CELEX: 51982PC0545
Language: en
Date: 1982-09-21
Title: Draft COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for dried grapes in immediate containers of a net capacity of 15 kilograms or less falling within subheading 08.04 B I of the Common Customs Tariff (1983) (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                            COM(82)545 final
                                            Brussels - 21 September 1982
                                   Draft
                           COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
     opening , allocating and providing for the administration of a Community
     tariff quota for dried grapes in immediate containers of a net capacity
     of 15 kilograms or less falling within subheading 08.04 B I of the
     Common Customs Tariff  ( 1983 )
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 ---pagebreak---                         EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1.  The draft Regulation annexed hereto concerns the erga omnes Community
    tariff quota for dried grapes in immediate containers of a net capacity of
    15 kilograms or less, falling within subheading 08.04 B I of the Common
    Customs Tariff , to be opened for 1983 .
    This quota was originally provided for in the trade agreement between the
    Community and Iran, but as the term of validity of this agreement was not
    extended after 30 November 1973 the Community has deemed it desirable,
    since 1974 , to open autonomously a tariff quota for such goods .
    During a consultation meeting held in April 1982 th j delegations of the
    Member States gave sympathetic consideration to the opening of an
    autonomous tariff quota for 1983 at a duty of 2 96 , the volume of which
    was to be equivalent to that openend for 1932 by Regulation (EEC ) No
    3227/ 81 of 9 November 1981 ( 1 ).
2.  This being a Community tariff quota of a volume which is relatively low as
    compared with the Community's total imports and wiiich undoubtedly will
    also be rapidly used up in all the Member States, it is felt th.it an
    allocation into quotas allotted definitively to all the Member State ; does
    not derogate from the Community character of the tariff quota concerned .
    In cases of this kind , a similar solution has already been previously adopted.
3.  With regard to the allocation among the Member States the Commission
    proposes that the one adopted for 1982 be adhered to, since it fulfils the
    conditions usually set out in such matters .
(1) OJ No L 325 , 13.11.1981 , p. 7.
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                                     COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
                opening , allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff
                 quota for dried grapes in immediate containers of a net capacity of IS kilograms
                 or less falling within subheading 08.04 B I of the Common Customs Tariff ( 1983 )
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                  a net capacity of 15 kilograms or less falling within
COMMUNITIES,                                                 subheading 08.04 B I of the Common Customs Tariff.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European        2. Within the limits of this tariff quota, the
Economic Community, and in particular Article 28             Common Customs Tanff duty shall be suspended at
thereof.                                                     the level of 2 % .
Having regard to the draft Regulation submitted by           Within the limits of this tariff quota, Greece shall
the Commission ,                                             apply customs duties calculated in accordance with
                                                             the relevant provisions laid down in the 1979 Act of
                                                             Accession .
W hereas a Communitv tariff quota for dried grapes in
immediate containers of a net capacity of 15 kilo­
grams or less, falling within subheading 08.04 B I of        3.    Imports of the product in question benefiting
the Common Customs Tariff, should be opened for              from the same or lower customs duties under other
 1 9 S 3 at a duty of 2 % the volume of which shall be       preferential arrangements shall not be charged against
limited to 6 500 tonnes, taking into account the             this tanff quota.
existence of Community production ;
Whereas , in view of the negligible size of such a quota                            Article 2
in comparison with the Community's requirements, a
system of utilization should, without derogating from        The tariff quota set out in Article 1 shall be divided
the Community nature of the tariff quota, be                 among the Member States as follows :
provided, based on a single allocation between the                                                       (temnts)
Member Sates ; whereas this allocation may be calcu­                  Benelux                               615
lated pro rata on the basis of the import require­                    Denmark                               260
ments. of each Member State, coming from third coun­                  Germany                             1 813
tries not associated with , or linked to the Community                Greece                                   1
by a preferential agreement ; whereas, in order to safe­              France                                444
guard the Community nature of the quota, a share                      Ireland                               216
should be allocated to Greece by levying the same                     Italv                                  23
quantity on the volume of the quota ; whereas , calcu­                United Kingdom                     3 128
lated in such a manner, this allocation is as set out in
.Article 2 ;
Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium , the                                         Article 3
Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of
Luxerr.bcurs are united within ar.d jointly represented       1 . Member States shall take all appropriate
bv      the  Benelux    Economic     Union , any measure     measures to ensure that importers of the product in
concerning the administration of the quotas allocated        question                               have free access
to that economic union may be carried out by any             to the shares allocated to them .
one of its members .
                                                             2.    The extent to which a Member State has used up
                                                             its share shall be determined on the basis of the
                                                             imports of the product in question entered with the
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                customs authorities for free circulation .
                           Article 1                                                Article 4
1.       Dur.r.g the period 1 Januarv to 31 December         At the Commission s request, Member States shall
1 9 S 3a Community tariff quota of 6 500 tonnes shall        inform it of the imports actually charged against their
be opened for dr.ee grar>es m immediate containers of        shares .
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                     Article 5                                                   Article 6
Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied         This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
with.                                      '               1983 .
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels,
                                                                     For the Council
                                                                       The President