CELEX: 31976R2634
Language: en
Date: 1976-10-19 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 2634/76 of 19 October 1976 on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for rosin, including 'brais résineux' falling within subheading 38.08 A of the Common Customs Tariff (1977)

6. 11 . 76                         Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 305/ 107
                                  COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 2634/76
                                                 of 19 October 1976
             on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for rosin,
             including 'brais resineux', falling within subheading 38.08 A of the Common Customs
                                                    Tariff (1977)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                  Ireland                     81
                                                                          Italy                    9 050
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                              United Kingdom           9 290
European Economic Community, and in particular                            Total                   58 660;
Article 28 thereof,
                                                              Whereas 25 % of this total represents 14 665 metric
                                                              tons ;
Having regard to the draft Regulation submitted by
the Commission,                                               Whereas, in view of the negligible size of such a
                                                              quota in comparison with the Community's
                                                              requirements, a system of utilization should, without
Whereas the production in the Community and in                derogating from the Community nature of the tariff
Greece of rosin falling within subheading 38.08 A of          quota, be provided, based on a single allocation
the Common Customs Tariff is currently insufficient           between the Member States ; whereas this allocation
to meet the requirements of the processing industries         should be calculated by the same method as is used
in the Community; whereas, consequently,                       to establish a total quota of 25 % of the imports of
Community supplies of products of this type                   each Member State from the same third countries;
currently depend to a considerable extent on imports          whereas, calculated in such a manner, this allocation
from third countries ;                                        should be as set out in Article 2 ;
Whereas, under Decision 1 /75 of the Association              Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the
Council on the application of paragraph 3 of                  Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of
Protocol 10 to the Agreement establishing an                  Luxembourg are united within and jointly
Association between the European Economic                     represented by the Benelux Economic Union, any
Community and Greece, the Community may open                  measure concerning the administration of the shares
autonomous tariff quotas for rosin provided that, for         allocated to that Economic Union may be carried out
the Community as a whole, the annual quotas do not            by any one of its members,
exceed 25 % of the Community's imports from third
countries not associated with or linked to it by a
preferential agreement during the last year for \vhich        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
statistics are available; whereas the most urgent
Community requirements for the products in                                            Article 1
question should be met immediately on the most
favourable terms; whereas a nil duty Community
tariff quota should therefore be opened within the            During the period from 1 January to 31 December
limits of the above amount;                                    1977, the Common Customs Tariff duty for rosin,
                                                               including 'brais resineux', falling within subheading
                                                              38.08 A shall be totally suspended within the limits
Whereas, in 1975, the imports of rosin from third             of a Community tariff quota of 14 665 metric tons.
countries not associated with qr linked to the
Community by a preferential agreement were as                 The tariff quota rate of duty to be applied by the
follows :                                                      new Member States shall be nil .
                                 in metric tons
            Benelux                 7 638                                             Article 2
            Denmark                   145
                                                              The Community tariff quota referred to in Article 1
            Germany                25 329                     shall be allocated as follows among the Member
            France                  7 127                     States :
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                            m metric tons                      imports of the product in question entered with the
         Benelux                  1 910                        customs authorities for home use.
          Denmark                    36
          Germany                 6 332                                               Article 4
          France                  1 782
                                                               At the Commission's request, Member States shall
          Ireland                    20
                                                               inform it of the imports actually charged against their
          Italy                   2 262                        shares .
         United Kingdom           2 323 .
                                                                                      Article 5
                       Article 3
                                                               Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
                                                               closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied
1 . Member States shall take all appropriate                   with .
measures to ensure that importers of the product in
question established in their territory have free access
to the shares allocated to them ,                                                     Article 6
2.    The extent to which a Member State has used              This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
up its share shall be determined on the basis of the           1977 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Luxembourg, 19 October 1976 .
                                                                                    For the Council
                                                                                     The President
                                                                                   M. van der STOEL