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Date: 1987-11-30
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) suspending wholly or in part the Common Customs Tariff duties on certain agricultural products originating in Turkey (1988) (submitted by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                             COM(87 ) 636 final
                                             Brussels , 30 November 1987
                                 Proposal for a
                            COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
      suspending wholly or in part the Common Customs Tariff duties on
          certain agricultural products originating in Turkey ( 1988 )
                         ( submitted by the Commission )
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                                        ° 7 dc           |3
 C0M(87 ) 636 final
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                                     O
                              RXPIANATORY MEMORANDUM
1.         TYie additional Protocol and the Supplementary Protocol concluded
           by the Common ity with Turkey provide for certain partial or total
           suspensions of duty on agricultural products falling within
           Chapters 1 - 24 of the Gormon Customs Tiriff .
           In addition , the Council decided that , with effect from 1 January
           1974 , Turkey should not be treated less favourably than those
           countries anti territories which qualify for generalized tariff
           preferences .
2.         The purpose of this proposal for a Regulation is to implement
           that decision .  It extends to Turkey for 1908 , on a unilateral
           basis , the total or partial suspensions of duties proposed by the
           Commission under the generalized tariff preferences scheme . These
           suspensions are , however , confined to those products falling
           within Chapters 1-24 in respect of which no provision is ; rvade for
           more favourable treatment in the agreements with Turkey .
3.         Attention is drawn to the fact that :
           ( i)the proposal for a Regulation is based on the Supp1a rentary
               Protocol which entered into force on 1 March 1986 ( 1 );
         ( ii)the enacting terns of the Regulation and the lists of products
               annexed to it are based on the proposals which the Commission
               has presented to the Council concerning generalized tariff
               preferences for agricultural products .
           The Commission is aware that the transposition of certain tariff
           concessions from the Garmon Customs Tariff to the Combined Nomen¬
           clature might raise problans requiring final adjusteinents be made
           This proposal should therefore be harmonized with the final text
           of the Regulations on suspensions under the generalized
           preferences scheme and with the Combined Nomenclature once the
           texts in quest ion have been adopted by the Council .
( 1 ) O.J. No L 48, 26.2.1986, p. 36
 ---pagebreak---                                                       Proposal for a
                                          COUNCIL REGULATION            ( EEC )
suspending wholly or in part                   the             .^Common Custom* Tariff duties on certain agricultural
                   I                                  product* originating in Turkey ( 1989)
    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 Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 3033 / 80
    of 11 November 1980 laying down the trade arrangements
    applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of
    agricultural products ( ' ) and in particular Article 12
    thereof,
    Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
    Whereas, under Annex 6 to che Additional Protocol laying
    down the conditions , procedures and timetables for
    implementing the transitional phase referred to in Article 4
    of the Agreement establishing an association between the
    European Economic Community and Turkey ( 2 ) and under
    Article 9 of the Supplementary Protocol to the Association
    Agreement between the European Economic Community
    and Turkey consequent on the accession of new Member
    States to the Community ( J ), which was signed in Ankara
    on 30 June 1973 and entered into force on 1 March
     1986 (•*), the Community must wholly or in part suspend
    the Common Customs Tariff duties applicable to certain
     products ; whereas it also appears necessary , on a
     provisional basis , to adjust or supplement some of the
     advantages provided for in the above-mentioned Annex 6;
     whereas the Community should , thererore , with regard to
     the products originating in Turkey contained in the list
     annexed to this Régulation, suspend until 31 December
     1988 either the fixed component of the charge applicable to
     the goods falling within the scope of Regulation ( EEC ) ho 3033/80 or
     the customs duty applicable to the other products , at the
     levels indicated for each of them ;
    Whereas , in accordance with Article 119 of the Act of Accession of Greece , the
     Council adopted Regulation ( EEC ) No 3555 / 80 determining the arrangements to be
    applied with regard to imports into Greece originating in Algeria ,                                               Israel ,
    Malta , Morocco , Portugal , Syria , Tunisia or Turkey ;^ whereas the Council has
    also adopted Regulation ( EEC ) No 2573 / 87 laying down the arrangements for
    trade between Spain and Portugal , on the one hand , and Algeria , Egypt , Jordan ,
    Lebanon ,          Tunisia and Turkey , on the other ; 6 whereas this Regulation
                     applies therefore to the Community of Nine,
    (') OJ  NoL 323 , 29 . 11 . 1980 , p. 1 .
    (J) OJ  No 217 , 29 . 12 . 1964 , p . 3683 / 64 .
    (J) OJ  No L 361 , 31 . 12 . 1977 , p. 2 .
    (") OJ  No L 48 , 26 . 2 . 1986 , p. 36 .
    (J) OJ  No L 382 , 31 . 12 . 1980 , p. 1 .
     fc 0J No L 250 , 1.9.1987 , p. 1
 ---pagebreak---                         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                                    Article 1
                         1 . From 1 January until 31 December 1988 the customs duties on imports into the Cat(unity
of nine of the products originating in Turkey listed in the Annex shall be those
                                indicated for each of them# in the said Annex .
                        2. For the purposes of application of this Regulation,
                        ‘originating products’ shall mean those products which
                        fulfil the conditions laid down in Association Council
                        Decision No 4 / 72 attached to Regulation ( EEC) No
                        428 / 73 (1 ), as amended by Decision No 1 / 75 attached to
                        Regulation (EEC) No 1431 / 75 ( 2j .
                        The methods of administrative cooperation for ensuring
                        that the products listed in the Annexes benefit from the
                        total or partial suspension shall be those laid down in
                        Association      Council  Decision    No 5 / 72 attached  to
                        Regulation ( EEC ) No 428 / 73 , as last amended by Decision
                        No 1 / 83 , attached to Regulation (EEC) No 993 / 83 $.
                                                    Article 2
                        When            imports of products qualifying for the
                        arrangements provided for in Article 1 come into the
                        Community in quantities or at prices which cause or
                        threaten to cause serious injury to the Contrunity prodjeers
                        of similar products or directly competitive products, the
                        Common Customs Tariff duties may be partially or wholly
                   re-established for the products in question. These measures
                        may also be taken in the event of serious injury or the threat
             of serious     injury           limited to a single region of the
                        Community .
                        (“b OJ No L 59, 5. 3 . 1973 , p. 73.
                        í2 OJ No L 142, 4. 6. 1975, p. 1 .
                             OJNoL 112 , 8 . 4. 1983 , p. 1 .
 ---pagebreak---                           Article 3                             3 . Any Member State may refer the Commission’s action
                                                                to be Council , within a period of 10 working days
 1 . In order to ensure the application of Article 2 , the      following the day of its notification .
 Commission may decide by means of a Regulation to
establish     Common Customs Tariff duties for a limited          Referring the matter to
 period .                                                        the Council snail not have a suspensory effect . The Council
                                                                 shall meet without delay. It may by a qualified majority
 2 . Where the Commission has been requested by a                amend or annul the measure taken .
 Member State to take action it shall take a decision within
 a maximum period of 10 working days from receipt of the                                  Article 4
 request and shall inform the Member States of the action
 taken .                                                        This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 198g.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
          Done at Brussels                                                           For the Council
                                                                                      The President
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                       List of products falling within Chapters 1 to 24 originating in Turkey for which there are grounds for total or
                                                      partial suspension of the Common Customs Tariff
                       Canb i ned
Serial.              Nomenclature                                                        Description                                         Rate of duty
    No .                      lio .
                                                   Vegetables , fresh or chilled :
                                                      Other :
  15.0001                 0709 . 30-00                 –       Aubergines , from 1 to 14 January                                                 9 %
   15.0003                                        H· lens ( Including « attritions ) and papaws
                                                  ( papayas )»        frtshi
                     e * 0807 . 10-10
                                                   – Watermelons , from 1 November to 31 March                                                  6,5 %
   15.0005                                         Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa :
                          1806 . 10-11             – Cocoa powder , not otherwise sweetened than by the addition of sucrose                   3 % + vc
   15.0007                    1t04      JO - '0
                                                  Chocolate and chocolate goods , whether or not filled , sugar confectionery
                         « < 1 004      20-30     and substitutes therefor made from sugar substitution products , containing
                                                  cocoa                                                                                       9 % + vc
                         w *  i eoa     2 0 - so                                                                                             wich a max.
                              1904.20-70
                                                                                                                                           of 27 % + adÿ
                         O «   1904     20-70
                               i »04    31-00
                               1 ao * . 32-1 0
                               1*04     32-70
                               1 004     70 - 1 1
                               1 004     70– 1 7
                               1 904 . 70 - 31
                                1 004 . 70 - 37
                               1 004 . 70-00
    15.0009                                        Malt extract ; preparation of flour , meal , starch or malt extract , of a kind used as
                                                   infant food or for dietetic or culinary purposes , containing less than 50 % by
                                                   weight of cocoa :
                        Λ 1901,10-0 0                          – Preparations based on flour of leguminous vegetables in the form
                                                                    of sun-dried discs of dough , known as 'papad'                                Free
                             1901.20-00
                        *«. 1901 . 90-90
    15.0011
                            1903 . 00-00          Tapioca, other than tapioca prepared from potato starch                                    2%, - vc
                   1              0710.40-00        Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included :
                                  071 1 . 70 - 30
                                  2001 . 70 - 30
                                  2004 . 70 - 1 0
                                                   -   Cereals in grain or ear form , pre-cooked or otherwise prepared :
                                  2005 . 00-00                                                                                                3 % + vc
                                                    _ –   Maize
    15.0013                        2000 . 77-75
                           ex 1704.70-10            –      Rice                                                                               3 % + vc
    15.0015
                                                    –      Other                                                                              2 % + vc
    < r> . C /Cl t          ex 1702.70-70
Abbreviations :
(L)       = levy .
vc        = variable composent ,
ads       = additional duty on sugar .
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                FICHE D' IMPACT SUR LA COMPETITIVITE ET L' EMPLOI
Cette proposition est formulée en conformité avec des engagements
contractuels de la Communauté . L' impact découlant de ces concessions a été
pris en considération lors de la prise de décision d' adoption de ces
mesures et il n' aura pas un caractère sérieux sur la compétitivité et
1 ' emploi dans la Communauté .