CELEX: 31987R4170
Language: en
Date: 1987-12-21 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 4170/87 of 21 December 1987 opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for salad beetroot falling within subheading ex 0706 90 90 of the combined nomenclature and originating in Cyprus (1988)

No L 398 / 18                          Official Journal of the european communities                                      31 . 12 . 87
                                        COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 4170/87
                                                        of 21 December 1987
                  opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for saled beet­
                  root falling within subheading ex 0706 90 90 of the combined nomenclature and orig­
                                                      inating in Cyprus ( 1988)
  THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                              Whereas from the date on which the said quota is
                                                                        opened, the nomenclature used in the Common Customs
  Having regard to" the Treaty establishing the European                Tariff will be replaced by the combined nomenclature
  Economic Community, and in particular Article 113                     based on the International Convention on the Harmon­
  thereof,                                         .                    ized Commodity Description and Coding System;
                                                                        whereas this Regulation must take account of that fact
  Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                    by indicating the combined nomenclature codes and
                                                                        Taric code numbers within which the said products fall ;
  Whereas the Agreement establishing an association be­
  tween the European Economic Community and the Re­                     Whereas equal and continuous access to the quota
  public of Cyprus, as supplemented by the Protocol laying              should be ensured for all Comunity importers and the
  down the conditions and procedures for the implemen­                  rates laid down for the quota should be applied consist­
  tation of the second stage of the said Agreement and                  ently to all imports of the product in question into all the
  adapting certain provisions thereof ('), provides for the             Member States until the quota is exhausted ; whereas,
  opening of a Community tariff quota of 1 500 tonnes for              however, the quota should not in this case be allocated
 salad beetroot falling within subheading ex 0706 90 90 of             among the Member States, withous prejudice to the
 the combined nomenclature and originating in Cyprus ;                 drawing against the quota volume of such quantities as
 whereas, pursuant to Article 18 of the Protocol in ques­              they may need, under the conditions and according to
 tion, this volume is subject to an annual increase of 5 %             the procedure laid down in Article 1 (2); whereas this
 from the entry into force of the Protocol, and will there­            method of administration requires close cooperation
 fore be 1 575 tonnes in 1988 ; whereas, within the limit of           between the Member States and the Commission and the
 the tariff quota, the customs duty applicable is to be                latter must in particular be able to monitor the rate at
 abolished progressively according to the same timetable               which the quota is used and inform the Member States
 and under the same conditions as laid down in Articles 5              accordingly;
 and 16 of the said Protocol ;
                                                                       Whereas since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of
 Whereas, however, the Protocol to the Association                     the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
 Agreement between the European Economic Community                     are united within and jointly represented by the Benelux
 and the Republic of Cyprus consequent on the accession                Economic Union, any operation concerning the admin­
                                                                       istration of the quota shares allocated to that economic
 of the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic to                union may be carried out by any one of its members,
 the Community (2) lays down that those two Member
 States will postpone implementation of the preferential               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 arangements for the products in question until
 31 December 1989 and 31 December 1990 respectively;                                              Article 1
 whereas, consequently, the above tariff quota applies
 only to the Community as constituted on 31 December                   1.    From 1 January to 31 December 1988 the customs
 1985 ;
                                                                      duty applicable to imports into the Community as consti­
                                                                      tuted on 31 December 1985 of the following products
Whereas the Community tariff quota should therefore be                shall be suspended at the levels indicated and within the
 opened for 1988 ;                                                    limits of a Community tariff quota as shown below :
    Order
      No
                 CN Code                                 Description                          Volume of quota         Quota duty
                                                                                                   (tonnes)              (%)
   09.1411    ex 0706 90 90      Salad beetroot, originating in Cyprus                               1 575               8,5
                                                                                                                  from 1 January
                                                                                                                  to 29 February
                                                                                                                         7,7
                                                                                                                   from 1 March
                                                                                                                 to 31 December
O OJ No L 393, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 2.
(2) OJ No L 393, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 37.
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2. If an importer gives notification of imminent im­             3 . Member States shall charge imports of the said
ports of the product in question into a Member State             goods against their drawings as and when the goods are
and applies to take advantage of the quota, the Member           entered with ' the customs authorities for free circulation.
State concerned shall inform the Commission and draw
an amount corresponding to its requirements to the ex­           4 . The extent to which the quota has been used up
tent that the available balance of the reserve so permits .      shall be determined on the basis of the imports charged
                                                                 in accordance with paragraph 3 .
3 . The shares drawn pursuant to paragraph 2 shall be
valid until the end of the quota period.
                                                                                           Article 3
                          Article 2                              At the request of the Commission, Member States shall
 1 . Member States shall take all appropriate measures           inform it of imports actually charged against the quota.
to ensure that their drawings pursuant to Article 1 (2)
enable imports to be charged without interruption                                           Article 4
against their accumulated shares of the Community
quota.
                                                                 The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
                                                                 closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied with.
2.     Each Member State shall ensure that importers of
the product concerned have free access to the quota for                                     Article 5
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