CELEX: 51988PC0556
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Date: 1988-10-14
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) opening and providing for the administration of a Community preferential ceiling for certain petroleum products refined in Turkey and establishing Community surveillance for imports thereof (1989) (presented by the Commission)

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                                            Proposal for a
                                       COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
              opening and providing for the administration of a Community preferential
                    ceiling for certain petroleum products refined in Turkey and
                       establishing Community surveillance for imports thereof
                                                  (1989)
                                    (presented by the Commission)
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 ---pagebreak---                          EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
 Following negotiations held with Turkey with a view to amending the
EEC-Turkey Association Agreement and the Additional Protocol thereto
consequent on the accession of new Member States , the Community signed
on 30 june 1973 in Ankara a Supplementary Protocol , which entered
into force on 1 March 1986 .
This Supplementary Protocol provides inter alia for the opening of an
annual Community duty-free tariff quota of 340 000 tonnes for certain
petroleum products falling within Chapter 27 of the Common Customs
Tariff or the Combined Nomenclature due to enter into force on
1 January 1988 .
  In addition , the decision taken by the Council of Association in
  June 1973 that Turkey should not receive less favourable treatment than
  that granted to the countries qualifying for generalised tariff
  preferences led the Commission and the Turkish authorities to study
  the problem of giving Turkey and the developing countries equivalent
  tariff treatment .
   The Community tariff quotas opened for » he developing countries during
   the years 1971 to 1973 were converted with effect from 1 January 1974
   into Community ceilings , the levels of which were calculated by the
   usual method . For 1975 these vc lumes w ; re fixed at the 1974 levels plus
   12 X , for 1976 at the 1975 levels plus 15 % , for 1977 at the 1976
   levels plus  4.6 % overall , for 1978, 1979 and 1980 at the same levels
   as in 1977 , for 1981 at the 1980 levels plus 2 V. , for 1982 at the
   1981 levels  plus 10 % , for 1983 at the 1982 levels plus 5 % , for 1984
   at the 1983  levels , for 1985 at the 1984 levels plus 25 % , for 1986
   at the 1985 levels plus 4.527 % , and for 1987 , 1988 and 1989 at the 1986 levels .
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        After studying the problem , the Commission finally recognized that ,
        in view of the provisions of paragraph 4 of the Sole Article of
        Annex I to the Additional Protocol , the tariff quota of 340 000 tonnes
        laid down for Turkey should be converted , as from 1976, into a
        Community ceiling , the volume of which should be increased in the same
        proportions as had been applied under the Generalized System of
        Preferences .
        The only purpose of the attached proposal for a Regulation is to open ,
        for the products in question , a Community ceiling for 198 of 705 000
        tonnes and to establish Community surveillance of imports of these
        products , taking into account the need to incorporate the relevant
        Combined Nomenclature code numbers in place of the Common Customs
        Tariff code numbers as well as the provisions of Regulations (EEC) No 2573/87
         of 11 August 1987 ( 1 ) and 1059 /88 of 28 March 1988 ( 2 ), laying down
         the arrangements applicable to trade of Spain , Portugal and Greece
         with Turkey .
'Jr 3 . The application of ceilings and the possibility of re-establishing
        customs duties require the adoption of precise common rules to be
        applied uniformly by all Member States . These requirements may be met
        by the establishment of a Community surveillance system for goods
        actually imported from the partner country . To this end , the Member
        States must take adequate measures to ensure that statistical returns
        can be collected quickly at Community level . In this respect , account
        should be kept only of imports of the products in question as and
        when they are entered with the customs authorities for free circulation .
k       Statistics will be compiled by each Member Slate at the end of each
        month and will t>e fur .larded tu the Commission by the fifteenth day cf
         ( 1 ) 0J N° L 250, 1.9.1987, p. 1 .
         ( 2 ) 0J N° L 104, 23.4.1988, p. 4 .
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    the following month in order to enable it to telex to all Member States
    complete statistics of imports of the products in question during the
    preceding month . The system of surveillance will require a diligent
    effort as well as close cooperation between the Member States' competent
    authorities and the Commission departments .
    As regards implementation of the mechanism for re-establishing customs
    duties , the following system will be applied : as soon as the total
    monthly statistics compiled by the Commission departments indicate
    that 75 % of the ceiling has been used up , the latter will notify
    the Member States and consultations may then be held , for instance
    within the Economic Tariff Problems Group , either at a Member State 's
    request or on the Commission 's initiative . The purpose of such consul ¬
    tations will be to examine whether the customs duties applicable to
    third countries should be re-established when the ceiling has been
    used up .
   Imports of the products in question will continue to be notified on a
   monthly basis or , at the request of the Commission , by telex every ten
   days . In the latter case , a five-day forwarding deadline will apply .
   The Commission will thus be able to act quickly to adopt a regulation
   re-establishing customs duties on imports from the partner country
   until the end of the calendar year .
   In such a case , customs duties will naturally be re-established from
   the date indicated in the regulation ending the reduction of
   customs duties .
A. The attached proposal lays down that authority to apply the rules on
   ceilings and the re-establishment of customs duties should be trans ¬
   ferred from the Council to the Commission .
   This proposal for a regulation merely gives a general framework within
   which such authority is to be exercised so as to enable the mechanisms
   envisaged to be adjusted flexibly and quickly in consultation with the
   Member States .
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     Moreover , it is precisely with this aim oi optimum efficiency and
     speed that , under the proposed regulation , the task of re-establishing
     the customs duties applicable to third countries in respect of imports
     from the partner country will fall to the Commission .
Anne *: Proposai for a Council Régulation .
 ---pagebreak---                                                            Proposai for a
                                             COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No _ /88
                                                           of  .     .
                 opening and providing for the administration of a Community preferential ceiling for certain
                 petroleum products refined in Turkey and establishing Community surveillance for imports thereof
                                                                  ( 1989)
  THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                               other ( 4 ); whereas the tariff quota in question applies
                                                                          therefore to the current Community -
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
  Economic community , and in particular Article 113
  thereof,                                                                Whereas the application of ceilings requires the Community
                                                                          to be regularly informed of the trend of imports of the
                                                                          relevant products originating in Turkey; whereas imports
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,                      should, therefore , be made subject to a system of
                                                                          surveillance ;
 Whereas Article 7 of the Supplementary Protocol to the                   Whereas this objective may be achieved by means of an
 Association Agreement between the European Economic                      administrative procedure based on offsetting imports of the
 Community and Turkey consequent on the accession of new                 products in question against the ceiling at Community level
 Member States to the Community ( ' ), which was signed in               as and when these products are entered with the customs
 Ankara on 30 June 1973 and entered into force on 1 March                authorities for free circulation ; whereas this administrative
 1986 ( 2 ), provides for the total suspension of customs duties         procedure must make provision for the possible
 applicable to certain petroleum products refined in Turkey              re-establishment of customs tariff duties as soon as the ceiling
 falling within Chapter 27 of the Common Customs Tariff                  is reached at Community level ;
 within the limits of an annual Community tariff quota of
 340 000 tonnes ; whereas , for the products concerned , a
 provisional adjustment should be made to those tariff
                                                                         Whereas this administrative procedure requires close and
                                                                         particularly swift cooperation between the Member States
 preferences , consisting essentially of substituting for the
                                                                         and the Commission ; whereas the latter must , in particular ,
 Community tariff quota a Community ceiling amounting ,
 after successive increases , to 705 000 tonnes , above which
                                                                         be able to follow the progress of quantities charged against
                                                                         the ceiling and keep the Member States informed ; whereas
 the customs duties applicable to third countries may be
 re-established ;
                                                                         this cooperation has to be particularly close since the
                                                                         Commission must be able to take the appropriate measures
                                                                         to re-establish customs tariff duties if the ceiling is
                                                                         reached ,
                                                                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                                                      Artide 1
Whereas
                                                                         1.    From 1 January to 31 December 1989 the duties
                                                                        applicable to imports into the current Community
                           the Council adopted Regulation ( EEC )                                 of the petroleum products refined in
 N° 1059/88 of 28 March laying down the arrange¬                        Turkey indicated below shall be suspended in full within the
 ments applicable to Greece 's trade with Turkey                        limits of a Community ceiling of 705 000 tonnes .
  (33 ;
                                            whereas , the Council
has also adopted Regulation ( EEC ) No 2573 / 87 of 11                  Within the limits of this ceiling , the Kingdom of Spain and the
August 1987 laying down the arrangements for trade                      Portuguese Republic shall apply the duties calculated in
between Spain and Portugal , on the one hand , and Algeria ,            accordance with Regulation ( EEC ) No 2573 / 87 .
Egypt , Jordan , Lebanon , Tunisia and Turkey , on the
                                                                        2.     The petroleum products to which paragraph 1 applies
(U OJ No I. 361 , 31.12 . 1977 , p. 2 .                                 shall be the following :
(U O ) No I , 48 , 26 . 2 . 1986 , p. 36 .
U ) OJ No i 104, 23.4.1988, p. 4.                                       (-) OJ No L 250 , 1 . 9 . 1987 , p. 1 .
 ---pagebreak---      Order
                 CN code                                        Description
      No
13.0010      2710 00       Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals , other than crude;
                           preparations not elsewhere specified or included , containing by weight 70 % or
                           more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals , these oils
                           being the basic constituents of the preparations:
                           – Light oils :
                           – – For other purposes :
                           – – – Special spirits:
            2710 00 21     - - – – White spirit
            2710 00 25     - - – – Other
                           - – – Other :
                           - - - - Motor spirit:
            2710 00 31     – – – – – Aviation spirit :
                           ----- Other , with a lead content :
            2710 00 33     – – – – – – Not exceeding 0,013 g /|
            2710 00 35     – – – – – – Exceeding 0,013 g / 1
            2710 00 37     – – – – Spirit type jet fuel
            2710 00 39     – – – – Other light oils
                          – Medium oils :
                          - – For other purposes :
                          -  – – Kerosene :
            2710 00 51    – – – - Jet fuel
            2710 00 55    – – – – Other
            2710 00 59    - - – Other
                          - Heavy oils :
                          - – Gas oils :
           2710 00 69     * - – For other purposes
                           - – Fuel oils :
           2 7 1 0 00 70  - – - For other purposes
                             - l ubricating oils ; other oils :
           2710 00 95     - – - To be mixed in accordance with the terms of additional note 6 ( CN )
                                    to this chapter (■)
           27 1 0 00 99   - – – For other purposes
           2711          Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons :
           2711 12              Propane ;
                         – - – Other :
           2711 12 99    – – – – For other purposes
           2711 13       - – Butanes :
           2711 13 90    – – – For other purposes
           2712          Petroleum jelly , paraffin wax , microcrystalline petrolum wax , slack wax ,
                         ozokerite , lignite wax , peat wax , other mineral waxes , and similar products
                         obtained by synthesis or by other processes , whether or not coloured :
           2712 10       – Petroleum jelly :
           2712 10 10    – - Crude
           2712 10 90    – – Other
           2712 20 00    - Paraffin wax containing by weight less than 0,75% of oil
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                        Order
                                         CN code                                              Description
                         No
                 13.0010               2712 90          – Other :
                (cont'd)                                – – Other :
                                                        – – – Crude :
                                      2712 90 39        _____ For other purposes
                                      2712 90 90        – – – Other
                                      2713              Petroleum coke , petroleum bitumen and other residues 0/ petroleum oils or of
                                                        oils obtained from bituminous minerals :
                                      2713 90           – Other residues of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous
                                                            minerals :
                                      2713 90 90        - – Other
               ( ' ) Entry under this subheading is subject to conditions laid down in the relevant Community provisions.
 3.    Imports of the petroleum products referred to in                                                           Article 3
paragraph 1 shall be subject to Community surveillance .
                                                                                    Member States shall send the Commission statements of the
4.     Quantities shall be charged against the ceiling as and                       quantities charged for the preceding month no later than the
when products are entered with the customs authorities for                          15th day of each month . At the Commission’s request , they
free circulation .                                                                  shall send statements of the quantities charged for periods of
                                                                                   ten days , to be forwarded within five clear days of the end of
5.    The extent to which the ceiling is used up shall                             each ten-day period .
be determined at Community level on the basis of the
imports charged against it , in the manner specified in
paragraph 4 .                                                                                                    Article 4
6.    Member States shall inform the Commission , at the                           The Commission shall take all appropriate measures , in close
intervals and within the time limits specified in Article 3 , of                   cooperation with the Member States, to ensure the
imports effected in accordance with the rules referred to in                       implementation of this Regulation .
this Article .
                                                                                                                 Article S
                               Article 2
                                                                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following
As soon as the ceiling referred to Article 1(1 ) has been                          that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European
reached at Community level , the Commission may adopt a                            Communities .
Regulation re-establishing , until the end of the calendar year ,
the collection of the duties normally applicable.                                  It shall apply with effect from 1 January 1989.
                     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                     States .
                     Done at Brussels ,
                                                                                                          For the Council
                                                                                                           The President
 ---pagebreak--- FICHE FINANCIERE
1.      Ligne budgétaire concernée : Chap . 12 art . 120
2.       Base juridique : art . 113 du traité
3.       Intitulé de la mesure tarifaire : Proposition de règlement du
        Conseil portant ouverture et mode de gestion d' un plafond commu¬
        nautaire préférentiel pour certains produits pétroliers raffinés en
        Turquie et établissement d' une surveillance communautaire des
        Importations de ces produits ( 1989 )
4.      Objectif : Respect des engagements contractés vis-à-vis de la
        Turquie
5.      Mode de calcul :
        N° du T.D.C.       :   27.10 à 27.14
        Volume du plafond : 705 000 tonnes
        Droits à appliquer : 0 %
        Droits normaux : droits divers ( droit moyen 6 % )
6.      Perte de recettes :
        Valeur 1 tonne : 322 écus
        Valeur totale : 227 010 000 écus
        Perte  :
       - si utilisation totale : 227 010 000 écus x 6 /100 = 13 620 600
        écus
       - si utilisation semblable à celle des dernières années : 2 000 000
        écus .
        Sans changement par rapport à l' année 1988 .
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 ---pagebreak---                FICHE D' IMPACT SUR LA COMPETITIVITE ET L' EMPLOI
Cette proposition est formulée en conformité avec un engagement contractuel
de la Communauté . L' impact découlant de cette concession a été pris en
condisêration lors de la prise de décision d' adoption de ce contingent et
il n' aura pas un caractère sérieux sur la compétitivité et l' anploi dans la
Communauté .