CELEX: 31987R4083
Language: en
Date: 1987-12-21 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 4083/87 of 21 December 1987 opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for certain oils and fats of marine animals falling within codes ex 1504 20 10, ex 1504 30 19 and ex 1516 10 90 of the combined nomenclature and originating in Norway (1988)

No L 382 / 4                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                    31 . 12 . 87
                                         COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 4083/87
                                                         of 21 December 1987
                  opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for certain oils
                  and fats of marine animals falling within codes ex 1504 20 10, ex 1504 30 19 and ex
                         1516 10 90 of the combined nomenclature and originating in Norway ( 1988)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                  TARIC code numbers, should be used for the
                                                                          description of the products covered by this Regulation ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                     Whereas it is necessary, in particular, to ensure to all
Economic Community, and in particular Article 113
thereof,                                                                  Community importers equal and uninterrupted access to
                                                                          the quota and consistent application of the rate laid
                                                                          down for that quota to all imports of the products
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                        concerned into all Member States until the quota has
Portugal,                                                                 been used up ;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                        Whereas, however, since the quota is to cover
                                                                          requirements which cannot be determined with sufficient
                                                                          accuracy, it should not be allocated among the Member
Whereas an Agreement between the European Economic                        States, without prejudice to the drawing against the
Community and the Kingdom of Norway was concluded                         quota volume of such quantities as they may need, under
on 14 May 1973 ; whereas, following the accession of                      the conditions and according to a procedure to be
Spain and Portugal to the Community, an Agreement in                      determined ; whereas this method of management
the form of an Exchange of Letters was concluded and                      requires close cooperation between the Member States
approved by Council Decision 86/557/EEC (');                              and the Commission and the latter must in particular be
                                                                          able to monitor the rate at which the quota is used up
Whereas the said Agreement provides in particular for                      and inform the Member States thereof;
 the opening of a Community tariff quota at a reduced
 rate of duty for certain oils and fats of marine animals,                Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom
 other than whale oil and sperm oil, originating in                        of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of
 Norway; whereas, therefore, the tariff quota in question                  Luxembourg are united within and jointly represented by
 should be opened for the period 1 January to 31                           the    Benelux   Economic      Union,   all   transactions
 December 1988 ;                                                           concerning the administration of shares allocated to that
                                                                           economic union may be carried out by any one of its
                                                                           members,
 Whereas the Community has adopted, with effect from
  1 January 1988, a combined nomenclature for goods
 which meets the requirements of the Common Customs                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Tariff and the external trade statistics of the Community
  and Statistics of trade between Member States ; whereas                                          Article 1
  this nomenclature has, for the purposes of encompassing
  specific Community measures, been expanded into an                        1.   From 1 January to 31 December 1988 , the customs
  integrated tariff of the European Communities (TARIC) ;                  duty applicable to imports of the following products shall
 whereas, with effect from the abovementioned date, the                    be suspended at the level and within the limits of a
  combined nomenclature and, where appropriate, the                         Community tariff quota as shown herewith :
        Order                                                                                    Amount of tariff      Rate of duty
         No
                       CN code                                Description                         quota (tonnes)           (%)
       09.0701      ex 1504 20 10       Oils and fats of marine animals, other than whale oil         1 000                 8,5
                    ex 1504 30 19       and sperm oil, in packings of a net capacity of more
                    ex 1516 10 90       than 1 kg originating in Norway
   Within the limits of this tariff quota, the Kingdom of                   2.   The Protocol on the definition of the concept of
   Spain and the Portuguese Republic shall apply duties                     originating products and on methods of administrative
   calculated in accordance with the relevant provisions laid               cooperation, annexed to the Agreement between the
   down, by the 1985 Act of Accession.                                      European Economic Community and the Kingdom of
                                                                            Norway shall be applicable.
   (') OJ No L 328 , 22. 11 . 1986, p. 76.
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3 . If an importer notifies art imminent importation of         3.    Member States shall charge imports of the goods
the product in question in a Member State and applies to        against their drawings as and when the goods are
use the quota, the Member State concerned shall inform          entered for free circulation .
the Commission and draw an amount corresponding to
its requirements to the extent that the available balance       4. The extent to which the quota has been used up
of the reserve so permits.                                      shall be determined on the basis of the imports charged
                                                                in accordance with paragraph 3.
4. The shares drawn pursuant to paragraph 3 shall be
valid until the end of the quota period.                                                 Article 3
                                                                At the request of the Commission, Member States shall
                          Article 2                             inform it of imports of the products concerned actually
                                                                charged against the quota.
 1 . Member States shall take all appropriate measures
to ensure that their drawings pursuant to Article 1 (3)
                                                                                         Article 4
are carried out in such a way that imports may be
charged without interruption against their accumulated          The Member States and the Commission shall col­
shares of the Community quota.                                  laborate closely in order to ensure that this Regulation is
                                                                complied with.
2.     Each Member State shall ensure that importers of
the product concerned have access to the quota for such                                  Article 5
time as the residual balance of the quota volume so
permits.                                                        This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1988 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 21 December 1987.
                                                                                    For the Council
                                                                                      The President
                                                                                     B. HAARDER