CELEX: 51978PC0606
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Date: 1978-11-17
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) temporarily suspending the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on a number of tropical products (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                              Brussels , 17 November 1978
                                     Proposal for a
                             COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
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          Tariff duties on a number of tropical products
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1 . In its Decision of 5 April 1976 the Council approved the Community
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     proceding to a duty reduction for some tropical products within the
     multilateral GATT negotiations .
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2 . This reduction has been put into force as a temporary duty suspension
     and will be inserted in the CCT after the results of the tariff
     negotiations >pf the Tokyo^Round , < see Regulations ( EEC ) N°s 2858 / 76 and 2745 / 77
     temporarily suspending the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties
     on a number of tropical products - ,0J No L 329 of 27.11.1976 .
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 ---pagebreak---                                                          Proposal for a
                                 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) ^                    "
              temporarily suspending the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on a
                                          number of tropical products                                          •
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                   this duty suspension should be prolonged
 COMMUNITIES.                                                  until 31 December 1979 .
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 113
 thereof.
                                                              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to the proposal from the
Commission ,,                                                     Mï                         ,
Wh^r-eas in i t s ReauLeit ior»s ( EEC)N0 s 2858/ 76                                 Ar"r" '
C?L    suspended             ^oun"*  within
work of the multilateral GATT negotiations,
                                             the  Irame-
                                                     the
                                                              From    I January   to 31  December 1979/ *he auto-
                                                            ' nomous Common Customs Tariff duties for the
Common Customs Tariff duties on certain tropical , : products listed in the Annex shall be suspended at the
products, until 31 December 1978 ;                            levels indicated in respect of each of them.
Whereas, since the full results of these negotiations                                Artirle 2
for a definitive alteration of the Common Customs ' > This Regulation shall enter into force on .1 January
Tariff are not be known at present /                           1979 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in . all Member
              States.         ■ '     '                                                               . *
            . Done at Brussels,
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< 1 > OJ        I 329 of 27.11.1976 / p. 9
< 2 > OJ N° L 318 of 13.12.1977/ p. 1
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                                        •                             *          lUu of
      CCT
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    hcadtfif                                  Deacripôo*
       N«                                                                         dutjr
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08.01 F          Cashew nuts , fresh or dried, shelled or                         0
                 not
09.01 A
   I a)          Coffee , unroasted , not freed of '
                 caffeine                                                         5
                                                                                        f
                                                                                            1
                                                                                                i
18.01            Cocoa beans, whole or broken, ra% or roasted • • . » , ,»• i      3 ■        ,
18.02            Coco® shells, husks, skins snd wivti        t          WWW
                                                                                   3
 ---pagebreak---                                                   Annex to doc .
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                                                 Date
                                                Chapter 120 . Article 120
1.  Budget Line concerned :
   Title of activity 'Proposal
    the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on a number of tropical
    products                  .
3. Legal basis :     Art . '13   Treaty of Rome
4. Objectives of the activity :
   Suspension of CCT duties for goods mentioned under 2 for the period from 1.1 until
                                                                         31.12.1979
                                                    1.1 until 31.12 . 1979
   Costs of the activity
   to the account of the EC budget                    2.525.890
   by non collection of duties