CELEX: 31990R3703
Language: en
Date: 1990-12-17 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 3703/90 of 17 December 1990 temporarly suspending the autonomous common customs tariff duties on a number of agricultural products

21 . 12. 90                          Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 358 / 1
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                                           (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                    COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3703/90
                                                   of 17 December 1990
                temporarily suspending the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on a
                                            number of agricultural products
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         temporarily by fixing their period of validity by reference
                                                                 to the interests of Community production,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular Article 28
thereof,
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas production in the Community of the products                                       Article 1
specified in this Regulation is currently inadequate or
non-existent ; whereas producers thus cannot meet the            The autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties for the
needs of user industries in the Community ;                      products listed in the table appearing in the Annex shall
Whereas in certain cases it is in the interest of the
                                                                 be suspended at the level indicated in respect of each of
                                                                 them.
Community to suspend the autonomous Common
Customs Tariff duties only partially, particularly since the     These suspensions shall apply from 1 January to 30 June
goods in question are produced in the Community, and             1991 .
in the other cases to suspend them totally ;
Whereas, in view of the difficulty of assessing accurately                                Article 2
short-term trends in the economic situation in the rele­
vant sectors, suspension measures should be taken only           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1991 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                 Done at Brussels, 17 December 1990 .
                                                                            For the Council
                                                                              The President
                                                                                G. CARLI
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                                                                   ANNEX
                                                                                                                  Autonomous
                  CN code                                     Description of goods                                 duties (%)
               ex 0302 69 98      Lump fish (Cyclopterus luapus), with roe, fresh or chilled, for proces­
                                  sing (a)                                                                              0
               ex 0302 70 00      Hard fish roes, fresh, chilled or frozen                                              0
               ex 0303 80 00
               ex 0305 20 00      Hard fish roes, salted or in brine                                                    0
               ex 0710 21 00      Peas in pods, of the species Pisus sativus of the variety Hortense
                                  axiphius, frozen, of a thickness not exceeding 6 mm to be used, in
                                  their pods, in the manufacture of prepared meals (a) (c)                              0
               ex 0711 90 50      Mushrooms, excluding mushrooms of the species Agaricus spp.,
                                  provisionally preserved in brine, in sulphur water, or in other preser­
                                  vative solutions, but unsuitable in that state for immediate consump­
                                  tion, for the food-canning industry           ,                                       0
               ex 0713 33 90      Beans, while, dried, of the species Phaseolus vulgaris, of which not
                                  more than 2 % by weight are retained by a screen with apartures of
                                  8 mm in diameter, for use in the food-canning industry (a)                            0
               ex 0804 10 00      Dates, fresh or dried, for packing for retail sale into immediate pack­
                                  ings of a net content not exceeding 11 kg (a)                                         0
               ex 1604 30 90      Hard fish roes, washed, cleaned of adherent organs and simply salted
                                  or in brine, for processing (a)                                                       0
            (") Control of the use for this special purpose shall be carried out pursuant to the relevant Community provisions.
            (c) However, the suspension is not allowed where processing is carried out by retail or catering undertakings.