CELEX: 31975R1631
Language: en
Date: 1975-06-24 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1631/75 of the Council of 24 June 1975 on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for certain oils and fats of fish and marine mammals

No L 165/ 16                            Official Journal of the European Communities                               28 . 6 . 75
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 1631 /75 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                             of 24 June 1975
                 on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for
                                   certain oils and fats of fish and marine mammals
  THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                                                 Article 2
  COMMUNITIES,
  Havingi regard to the Treaty establishing the European               The Community tariff quota mentioned in Article 1
  Economic Community, and in particular Article 28                     shall be allocated among Member States as follows :
  thereof ;                                                                                                    metric tons
  Whereas difficulties exist in supplying Community                            United Kingdom                     3 000
  processing industries with oils and fats of fish and                         Denmark                            2 700
  marine mammals ; whereas, to facilitate adjustment by                        Ireland                              500
  undertakings and enable them to receive supplies of                          Benelux                                 3
  these products as quickly as possible on the most                            Germany                                 1
  favourable terms the Common Customs Tariff duty                              France                                  1
  should be reduced within the limits of a tariff quota ;                      Italy                                   1
  Whereas, however, in view of the negligible volume of
  such a quota in relation to the actual needs of the
/ Community, without thereby derogating from the                                               Article 3
  Community nature of the tariff quota, a system should
  be envisaged based on an allocation between the                       1 . Member States shall ensure that importers of
  Member States which takes particular account of the                  these products established on their territory have free
  interests of those States which in recent years have                 access to the shares allocated tb them .
  relied on imports for their supply, namely the United
  Kingdom , Denmark and Ireland,
                                                                       2.    The extent to which the Member States' shares
                                                                       have been used up shall be established on the basis of
                                                                       imports of the said products entered for home use.
  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                           Article 1                                                           Article 4
  Until 31      December 1975, the Common Customs
  Tariff duty for the following products shall be                      At the request of the Commission , the Member States
                                                                       shall inform it of the imports actually charged against
  suspended at 10 % within the limits of a Community                   their shares .
  tariff quota of 6 206 metric tons :
         CCT
        heading                  Description of goods                                          Article 5
          No
  ex 15.12          Animal or vegetable oils and fats, wholly          The Member States and the Commission shall coop­
                    or partly hydrogenated , or solidified or          erate closely to ensure that this Regulation is
                    hardened by any other process, whether or           observed .
                    not refined, but not further prepared :
                    ex B. Other :
                           — Fats     and    oils   obtained  exclu­
                                                                                               Article 6
                               sively from fish and marine
                               mammals, having a melting
                               point not exceeding 23° C               The tariff quota provided for in this Regulation is
                                                                        hereby opened for 1975 .
  The new Member States shall apply the duties calcu­                   This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
   lated in accordance with the relevant provisions of the              following its publication in the Official Journal of
  Act of Accession .                                                     the European Communities.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Luxembourg, 24 June 1975.
                                                                    For the Council
                                                                      The President
                                                                    G. FITZGERALD