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF A
            COMMUNITY TARIFF QUOTA FOR DIED GRAPES      IN IMMEDIATE
                CONTAINERS OF A NET CAPACITY OF 15 KILOGRAMS
                OR LESS , FALLING WITHIN SUBHEADING 08.04 B 1
                      OF THE COMMON CUSTOMS TARIFF   < 1980 )
                 ( presented by the Commission to the Council )
COM ( 79 ) 489 final
 ---pagebreak---               ' '              EXPLAMA WHY KSKOffANINTM
                                                  «»^ ni i niw»w ii mu <i m m             *
                                        .     \
. £he draft Peculation annoxod hereto concorno tho crrra. onncs
    Oc,r,:,canity tariff quota .to bo opened for 1980 in respect of
    dried grapes           immediate containers of a not capacity of
    15           or Iocs falling within Gubhoading Ho C8.0** B I of tho
    Common Customs Tariff .
  I            ; -                              .
    Provision was " first made for_ such quota a.n the trado cvgrecraont
    concludod betweon the Community and Iran .                                Sinco , however ,
    that acrcemont expired on J>0 November 1973 and was not removed ,.
                    '   •          .                                                        ►
    the Community considered it desirable since 1974 to opon an autonomous
    tariff quota on tho tormo and oonditions fixod for that acroement •
    At tho consultation mooting held in April 1979 ( -the delegations of
    the Member States pronouncod theinoolvos in fa,vour of tho opening for
    tho year 1980of an autonomous tariff quota at a duty of 1.2 $ of v/hioh
    the amount is limited to 15*%' of actual
    Community imports in 1973 » coming frora third countries not associated
                                                                    * • '
    with the Community nor linked with it by a preferential agreement .
                    '                       •                                   *
                                          «                 *
 Since the Community tariff quota in question is relatively email
  compared with total imports into tho Community and since all
 the Member States will undoubtedly exhaust their shares rapidly ,
 a division of tho quota into shares allocated definitively to
 each Member State would not appear to compromise tho Community
 nature of tho quota® This solution has been adopted ia similar
             *         .                                                    *                      .•
 situations in tho past®                                                                        ' •
 The charoc to bo allocated on this basic to tlx© Member States ,
 and thoir respective total 1973 . imports from non-assoei&ted
 third countries ,• are shown in tho - following table ; •
 ---pagebreak---                                      (in notaio tono)
                  Total 1973 importo            Quota nhnro
Bonclux                  5 275                         791
Don mark                 2 23 S -                   . 335
C orni,any              15 5<S7                      2 335
Franco                   3 811 '                       572
Ireland                  1 868                         280
Italy                      205 .                        31
         *
Unit od JCin/jdom       26 859 '                     4 029
                        55 621                      6 373
 ---pagebreak---                                                  DRAFT FOR A
                                    COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC
              on the opening , allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for
              dried grapes in immediate containers of a net capacity of 15 kilograms or less,
                 falling within subheading 08.04 B I of the Common Customs Tariff ( 1980 )
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                 opened for dried grapes in immediate containers of a
 COMMUNITIES,                                               net capacity of 15 kilograms or less, falling within
                                                            subheading 08.04 B I of the Common Customs Tariff.
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 28           2. Within the limits of this tariff quota, the
 thereof,
                                                            Common Customs Tariff duty shall be suspended at
                                                            the level of 1-2% .
 Having regard to the draft Regulation submitted by
 the Commission ,
                                                            3.     Imports of the product in question
Whereas a Community tariff quota for dried grapes in
 immediate containers of a net capacity of 15 kilo­         benefitting from the same or Lower
grams or less, falling within subheading 08.04 B I of       customs duties under other preferential
 the Common Customs Tariff, should be opened for
1980 at a duty of 1-2 % ; whereas the volume of this        arrangements shall not be charged against
 quotahas been limited to 15% of Community
 imports in 1973 from third countries not associated        this tariff quota .
 with the Community or linked to it by a preferential
 agreement ; whereas, on this basis, the volume of the
 quota is fixed at 8 373 tonnes ;
                                                                                      Article 2
 Whereas, in view of the comparatively low volume of
 the quota compared with the needs of the Commu­
 nity, a system for its utilization based on a single allo­ The tariff quota set out in Article 1 shall be divided
 cation among Member States should be provided,              among the Member States as follows :
 without derogating from the Community nature of                                                         ( tonnes )
 the tariff quota ; whereas, in accordance with the
                                                                    Bénélux                                  791
 needs forecast by each Member State, the shares may
                                                                    Denmark                                  335
 be determined as set out in Article 2 ;
                                                                    Germany                                2 335
 Whereas, since the         Kingdom     of Belgium, the             France                                   572
  Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of                 Ireland                                  280
  Luxembourg are united within and jointly represented              Italy                                     31
  by the Benelux Economic Union, any measure ,                      United Kingdom                         4 029
 concerning the administration of the quotas allocated
  to that economic union may be carried out by any
  one of its members,                                                                 Article 3
                                                              1.   Member     States,  shall    take all   appropriate
  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                              measures to ensure that importers of the products in
                                                             question established in their territory have free access
                                                             to the shares allocated to them .
                          Article I
   1.   For the period 1 January to 31 December 1980          2. The extent to which a Member State has used up
  a Community tariff quota of 8 373 tonnes shall be           its share shall be determined on the basis of the
                                                              imports of the products in question entered with the
                                                              customs authorities for home use.
                                                                                      Article 4
                                                              At the Commission's request, Member States shall
                                                              inform it of the imports actually charged against their
                                                              shares.
 ---pagebreak---                      Article 5                                                   Article 6
Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied         This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
with .
                                                           1980 .   ■
                                                                       /
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at
                                                                      For the Council
                                                                       The President