CELEX: 31973R0418
Language: en
Date: 1973-01-22 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 418/73 of the Council of 22 January 1973 establishing Community supervision of imports of certain products originating in Portugal

No L 59 / 8                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                 5 . 3 , 73
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 418/73 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                    of 22 January 1973
                  establishing Community supervision of imports of certain products originating
                                                        in Portugal
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                        whereas this cooperation must be all the closer since
                                                                 the Commission must be able to take adequate
                                                                 measures     to   reintroduce    customs  tariff     duties
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                     whenever one of the ceilings has been reached ;
European Economic Community, and in particular
Article 113 thereof;
                                                                 Whereas the indicative ceilings for the products listed
                                                                 in Annex B to         the above Protocol    have      been
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;              calculated for 1973 by reference to the situation of
                                                                 the customs duties to be applied by the Community
Whereas an Agreement ( 1 ) between the European                  as originally constituted on the one hand, and by the
Economic Community and the Portuguese Republic                   new Member States on the other; whereas,
was signed on 22 July 1972 ;                                     consequently, supervision of imports of certain
                                                                 products must begin on 1 January 1973 in certain
Whereas Articles 2- and 3 of that Agreement make                 Member States and on 1 April 1973 in others ;
provision for the progressive abolition of customs
duties in respect of the products to which the                   Whereas, for the products which, in accordance with
Agreement applies ; whereas by way of derogation                 Articles 2 and 3 of the Agreement, are subject to the
from these Articles, Articles 1 and 2 of Protocol No 1           normal timetable for the abolition of customs duties
annexed to the Agreement lay down that, for imports              it is necessary to follow the trend of imports ; whereas
of certain products listed in Annex B to that                    to this end the Community should be empowered to
Protocol, the reduction of duties shall be limited in            take, where appropriate, measures to avoid any
1973 to indicative ceilings above which the customs              prejudice to industry in the Community and whereas
duties applicable to third countries may be                      it is, therefore, desirable that imports of these
reintroduced; whereas application of this last                   products also be subjected to a system of supervision ;
provision requires that the Community be regularly
informed of the trend of imports of the products in
question originating in Portugal, whereas it is,
therefore, desirable that imports of these products be
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
subjected to a system of supervision ;
Whereas this objective may be achieved by means of
an administrative procedure based on setting off                                          Article 1
imports of the products in question against the
indicative ceilings at Community level, as and when
these products are submitted to the customs                      1 . Imports of products originating in Portugal to
authorities under cover of declarations that they have           which annual indicative ceilings are applied in
                                                                 accordance with Articles 1 and 2 and Annex B to
been made available for consumption ; whereas this
administrative procedure must make provision for the             Protocol No 1 to the Agreement between the
reintroduction of customs tariff duties as soon as the           European Economic Community and the Portuguese
ceilings have been reached at Community level ;                  Republic shall be subjected to Community
                                                                 supervision in 1973 .
Whereas this administrative procedure requires close             The description of the products referred to in the
and particularly rapid cooperation between the                   preceding subparagraph, their tariff headings and
Member States and the Commission and whereas the
                                                                 statistic numbers, the levels of the indicative ceilings
latter must, in particular, be able to follow the                and the dates on which Community supervision shall
progress of amounts set off against the indicative               begin are given in Annex I.
ceilings and keep the Member States informed ;
                                                                 2. Amounts shall be set off against the indicative
                                                                 ceilings as and when products are submitted to the
(!) OJ No L 301 , 31 . 12. 1972, p. 10.                          customs authorities under cover of a declaration that
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they have been made available for consumption and                                    Article 2
accompanied by a movement certificate conforming
 to the rules contained in Protocol No 3 to the               During the period from 1 January 1973 until 31
Agreement referred to in paragraph 1 .                        December 1973 , imports of the products referred to
                                                              in Annex II which originate in Portugal shall be
                                                              subjected to Community supervision .
Goods shall be set off against the indicative ceiling
only if the movement certificate has been submitted
before   the  date    on  which   customs    duties  are      The Member States shall periodically inform the
reimposed.                                                    Commission of imports of these products ; to this
                                                              end, only products submitted to the customs
                                                              authorities under cover of a declaration that they
The reaching of a ceiling shall be determined at              have been made available for consumption and
 Community level on the basis of imports set off              accompanied by a movement certificate conforming
against it in the manner defined in the preceding             to the rules contained in Protocol No 3 to the
subparagraphs.                                                Agreement referred to in Article 1 shall be taken into
                                                              consideration .
The Member States shall periodically inform the                                      Article 3
 Commission of imports effected in accordance with
the above rules .
                                                              For the implementation of this Regulation the
                                                              Commission shall take all necessary measures in close
3.    As soon as the ceilings have been reached, the          cooperation with the Member States.
Commission may issue a regulation reimposing the
customs duties applicable to third countries for the                                 Article 4
whole Community until the end of the calendar year.
                                                              This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
The    new    Member     States  shall  simultaneously        following its publication in the Official Journal of the
reimpose the duties provided for in Article 2 (7) of          European Communities.
Protocol No 1 to the Agreement referred to in
paragraph 1 .                                                 This Regulation shall apply from 1 January 1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 22 January 1973 .
                                                                                    For the Council
                                                                                     The President
                                                                                   L. TINDEMANS
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                                                         ANNEX 1
            LIST OF PRODUCTS SUBJECT TO INDICATIVE CEILINGS UPON IMPORTATION
                                                          IN 1973
                                                                                                            Level
    Order         CCT
     No        heading No                             Description                          Nimexe Code    of ceiling
                                                                                                       — metric tons —
      1             2                                      3                                     4            5
   I PI          45.02       Natural cork in blocks, plates, sheets or strips
                             (including cubes or square slabs, cut to size for corks
                             or stoppers)                                             45.02 - all Nos       1 100
   I P 2         45.03       Articles of natural cork                                 45.03 - all Nos       8 200
   I P 3         45.04       Agglomerated cork (being cork agglomerated with or
                             without a binding substance) and articles of
                             agglomerated cork                                        45.04 - all Nos     10 000
   I P 4         55.05       Cotton yarn, not put up for retail sale                  55.05 - all Nos       8 000
   IP 5          56.07       Woven fabrics of man-made fibres (discontinuous or
                             waste)                                                   56.07 - all Nos       2 400
   I P 6         57.10       Woven fabrics of jute or of other textile bast fibres of
                             heading No 57.03                                         57.10 - all Nos       4100
   I P 7         59.04       Twine, cordage, ropes and cables, plaited or not         59.04 - all Nos       7 700
   I P 8         60.04       Under garments, knitted or crocheted, not elastic nor
                             rubberized                                               60.04 - all Nos       3 000
   I P 9         60.05       Outer garments and other articles,          knitted   or
                             crocheted, not elastic nor rubberized                    60.05 - all Nos         720
   I P 10        61.01       Men's and boys' outer garments                           61.01 - all Nos         980
   I P 11        61.02       Women's, girls' and infants' outer garments              61.02 - all Nos         290
   I P 12        61.03       Men's and boys' under garments, including collars,
                             shirt fronts and cuffs                                   61.03 - all Nos         970
   I P 13        61.04       Women's, girls' and infants' under garments              61.04 - all Nos         110
            Dates on which supervision commences :
            — in the Community as originally constituted : 1 April 1973 ,
            — in the United Kingdom and Denmark: 1 January 1973,
            — in Ireland : 1 April 1973 .
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                                                     ANNEX U
                            LIST OF PRODUCTS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 2
                              Date on which supervision commences: 1 January 1973
       Order     CCT
                                                         Description                                  Nimexe Code
         No   heading No
          1        2                                          3                                             4
      II P 1    44.15    Plywood , blockboard, laminboard, battenboard and similar
                         laminated wood products (including veneered panels and sheets);
                         inlaid wood and wood marquetry                                           44.15 - all Nos
      II P 2    44.18    Reconstituted wood, being wood shavings, wood chips, sawdust,
                         wood flour or other ligneous waste agglomerated with natural or
                         artificial resins or other organic binding substances, in sheets, blocks
                         or the like                                                              44.18 - all Nos
      II P 3    48.09    Building board of wood pulp or of vegetable fibre, whether or not
                         bonded with natural or artificial resins or with similar binders         48.09 - all Nos
      II P 4    55.08    Terry towelling and similar terry fabrics, of cotton                     55.08 - all Nos
      II P 5    56.05    Yarn of man-made fibres (discontinuous or waste), not put up for
                         retail sale                                                              56.05 - all Nos
      II P 6    57.06    Yarn of jute or of other textile bast fibres of heading No 57.03         57.06 - all Nos
      II P 7    62.02    Bed linen, table linen , toilet linen and kitchen linen ; curtains and
                         other furnishing articles                                                62.02 - all Nos
                62.03    Sacks and bags, of a kind used for the packing of goods :
      II P 8             A. Of jute or of other textile bast fibres of heading No 57.03           62.03-11 , 13 , 15 , 17
                         B. Of other textile materials :
      II P 9                   II . Other                                                         62.03-95 , 96, 97, 98
      II P 10   68.01    Road and paving setts, curbs and flagstones, of natural stone (except
                         slate)                                                                   68.01 - all Nos
      II P 11   68.03    Worked slate and articles of slate, including articles of agglomerated
                         slate                                                                    68.03 - all Nos