CELEX: 41986D0660
Language: en
Date: 1986-12-22 00:00:00
Title: 86/660/ECSC: Decision of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community, meeting within the Council, of 22 December 1986 establishing the arrangements to be applied to imports into Spain and Portugal of products covered by the ECSC Treaty originating in Austria, Finland, Norway, Sweden or Switzerland and covered by Agreements between the Community and those countries

No L 382 / 42                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                      31 . 12 . 86
                  DECISION OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE                              GOVERNMENTS OF THE
                  MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY ,
                                              MEETING WITHIN THE COUNCIL,
                                                       of 22 December 1986
                  establishing the arrangements to be applied to imports into Spain and Portugal of products
                  covered by the ECSC Treaty originating in Austria, Finland, Norway , Sweden or Switzerland
                             and covered by Agreements between the Community and those countries
                                                          ( 96 / 660 / ECSC )
THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE                           subheading ex 73.13 B IV of the Common Customs Tariff,
MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL                            for which the basic duty shall be 20 % .
COMMUNITY , MEETING WITHIN THE COUNCIL ,
                                                                        3.     However , if after 1 January 1985 and before 1 January
Whereas the Member States have concluded the Treaty                     1986 a tariff reduction was applied , such reduced duty shall
establishing the European Coal and Steel Community ;                    be considered as a basic duty .
Whereas on 1 January 1986 the Kingdom of Spain and the                  4.     If, during 1987 , the Kingdom of Spain or the
Portuguese Republic acceded to that Community;                          Portuguese Republic suspends in whole or in part the
                                                                        customs duties applicable to products imported from the
Whereas the Additional Protocols to the Agreements                      Community as constituted on 31 December 1985 , it shall
concluded between the Member States of the European Coal                also suspend or reduce , by the same percentage , the duties
and Steel Community and that Community , on the one hand ,              applicable to products originating in the EFTA countries .
and the Republic of Austria , the Republic of Finland , the
Kingdom of Norway and the Kingdom of Sweden , on the
other , and also the Additional Protocols to the Agreements
                                                                                                    Article 2
concluded    between     the   Member    States   of the    said
Community , on the one hand , and the Swiss Confederation
and the Republic of Iceland , on the other , must be approved           1.     If the Kingdom of Spain opens to third countries tariff
by each Contracting Party in accordance with its own                    quotas actually applied on 1 January 1985 , products
procedures;                                                             originating in the EFTA countries shall be subject to the same
                                                                        treatment as products imported from the Community as
                                                                        constituted on 31 December 1985 , whilst such quotas remain
Whereas the procedures for ratifying the Additional
                                                                        open .
Protocols have not yet been completed and it is necessary
concomitantly and on a unilateral basis to implement the
obligations resulting for 1987 from those Protocols , as                2.     If the Kingdom of Spain does not open the quotas
regards customs duties on imports ; whereas , however , such            referred to in paragraph 1 , Spain shall apply to products
obligations do not exist as far as Iceland is concerned ;               imported from and originating in the EFTA countries the
                                                                        duties applied in the event of such quotas being opened . The
                                                                        quantities or value subject to these duties shall be limited to
In agreement with the Commission ,                                      the amounts actually imported from these countries under
                                                                        the same quotas opened on 1 January 1985 .
HAVE DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
                                                                                                    Article 3
                            Article 1
                                                                        The ad valorem charge of 0,4% applied by the Portuguese
                                                                        Republic to goods imported temporarily , reimported goods
                                                                        ( excluding containers ) and goods imported under the inward
1.     For the products covered by the ECSC Treaty                      processing arrangements , characterized by the rebate of
originating in Austria , Finland, Norway, Sweden and                    duties levied on the import of goods used after export of the
Switzerland (hereinafter referred to as the EFTA countries)             products obtained ('drawback') shall be reduced to 0,2% on
customs duties on imports into Spain , including the Canary              1 January 1987 .
Islands , Ceuta and Melilla shall be reduced from 1 January
1987 to 77,5% of the basic duties , and customs duties on
imports into Portugal shall be reduced from 1 January 1987
to 80 % of the basic duties .                                                                        Article 4
2.     The basic duties shall be the duties actually applied on         Any amendments to the origin rules made necessary by the
1 January 1985 , except for imports into Portugal of sheets ,            accession of the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese
clad , coated or otherwise surface-treated , falling within              Republic and adopted by the Joint Committees provided for
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in the Agreements between the Community and the EFTA                                        Article 6
countries shall apply to the products referred to in this
Decision .
                                                                  The Member States shall take the measures necessary to
                                                                  implement this Desision .
                           Article 5
This Decision shall apply until the entry into force of the
Additional Protocols to the Agreements between the Member         Done at Brussels , 22 December 1986 .
States of the European Coal and Steel Community and that
Community , on the one hand , and the EFTA countries , on
                                                                                                        The President
the other , and at the latest until 31 December 1987 ,
whichever is the earlier .                                                                                G. SHAW