CELEX: 51987PC0447
Language: en
Date: 1987-09-30
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 950/68 on the Common Customs Tariff (presented by the Commission)

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COM (87) 447
Vol. 1987/0231
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                                                   COM ( 87 ) 447 final
                                                   Brussels , 30 September 1987
                               Proposal for a
                         COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
                amending Regulation ( EEC ) No 950 / 68 on the
                           Common Customs Tariff
                       (presented by the Commission )
C0M(87 ) 447 final
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                                EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
In accordance with the exchange of letters between the European Econccmic
Community and Norway in 1973 , the Community undertook to effect an autonomous
reduction of the customs duties applicable to fish fingers of fish fillets
covered with a coating of batter or breadcrumbs , prefried in oil , the fish
remaining raw , frozen , falling within heading no . 16. 04 GI .
Following a decision of the Committee on the Nomenclature of the Common Customs
Tariff , fish fingers prefried in oil must be classified , as from 1 February 1987
under heading No   16.04 GI I instead of heading No   16.04 GI . For that reason ,
Norwegian exports of this products are no longer able to benefit from the
preferential system .
The object of this proposal is to modify the Common Customs Tariff in order to
guarantee the preference granted in the past to Norwegian products .
 ---pagebreak---                                           Proposal for a
                                  COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
                        amending Regulation ( EEC ) No 950 / 68 on the
                                     Common  Customs Tariff
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No           3796 /81 of 29 December 1981 on the
common organization of the market in fishery products (1 ), as last amended by
Regulation ( EEC ) No 2315 / 86 ( 2 ), and in particular Article 30 thereof ,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
Whereas the nomenclature of the Common Customs Tariff as laid down by Council
Regulation ( EEC ) No 3618 / 86 ( 3 ) results , pursuant to Article 19 of Regulation ( EEC )
No     3796 /81 , from the application of the latter Regulation as regards fishery
products ;
Whereas , in an exchange of letters between the European Economic Community and
Norway in 1973 , the Community undertook to effect an autonomous reduction of the
customs duties applicable to certain fishery products , including certain products
falling within heading No          16.04 GI of the Common Customs Tariff , whether or not
prefried in oil ;
Whereas fish fingers of fish fillet covered with a coating of batter or
breadcrumbs , prefried in oil , the fish remaining raw , frozen , are to be classified
in heading No        16.04 GII ;      whereas , as a result , Norwegian exports of this
product are no longer able to benefit from the preferential system on imports into
 ( 1 ) OJ No   L379 , 31 . 12.1981 , p. 1
( 2 ) OJ No     L202 , 25.07.1986 , p.1
 ( 3 ) OJ No   L345, 8 . 12.1986 , p. 1
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the Community ; whereas , in order to guarantee the preference which has effectively
been granted to Norwegian products in the past, Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 950 /68 ( 4 )
should be amended ,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                             Article 1
Regulation ( EEC ) No       950 / 68 is hereby amended as follows :
1 . The wording of tariff subheading 16.04 Cl is replaced by the following :
       " Fillets , raw , merely coated with batter or breadcrumbs , deep frozen , whether
      or not prefried in oil ";
2 . The wording of tariff subheading 16.04 GI is replaced by the following s
      " Fillets , raw , merely coated with batter or breadcrumbs , deep frozen , whether
      or not prefried in oil ";
                                             Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the
Official Journal of the European Communities .
 It shall apply with effect from 1 January 1987 .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all
Member States .
Done at Brussels , 30 September 1987
                                                       Por the Oouncil
                                                        The President
  ( 4 ) 0J No L 172 , 22.7.1968 , p. 1
 ---pagebreak---                  COMPETITIVENESS AND EMPLOYMENT IMPACT STATEMENT
This proposal to alter the wording concerning fish products has been made
necessary following recent discussions by the Comite de la Nomenclature TDC .   It
is a technical measure which will not affect business competitiveness or SME 's .