CELEX: 31976R0088
Language: en
Date: 1976-01-20 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 88/76 of 20 January 1976 establishing indicative ceilings and Community supervision for imports of certain products originating in Finland (1976)

24. 1 . 76                                Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 16/7
                                          COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 88/76
                                                        of 20 January 1976
                    establishing indicative ceilings and Community supervision for imports of certain
                                               products originating in Finland ( 1976)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                              the reintroduction of customs tariff duties as soon as
                                                                      the ceilings have been reached at Community level ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                    Whereas this administrative procedure requires close
pean Economic Community, and in particular                            and particularly rapid cooperation between the
Article 113 thereof,                                                  Member States and the Commission ; whereas the
                                                                      latter must, in particular, be able to follow the pro­
                                                                      gress of amounts set off against the indicative ceilings
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                    and keep the Member States informed ; whereas this
                                                                      cooperation must be all the closer since the Com­
                                                                      mission must be able to take adequate measures to
Whereas an Agreement between the European                             re-introduce customs tariff duties whenever one of the
Economic Community and the Republic of Finland (1 )
was signed on 5 October 1973 ;                                        ceilings has been reached;
                                                                      Whereas the trend of imports should be followed
Whereas Articles 1 and 2 of Protocol 1 annexed to                     for certain products for which, under Article 3 of
this Agreement make provision for a specific time­                    Protocol 1 , the Community has suspended the
table for the progressive abolition of customs duties                 application of ceilings and for products which are
in respect of the products to which the Agreement                     not subject to the ceiling system ; whereas it is there­
applies ; whereas under Article 3 of that Protocol the                fore desirable that imports of such products should
imports of these products are limited to annual                       be subject to supervision,
indicative ceilings above which the customs duties
applicable to third countries may be re-introduced;
whereas, however, under Article 3 (b) the Community
has to suspend the application of certain ceilings ;                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
whereas, on the other hand, in the event of short­
term economic difficulties, the Community may,
under Article 3 (c) of Protocol 1 , maintain the ceiling
amounts of the preceding year ; whereas, however,                                             Article 1
application of this measure must be limited to
products most affected by the short-term difficulties ;                1 . From 1 January until 31 December 1976 imports
whereas, therefore, the ceilings to be applied in 1976                 of products originating in Finland and indicated in
must be established ; whereas in this situation it is                 Annex I to this Regulation shall be subject to
also necessary that the Commission be regularly                        indicative ceilings and to Community supervision.
informed of the trend of the imports of the products
in question and, in consequence, it is necessary to
subject these imports to supervision;                                 The description of the products referred to in the
                                                                      preceding subparagraphs, their tariff headings and
                                                                      statistic numbers and the levels of the indicative
Whereas this objective may be achieved by means of                     ceilings are given in Annex I.
an administrative procedure based on setting off
imports of the products in question against the                       2. Amounts shall be set off against the indicative
indicative ceilings at Community level, as and when                   ceilings as and when products are submitted to the
these products are submitted to the customs auth­                      customs authorities under cover of a declaration that
orities under cover of declarations that they have                    they have been made available for consumption and
been made available for consumption; whereas this                     accompanied by a movement certificate conforming
administrative procedure must make provision for                       to the rules contained in Protocol 3 to the Agreement.
                                                                       Goods shall be set off against the indicative ceiling
 C1 ) OJ No L 328 , 28 . 11 . 1973, p. 2.                              only if the movement certificate has been submitted
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before  the   date    on which  customs    duties  are                             Article 2
reimposed.
                                                            From 1 January until 31 December 1976, imports
                                                            of the products referred to in Annex II which
The reaching of a ceiling shall be determined at            originate in Finland shall be subject to Community
Community level on the basis of imports set off             supervision.
against it in the manner defined in the preceding
subparagraphs.                                              Member States shall forward to the Commission not
                                                            later than the 15th day of each month statements of
The Member States shall periodically inform the             imports of the products in question effected during
Commission of imports effected in accordance with           the preceding month ; to this end, only products
                                                            submitted to the customs authorities under cover
the above rules ; such information shall be supplied
under the conditions laid down in paragraph 4.              of a declaration that they have been made available
                                                            for consumption and accompanied by a movement
                                                            certificate conforming to the rules contained in
3 . As soon as the ceilings have been reached,     the      Protocol 3 to the Agreement shall be taken into
Commission may issue a Regulation reimposing       the      consideration .
customs duties provided for in Article 3 (f)        of
Protocol 1 to the Agreement until the end of       the                             Article 3
calendar year.
                                                            For the implementation of this Regulation the Com­
4. Member States shall forward to the Commission            mission shall take all necessary measures in close
not later than the 15th day of each month statements        cooperation with the Member States.
of the amounts set off during the preceding month.
They shall, if the Commission so requests, make                                    Article 4
up such statements for periods of 10 days and for­
ward them within five clear days of expiry of the           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
preceding 10-day period.                                     1976.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 20 January 1976 .
                                                                            For the Council
                                                                              The President
                                                                               G. THORN
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                                                                        ANNEX I
                  LIST OF PRODUCTS SUBJECT TO INDICATIVE CEILINGS UPON IMPORTATION
                                                                         IN 1976
      Order             CCT                                                                                                Level
       No           heading No                                 Description                        Nimexe code            of ceiling
                                                                                                                       (metric tons)
        1                2                                            3                                 4                    5
                       48.01           Paper and paperboard (including cellulose
                                       wadding), machine-made, in rolls or sheets :
                                            C. Kraft paper and Kraft board:
                                                 II. Other :
   ISF 1                                             — Kraftliner ( a)                       48.01-15,21,31             242 516
   I SF 2                                            — Kraft paper for large bags (a)        48.01-16 , 23               167 355
   ISF 3                                             — Other                                 48.01-08 , 09 , 11 , 12 ,   172 490
                                                                                                   13 , 17, 19 , 25 ,
                                                                                                   26, 27, 28 , 29 ,
                                                                                                   33
                                       ex E. Other :
   ISF 4                                        — Bible paper (India paper), copying         48.01-58 , 61 , 62, 66       31 732
                                                     tissue; other printing paper and
                                                     other writing paper, not containing
                                                     mechanical wood pulp or in which
                                                     mechanical wood pulp does not
                                                     represent more than 5% (a)
   ISF 5                                         — Printing paper and writing paper,         48.01-64, 68                480 379
                                                     containing mechanical wood pulp (a),
                                                     excluding copying tissue
   ISF 6                                         — Fluting          paper    for  corrugated 48.01-75                    262 780
                                                     paperboard (a)
   ISF 7                                         — Sulphite          paper    for  wrapping  48.01-71 , 73                 17 296
                                                     purposes ( a)
   ISF 8                                         — Other, excluding cellulose wadding        48.01-41 , 43 , 45 , 52,    197 513
                                                     and tissues                                   53 , 54, 55 , 56,
                                                                                                   77, 82, 84, 86,
                                                                                                   88,91,93,95 ,
                                                                                                   97
    ISF 9              48.03            Parchment         or greaseproof paper           and 48.03-all Nos                 12 230
                                        paperboard, and imitations thereof, and glazed
                                        transparent paper, in rolls or sheets
                       48.05            Paper and paperboard, corrugated (with or
                                        without flat surface sheets), creped, crinkled,
                                        embossed or perforated, in rolls or sheets :
    ISF 10                              B. Other                                             48.05-21 , 29 , 30 , 50 ,     42 924
                                                                                                    80
(a) Subject to compliance with the definitions given in Annex III .
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   Order      CCT                                                                                 Level
                                           Description                    Nimexe code           of ceiling
    No     heading No
                                                                                              (metric tons)
     1          2                              3                                4                   5
             48.07    Paper and paperboard, impregnated, coated,
                      surface-coloured, surface-decorated or printed
                      (not being merely ruled, lined or squared and
                      not constituting printed matter within
                      Chapter 49), in rolls or sheets:
                      B. Other :
 ISF 11                   — Coated printing or writing paper         48.07-57, 58 , 59           43 573
 ISF 12                   — Other                                    48.07-55 , 56, 64 , 65 ,  172 975
                                                                           66, 68 , 70, 81 ,
                                                                           85 , 91 , 97, 99
             48.15    Other paper and paperboard, cut to size or
                      shape:
 ISF 13               B. Other                                       48.15-10, 21 , 29, 30,      13 710
                                                                           40, 50, 61 , 65,
                                                                           95 , 99
             73.02    Ferro-alloys :
 ISF 14               E. Ferro-chromium and ferro-silicochromium     73.02-51 , 55               11 295
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                                                 ANNEX II
                      LIST OF PRODUCTS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 2
     Order    CCT
       No  heading No                                 Description                              Nimexe code
        1       2                                         3                                          4
  II SF 1    44.15     Plywood, blockboard, laminboard, battenboard and similar           44.15-all Nos
                       laminated wood products (including veneered panels and
                       sheets); inlaid wood and wood marquetry
  II SF 2    44.18      Reconstituted wood, being wood shavings, wood chips, saw­         44.18-all Nos
                        dust, wood flour or other ligneous waste agglomerated with
                        natural or artificial resins or other organic binding substances,
                       in sheets, blocks or the like
  II SF 3    48.09     Building board of wood pulp or of vegetable fibre, whether         48.09-all Nos
                       or not bonded with natural or artificial resins or with similar
                       binders
             56.01      Man-made fibres ( discontinuous), not carded, combed or
                       otherwise prepared for spinning:
  II SF 4              B. Regenerated textile fibres                                      56.01-21 , 23 , 25, 29
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                                               ANNEX 111
                                             DEFINITIONS
           ex 48.01 C II Kraftliner
                         'Kraftliner' means machine-finished or machine-glazed paper or
                         paperboard, in rolls, containing not less than 80% of chemical sulphate
                         softwood pulp calculated on total fibre content, weighing more than 115
                         g/m2 and having a Mullen burst ratio of not less than 35 .
           ex 48.01 C II Kraft paper for large sacks
                         'Kraft paper for large sacks' means machine-finished paper, in rolls,
                         containing not less than 80% of chemical sulphate softwood pulp
                         calculated on total fibre content, weighing not less than 60 g/m2 but not
                         more than 115 g/m2 , having a Mullen burst ratio of not less than 38 , and
                         having a stretch factor of more than 4-5% in the cross direction and of
                         more than 2% in the machine direction.
           ex 48.01 E     Other printing paper and other writing paper, not containing mechanical
                         wood pulp or containing not more than 5% of mechanical wood pulp
                         ' Other printing paper and other writing paper, not containing mechanical
                         wood pulp or containing not more than 5 % of mechanical wood pulp'
                         means paper other than machine-glazed, used for printing or writing, which
                         contains not more than 5% of mechanical wood pulp calculated on total
                         fibre content.
           ex 48.01 E    Printing paper and writing paper, containing mechanical wood pulp
                         'Printing paper and writing paper containing mechanical wood pulp'
                         means paper other than machine-glazed, used for printing and writing,
                         containing more than 5% of mechanical wood pulp calculated on total
                         fibre content.
           ex 48.01 E    Fluting paper for corrugated paperboard .
                         'Fluting paper for corrugated paperboard' means paper, in rolls,
                         containing not less than 65% of unbleached semi-chemical hardwood
                         pulp (pulp obtained from wood by light chemical treatment followed by
                         mechanical treatment) calculated on total fibre content and having a CMT
                          ( Concora Medium Test) crush resistance exceeding 20 kp.
           ex 48.01 E    Sulphite paper for wrapping purposes
                         'Sulphite paper for wrapping purposes' means machine-glazed paper,
                         containing more than 40% of chemical bisulphite wood pulp, calculated
                         on total fibre content, having an ash content of not more than 8% and
                         having a Mullen burst ratio of not less than 15 .