CELEX: 31986R4117
Language: en
Date: 1986-12-22 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 4117/86 of 22 December 1986 opening and providing for the administration of a Community preferential ceiling for certain petroleum products refined in Turkey and establishing Community supervision of imports thereof (1987)

No L 380 / 24                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                    31 . 12 . 86
                                             COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 4117 / 86
                                                          of 22 December 1986
                    opening and providing for the administration of a Community preferential ceiling for certain
                    petroleum products refined in Turkey and establishing Community supervision of imports
                                                              thereof ( 1987 )
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                                 imports of these products; whereas the import of these
                                                                          products should therefore be subject to a system of
                                                                          supervision ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community , and in particular Article 113                        Whereas this objective may be attained by means of an
thereof,                                                                  administrative procedure based on setting off imports of
                                                                          the products in question against the ceiling , at Community
                                                                          level , as and when these products are submitted to the
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,                       customs authorities under cover of declarations that they
                                                                          have been made available for free circulation ; whereas this
                                                                          administrative procedure must make provision for the
Whereas Article 7 of the Supplementary Protocol to the                    reintroduction of the Common Customs Tariff duty as
Agreement on the association between the European                         soon as the said ceiling has been reached at Community
Economic Community and Turkey consequent on the                           level ;
accession of new Member States to the Community ( ! ),
which was signed in Ankara on 30 June 1973 and entered
into force on 1 March 1986 ( 2 ), provides for the total                  Whereas this administrative procedure requires close and
suspension of customs duties applicable to certain                        very rapid cooperation between the Member States and the
petroleum products falling within Chapter 27 of the                        Commission , which must be able to monitor the amounts
Common Customs Tariff, refined in Turkey , within the                      set off against the ceiling and keep the Member States
limit of an annual Community tariff quota of 340 000                       informed thereof; whereas this cooperation must be all the
tonnes ; whereas , for the products concerned , a provisional              closer to enable the Commission to take adequate measures
adjustment should be made to those tariff preferences ,                    to reintroduce the Common Customs Tariff duty whenever
consisting essentially of substituting for the Community                   the ceiling is reached ,
tariff quota a Community ceiling which amounts, after
successive increases , to 705 000 tonnes , above which the
customs duties applicable to third countries may be
reintroduced ;
                                                                           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION
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                                             Article 1
applied with regard to imports into Greece, originating in
Algeria, Israel , Malta, Morocco , Portugal , Syria , Tunisia               1 . From 1 January to 31 December 1987 the Common
or Turkey ( 3 ); whereas in the absence of a Protocol as                   Customs Tariff duties shall , subject to Article 2 , be totally
provided for in Articles 179 and 366 of the Act of                         suspended in the Community of Nine for certain petroleum
Accession of Spain and Portugal , the Community must take                  products referred to hereinafter and refined in Turkey ,
the measures referred to in Articles 180 and 367 of that                   within the limits of a Community ceiling of 705 000
Act ; whereas this Regulation therefore applies to the                     tonnes .
 Community of Nine ;
Whereas the application of the ceiling requires that the                    2 . The petroleum products to which paragraph 1 applies
 Community should be regularly informed of the trend of                     shall be the following:
 (>) OJ No L 361 , 31 . 12 . 1977 , p. 2 .
 ( 2 ) OJ No L 48 , 26 . 2 . 1986 , p. 36 .
 ( 3 ) OJ No L 382 , 31 . 12 . 1980 , p. 1 .
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      Order
        No
                      heading                                                             Description
                         No
     13.0010           27.10          Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals other than crude ; preparations not elsewhere
                                      specified or included , containing not less than 70 % by weight of petroleum oil or of oils obtained from
                                      bituminous minerals , these oils being the basic constituents of the preparations:
                 l                    A. Light oils :
                 l                         III . For other purposes
                 l                    B. Medium oils :
                 l                         III . For other purposes
                 l                    C. Heavy oils :
                 l                            I. Gas oils :
                 \                               c ) For other purposes
                 l                          II . Fuel oils :
                 \                               c ) For other purposes
                 I                         III . Lubricating oils , other oils :
                 I                               c) To be mixed in accordance with the terms of Additional Note 7 to this chapter ( a )
                 I                               d ) For other purposes
                       27.11          Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons
                 l                    B. Other :
                 I                         I. Commercial propane and commercial butane :
                                                 c ) For other purposes
                       27.12          Petroleum jelly :
                 l                    A. Crude :
                                           III . For other purposes
                 I                    B. Other
                       27.13          Paraffin wax , micro-crystalline wax , slack wax , ozokerite , lignite wax , pest wax and other mineral waxes ,
                                      whether or not coloured :
                                      B. Other :
                 \                          I. Crude :
                                                 c ) For other purposes
                 I                         II . Other
                       27.14          Petroleum bitumen , petroleum coke and other residues of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from
                                      bituminous minerals :
                 I                    C. Other
( a) Entry under this subheading is subject to conditions to be determined by the competent authorities .
3 . Imports of the petroleum products referred to in                                6.  Member States shall inform the Commission at the
paragraph 1 shall be subject to Community supervision .                             intervals and within the time limits specified in Article 3 of
                                                                                    any imports effected in accordance with the rules referred
4 . Imports of the products shall be set off against the                            to in this Article .
ceiling as and when they are submitted to the customs
authorities under cover of a declaration that they have been
made available for free circulation .                                                                          Article 2
5 . The extent to which the ceiling has been used shall be                          As soon as the ceiling referred to in Article 1 ( 1 ) has been
determined at Community level on the basis of the imports                           reached at Community level , the Commission may issue a
set off against it in the manner defined in paragraph 4 .                           Regulation reintroducing the Common Customs Tariff
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duties applicable to third countries until the end of the                                  Article 4
calendar year .
                                                                  The Commission shall take all necessary measures for the
                                                                  implementation of this Regulation in close cooperation
                          Article 3                               with the Member States .
Member States shall forward to the Commission not later
than the 15th day of each month a statement of the imports
effected during the preceding month . If the Commission so
requests, they shall forward this statement, in respect of                                 Article S
10-day periods , whithin five clear days of the expiry of
each such 10-day period .                                         This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1987 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels , 22 December 1986 .
                                                                                     For the Council
                                                                                       The President
                                                                                         G. SHAW