CELEX: 31987R4168
Language: en
Date: 1987-12-21 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 4168/87 of 21 December 1987 opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for dried grapes falling within subheadings 0806 20 11 or 0806 20 19 of the combined nomenclature and originating in Cyprus (1988)

No L 398 / 14                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                   31 . 12 . 87
                                         COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 4168/87
                                                        of 21 December 1987
                    opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for dried
                    grapes falling within subheadings 0806 20 11 or 0806 20 19 of the combined nomenclature
                                                  and originating in Cyprus ( 1988)
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                 Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding
                                                                          system ; whereas this Regulation must take account of
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                    that fact by indicating the combined nomenclature codes
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 113                        within which the said products fall ;
 thereof,
                                                                          Whereas equal and continuous access to the quota
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                       should be ensured for all Community importers and the
                                                                          rates laid down for the quota should be applied consist­
 Whereas the Agreement establishing an Association                        ently to all Member States until the quota is exhausted ;
 between the European Economic Community and the                          whereas, however, the quota should not in this case be
 Republic of Cyprus, as supplemented by the Protocol                      allocated among the Member States, without prejudice
 laying down the conditions and procedures for the                        to the drawing against the quota volume of such quan­
 implementation of the second stage of the said                           tities as they may need, under conditions and according
 Agreement and adapting certain provisions thereof (x),                   to the procedure laid down in Article 1 (2); whereas this
 provides for the opening of an annual duty-free                          method of administration requires close cooperation
 Community tariff quota of 1 500 tonnes for dried grapes                  between the Member States and the Commission and the
 falling within subheading 0806 20 11 and 0806 20 19 of                   latter must in particular be able to monitor the rate at
the fcombined nomenclature and originating in Cyprus;                    which the quota is used and inform the Member States
whereas pursuant to Article 18 of the Protocol in                         accordingly;
question, this volume is subject to an annual increase of
 5 % from the entry into force of the Protocol, and will                 Whereas since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of
therefore be 1 575 tonnes in 1988 ; whereas, within the                  the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
limits of the tariff quota, the Kingdom of Spain and the                 are united within and jointly represented by the Benelux
Portuguese Republic will apply customs duties calculated                 Economic Union, any operation concerning the adminis­
in accordance with the Protocol to the Association                       tration of the quota shares allocated to that economic
Agreement between the European Economic Community                        union may be carried out by any one of its members,
and the Republic of Cyprus consequent upon the                           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
accession of the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese
Republic to the Community (2); whereas the Community                                               Article 1
tariff quota should therefore be opened for 1988 ;
                                                                         1.     From 1 January to 31 December 1988 the customs
Whereas from the date on which the said quota is                         duty applicable to imports into the Community of the
opened, the nomenclature used in the Common Customs                      following products shall be suspended at the level
Tariff will be replaced by the combined nomenclature                     indicated and within the limits of a Community tariff
based     on    the    International   Convention      on    the         quota as shown below :
  Order No         CN code                                   Description                             Amount of quota  Quota duty
                                                                                                         (tonnes)        (%)
                                    Grapes, fresh or dried :
                                    — Dried :
                                    — In immediate containers of a net capacity not exceeding
                                        2 kg :
  09.1413        0806 20 11               Currants
                 0806 20 19               Other
                                    — Other :
             ex 0806 20 91                Currants in immediate containers of a net capacity not
                                          exceeding 15 kg, originating in Cyprus
                                                                                                          1 575         Free
             ex 0806 20 99
                                          Other in immediate containers of a net capacity not
                                         exceeding 15 kg, originating in Cyprus
0) OJ No L 393, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 2.
O OJ No L 393, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 37.
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Within the limits of this tariff quota the Kingdom of          2.    Each Member State shall ensure that importers of
Spain and the Portuguese Republic shall apply customs          the product concerned have free access to the quota for
duties calculated in accordance with the relevant              such time as the residual balance of the quota volume so
provisions of the Protocol to the Association Agreement        permits.
between the European Economic Community and the
Republic of Cyprus consequent on the accession of the          3.    Member States shall charge imports of the said
Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic to the            goods against their drawings as and when the goods are
Community.                                                     entered with the customs authorities for free circulation.
2. If an importer gives notification of imminent               4. The extent to which the quota has been used up
imports of the product in question into a Member State         shall be determined on the basis of the imports charged
and applies to take advantage of the quota, the Member          in accordance with paragraph 3 .
State concerned shall inform the Commission and draw
an amount corresponding to its requirements to the                                      Article 3
extent that the available balance of the reserve so
permits.                                                        At the request of the Commission, Member States shall
 3.    The shares drawn pursuant to paragraph 2 shall be        inform it of imports actually charged against the quota.
valid until the end of the quota period.
                                                                                        Article 4
                          Article 2
                                                                The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
 1.    Member States shall take all appropriate measures        closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied with.
 to ensure that their drawings pursuant to Article 1 (2)
 enable imports to be charged without interruption                                      Article 5
 against their accumulated shares of the Community
 quota.                                                         This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1988 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 21 December 1987 .
                                                                                     For the Council
                                                                                       The President
                                                                                      B. HAARDER