CELEX: 51976PC0228
Language: en
Date: 1976-05-20
Title: Proposal for an amendment to COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3015/75 of 17 November 1975 opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for raw or unmanufactured fluecured Virginia type tobacco (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                     COM(76)228 final
                                     Brussels , 20 May 1976
                        Proposal for an amendment
                  to COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) No 3015/75
                           of 17 November 1975
           opening , allocating and providing for the administration
          of a Community tariff quota for raw or unmanufactured flue­
                       cured Virginia type tobacco
               ( submitted to the Council by the Commission)
   C0K(76 ) 228 final
 ---pagebreak---                                 EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1 . As part of the system of generalized tariff preferences , the Community
     has opened for 1976 a Community tariff quota for raw or unmanufactured
     flue-cured Virginia type tobacco falling within subheading ex 24»01 B of
     the Common Customs Tariff ( Council Regulation ( ESC ) Ko 3015/75 of
     17 November 1975         This subheading covers raw tobacco of a value less
     than 280 u.a. per 100 kg net weight .
2 . For several months now it has been found that owing to both the rate for
     the conversion of the unit of account into national currencies and to
     the depreciation of certain national currencies in relation to the others ,
     quantities of tobacco are stored in warehouses in Member States and
     cannot be cleared through customs under subheading ex 24*01 B , seeing
     that prices exceed the upper limit of 280 u.a. If the tobacco in question
     were cleared through customs under subheading 24.01 A it would cease to
     benefit , as tobacco originating in developing countries , from the pre­
     ferential rate provided for within the limits of the tariff quota con­
     cerned .
3 . In order to remedy this state of affairs , the Commission proposes to
     include in the tariff quota already opened for raw or unmanufactured
     flue-cured Virginia type tobacco the same type of tobacco falling within
     subheading ex 24.01 A I , ( i.e. tobacco of a value not less than 280 u.a.
     per 100 kg net weight ) by applying a preferential rate of 7 $ with a
     maximum charge of 45 u.a. per 100 kg. This change scheduled to come into
     force on 1 July 1976 , would consequently make it possible to charge
     against the Community tariff quota as at present allocated , and in accor­
     dance with the rules laid down for its administration , flue-cured Vir­
     ginia type tobacco falling within subheading ex 24.01 A at a quota rate
     (7 % with a maximum charge of 45 u.a. per 100 kg) different from that of
     subheading ex 24 . 01 B.
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( l ) O.J. of the European Communities No L 310 , 29.11.1975 * P» 159 *
 ---pagebreak---                                       Draft
                                 Proposal for a         /
           Council Regulation aaending Regulation (EEC) Ed 3015/75 '       3 / '"
           opening, allocating and providing for tho administration
           of a Community tariff quota for raw or unmanufactured flue-
           cured Virginia type tobacco          1                     •. ■
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
 and in particular Article 43 thereof ,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parliament ,
Whereas under the system of generalized tariff preferences a Community
tariff quota has been opened by Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 3015/75 °f
17 November 1975 ( l ) for tho period        1 January to 31 December 1976 for
raw or unmanufactured flue-cured Virginia type tobacco falling within
subheading ex 24.01 B of the Common Customs Tariff; whereas the value of
the tobacco in question , expressed in units of account , constitutes the
criterion for its classification under tariff subheading 24.01 B or 24 . 01 A
whereas this criterion is affected by the changes in parities between
national currencies and units of account ; whereas , consequently , certain
quantities of flue-cured Virginia type tobacco stored in Member States
cannot be declared for release to the market under tariff subheading
ex 24.01 B and do not therefore benefit from the preferential arrangements
provided for within the Community tariff quota referred to above ;
Whereas this state of affairs should be remedied in the near future by
making provision for a transitional measure to come into force on 1 July
1976 ; whereas such a measure should as far as possible take simultaneous
account of the consequences of currency disparities and of changes in the
( 1 ) O.J. No L 310 , 29.ll.i975 » P. 159
1697/76
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                               resulting -™fN™ +v.     „
                                                  the C°®°n Customs      *a ^. ...
       -^er the circumstances and in aeco*w. TT                           ^ *l"PeM '
      among Member States, it should be            4 ^ ^ all°Cation es^blished
      -if,    quota already   opened  for^lue-bured^y6
      within tariff subheading ex 24 01 B +h
                                                            -    ^       ^
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      not less than 280 units of aoeou + @ 83016 °f "tobacco but of a value
     different quota «*..                           *"»***-**« ^                              *
     per 100 kilogrammes net weight,            B mazinniin charge of 45 units of account
     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION" •
                                     Article î
    ^r°m * Juiy 1976, the Coramunity tariff mio+
    the CoTOlty for lBports of ^                              M 000 „etric tons openea in
    t°Wo falUng Bithin tariff suiheading                                      Virginia type
    include raw or unmanufactured tobacco of the a ' t ' !* 6:Ctended t0
   heading ex 24.01 a I of   01 the
                                 ™e Co
                                     Common r-Customs Tariff.
                                                          am6 ype fallin& within sub-
   Within this tariff quota the customs dutv for + * '                                    ' "
   heading ex 24.01 AA I1 shall
                           shall hbe  suspended at         °tacco
                                                      1 4 ,rf +i    falling
                                                                       .     within ■ sub- .
  units of account perper 100
                           iuo kilo^a
                                kilogrammes net weight.            maximum charge of 45 ...
                                    Article ?
     e allocation among Member States of +h* n
  in Article 1 and the other provis '                °mmunity tariff quota, referred to
 17 November 1975 , reraain                                               »° ****>«■
 subparagraphs of Article lfl ) +h               " Partlcular the second and third
     Article 1 thereof.         ^ ^ "lth                          «- «i~ ^tione. ,
                                  Article ^
        Re^ati°» e"aH enter into force on a July 1?7S.
This Regulation shall be binding in its pr,+ - +                                           '
all Member States                                   lr® yand directly applicable in-
                                                    Done at Brussels , ....
                                                            For the Council
                                                              The President