CELEX: 51983PC0159
Language: en
Date: 1983-03-28
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for rum, arrack and tafia falling within subheading 22.09 C I of the Common Customs Tariff and originating in the ACP States (1983/84) (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                                   C0PK83) 159 f i n a l
                                                                  Brussels,      28 March 1983
                                                Proposal for a
                                           CQUNCIL_REGyLATION_(EEC)
         opening,           a l l o c a t i n g and p r o v i d i n g f o r t h e a d m i n i s t r a t i o n
             o f a Community t a r i f f q u o t a f o r rum, a r r a c k and t a f i a
        f a l l i n g w i t h i n s u b h e a d i n g 2 2 . 0 9 C I o f t h e Common Customs
                Tariff        and o r i g i n a t i n g i n t h e ACP S t a t e s     (1983/84)
                     ( s u b m i t t e d t o t h e C o u n c i l by t h e Commi ssi on)
  COM( 8 3 )    159 f i n a l
 ---pagebreak---                                                       EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
P r o t o c o l No 5 a n n e x e d t o t h e Co n v e n t i o n b e t we e n t h e ACP S t a t e s and
t h e EEC (Lomé I I )            provides that the products f a l l i n g                         w i t h i n sub­
h e a d i n g No 2 2 . 0 9 C I o f t h e CCT (rum, a r r a c k , t a f i a ) ,                      originating
i n t h e ACP S t a t e s ,         s h a l l be i mp o r t e d d u t y f r e e i n t o t h e Communi ty.
These p r e f e r e n t i a l       a r r a n g e me n t s a r e r e s t r i c t e d t o a q u a n t i t y whi ch
 i s t o be f i x e d a n n u a l l y by t h e Community on t h e b a s i s o f t h e                           largest
quantifies          i mp o r t e d a n n u a l l y from t h e ACP S t a t e s d u r i n g t h e                last
 t h r e e y e a r s f o r whi hc s t a t i s t i c s        are a v a i l a b l e ,    i n c r e a s e d by c e r t a i n
 annu al gr owt h r a t e s .
 The p r e f e r e n t i a l    s y s t e m i n q u e s t i o n s h o u l d t h e r e f o r e be put i n t o f o r c e
 and a Community t a r i f f q u o t a s h o u l d be ope ne d f o r rum, a r r a c k and
 tafia         originating        i n t h e ACP S t a t e s .        B e c a u s e t h e r e has a l r e a d y be e n
  t a k e n adme as u r e u n t i l 30 June 1983 t h i s t a r i f f quot a s h o u l d be o p e n e d f o r t h e
  p e r i o d 1 J u l y 1983 t o 30 June 1 9 84.
  Community i mp o r t s o f t h e g oods c o n c e r n e d d u r i n g t h e                    l a s t th ree years
  ware a s f o l l o w       :
                                                                        -    in h e c t o l i t r e s o f pure a l c o h o l -
                                                                         1980                        1981                1982
   Benelux                                                            15 860                          5 656              5 820
   Denmark                                                               1 959                        2 004              1  76
   Germany                                                            34 295                        38 971            29 747
   Greece                                                                       41                          35             294
    France                                                               4 194                        2 705              2 445
    I re l and                                                           2 124                        2 619              2 307
    Italy                                                                     413                         328              333
    U n i t e d Kingdom                                                85 423                       79 756             72 693
    EC                                                               144 309                      132 074            115 615
 ---pagebreak---  The q u o t a vol ume t o be t a k e n i n t o a c c o u n t on t h i s b a s i s                     for the period
 1 J u l y 1983 t o 3D June 1984 s h o u l d be 189 077 h e c t o l i t r e s                             o f pure a l c o h o l .
 The administration of this tariff measure in the form of a Community
 tariff quota has the aim of ensuring that :
  -    i m p o r t s o f t h e p r o d u c t s i n q u e s t i o n do n o t e x c e e d t h e g l o b a l vol ume
       fixed,
   - e a c h Community i m p o r t e r h a s e q u a l and c o n t i n u o u s a c c e s s t o                  .he sa id
        quota,
   - the p referen tial                   rate i s applied without i n te r r u p tio n t o a l l                  imports
         in a l l       t h e Member S t a t e s ,     and
    -    i n p a r t i c u l a r , the p r e f e r e n t i a l   r a t e i s a p p l i e d u n i f o r m l y and c o n s t a n ­
         tly      t h r o u g h o u t t h e Communi ty.
     The f a c i l i t y         f o r d r awi ng s u p p l e m e n t a r y q u o t a - s h a r e s from t h e Community
      r e s e r v e and t h e o b l i g a t i o n       t o r e t u r n unu s e d q u a n t i t i e s - t wo f u n d a m e n t a l
      rules        i n t h e c o n t e x t o f Community me a s u r e s - a r e c a p a b l e o f b e i n g run i n
      a c c o r d a n c e wi t h t h e s e p r i n c i p l e s .
5.     For t h e s e        reasons the pro v isio n s of the Regulation provide for the
       splitting             up o f t h e q u o t a vol ume i n t o two p a r t s ,              the f i r s t o f whi ch
       w i l l be a l l o c a t e d among t h e Member S t a t e s a s q u o t a s h a r e s , w i t h t h e
       s e c o n d f o r mi n g a r e s e r v e .
        The c a l c u l a t i o n o f t h e s e s h a r e s i s b a s e d on t h e i m p o r t s o f t h e p r o d u c t s
        i n q u e s t i o n from ACP S t a t e s d u r i n g t h e p r e v i o u s t h r e e y e a r s 1 9 8 0 , 1981
        and 1982 and t h e e c o n o mi c o u t l o o k f o r t h e p e r i o d i n q u e s t i o n ,               respecHw^
         however,           t h e growt h r a t e s m e n t i o n e d under p o i n t 1 .
  6 . The a n n e x e d t a b l e s hows i n d e t a i l                t h e amount s a c t u a l l y c h a r g e d , against
          the t a r i f f quotas in q u e s t i o n during t h e p e r i o d s 1 9 7 8 / 7 9 , 1 9 7 9 / 8 0 , 1980/81
          and 1 9 8 1 / 8 2 ) .
    7.     It    i s proposed t h a t t h e d r a f t           f o r a Council R e g u l a t i o n d e s c r i b e d above
           s h o u l d be a p p r o v e d ( s e e a n n e x ) .
 ---pagebreak---                                                              ACP - Rum - h e a d i n g 2 2 . 0 9 C I
      Amounts actuaLLy c h a r g e d a g a i n s t t h e t a r i f f q u o t a s ope ne d f o r 1 9 7 8 / 7 9 ,  1979/80,   1980/81   and 1 9 8 1 / 8 2
                             1978/79                                         1979/80                  !              1980/81                            1981/82
 Member             Volume of        Amount                 Volume of             Amount                 Volume of       Amount           Volume of         Amount
 State              the quota        actually               the quota             actually               the quota       actually         the quota         actually
                                     charged                                      charged                                charged                            charged
                     -  hi -         -hi-            %      -   hi -              -hi-          %        - hi -          -hi-         %   -   hi -          -hi-      %
Benelux                6 000            5 816         97          6 912              5 731      83           7 631         7 631    100     15 262             6 089  40
Denmark                3 698            1 448         39          3 722                938      25           2 443         1 235     50      2 157             2 056  95
Germany              24 706           24 706        100         33 979             28 531       84         35 714         32 194     90     45 000           23 905   75
Greece                     -                    -       -              -                  -      -                 -            -     -            49            -   —
France                 9 022           3 551          39          6 449             1 144       18          5 438         4 236      78      4 585            2 408  53
Ireland                1 000               492        49          2 704             1 154      43           3 209         2 008      63      2 678            2 109  79
Ita lie                  424               424      100              426               351     82               535         429      80         522              402 77
United Kingdom     116 957          103 872          89       122 645              85 256      69       123 330         78 097      63   118 825             74 378  63
C.E.               161 807          140 309          87       176 837            123 105       70       178 300        125 830      71   189 078           121 347   64
                 ______________L
 ---pagebreak---                                           PROPOSAL FOR A
                                C O U N C IL R E G U L A T IO N (EEC)
o p e n i n g , a l l o c a t i n g a n d p r o v i d i n g for th e a d m i n i s t r a t i o n o f a C o m m u n i t y ta riff
q u o t a for r u m , arrack a n d ta fia f a llin g w i t h i n s u b h e a d i n g 22.09 C I o f th e
        C o m m o n C u s t o m s T a r iff a n d o r i g i n a t i n g in th e A C P S ta t e s ( 1 9 8 3 /8 4 )
                           THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN
                           COMMUNITIES,
                            Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                            Economic Community, and in particular Article 113
                            thereof,
                            Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                            Whereas Protocol 5 annexed to the second ACP-EEC
                             Convention, signed at Lomé on 31 October 1979 C l ) ,
                             provides that products originating in the ACP States
                             which fall within subheading 22.09 C I of the
                             Common Customs Tariff shall, until the entry into
                             force of a common organization of the market in
                             spirits, be allowed into the Community free of
                             customs duties under conditions such as to permit the
                             development of traditional trade flows between the
                             ACP States and the Community and between the
                             Member States ; whereas the Community shall fix
                              each year the quantities which may be imported free
                              of customs duties on the basis of the largest quantities
                              imported annually from the ACP States into the
                           ^Ctfmmunity in the past three years for which statistics
                           k are available, increased by an annual growth rate of
                              40 % on the market of the United Kingdom and
                               18 % on the other markets of the C om m unity;
                                Whereas, having regard to the levels reached by
                                imports of the products concerned into the Commu­
                                nity and' the Member States during the past three
                                years for which statistics are available, the size of the
                                tariff quota for the period 1 July 1983 to 30 June
                                1984 should be fixed at189077 hectolitres of pure,
                                alcohol ;
                           CD OJ No 347, 2 2 . 1 2 . 1 9 8 0 , p. 141.
 ---pagebreak--- Whereas it is in particular necessary to ensure for all
Community importers equal and uninterrrupted
access     to ■ the      abovementioned      quota    and
uninterrupted application of the rates laid down for
that quota to all imports of the products concerned
into all Member States until the quota has been used
up; whereas, having regard to the above principles,
the Community nature of the quota can be respected
by allocating the Community tariff quota among the
Member States; whereas, in order to reflect as
accurately as possible the actual trend of the market
in the products in question, such allocation should be
in proportion to the requirements of the Member
States, calculated by reference to the statistics of each
State’s imports of the said products from ACP“ Countries
representative reference period and also to the
economic outlook for the quota period in question;
  Whereas, during the past three years for which statis­
  tics are available, the corresponding imports by each
  of the Member States represent the following percen­
  tages of the imports into the Community from the
  countries in question of the products concerned :
           Member States                   1980     1981     1982
  Benelux                                1 1 .0 0     4 .0 4   5 .0 3
                  t
  Denmark                                  1 .3 5     1 .2 3   1 .71
  Germany                                2 3 .7 7   2 4 .0 0 2 5 .7 4
   Greece '                                0 .0 3     0 .0 3   0 .2 5
   rrance                                  2 .9 0     1 .9 3   2 .1 1
   Ireland                                  1 .4 6    1 .4 6   2 .0 0
   Italy                                    0 .2 9    0 .2 3   0 .2 9
   United Kingdom'                       5 9 .2 0   6 7 .0 8 6 2 .8 7
   Whereas, in view of these factors of market forecasts
   for the products in question and of the estimates
   submitted by certain Member States, initial quota
   shares may be fixed approximately at the following
   percentages :
           Benelux                      6 .9 7
           Denmark                      1 .5 3
           Germany                    2 6 .2 8
             Greece                     0 .0 9
            trance                      238
            Ireland                      130
            Italy                        027
            United Kingdom             6 0 .6 8
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W hercas, in order to cake into account import trends
for the products concerned in the various Member
States, the quotq volume should be divided into two
instalments, the first being shared among the Member
States and the second constituting a reserve to cover
 ai a later date the requirements of Member States
 which have used up their initial quota shares;
 whereas, in order to give importers in each Member
 State a certain degree        security, the first instalment
 of the Community quota should, under the present
  circumstances, be fixed at9Q % of the quota volume;
  W hereas the M ember States’ initial shares may be
  used up at different times; whereas, in order to take
  this fact into account and avoid any break in
  continuity, any M ember State which has almost used
  up its initial share must draw an additional share from
   the reserve; whereas this must be done by each
   M ember State as and when each of its additional
    shares is almost entirely used up, and repeated as
    many times as the reserve allows; whereas the initial
    and additional shares must be valid until the end of
    the quota period; whereas this method of
    administration requires close cooperation between the
     Member States and—the Commission, and the
     Commission must be in a position to m onitor the
     extent to which the quota volume has been used up
     and inform the M ember States thereof;
     W hereas if, at a given date in the quota period, a
     considerable quantity is left over in any M ember
      State, it is essential that that M ember State should
      return a significant' proportion to the reserve to
      prevent a part of the Community quota from
      remaining unused'in one M ember State when it could
      be used in others;
       W hereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the
       Kingdom of the N etherlands and the Grand Duchy
       of Luxembourg arc united within and jointly
       represented by the Benelux Economic U nion, any
       operation relating to the administration of the quota
       shares allocated to that economic union may be
       carried out by any pne of its members,
 ---pagebreak---                                 -4-
          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                A rticle 1
   1 . From 1 July 198 3 to 30 June 1984 rum, arrack and
         tafia falling within subheading 22.09 C I of the
        Com m on Customs Tariff and originating in the ACP
        States, shall be imported duty free into the Com m u­
        nity           within the limits of a Community tariff
        quota of18 9 0 7 7 hectolitres of pure alcohol.
                                    as i n d i c a t e d in A r t i c l e 2
    2 . ‘W ithin the limit of its sh a re ,/th e Hellenic
          Republic shall apply customs duties calculated in
          accordance with the relevant provisions of the 1979
          Act of Accession and of Regulation (EEC) No
          439/81 ( P .
                               Article 2
      '1.     The Community tariff quota referred to in
      Article 1 shall be divided into two instalments.
      2.      A first instalment, amounting to 1 7 0 1 0 0
      hectolitres shall be shared among the Member States;
      the respective shares, which subject to Article 5 shall
      be valid until 30 June 1984 shall be as follows:
                               —i n h e c t o l i t r e s o f p u r e a l c o h o l -
       —     Benelux:                          11 .8 6 0
       —     Denmark:                            2 600
       —     Germany:                         44 700
       —     Greece:                                 150
       —     France:                             4 050
       —     Ireland:                            3 070
       —    Italy:                                   460
       —    United Kingdom:                 103 210
       3.      The second instalment of18 9 7 7 hectolitres shall
       constitute the reserve.
                               Article 3
       1.       If 90 % or more of a M ember State’s initial
      share s*5 specified in Article 2 (2), or of that share
    ' miputf the portion returned to the reserve, where
      Article 5 is applied, has been used up, that Member
      Stale shall without delay, by notifying the
      Commission, draw a second share equal to 1 0 % of
      its initial share, rounded up where necessary to the
      next unit, to the extent permitted by the am ount of
      the reserve.
(1 )     0 J No L 5 3 , 2 7 . 2 . 1 9 8 1 , p . 1 9 .
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                 t
2.      If, after its initial share has been used up, 90 %
or more of the second share drawn by a Member
State has been used up, that M ember State shall, in
accordance with the conditions laid down in
 paragraph 1, draw a third share equal to         5 % of its
 initial share, rounded up where necessary to the next
 unit.
 3.     If, after its second share has been used up, 90 %
 o r more of the third share drawn by a M ember State
has been used up, that Member State shah, in
accordance with the same conditions, draw a fourth
share equal to the third.
This process shall continue until the reserve is used
up.
4.      By way of derogation from paragraphs 1, 2 and
 3, a M em ber State may draw shares smaller than
 those fixed in those paragraphs if there is reason to
 believe that they might not be used up. It shall inform
 the Commission of its reasons for applying this
.paragraph.
                              Article 4
 Additional shares drawn pursuant to Article 3 shall be
 valid until 30 June 1 9 8 .4 .
                              Article 5
  T he M em ber States shall return to the reserve, not
  later than 1 April 198 4 the unused portion of their
  initial share which, on l£ M arch 198 4ps in excess of
  20 % of the initial volume. They may return a larger
  quantity if there are grounds for believing that this
  quantity may not be used.
  The M em ber States shall, not later than 1 April 1984,
  notify the Commission of the total quantities of the
  said goods imported, up to 15 M arch 198 4 inclusive
  and charged against the Community quota, and of
  any quantities of the initial shares returned to the
  reserve.'
 ---pagebreak---                         - 6-
                          Article 6
The Commission shall keep an account of the shares
opened by thei Member States pursuant to Articles 2
and 3 and shall as soon as it has been notified, inform
each State of the extent to which the reserve has been
used up.
It shall inform the Member States, not later than
5 April 198 4 of the amount in the reserve after
quantities have been returned pursuant to Article 5.
 The Commission shall ensure that the drawing which
 uses up the reserve is limited to the balance available
 and to this end shall specify the amount thereof to the
  Member State which makes the last drawing.
                          Article 7
 1.     T he Member States shall take all measures
necessary to ensure that additional shares drawn
pursuant to Article 3, are opened in such a way that
 imports may be charged without interruption against
 their accumulated shares of the Community quota.
  2.     T he Member States shall ensure that importers
  of the said products                              have
  free access to the shares allocated to them.
  3.     T he extent to which a Member State has used
  up its share shall be determined on the basis of the
   imports of thé goods in question entered with the
   customs authorities for free circulation.
                           Article  8
  1.    Member States shall inform the Commission
  each m onth of imports actually charged against the
  tariff quota.
   2 . The Commission shall regularly inform the
   Member States of the extent to which the tariff quota
   has been used up.
   3 . W here necessary, consultations may be held at
    the request of a Member State or on the initiative of
    the Commission.
                          Article 9
T he fy^m ber ' States and the Commission shall
cooperate closely in order to ensure that this Regu­
lation is complied with.
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                                           A rticle 1 0
                 Council Regulation (EEC) No 1470/80 of 9 June 1980
                 on the safeguard measures provided for in the second
                ACP-EEC Convention (') shall apply in respect of the
                products covered by this Regulation.
                                          A rticle 1 1
                This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 198 3
                  ■V                ■     ■·           ■
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all M ember
States.
Done at Brussels,
                                                                      For the Council
                                                                       The President
  {') OJ N o L 147, ‘ l3 . 6. 19S0, p. 4.