CELEX: 51974PC0080
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Date: 1974-01-30
Title: Proposal for a REGULATION (EEC) of THE COUNCIL supplementing Regulation (EEC) No 2142/70 as regards the import system for carp and trout (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                     COM(73)80 final
                                                     Brussels , 30 January 1974
                                Proposai for a
                        REGULATION (EEC ) of THE COUNCIL
         supplementing Regulation (EEC ) FO 2142/70 as regards the
                           import system for carp and trout
                     ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
   Ca;(74 ) 80 final
 ---pagebreak---                          EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
       Proposal for a Council Regulation ( EEC ) No
       amending Regulation ( EEC) No 21^2/70 by introducing a
       Community import system for carp and trout
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At the time of the adoption of Regulation ( EE0 )L NO/ 2142/V ?0 JOIT the .common
organization of the market in fishery products a Community system
for carp and trout had not been introduced .
The Council , however , declared in a statement contained in the
minutes that the Community should , at a future date , set up a
Community import system for these products , ensuring adequate
protection for Community production , and should , as a preliminary
measure , open the necessary negociations with the third countries
supplying these products to enable such a system to be set .
The object of the proposed Regulation is to introduce a Community
system for these tv/o types of fish .
In the case of trout , the problem has practically vanished with the
accession of Denmark which is the largest supplier within the EEC .
Hence , free importation may be provided for .
In the case of carp , free importation should be accompanied by
protective measures at the frontier . This is due to the fact that
the import price of carp from supplying countries ( Yugoslavia ,
Hungary , Poland and Czechoslavakia) is much lower than the
production price within the Community . It is proposed , therefore ,
that reference prices be introduced and that a compensatory tax be
collected where these prices are not observed . This tax , however ,
as in the case of certain other agricultural products which are
subject to market organization , will not be collected from third
countries which , by arrangement with the Community , are prepared
to guarantee observance of the reference price .
 ---pagebreak---                             Proposal . for a
                        REGULA.TTOH (EEC ) OF THE C0CW3IL
        supplementing Regulation ( EEC ) No 21H2/70 as regards
        the import system for carp and trout
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic
Community , and in particular Article k~5 thereof ;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission }
Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parliament ;
Whereas , pending the setting up of a Community import system for
carp and trout , Article 17(3 ) of Régulation ( EEC ) No 2142/70 ( l ) c?
20 October 19?0 on the ccrxion organization of the narket in fi Query products
as lost anended "by         ( 2 ), authorized the Member States to na:'.ntp.7n ten
porarily the quentitotive restrictions that they apply to the irrport of the
products ;
Whereas it is now possible , as regards the two products in question ,
to discontinue all quantitative restrictions at the external                  '
frontier of the Comcunity ,. subject to the fixing , for carp , of a
reference price in order to avoid disturbances on the Community
market by importing at exceptionally low prices ;
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
*0J No L 236., 27 October 1970 , p-5
 » OJ No L    ,                    , p«
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                                  Article 1
In Article 17(3 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 21^2/70 the words "products
listed in Annex IV(A) and (C )" are replaced by the words "products
listed in Annex IV(C )".
                                  Article 2
In Regulation ( EEC ) No 21^2/70 Article 18a is inserted as follows :
                                  " Article l8a
1.   In order to obviate disturbances caused by offers from third
     countries at abnormally low prices , reference prices for carp
    referred to in Annex IV(A).shall be fixed before the beginning ,
    of each marketing year . They may vary , during periods to be
    determined within each marketing year , according to seasonal
    fluctuations in prices .
2.  The reference prices shall be fixed on the basis of the average
    of the production prices recorded during the three years
    preceding the - date 6n " which the - reference price is fixed for a
    product which is defined as regards its commercial characteristics
    in representative production zones within the Community .
3«  If the free-at-frontier price of a consignment of a normal
    commercial quantity of . carp coming from a determined place is .
    lower than the reference price , the imports of those products
    shall be subject to .a compensatory tax equal to the difference
    between the reference price and the free-at -frontier price plus
    the customs duty effectively levied . The Commission shall follow
    regularly the developments in the respective free-at-frontier
    prices of products imported from each source .
    The compensatory tax shall not , however , be collected in the
    case of third countries which are prepared to guarantee , and are
    in a position to do so , that when carp which originate in and "
    come from their territory are imported into the Community , the
    price plus the customs duty effectively levied shall not be less
    then the reference price and that defle.Qfcions of trade will be
    avoided .
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5.  Detailed, rules for the application of this Article , in particular
    the level of the reference price shall be laid down according to
    the procedure provided for in Article 29 »
    Decisions as to the introduction , amendment and discontinuance
    of the compensatory tax and the admission of third countries to
    the benefits of paragraph 4 shall be taken in accordance with
    the same procedure .
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following
its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
applicable in all Member States .
Done at Brussels ,'                             _        „    ...
                                                For the Council
                                                The Président