CELEX: 51981PC0346
Language: en
Date: 1981-07-06
Title: Draft for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for dried grapes in immediate containers of a net capacity of 15 kilograms or less falling within subheading 08.04 B I of the Common Customs Tariff (1982) (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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COM (81) 346
Vol. 1981/0110
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                                                     COM(81 ) 346 final
                                                     Brussels , 6 July 1981
                                 Draft for a
                             COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
     opening , allocating and providing for the administration of a Community
     tariff quota for dried grapes in immediate containers of a net capacity
     of 15 kilograms or less falling within subheading 08.04 B I of the
                              Common Customs Tariff
                                    ( 1982 )
             ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
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1 . The draft Regulation annexed hereto concerns' the orga omr.es
       Community tariff quota to be opened for 1982 in respect of
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       dried grapes in immediate containers of.;a net capacity of
       15 kg or less falling within subheading No 08.04 B 1 of the
     • Common Customs Tariff .
       Provision was first made for such quota in the trade agreement
       concluded between the Community and Iran.' Since , however .
       that agreement expired on 30 November 1973 and was not renewed ,
       the Community considered it desirable since 1974 to open an
       autonomous tariff quota on the terms and conditions .fixed for
       that agreement .                                        \
                         *                                       , "
       At the consultation meeting held in        April 1981
       the delegations of the Member States pronounced themselves in
       favour of the opening for the year . 1982 of an autonomous tariff \
       quota at a duty of 1.2 % of which the amount is' limited to 15 %
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       of actual Community imports in 1973 , coming from third countries
       not associated with the Community nor linked with it by a pre­
        ferential agreement .           "     ,
2 . Since the Community tariff quota in question is relatively small
        compared with total imports into the Community and since all the
        Member States will undoubtedly exhaust their shares rapidly , a
        division of the quota into shares allocated definitively to
   • each Member State would not appear to : compromise the Community
        nature of; the quota . This solution : has been adopted in similar
    . situations in the past .                  ' :
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3 . The- shares to be allocated on this basis to the Member States ,
        and their respective total 1973 i .:nport1 s : f rom non-associated ,
        third countries , are shown in the following table ; it being
        understood that , to safeguard the Community character of the quota , ■
        it is necessary to allocate a share to Greece by removing an
        equivalent amount from the shares of the ether Member States .
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                 Total 1973 imports    !           :       Quota share
Bénélux                 5 275           .                    . - 790
Denmark                 2 236                                     334
Germany                15 567 .     1      .< 14     .        2 334
Greece      "  .            0         '                 1           7
France                  3                                         571
Ireland                 1 868                                     279
Italy                     205             ' N                    • 30
United Kingdom         26 859                    .            4 028 -
                       55 821                                 8 373
 ---pagebreak---                                               DRAFT FOR A
                                    COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
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                 opening , allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff
                 quota for dried grapes in immediate containers of a net capacity of IS kilograms
                 or less falling within subheading 08.04 B I of the Common Customs Tariff < 1 98 2)
   THK COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN
   COMMUNITIES,                                               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                          Artide !
   Economic Community, and in particular Article 28
   thereof, :                                                  1.     During the period 1 January to 31 December
                                                              1982a Community tariff quota of 8 373 tonnes shall
   Having regard to the -draft Regulation submitted by         be opened for dried grapes in immediate containers of
   the Commission , ;             ■
                                                               a net capacity of 15 kilograms or less falling within
  Whereas a Community tariff quota for dried grapes in          subheading 08.04 B I of the Common Customs Tariff.
  immediate containers of a net capacity of IF kilo­
  grams or less, falling within subheading 08.04 13 I of i 2. Within the limits of' this tariff quota, the
  the Common Customs Tariff, should be opened for I Common Customs Tariff duty shall be suspended at
   lV82at a duty of 1-2 % the volume of which shall be I the level of 1-2% .
  limited to 15 % of Community imports in 1973 from
  third countries not associated with the Community or Within the limits of this tariff quot
  linked to it by a preferential agreement ; whereas, on ■ quota , Greece shaLl apply duties .
  this basis, the volume of the quota is fixed at 8 373 Calculated in accordance with the
 tonnes ;        .                                 .          relevant provisions laid down in the'
                                                               Act of Accession                        1         -     ■   .
    Whereas , in view of the negligible
    size of such a quota in compar i son                      3. . Imports of the product in question benefiting
    with the Community 's requi rement s , .                  from the same or lower customs duties under other '
    a system of utilization should ,                          preferential arrangements shall not be charged against
                                                             this tariff quota.
    without derogating from the Communi­
    ty nature of the tariff quota , be
   provided , based on a single alloca- .
    tion between the Member States ;
                                                                                                Article 2
    whereas this allocation should be
    calculated by ,the same method as is
    used to establish a total quota of                       The tariff quota set out in Article 1 shall be divided
    15 % of the imports'of each                              among 'the Member States as follows :
   Member State from the same third                            1 ■■       ! "     ■     ■ :     1    .       . .                   • . -
    countries ; whereas , in order to
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    safeguard the Community nature of                         !' • 'Bénélux                                              790
    the quota , a share should be allo­                       !         Denmark " . ..                                   334
    cated to Greece by levying the same                             . Germany               . ,                     2 334
    percentage' on the share allocated -                                Greece                                                 7
    to each of the other Member States ;                                France                  :                        571
    whereas , calculated in such a .                                    Ireland                                          279
    manner , this" al location should be                          V 'Italy                         .                      30
    as set out in Article 2 ;                                           United Kingdom                              4 028                     .
                                                                      !                                           .  .         . .
   Whereas, since the Kingdom , of Belgium, the ;                                               Article J
    Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of
    Luxembourg are united within and jointly represented
   by the Benelux Economic Union, any measure 1 .                     Member States shaij take all appropriate
< concerning the administration of the quotas allocated      measures         to ensure that importers of the product in
    to that economic union may be carried out by any question established in their territory have free access
   one of its members.                                       to the shares allocated to them ,                               ■           ._
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2.    The extent to which a Member State has used up
its share shall be determined on the basis of the
  imports Of the p.oduct in question entered with the                                Art nie 5
 customs authorities for free circulation.
                                                             Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
                       Artide 4                              closely to ensure
                                                             with .      .
                                                                                that- this Regulation is complied
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 At the Commission s request, Member States shall                                    Article 6
 inform it of the imports actually charged against their
 shares.                                                     1 his Regulation shall enter into force' on 1 lanuarv
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              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable - in all Member
              Done at Brussels,
                                                                       For the Council
                                                                         The President