CELEX: 51974PC0761
Language: en
Date: 1974-06-04
Title: Proposal for a REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL totally suspending the customs duties on certain industrial products originating in Malta (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                        COM(74 ) 761 final
                       .     .                          Brussels , 4 June 1974
                                 Proposal for a
                         REGULATION ( EEC ) OF THE COUNCIL
                totally suspending the customs duties on certain
                    industrial products originating in Malta
                  ( submitted to the Council by the Commission)
COM(74 ) 761 final
 ---pagebreak---                             EXPLAHATORY MEMORANDUM
 1 * By means of Regulation (EEC ) No 555/ 74 of 4 March 1974 » "the Community
      put into operation the measures necessary to permit Malta to receive ,
      as from 1 January 1974 » treatment no less favourable than is enjoyed by
      countries eligible for the Generalised System of Preferences .
2 . It will be necessary to adopt a similar neasure for the year 1975 *
3 . The Commission considers that , as for the year 1974 » the most appropriate
      autonomous measure in this oontext , and that best adapted to Malta's parti­
     cular economio situation, would seem to be the EEC/Malta Agreement .
     Further , on account of the Community 's very low level , in reoent years ,
     of importations of goods originating in Malta, it does not seem opportune
     to propose quantitative limits ( indicative ceilings . or tariff quotas ).
     This measure does not cover products in respect of which the Agreement
     provides for the opening of Community tariff quotas ( textile products
     falling within tariff heading No 55*05 t 5^«04 » 60.05 and 6l.0l );
     other measures have been proposed separately for these .
4 . By means of the annexed proposal , the Commission wishes to draw up , in
     good time , having regard to the inherent procedural time-lag, an instrument
     to give effect to the commitments to Malta and to extend to that country
     the benefits of the Genralised Scheme of Preferences .    Being aware ,
     however , of the problems posed by the oontinuing development of the
     situation , the Commission reserves the right to make adaptations to
     its proposal should suoh be necessary .
 ---pagebreak---                                                            Proposalfor a
                                              REGULATION^EEC) OF THE COUNCIL
                    totally suspending the customs duties on certain industrial products originating
                                                            in Malta
     THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                   1 of Annex I thereto, with the exception of products
     COMMUNITIES,                                                  falling within heading Nos 55.05, 56.04, 60.05 and
                                                                   61.01 .
     Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
     Economic Community, and in particular Article 113             Ireland, however, shall be authorized to apply to such
  x thereof ;                                                      products duties equal to those which it applies to
     Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;           Member States other than the United Kingdom.
    Whereas, by virtue of . the Agreement ( ' ) establishing       2. The suspension referred to in paragraph 1 shall
    an Association between the European Economic                  apply solely to products originating in Malta. The
    Community and Malta, the Community applies the                 rules of origin shall be those in force at the time as
    Common Customs Tariff duties, reduced by 70 % , to             regards the implementation of the above Agreement.
    products covered by this Agreement ; whereas it seems         The rule whereby the condition requiring sufficient
    advisable provisionally to increase this tariff advantage     processing is waived in respect of products originating
    by means of the total suspension of the customs               in the Community as originally constituted shall not,
    duties applicable to such products ; whereas, however,        however, apply in the case of the abovementioned
    this measure cannot affect the products subject to the        products when they undergo in Malta only insufficient
    tariff quotas provided for in the abovementioned              working or processing as defined in items 1 to 6 of
    Agreement ;                                                   list A, annexed to the Protocol to the aforesaid Agree­
                                                                  ment .
    Whereas, in order to avoid the danger of disrupting
    traditional patterns of trade by imports of such                                      Article 2
    products, provision should be made to enable the
 . Commission to reintroduce at any time, by means of a           In order to avoid disrupting traditional trade patterns
■ Regulation , the levying of conventional duties in              by imports of products benefiting from the duty
    respect of Malta,                                             suspension provided for in Article 1 , the Commission
                                                                  may, by means of a Regulation, reintroduce the
    HAS ADOPrED THIS REGULATION :                                 levying of customs duties at any time up to the end of
                                                                  the calendar year, at the level applicable in pursuance
                             Artide 1                             of Article 1 of Annex 1 to the aforesaid Agreement.
   _lo         . 31 l^^ecember 197^ the Common Customs
   Tariff duties and the customs tariff duties of the new
                                                                                          Artide 3
    Member States shall be totally suspended in respect of
    products falling within Chapters 25 et scq of the
    Common Customs Tariff covered by the Agreement                This Regulation shall enter into force on .
    establishing an Association between the European              1 January 1975 •
    Economic Community and Malta, pursuant to Article
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                   Done at Brussels,
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                                                                                The Président