CELEX: 31986R0593
Language: en
Date: 1986-02-28
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 593/86 of 28 February 1986 laying down certain detailed rules for the application of the quantitative restrictions on imports into Spain and Portugal of agricultural products from third countries and the system of import and export licences

No L 58 /6                                   Official Journal of the European Communities                                   1.3.86
                                            COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 593/86
                                                            of 28 February 1986
                    laying down certain detailed rules for the application of the quantitative restrictions on
                    imports into Spain and Portugal of agricultural products from third countries and the
                                                    system of import and export licences
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                           Whereas, in accordance with the provisions of Arti­
 COMMUNITIES,                                                             cles 77 and 245 of the Act of Accession, Spain and Por­
                                                                          tugal may, from 1 March 1986, apply quantitative res­
                                                                          trictions on imports of certain agricultural products
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                     from third countries ;
Economic Community,
                                                                         Whereas , in the context of the supplementary trade
 Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                      mechanism , the quantity of certain products imported
 Portugal ,                                                              from third countries and released for free circulation in
                                                                         Spain must not exceed a quantity equivalent to that
 Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No 569/ 86                   specified in Article 84 of the Act of Accession in res­
of 25 February 1986 laying down general rules of appli­                  pect of corresponding products ; whereas, indirectly,
cation of the supplementary trade mechanism ('), and                     that provision introduces quantitative restrictions simi­
in particular Article 7 thereof,                                         lar to that applicable to import into Portugal or Spain
                                                                         of certain agricultural products from third countries ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No 491 / 86
of 25 February 1986 laying down detailed rules con­                      Whereas, in the interests of simplification and adminis­
cerning quantitative restrictions on imports into Spain                  trative efficiency, provision should be made for these
of certain agricultural products from third countries (2),               quantitative restrictions to be administered by the com­
and in particular Article 3 thereof,                                     petent authorities of the Member State in which they
                                                                         apply ; whereas provision should therefore be made for
                                                                         the putting into free circulation of the products in ques­
Having      regard        to     Council     Regulation     ( EEC)       tion to be conditional on the issue of documents by the
 No 2727 / 75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organ­                    abovementioned authorities ; whereas such documents
ization of the market in cereals (3), as last amended by                 must replace those which may be provided for by Com­
 Regulation ( EEC) No 1018 / 84 (4), and in particular                   munity rules in respect of the product concerned ;
Articles 12 (2), 15 (5 ), 16(6) and 24 thereof, and the cor­
responding provisions in the other Regulations on the
common organization of the market in agricultural                        Whereas products subject to quantitative restrictions
 products,                                                               may, on importation into Spain and Portugal , have had
                                                                         levies fixed in advance applied to them ; whereas , to
                                                                         take such situation in particular into account, Spain
Whereas imports of products referred to in Article 259                   and Portugal should be authorized to use as a docu­
of the Act of Accession from Portugal into the other                     ment the import licence or advance-fixing certificate
Community Member States are, during the first stage,                     referred to in Annex I to Commission Regulation
subject to the arrangements applicable to Portugal by                    ( EEC) No 3183 / 80 (5);
the Community before accession ; whereas the imports
in question will therefore be subject to the presentation
of an import licence ; whereas from 1 March 1986,                        Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
imports into Portugal from third countries may, pur­                     are in accordance with the opinions of all the Manage­
suant to Article 277 of the Act of Accession , be subject                ment Committees concerned,
to the presentation of an import licence ; whereas ,
accordingly, and in view of the arrangements for calcu­
lating the import levies, which may vary depending on                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
the type of trade concerned, the field of each type of
trade should be specified and provision should be
made for including certain forms of wording in the                                                       Article 1
import licences ;
                                                                          1 . For products subject to a transition by stages,
                                                                         import licences without advance fixing of the levy
(')  OJ No   L 55 , 1.3 . 1986, p. 106 .
O    OJ No   L 54, 1 . 3 . 1986, p. 25 .
(-<) OJ No   L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975 , p. 1 .
(■») OJ No   L 107 , 19 . 4. 1984, p. 1 .                                 (?)   OJ No L 338 , 12 . 12 . 1980, p. 1 .
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which are applied for in Member States other than Por­           — ' Gültig, in der übrigen Gemeinschaft für Erzeug­
tugal shall be valid for products imported into those                  nisse mit Bestimmung Portugal '
Member States from third countries or Portugal .                 — Ίσχυει στην Κοινοτητα των ένδεκα για τα
                                                                       προϊόντα με προορισμό την Πορτογαλία'
2 . For products subject to a transition by stages,
import licences with advance fixing of the levy which            — ' Valid, in Community Member States other than
are applied for from 1 March 1986 in Member States                     Portugal , for products bound for Portugal '
other than Portugal shall not be valid for products              — ' Válido en la Comunidad de los Once para los
imported from Portugal unless the party concerned                      productos con destino a Portugal '
submits a request to that effect.                                — ' Valable dans la Communauté à onze pour les pro­
                                                                       duits à destination du Portugal '
For the purposes of the first subparagraph , box 12 of
the application for a licence and the licence shall              — ' Valido nella Comunità a 1 1 per i prodotti a destin­
                                                                       azione del Portogallo '
include one of the following forms of wording :
                                                                 — ' Geldig in de Gemeenschap van Elf voor produk­
— 'Gyldig i De Elleve for produkter fra Portugal '
                                                                       ten met bestemming Portugal '
— 'Gültig in der übrigen Gemeinschaft für Erzeug­
     nisse mit Herkunft aus Portugal '
                                                                 — 'Valido na Comunidade a Onze para os produtos
                                                                       com destino a Portugal '
— Ισχύει στην Κοινοτητα των ενδεκα για τα
     προϊόντα καταγωγής Πορτογαλίας'
— ' Valid, in Community Member States other than
      Portugal , for products from Portugal '                                                Article 2
— 'Válido en la Comunidad de los Once para los
     productos procedentes de Portugal '                         Where, pursuant to Articles 77 and 245 of the Act of
                                                                 Accession , Spain and Portugal apply quantitative res­
— 'Valable dans la Communauté à Onze pour les pro­               trictions to imports of certain products from third coun­
     duits en provenance du Portugal '                           tries, those products shall be put into free circulation
— 'Valido nella Comunità a 1 1 per i prodotti in pro­            subject to the presentation, to a competent customs of­
      venienza dal Portogallo '                                  fice, of a document issued by the competent authorities
                                                                 of the importing Member State .
— ' Geldig in de Gemeenschap van Elf voor produk­
      ten uit Portugal '
— 'Válido na Comunidade a Onze para os produtos
      provenientes de Portugal '                                                             Article 3
3.    Subject to the provisions of Article 278 to 282 of          1 . Where the market organization for the products
the Act of Accession , in the case of products referred to        concerned provides for an import licence, provision
 in Article 277 of the said Act, import licences, with or         may be made for allowing that import licence to be
 without advance fixing of the levy, must be applied for          replaced by the document required under Article 2 .
 in Portugal and shall be valid in Portugal only .
                                                                  2 . Spain and Portugal may use the import licence or
 For the purposes of the first paragraph , box 12 of the          advance-fixing certificate referred to in Annex I to
 application for a licence and the licence shall include          Regulation ( EEC ) No 3183 / 80 as the document
 one of the following forms of wording :                          referred to in Article 2 .
— 'Gyldig i Portugal '
                                                                  In such a case, one of the following entries must be
 — ' Giiltig in Portugal'                                         made in box 12
 — ' Ia^uei arr|v nopxoya?da'                                     — 'Gyldig i Spanien for produkter fra tredjelande'
 — 'Valid in Portugal '                                           — 'Gültig in Spanien für Erzeugnisse mit Herkunft
 — ' Valido en Portugal'                                                aus Drittländern '
 — 'Valable au Portugal '                                         — Ισχύει στην Ισπανία για τα προϊόντα καταγωγής
 — ' Valido in Portogallo '                                             τρίτων χωρών'
 — ' Geldig in Portugal '                                         — ' Valid in Spain , for products from third countries '
  — 'Valido em Portugal '                                         — 'Válido en España para los productos procecentes
                                                                        de terceros países'
                                                                   — 'Valable en Espagne pour les produits en prove­
  4. The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 shall apply                   nance des pays tiers'
  mutatis mutandis to export licences . The form of word­
  ing specified in paragraph 2 shall be replaced by one of         — 'Valido in Spagna per i prodotti in provenienza dai
  the following :                                                       paesi terzi '
  — 'Gyldig i De Elleve for produkter til Portugal '               — ' Geldig in Spanje voor produkten uit derde landen
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— 'Válido em Espanha para os produtos provenientes            — ' Geldig in Portugal voor produkten uit derde lan­
   dos paises terceiros'                                           den '
—  or                                                         — 'Válido em Portugal para os produtos provenientes
— ' Gyldig i Portugal for produkter fra tredjelande'               dos paises terceiros '
— 'Gültig in Portugal für Erzeugnisse mit Herkunft
   aus Drittländern '
                                                                                         Article 4
— ' Ισχύει στην Πορτογαλία για τα προϊοντα
   καταγωγής τρίτων χωρών'
                                                              Articles 2 and 3 shall also apply where products from
— 'Valid in Portugal , for products from third coun­          third countries identical to those referred to in Article
   tries '                                                    84(1 ) of the Act of Accession are put into free circu­
— 'Válido en Portugal para los productos procedentes          lation in Spain .
   de terceros países'
— 'Valable au Portugal pour les produits en prove­
   nance des pays tiers '                                                                 Article 5
— 'Valido in Portogallo per i prodotti in provenienza
   dai paesi terzi '                                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 March 1986 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 28 February 1986
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                          Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                              Vice-President