CELEX: 31990R3922
Language: en
Date: 1990-12-20 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 3922/90 of 20 December 1990 partially and temporarly suspending the autonomous duties of the common customs tariff on certain fish fillets (1991)

No L 376 / 4                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                                  31 . 12 . 90
                                           COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 3922 / 90
                                                            of 20 December 1990
             partially and temporarily suspending the autonomous duties of the Common Customs Tariff
                                                        on certain fish fillets ( 1991 )
             THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
             Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in
             particular Article 28 thereof,
             Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
             Whereas Community supplies of fillets of certain species of fish currently depend on imports
             from third countries; whereas it is in the Community's interest to suspend partially the customs
             duties for the products in question; whereas, in order not to jeopardize the development
             prospects of production of competitive products in the Community and to ensure an adequate
             supply to satisfy user industries , it is advisable to limit these suspension measures to a period
             from 1 April to 31 December 1991 ,
             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                     Article 1
             From 1 April to 31 December 1991 , the autonomous duties of the Common Customs Tariff
             applicable to the products listed below shall be suspended at the level indicated in respect of
             each of them :
                    CN code                                                                                               Rate of duty
                       (')                                             Description                                             (% )
             ex 0304 20 57           Fillets and meat of hake (Merluccius spp., excluding the genus
             ex 0304 90 47           Merluccius merluccius, Merluccius bilinearis and Merluccius
                                     carpensis), in the form of industrial blocks, frozen, for
                                     processing ( a) (b)                                                                        10
             ex 0304 20 85           Fillets of Alaska pollack (Theragra chalcogramma), in the form of
                                     industrial blocks, frozen , for processing (a ) ( b)                                    , 10
             (') See Taric codes in the Annex .
             (a ) Control of the use for this special purpose shall be carried out pursuant to the relevant Community provisions .
             (b) The suspension shall apply to products intended to undergo any operation unless they are intended to undergo
                  exclusively one or more of the following operations:
                  — cleaning, gutting, tailing, heading,
                  — cutting (excluding filleting or cutting of frozen blocks),
                  — sampling, sorting,
                  — labelling,
                  — packing,
                  — chilling,
                  — freezing,
                  — deep freezing,
                  — thawing, separation.
                  The suspension is not allowed for products intended , in addition, to undergo treatment (or operations) qualifying for
                  the suspension where such treatment (or operations) is (are) carried out at retail or catering level . The reduction of
                  customs duties shall apply only to fish intended for human consumption.
             2.       In the framework of these suspensions , the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese
             Republic shall apply customs duties calculated in accordance with the relevant provisions in the
             Act of Accession .
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             3.    Imports of the products in question shall not be covered by the suspensions referred to in
            paragraph 1 unless the free-at-frontier price, which is determined by the Member States in
            accordance with Article 21 of Regulation (EEC ) No 3796 / 81 0 ), at last amended by
            Regulation (EEC ) No 3468 / 88 (2 ), is at least equal to the reference price fixed, or to be fixed,
            by the Community for the products under consideration or the categories of the products
            concerned .
                                                          Article 2
            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April 1991 .
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels , 20 December 1990 .
                                                                                         For the Council
                                                                                          The President
                                                                                           P. BUKMAN
                                                           ANNEX
                                             CN code                     Taric code
                                          ex 0304 20 57                     * 31
                                          ex 0304 20 57                     » 41
                                          ex 0304 20 85                     * 10
                                          ex 0304 90 47                     * 30
            (*) OJ No L 379 , 31 . 12 . 1981 , p. 1 .
            ( 2) OJ No L 305 , 10 . 11 . 1988 , p. 2 .