CELEX: 51976PC0243
Language: en
Date: 1976-05-26
Title: DRAFT OF A Council Regulation suspending the autonomous duties in the Common Customs Tariff on certain goods intended for the victims of Italian regions affected in the earthquake of May 1976 (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                    COM(76)243 final .
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                                  DRAFT OF A
                              Council Regulation
  suspending the autonomous duties in the Common Customs Tariff
                                                        (
      on certain goods intended for the victims of Italian
                                                           !
          regions affected in the earthquake of May 1976
              ( su (submitted to the Council by the Commission)
                                                                              /
   C0;:(76 ) 243 final .
 ---pagebreak---                          EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1. Within the framework of the " action de solidarite concertee - Italie
    ( tariff measures ) and wi|th the aim of contributing to the efforts
   undertaken to carry out at the earliest moment the work of clearing
   and reconstruction as well as the rapid resumption of the interrupted
   economic activities in the Italian regions destroyed by earthquake ,
   the Commission makes proposals to the Council , in this Regulation, for
   the total suspension of autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on a
   certain number of products .
2. It is stressed that these suspensions apply solely the goods which :
   - are intended for the work of clearing or construction carried out
       in the Italian regions rendered disaster areas by the earthquake of
       May 1976 , or
   - are intended ta replace destroyed industrial technical equipment
       and
   - are not immediately available in the Community .
3. The Italian Government are to lay down the additional conditions to
   which admission shall be subject in order to benefit from the above-
   mentioned suspension, and are to inform the Commission accordingly .
4. The measures proposed here are of short and well-defined duration .
5. The Commission reserves the right to propose to the Council other
   tariff measures in so far as it is informed by the Italian Government
   that additional products are required for the disaster area .
 ---pagebreak---                               DRAFT OF A
                          Council Regulation
     suspending the autonomous duties in the Common Customs Tariff
         on certain goods intended for the victims of Italian
            regions affected in the earthquake of May 1976
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community
and in particular Article 28 thereof ;
Having regard to the draft Regulation submitted by the Commission ;
Whereas in May 1976 severe earth tremors in the north of Italy caused
extreme devastation and almost completely destroyed the economic basis of
existance for the survivors ;
Whereas it is of the utmost importance that the work of clearing and
reconstruction should be undertaken as quickly as possible , and that there
should be rapid resumption of the economic activities interrupted in the
region concerned ;
Whereas for this purpose a contribution for the realization of these
objectives may be made through total suspension of autonomous Common
Customs Tariff duties on certain categories of goods for construction and
prefabricated houses for urgent use in the disaster areas , as well as goods
imported to replace destroyed industrial technical equipment ;
Whereas it is important to limit admission under this suspension to goods
intended for the abovementioned disaster areas , under conditions to be
fixed by the Italian Government , and in particular in as much as such goods
are not immediately available in the Community ; whereas they shall inform
the Commission of the measures so taken ;
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                                    - 2 -
                                                          i
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                               Article 1
The autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties for the products listed in the
                                                     t
 table annexed to this Regulation shall be totally suspended until 31
December 1976 .
                               Article 2
 1.   This suspension shall apply only to goods intended for the work
      of clearing and reconstruction carried out in the Italian regions
      rendered a disaster area by earthquake in May 1976 , or to goods
      intended to replace destroyed industrial technical equipment .
2.    The Italian Government shall lay down additional conditions to which
      admission shall be subject in order to benefit from the abovementioned
      suspension, and in particular to prevent suspension being given to
      goods imported from third countries when such goods are immediately
      available in the Community .
                               Article 3
The Italian Government shall inform the Commission of the conditions
referred to in Article 2 15 days from their entry into force .
                               Article 4
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of 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
 ---pagebreak---                                                             ANNEX
Tariff
heading                           Description of goods
No
ex 44.23 B and  Houses of wood , sectional , either complete or essential
ex 68.11        parts , and articles of cement , concrete or artificial
                stone ( including granulated marble agglomerated with
                cement ) , reinforced or not
84.09           Mechanically propelled road rollers
ex 84.10        Pumps ( including motor pumps and turbo pumps ) for
                liquids
ex 84.11        Air or gas compressors ( including motor and turbo
                compressors )
ex 84.21        Mechanical appliances (whether or not hand operated)
                for projecting dispersing or spraying liquids or
                powders )
84.22 B and D   Lifting , ■ handing , loading or unloading machinery ,
                telphers or conveyors
84.23 A      ex Excavating , levelling , tamping , boring and extracting
                machinery , stationary or mobile , for earth , minerals
                or ores ( for example , mechanical shovels , coal-cutters ,
                excavators , scrapers , levellers and bulldozers ); pile-
                drivers
ex 87.02 B II   Dumpers
a 1 aa)
ex 87.03        Special purpose motor lorries and vans ( such as breakdown
                lorries , fire-engines , fire-escapes , road sweeper lorries ,
                spraying lorries , crane lorries , searchlight lorries , mobile
                workshops and mobile radiological units )
Miscellaneous   Machines and apparatus for the textile industry
                     "               "     for the food mdustry
                     "               "     for the wood industry