CELEX: 31976R1464
Language: en
Date: 1976-06-21 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1464/76 of 21 June 1976 on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for rum, arrack and tafia falling within subheading 22.09 C I of the Common Customs Tariff and originating in the ACP States (1976/77)

25 . 6 . 76                             Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 165 / 5
                                       COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 1464/76
                                                        of 21 June 1976
               on the opening , allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for
               rum , arrack and tafia falling within subheading 22.09 C I of the Common
                             Customs Tariff and originating in the ACP States ( 1976/77 )
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                        products concerned into the Member States until the
COMMUNITIES,                                                       quota is exhausted ; whereas, in order to reflect as
                                                                  closely as possible the actual trends on the markets in
                                                                   the products concerned, such allocation should be
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              made in accordance with the requirements of the
Economic Community, and in particular Article 113                  Member States ;
thereof,
                                                                  Whereas measures should be laid down to ensure that
                                                                   Protocol 7 is implemented under conditions such as
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,                to permit the development of traditional trade flows
                                                                   between the ACP States and the Community and
                                                                   between the Member States ;
Whereas under the ACP-EEC Convention of Lome
signed on 28 February 1975, and in particular under
Protocol 7 thereto, products originating in the ACP               Whereas, owing to the special character of the
States which fall within tariff subheading 22.09 C I               products in question and their sensitivity on Commu­
(rum , arrack, tafia), shall , until the entry into force of a     nity markets, exceptional provision should be made
common organization of the market in spirits, be                   for a , method of use based on a single division among
                                                                   Member States ;
imported into the Community free of customs duties
under conditions such as to permit the development
of traditional trade flows between the ACP States and              Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium , the
the Community and between the Member States ;                      Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of
whereas the Community shall fix each year the quanti­              Luxembourg are jointly represented by the Benelux
ties which may be imported free of customs duties on               Economic Union , any measures concerning the
the basis of the largest quantities imported annually              administration of the share allocated to that economic
from the ACP States into the Community in the last                 union may be carried out by any one of its members,
three years for which statistics are available, increased
by an annual growth rate of '40 % on the market of
the United Kingdom and 13 % on the other markets
of the Community, these growth rates being based on
foreseeable internal demand in each Member State ;                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to the levels reached by imports of the                                      Article 1
products concerned into the Community and the
Member States during the last three years for which
statistics are available ; whereas the size of the tariff          From 1 July 1976 until 30 June 1977 rum , arrack and
quota for the period 1 July 1976 to 30 June 1977                   tafia falling within subheading 22.09 C I of the
should therefore be fixed at           162 013 hectolitres of      Common Customs Tariff, originating in the ACP
pure alcohol ;                                                     States, shall be imported duty free into the Commu­
                                                                   nity within the limits of a Community tariff quota of
                                                                    162 013 hectolitres of pure alcohol .
Whereas the above principles also apply to the alloca­
tion of the tariff quota ;
                                                                                           Article 2
Whereas it seems likely that arrangements for using
the Community tariff quota based on allocation                      1.    The tariff quota referred to in Article 1 shall be
between the United Kingdom and the other Member                    divided into two instalments . The first instalment, of
States would reconcile the application of the growth                125 395 hectolitres of pure alcohol , shall be for
rates provided for in Protocol 7 with the uninter­                 United Kingdom consumption . The second instal­
rupted application of the duty-free entry arrangements             ment, of 36 618 hectolitres of pure alcohol , shall be
in respect of the said quota to all imports of the                 allocated among the other Member States .
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2.     The shares of each of the Member States to             ACP States under the conditions laid down in Articles
which the second instalment is allocated pursuant to           1 and 2 are restricted to those meeting its domestic
paragraph 1 shall consist of the following quantities :       consumption requirements.
         Benelux                            3 697,
                                                               3 . The Commission shall regularly inform the
         Denmark                            2 700,
                                                              Member States of the extent to which the tariff quota
        Germany                            16 620,
                                                               has been used up.
         France                            12 051 ,
         Ireland                            1 000,            4.    Where necessary, consultations may be held at
         Italy                                550 .            the request of a Member State or on the initiative of
                                                               the Commission .
                        Article 3
1 . Member States shall manage the shares allocated                                      Article 5
to them in accordance with their own arrangements.
                                                              The Commission shall take all necessary measures, in
2.     The extent to which the Member States have             close cooperation with the Member States, to ensure
used up their shares shall be determined on the basis         the implementation of this Regulation .
of the imports of the products in question , originating
in the ACP States, declared at customs for clearance                                     Article 6
for home use .
                                                              Council Regulation ( EEC) No 157/76 of 20 January
                        Article 4                              1976 on the safeguard measures provided for in the
                                                              ACP-EEC Convention of Lome ('), shall apply in
1.     Member States shall    inform   the Commission
                                                              respect of the products covered by this Regulation .
each month of imports actually charged against the
tariff quota.
                                                                                         Article 7
2. The United Kingdom shall take the steps neces­
sary to ensure that the quantities imported from the          This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1976.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Luxembourg, 21 June 1976 .
                                                                          For the Council
                                                                           The President
                                                                           J. HAMILIUS
                                                              (') OJ No L 18 , 27 . 1 . 1976, p. 1 .