CELEX: 51991PC0236
Language: en
Date: 1991-06-24
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 2603/69 ESTABLISHING COMMON RULES FOR EXPORTS

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMVIUNITIES
                                   C0M(91) 236 final
                                   Brussels, 24 June 1991
                        Proposal for a
                   COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
            ftMFKiniMG REGUIATION (EEC) No 2603/69
           f? TARl ISHING  tt^N, P'» ES FOR EXPQBIS,
                (presented by the Commission)
 ---pagebreak---                             EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
In line with the provisions of Part 3 of the EEC Treaty regarding a common
commercial policy, Council Regulation (EEC) No 2603/69 establishing common
rules for exports1 laid down the principle of the freedom of exports
originating in the Community to third countries, subject to the exceptions
provided for in that Regulation.
Council Regulation (EEC) No 1934/822 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2603/69
updated the list of exceptions by abolishing some of the restrictions
imposed by Member States and introducing exceptions regarding certain
petroleum products.
However, since the adoption of the amending Regulation, most Member States
have removed the remaining restrictions.    In the light of the forthcoming
completion of the single market, the maintenance of such restrictions is
not only a contradiction of all that the market stands for, but is also
 impracticable in a Community without controls on goods at internal
frontiers.   It seemed necessary to take account of this development.
 It is therefore proposed in this Regulation that the previous regulations
be brought up to date by the removal of almost all the restrictions still
 in force and the principle of total freedom established from
31 December 1992.   Until then a few restrictions of minor economic
 importance shall be maintained.
1   0J No L 324, 27.12.1969, p.25.
2   0J No L 211, 20.7.1982, p.1.
 ---pagebreak---                        ** UAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION
                   AMENDED REGULATION (EEC) No 2603/69
                   ESTABLISHING COMMON RULES FOR EXPORTS
The Council of the European Communities,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
and in particular Article 113 thereof,
Having regard to the instruments establishing common organization of
agricultural markets and to the instruments concerning processed
agricultural products adopted in pursuance of Article 235 of the Treaty, in
particular the provisions of those instruments which allow for derogation
from the general principle that quantitative restrictions or measure?
having equivalent effQct may be replaced solely by measures provided for in
those same instruments
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas under Regulation (EEC) No 2603/69,1 as amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 1934/82,2 exports from the Community to third countries are free, that
is not subject to any quantitative restrictions, subject to the exceptions
provided for in that Regulation and listed in the Annex thereto;
Whereas since the adoption of that Regulation, the Member States have
removed most of the restrictions on exports of some products listed in that
Annex ;
1  0J No L 324, 27.12.1969, p.25
2  0J No L 211, 20.7.1982, p.1.
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Whereas the Regulation should be updated accordingly;
Whereas after 31 December 1992 the maintenance by Member States of
quantitative restrictions would be incompatible with the single market,
which entails the abolition of goods controls at the Community's internal
front iers;
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                  Article 1
Regulation (EEC) No 2603/69 is hereby amended as follows.
Article 10 is replaced by the following:
                                 "Article 10
1. Until 31 December 1992 the principle of the freedom of export as laid
   down in Article 1 shall not apply:
   -   to those products listed in the Annex for the Member States mentioned
       therein,
   -   nor exports to South Africa of the following products:
       2709 00              Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous
                            minerals, crude
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      2710 00              Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous
                           minerals, other than crude; preparations not
                           elsewhere specified or included, containing not
                           less than 70% by weight, of petroleum oils or of
                           oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these
                           oils being the basic constituents of the
                           preparations:
                   2710 00 11 to 2710 00 39         Light oils
                   2710 00 41 to 2710 00 59         Medium oils
               ex  2710 00 61 to 2710 00 99         Heavy oils except
                                                    lubricating oils used in
                                                    clocks and watches and
                                                    the like presented in
                                                    small receptacles
                                                    containing not more than
                                                    250 g net of oil.
      2711 Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons:
                           Liquefied:
           2711 12         Propane:
                           Propane of a purity not less than 99%
                           Other
           2711 13         Butanes:
                           In gaseous state:
          ex       2711 29 00      Other:
                           - Propane
                           - Butanes
2. The Annex is replaced by that to this Regulation.
                                                                             5"
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                                 Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of
its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in
a 11 Member States.
Done at Brussels,
                           For the CounciI
 ---pagebreak---                               ANNEX
         CCT                   Description               Member State
      heading No                                            applying
                                                           restr iction
ex 4101 10       Whole hides or skins of bovine animals, Italy
                 of a weight per skin not exceeding 8 kg
                 when simply dried, 10 kg when dry-
                 salted, or 14 kg when fresh, wet-salted
                 or otherwise preserved:
ex 4102          Raw skins of sheep or lambs (fresh, or  Italy
                 salted, dried, limed, pickled or
                 otherwise preserved, but not tanned,
                 parchment-dressed or further prepared),
                 whether or not dehaired or split, other
                 than those excluded by note K b ) or
                 1(c) to this chapter:
ex 4102 10       With wool on                            France
ex 4102 10 90    Other                                   France
ex 4102 29 00    Dehaired or without wool on, other      France
                                                                        y
 ---pagebreak--- ex 4103 10    Other raw hides and £kins of goats or Italy
              kids (fresh., or salted, dried, limed,
              pickled or otherwise preserved, but not
              tanned, parchment-dressed or further
              prepared), whether or not dehaired or
              split, other than those excluded by
              note 1(b) or 1(c) to this chapter:
ex 4301 20 00 Raw furskins (including heads, tails, Italy
              paws and other pieces or cuttings,
              suitable for furriers' use), other than
              raw hides and skins of heading No 4101,
              4102 or 4103 of rabbit or hare, whole,
              with or without head, tail or paws
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