CELEX: 51994PC0586
Language: en
Date: 1994-12-08
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) on the suspension of the import levy on sheepmeat and goatmeat sector products

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                       COM(94) 586 final
                                       Brussels, 08.12.1994
                                       94/0290 (ACC)
                          Proposal for a
                     COUNCIL REGULATION (EC)
      on the suspension of the import levy on sheepmeat and
                     goatmeat sector products
                  (presented by the Commission)
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak---                            Explanatory memorandum
In the sheepmeat and goatmeat sector, voluntary restraint agreements exist
with Romania and Iceland and equivalent unilateral arrangements exist with
those countries with which no voluntary restraint agreement (regulation
(EEC) No 3643/85) has been concluded. Regulation          (EEC) No 3842/92
suspended collection of the levy on imports originating in the above-
mentioned countries until 31 December 1994.
A voluntary restraint agreement was concluded with the Socialist Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia in 1981, but certain details of the management of
the import arrangements laid down were suspended and replaced by Regulation
 (EEC) No 3125/92 which establishes the arrangements applicable to Bosnia-
Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Serbia and the former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia.
Pending the implementation for this sector of the access commitments in the
GATT Uruguay Round Agreement on 1.7.95 it is necessary to provide for
interim access arrangements for sheepmeat and goatmeat.
Negotiations with Argentina, Australia, Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech
Republic, New Zealand, Poland, the Slovak Republic and Uruguay have led to
the extension of the adjustments to the voluntary restraint agreements
until 3 0 June 1995 and consequently the collection of the levy applicable
to those countries is suspended until that date.
This draft Regulation extends that suspension, subject           to  certain
quantitative limits, to the other supplier countries.
Financial impact :     This measure has no financial impact on the Community
                       budget
 ---pagebreak---                                  Proposal for a
                       COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No ..../..
                                     of . . .
             on the suspension of the import levy on sheepmeat and
                            goatmeat sector products
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and      in
particular Article 228(2) and the first subparagraph of 228(3),           in
conjunction with Article 113;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission;
Whereas the Community has voluntary restraint agreements with Romania and
Iceland and equivalent unilateral arrangements established by Council
Regulation (EEC) No 3643/85 of 19 December 1985 concerning the import
arrangements applicable to certain third countries in the sheepmeat and
goatmeat sector as from 1986^ 1 ';
Whereas, pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3609/93 of 17 December
199g suspending the import levy on products of the sheepmeat and goatmeat
sector' 2 'the levy on the import of live sheep and goats and sheepmeat and
goatmeat from the abovementioned countries in particular has been suspended
until 31 December 1994;
Whereas a voluntary restraint agreement was concluded with the Socialist
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1981; whereas, while the substance of the
Agreement remained unchanged, certain details of the management of the
import arrangements laid down were suspended and replaced by Council
Regulation    (EEC) No 3125/92 of 26 October 1992 on the arrangements
applicable to the importation into the Community of sheepmeat and goatmeat
products originating in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro,
Serbia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia^ 3 ';
Whereas it is necessary to provide for interim arrangements for trade in
the sheepmeat and goatmeat sectors pending the implementation for this
sector of the access in the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade on 1.7.1995;
Whereas    negotiations   with Argentina, Australia, Bulgaria,     the Czech
Republic, Hungary, New Zealand, Poland, the Slovak Republic and Uruguay
have led to the extension of the adjustments to the voluntary restraint
agreements until 30 June 1995 and consequently the collection of the levy
applicable to those countries is suspended until that date;
 (1)  OJ L 348, 24.12.198 5, p. 2 Regulation as last amended by regulation
       (EEC) No 3890/92 (OJ L391, 31.12.1992, p. 5 1 ) .
 (2)  OJ L 328, 29.12.1993, p.4.
 (3)  OJ L 313, 30.10.1992, p. 3
 ---pagebreak--- Whereas it seems appropriate to extend the above suspension, subject to
certain quantitative limits, to all supplier countries;
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                 Article 1
Notwithstanding the voluntary restraint agreements concluded with Iceland,
the   Socialist   Federal   Republic   of  Yugoslavia    and  Romania   and
notwithstanding Regulation (EEC) No 3643/85, the collection of the levy on
imports of sheepmeat and goatmeat sector products falling within CN codes
0204, 0104 1030, 0104 1080 and 0104 2090 from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia,
Iceland, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia and
the countries referred to in the said Regulation shall be suspended until
30 June 1995.
For the countries referred to in the abovementioned agreements, the
quantity for the first six months of 1995 will be 50% of the figure agreed
for the whole of the year 1995, but it may be exceeded by up to 20%, which
will be taken into account during the subsequent period.
                                 Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the
Official Journal of the European Communities.
It shall apply from 1 January 1995.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in
all Member States.
Done at Brussels, ... December 1994.
                                      For the Council
                                      The President
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