CELEX: 51977PC0578
Language: en
Date: 1977-11-14
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) temporarily suspending the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on a number of tropical products (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                   COM(77 ) 578 final .
                                                   Brussels , 14 November 1977
                              Proposal for a
                         COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC )
  -temporarily suspending the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties
                     on a number of tropical products
              ( submitted to the Council "by the Commission )
COM(77 ) 578 final .
 ---pagebreak---                                   EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
■<   1 . In its Decision of 5 April 1976 the Council approved the Community
         proceding to a duty reduction for some tropical products within the
         multilateral GATT negotiations .
     2 . This reduction has been put into force as a temporary duty suspension
         and will be inserted in the CCT after the results of the tariff
         negotiations of the Tokyo-Round ( see Regulation ( EEC ) No 2858/ 76
         temporarily suspending the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties
         on a number of tropical products - OJ No L 329 of 27.11.1976 ,
         page 9 ).
     3 . As this duty suspension expires on 31 December 1977 and the negotiations
         are not yet terminated the tariff measure in question should be prolonged
         until 31 December 1978 .
     4 . This is the objective of the following regulation .
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 ---pagebreak---                                                         Proposal for a
                                   COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
                temporarily suspending the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on a
                                           number of tropical products
  THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                 this duty suspension should be prolonged
  COMMUNITIES,                                                 until 31 December 1978 .
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
  Economic Community, and in particular Article 113
  thereof,
                                                              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
  Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                          1                          Artide 1
  Whereas in its Reou I at ion ( EEC ) No 2858/ 76
the Council suspended ,               within the frame­       From 1 January to 31 December 1978 , the auto­
  work of the multilateral GATT negotiations,       the       nomous    Common      Customs   Tariff duties for  the
  Common Customs Tariff duties on certain tropical            products listed in the Annex shall be suspended at the
  products, until 31 December 1977;                           levels indicated in respect of each of them.
                                                                                     Article 2
  Whereas, since the full results of these negotiations
  for a definitive alteration of the Common Customs         . This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
  Tariff will not be known before 31 December 1978 ,          1978 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
                Done at Brussels.
                                                                          For the Council
                                                                           The President
 OJ No L 329 of 27.11.1976 .
 ---pagebreak---                                              ANNEX
                                                                  i      Râtc oI
      CCT                                                              êutonomot»
                                             Description                   dury
    hciding
       No
               !             "                  '
                 Cashew nuts , fresh or dried, shelled or                  0
08.01       F
                 not
09.01 A
   I a)       1  Coffee , unroasted , not freed of
                 caffeine                                                   5
18.01            Cocoa beans, whole or broken, raw or roasted »..»•••«       3
18.02            Cocoa shells, husks, skins and waste    .•*.«•••••••        3
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                                                   Date   3 November 1977
                                                  Chapter 120 , Article 120
    Budget Line concerned :
                                for a
    Title of activity : Proposal£ounci I Regulation temporarily suspending
     the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on a number of tropical
     products
3.  Legal basis :     Art .       Treaty of Rome
4.  Objectives of the activity :
    Suspension of CCT duties for goods mentioned under 2 .
                                                      1.1 until 31.12.1978
5.0 Costs of the activity
    to the account of the EC budget                   2 360 645 EUA
    by non collection of duties