CELEX: 31987R4179
Language: en
Date: 1987-12-21 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 4179/87 of 21 December 1987 opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for apricot pulp falling within code No ex 2008 50 91 of the combined nomenclature and originating in Tunisia (1988)

31 . 12 . 87                                    Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 399 / 19
                                               COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 4179 / 87
                                                             of 21 December 1987
                    opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for apricot pulp
                    falling within code No ex 2008 50 91 of the combined nomenclature and originating in
                                                                 Tunisia ( 1988 )
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                                   of the Community and Statistics of Trade between Member
                                                                            States ; whereas, from the date given above, the combined
                                                                            nomenclature should be used for the description of the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                       products covered by this Regulation;
Economic Community , and in particular Article 113
thereof,                                                                    Whereas equal and continuous access to the abcrvementioned
                                                                            quota should be ensured for all Community importers and
                                                                            the rate laid down for the quota should be applied
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,                         consistently to all imports of the product in question into all
                                                                            the Member States until the quota is exhausted ; whereas , in
                                                                            the present case , this quota should not be allocated among
Whereas the Cooperation Agreement between the European                      the Member States , without prejudice to the drawing against
Economic Community and the Republic of Tunisia (*), as                      the quota volume of such quantities as they may need, under
supplemented by the Additional Protocol to that                             the conditions and according to the procedure specified in
Agreement ( 2 ), provides for the opening by the Community                  Article 1 ( 2); whereas this method of administration requires
of an annual Community tariff quota of 4 300 tonnes of                      close cooperation between the Member States and the
apricot pulp falling within code No ex 2008 50 91 of the                    Commission and the latter must in particular be able to
combined nomenclature and originating in Tunisia ;                          monitor the rate at which the quota is used and inform the
                                                                            Member States accordingly;
Whereas , within the limits of this tariff quota, customs duties            Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium , the Kingdom of the
are to be abolished progressively over the same periods and in              Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are united
accordance with the same timetables as those laid down in                   within and jointly represented by the Benelux Economic
Articles 75 and 243 of the Act of Accession of Spain and                     Union , any operation relating to the administration of the
Portugal ; whereas , for 1988 , the quota duty is to be equal to             quota shares allocated to that economic union may be carried
 62,5% of the customs duty actually applied in respect of                    out by any of its members ,
third countries; whereas, within the limits of this tariff quota ,
the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic are to
 apply customs duties calculated in accordance with Council
 Regulation (EEC ) No 2573 / 87 of 11 August 1987 laying
 down the arrangements for trade between Spain and Portugal                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 on the one hand and Algeria , Egypt , Jordan , Lebanon ,
Tunisia and Turkey on the other ( 3 ); whereas the
 Community tariff quota in question should therefore be
opened for 1988 ;                                                                                        Article 1
                                                                             1.     From 1 January to 31 December 1988 , the customs
Whereas the Community has adopted, with effect from                          duty applicable to imports into the Community of the
 1 January 1988 , a combined nomenclature for goods which                    following products originating in Tunisia shall be suspended
 meets the requirements of the Common Customs Tariff and                     at the level indicated and within the limits of a Community
 the Nomenclature of Goods for the External Trade Statistics                 tariff quota as shown below:
 H OJ No L 265 , 27 . 9 . 1978 , p. 1 .
 ( 2 ) OJ No L 297 , 21 . 10 . 1987 , p . 36 .
 ( 3 ) OJ No L 250 , 1 . 9 . 1987 , p. 1 .
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     Order No             CN code                               Description                            Amount of quota    Quota duty
                                                                                                           (tonnes )          (% )
09.1203                2008             Fruits, nuts and other edible parts of plants, otherwise
                                        prepared or preserved , whether or not containing added
                                        sugar or other sweetening matter or spirit , not elsewhere
                                        specified or included :
                       2008 50          — Apricots :
                                        — — Not containing added spirit:                            \
                                        — — — Not containing added sugar , in immediate
                                                  packings of a net content:
                    ex 2008 50 91       — — — — Of 4,5 kg or more :
                                                     — Apricot pulp                                         4 300             10,6
Within the limits of this tariff quota , the Kingdom of Spain             3.    Member States shall charge imports of the said goods
and the Portuguese Republic shall apply customs duties                    against their drawings as and when the goods are entered
calculated in accordance with Regulation ( EEC ) No                       with the customs authorities for free circulation .
2573 / 87 .
                                                                          4.    The extent to which the quota has been used up shall be
2.     If an importer gives notification of imminent imports              determined on the basis of the imports charged in accordance
of the product in question into a Member State and applies to             with paragraph 3 .
take advantage of the quota , the Member State concerned
shall inform the Commission and draw an amount
corresponding to its requirements to the extent that the                                              Article 3
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
valid until the end of the quota period .                                 inform it of imports actually charged against their quota
                                                                          shares .
                            Article 2
                                                                                                      Article 4
1.     Member States shall take all appropriate steps to
ensure that their drawings pursuant to Article 1 ( 2 ) enable             The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
imports to be charged without interruption against their                  closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied with .
accumulated shares of the Community quota .
2.     Each Member State shall ensure that importers of the                                           Article 5
product concerned have free access to the quota for such time
as the residual balance of the quota volume so permits .                  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