CELEX: 51982PC0533
Language: en
Date: 1982-09-21
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for certain petroleum products falling within Chapter 27 of the Common Customs Tariff and refined in Spain (1983)# Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for other woven fabrics of cotton, falling within heading No 55.09 of the Common Customs Tariff and originating in Spain (1983) (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

ARCHIVES HISTORIQUES
DE LA COMMISSION
COLLECTION RELIEE DES
DOCUMENTS "COM"
COM (82) 533
Vol. 1982/0174
 ---pagebreak--- Disclaimer
Conformément au règlement (CEE, Euratom) n° 354/83 du Conseil du 1er février 1983
concernant l'ouverture au public des archives historiques de la Communauté économique
européenne et de la Communauté européenne de l'énergie atomique (JO L 43 du 15.2.1983,
p. 1), tel que modifié par le règlement (CE, Euratom) n° 1700/2003 du 22 septembre 2003
(JO L 243 du 27.9.2003, p. 1), ce dossier est ouvert au public. Le cas échéant, les documents
classifiés présents dans ce dossier ont été déclassifiés conformément à l'article 5 dudit
règlement.
In accordance with Council Regulation (EEC, Euratom) No 354/83 of 1 February 1983
concerning the opening to the public of the historical archives of the European Economic
Community and the European Atomic Energy Community (OJ L 43, 15.2.1983, p. 1), as
amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1700/2003 of 22 September 2003 (OJ L 243,
27.9.2003, p. 1), this file is open to the public. Where necessary, classified documents in this
file have been declassified in conformity with Article 5 of the aforementioned regulation.
In Übereinstimmung mit der Verordnung (EWG, Euratom) Nr. 354/83 des Rates vom 1.
Februar 1983 über die Freigabe der historischen Archive der Europäischen
Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft und der Europäischen Atomgemeinschaft (ABI. L 43 vom 15.2.1983,
S. 1), geändert durch die Verordnung (EG, Euratom) Nr. 1700/2003 vom 22. September 2003
(ABI. L 243 vom 27.9.2003, S. 1), ist diese Datei der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich. Soweit
erforderlich, wurden die Verschlusssachen in dieser Datei in Übereinstimmung mit Artikel 5
der genannten Verordnung freigegeben.
 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                               COM(82)533 final
                                               Brussels , 21 September 1982
            +
                               Proposal for a
                          COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
           opening , allocating and providing for the adminis tration of a
           Community tariff quota for certain petroleum products falling
                                                              - :   ..      ; /\
           within Chapter 27 of the Common Customs Tariff and refined in
                                Spain ( 1983 ;                                  *
                                                                       'P !
                                                                          C
                               Proposal for a
                          COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
           opening , allocating and providing for the administration of a
           Community tariff quota for other woven fabrics of cotton , falling
           within heading No 55.09 of the Common Customs Tariff and origi­
           nating in Spain ( 1983 )
                     ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
 C0M(82 ) 533 final
 ---pagebreak---                                 EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
 The Agreement between the Community and Spain of 1970 provides for
 the oper.inq of Community, tari f f quotas for the importation.into
 the Community of the following' products , originating in Spain , at
 the quota duties specified below :                           •       .
 CCT heading n° .            Product                 Annual Volume       Quota duty
 Chacter 27            Certain petroleum products    1 200 000 t )
                     ■                J: U •        • • - onn J. '           Of thO
 55.' -•               Other cotton fabrics     •        1 800 t )N     _. T duties
                                                                        CCT   , . .
 F'om i July 1977 the':'1 quota volumes have at first been increased
                                                  /
 respectively to 1 40 C 000 tonnes and 1 900 tonnes , and then they are
 f - < ed to 1 424 000 tomes and 2 013 tonnes by the protocol of adaptation
to take account of tne accession of Greece to the Community .
                                            /
T'-.e ^ eguLations provide , in the usual way , for the splitting up of
t-M- : uota volumes into two parts , of which the first will be allocated
c"*or.g the Member States as quota shares and the second will be kept
as     r   reserve .
The allocation of the first part of each quota has been undertaken
accor-fing to the rules generally applied -. hitherto . The total imports
o - > och Member State for 1979 to 1981 have been expressed as a
c-oportion of total Community imports over the same period . The
re , 'j 1. ting percentages have been applied State by State to the volume of
fir 'irst part , the last digit of the' number of metric tons being rounded off .
T k ? proposed Regulation on other cotton fabrics provides for a single
method of administration , to be applied by all Member States , namely
the " as and when " method .        "                               .
 ---pagebreak--- However , it is at present impossible to provide for a single method
of administration (" as and when " or advance allocation ) of the quota
■'or certain petroleum products .    The rules governing the market in
these products vary from one Member State to another , with the effect
thai: the Member States regard the application of a single method of
administration as impossible .    In contrast to general practice ,
therefore , each Member State will be empowered to administer its
own share of the quota according to its own rules , while ensuring
that all importers of the relevant products have free acces to the
auota .                            .    .
Annexps : 2 proposals for Council regulations .
 ---pagebreak---                                                                                                       ANNFX A
                                                            PROPOSAL FOR A
                                            COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
                opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for -
                certain petroleum products, falling within Chapter 27 of the Common Customs Tariff
                                                   and refined in Spain ( 1983 )
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                        Whereas, in respect of the last three years for which
 COMMUNITIES,                                                       statistics are available, the corresponding imports by
                                                                    each of the Member States represent the following
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                       percentages of the imports into the Community from
 European Economic Community, and in particular                     Spain of the products concerned :
 Article 1 1 3 thereof,
                                                                             Member Suce           1979     1980
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                                                                  1981
                                                                    Benelux                       50-1       4-5       26,9
 Whereas an Agreement between the European
 Economic Community and Spain (') was concluded                     Denmark                         –        –
                                                                                                                        -
 on 29 June 1970 and supplemented, by the Proto­                    Germany                         3-9      2-0        9.8
col to the Agreement between the Euro­
                                                                    Greece                          –
                                                                                                             –
                                                                                                                        -
pean Economic Community and Spain con­
                                                                    France                          8-8    23-0        12.2
sequent to the accession of the Helle­
nic Republic to the Community ( 2 ), he­                            Ireland                         0-7      –
                                                                                                                        6.1
reafter referred to as the Protocol ;                               Italy                           9-8     17-9       13.6
                                                                    United Kingdom                 26-7     52-6       31.4
.Whereas the Community committed itSelf, under this
 Agreement, to opening an annual total Community
 tariff quota of 1 424 000 tonnes of certain petroleum
 products, falling within Chapter 27 of the Common                  Whereas, in view of these factors , and of market
 Customs Tariff and refined in Spain ; whereas the                  forecasts for the products concerned and in particular
 quota duty is equal to 40% of the Common Customs                   of the estimates submitted by certain Member States,
 Tariff duties ; whereas this Community tariff quota                initial quota shares may be fixed approximately at the
 should be opened for 198 3 .                                       following percentages :
Whereas it is in particular necessary to ensure for all
                                                                             Bénélux                            22 -.0
Community importers equal and uninterrupted access
to the abovementioned quota and uninterrupted                                Denmark                           13.0
application of the rate laid down for that quota to all
imports of the product concerned into all Member                             Germany                           13.0
States until the quota has been used up ; whereas,                           Greece                              0-2
having regard to the above principles, the Community
 nature of the quota can be respected by allocating the                      France                            11.0
 Community tariff quota among the Member States ;                            Ireland
whereas, to reflect as accurately as possible the true                                                           7.0
trend of the market of the products in question, such                        Italy                               8.0
 allocation should be in proportion to the
 requirements of the Member States, calculated by                            United Kingdom                    25.8
 reference to the statistics for imports from Spain over
 a representative period and also to the economic
 outlook for the quota period concerned ;
                                                                    Whereas, in order to take into account import trends
                                                                    for the products concerned in the various Member
                                                                    States, the quota volume should be divided into two
                                                                    instalments, the first being shared between the
 (') OJ No L 182, 16. 8 . 1970 , p . 2 .                            Member States and the second constituting a reserve
 (') OJ No L 326 , 13 . 11 . 1981 , p . 2 .                         to cover at a later date the requirements of Member
                                                                    States which have used up their initial quota shares ;
 ---pagebreak---                                                                 - 2 -                                   ANNEX A
whereas to give importers in each Member State a                          reserve, to prevent a part of any Community tariff
certain degree of security, the first instalment of the                   quota from remaining unused in one Member State
Community quota might under the present circum­                           when it could be used in others ;
stances be fixed at about 27 C/,° °f the quota ;
                                                                          Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the
Whereas the Member States' initial shares may be                          Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy
used up at different times ; whereas, in order to take                    of Luxembourg are united within and jointly
this fact into account and avoid any break in                             represented by the Benelux Economic Union, any
continuity, any Member State which has almost used                        operation relating to the administration of the quota
up its initial quota share should draw an additional                    . shares allocated to that economic union may be
share from the reserve ; whereas this must be done by                     carried out by any of its members,
each Member State as and when each of its additional
shares is almost used up, and repeated as many times                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
as the reserve allows ; whereas the initial and
additional shares must be valid until the end of the
quota period ; whereas this method of administration                                              Article 1
requires close cooperation between the Member
States and the Commission, and the latter must be in
                                                                          From 1 January to 31 December 1983 , and subject to
a position to monitor the extent to which the quota                       the measures which might be taken pursuant to
volume has been used up and to inform the Member                          Article 3 (2) and (4) of Annex I to the Agreement
States thereof;
                                                                          between the ' European Economic Community and
                                                                          Spain, the Common Customs Tariff duties in respect
Whereas if, at a given date in the quota period , a                       of the products refined in Spain and listed below shall
substantial quantity of an initial share remains unused                   be suspended partially at the levels indicated for each
in any Member State, it is essential that that Member                     of them, within the limits of a global Community
State should return a significant proportion to the                       tariff quota of 1 424 000 tonnes ;
                   ccr
                                                                                                             Rate of
                  heading                                      Description                                  daty (%)
                    No
                   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 oils or of oils
                                obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic
                                constituents of the preparations :
                                A. Light oils :
                                   III. For other purposes                                                    2-4
                                B. Medium oils :
                                   III. For other purposes                                                    2-4
                                C. Heavy oils :
                                     I. Gas oil :
                                        c) For other purposes                                                 1-4
                                    II. Fuel oil :
                                        c) For other purposes                                                 1-4
                                   III. Lubricating oils ; other oils :
                                        c) To be mixed in accordance with the terms of Additional
                                           Note 7 to this Chapter (a)                                         1-6
                                        d) For other purposes                                                 2-4
                   27.11        Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons :
                                B. Other :
                                     I. Commercial propane and commercial butane :
                                        c) For other purposes :                                               0-6
              (a) Entry under this subheading is subject to conditions to be determined by the competent
                  authorities .
 ---pagebreak---                                                               - 3 -                                       ANNEX     A
                  CCT
                                                                                                              Rate of
                 heading                                       Description                                   daty (%)
                    No
                  27.12       Petroleum jelly :
                              A. Crude :
                   *■
                                  III . For other purposes                                                      0-7
                              B. Other                                                                          2-4
                  27.13       Paraffin wax, micro-crystalline wax, slack wax, ozokerite, lignite
                              wax, peat wax and other mineral waxes, whether or not coloured :
                              B. Other :
                                   • I. Crude :
                                         c) For other purposes                                                  0-7
                                    II. Other                                                                   2-0
                  27.14       Petroleum bitumen, petroleum coke and other residues of
                              petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals :
                              C. Other :
                                    II . Other                                                                  0-7
Within the limits of this tariff quota, Greece shall                     share minus the portion returned to the reserve where
apply duties calculated in accordance with the                           Article 5 is applied , has been used up, then, to the
relevant provisions in the 1979 Act of Accession                         extent permitted by the amount of the reserve, that
and     in the Protocol .                                                 Member State shall forthwith, by notifying the
                                                                         Commission, draw a second share equal to 15 % of
                                                                         its initial share, rounded up where necessary to the
                         Article 2                                       next unit.
1 . A first instalment amounting to383 000 tonnes
of the Community tariff quota referred to in Article 1                   2.     If, after its initial share has been used up, 90 %
shall be allocated among the Member States ; the                         or more of the second share drawn by a Member
respective shares, which subject to Article 5 shall be                   State has been used up, that Member State shall, in
valid until 31 December 1983 . shall be as follows :
                                                                         accordance      with     the   conditions    laid down  in
                                                  (tonnes)               paragraph 1 , draw a third share equal to 7-5 °/o of its
                                                                         initial share, rounded up where necessary to the next
       Bénélux                                  85 000                   unit.
       Denmark                                  50 000
       Germany                                  50 000
                                                                          3 . If, after its second share has been used up, 90 %
       Greece                                       1 nOO                or more of the third share drawn by a Member State
                                                                          has been used up, that Member State shall, in
       France                                     42Q00                   accordance     with     the   conditions    laid down  in
       Ireland                                  25 0 1"1®                paragraph 1 , draw a fourth share equal to the third.
       Italy                                    30 000
       United Kingdom                         1 QQ 000                   This process shall continue until the reserve is used
                                                                          up .
2.    The second instalment of                   ' tonnes shall
constitute the reserve.            yf qu f np Q
                                                                         4. By way of derogation fiom paragraphs 1 , 2 and
                                                                         3, a Member State may draw shares smaller than
                         Article 3                                       those fixed in those paragraphs if there is reason to
                                                                         believe that these might not be used up. It shall
1.    If 90% or more of a Member State 's initial                        inform the Commission of its reasons for applying
share as specified in Article 2 ( 1 ), or 90 % of that                   this paragraph .
 ---pagebreak---                                                           - 4 -                                  ANNEX A
                           Article 4                            that balance to the Member State which makes such
                                                                last drawing.
  Each of the additional shares drawn pursuant to
  Article 3 shall be valid until 31 December 198 3 .
                                                                                         Article 7
                           Article 5                            1 . Member States shall take all measures necessary
                                                                to ensure that supplementary shares drawn pursuant
  The Member States shall return to the reserve, not            to Article 3 are opened in such a way that imports
  later than 1 October 198 3,such unused portion of             may be charged without interruption against their
  their initial share as, on 15 September 198 3 ,is in          accumulated shares in the Community tariff quotas.
  excess of 20 % of the initial volume. They may return
  a greater quantity if there are grounds for believing         2 . Member States shall ensure that importers of the
  that it may not be used.                                      products in question                            have
                                                                free access to the shares allocated to them .
  Member States shall, not later than 1 October 1983 ,
  notify the Commission of the total quantities of the           3 . Member States shall charge imports of the
• products in question imported up to 15 September               goods in question against their shares as and when
   198 3 and charged against the Community tariff quota          such goods are entered with the customs authorities
  and of any quantities of the initial shares returned to        for free circulation .
  the reserve.
                                                                                         Article 8
                           Article 6
                                                                At the request of the Commission, Member States
                                                                shall inform it of imports of the products concerned
  The Commission shall keep an account of the shares            actually charged against their shares.
  opened by the Member States pursuant to Articles 2
  and 3 and shall, as soon as it is notified, inform each
  Member State of the extent to which the reserve has                                    Article 9
  been used up.
                                                                The     Member States      and   the Commission shall
  It shall inform the Member States, not later than             cooperate closely in order to ensure compliance with
  5 October 1983,, of the amounts still in the reserve          this Regulation.
  after quantities have been returned thereto pursuant
  to Article 5 .
                                                                                         Article 10
  The Commission shall ensure that the drawing which
  uses up a reserve does not exceed the balance                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
  available and, to this end, shall notify the amount of         1983 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels,
                                                                                        For the Council
                                                                                         The President
 ---pagebreak---                                                                                                     ANNEX B
                                                      PROPOSAL FOR A
                                          COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
                opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for
                other woven fabrics of cotton, falling within heading No 55.09 of the Common Customs
                                             Tariff and originating in Spain ( 1983 )
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                        allocating the Community tariff quota among the
 COMMUNITIES,                                                       Member States ; whereas to reflect as accurately as
                                                                    possible the true trend of the market of the products
                                                                    in question, such allocation should be in proportion
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                       to the requirements of the Member States calculated
 European Economic Community, and in particular                     by reference to the statistics of imports from Spain
 Article 1 1 3 thereof,                                             over a representative period and also to the economic
                                                                    outlook for the quota period concerned ;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                    Whereas, during the last three years for which
Whereas an Agreement between the European                           statistics are available, the corresponding imports by
Economic Community and Spain (' ) was concluded                     each of the Member States represent the following
on 29 June 1970 and supplemented by the Proto­                      percentages of the imports into the Community from
 col to the Agreement between the Euro­                             Spain of the products concerned :
pean Economic Community and Spain con­                                       Klcmber State        1978     1979     1980
 sequent         c*ithe accession of the Hel­
 lenic .. Republic to the Community ( 2 ),                          Benelux                        3-5     13-5     12-3
hereafter referred to as the Protocol ;
                                                                    Denmark                        0-8      0-2      0-2
                                                                   Germany                         3-3      0-2      4-5
Whereas , the Community committed itself, under this
                                                                   Greece                          9-6      8-0
Agreement, to opening an annual total Community
                                                                                                                     –
tariff quota of 2 013 tonnes of other woven fabrics of              France                        60-3     646      75-4
cotton, falling within heading No 55.09 of the                     Ireland                         0-3      0-3      1-5
Common Customs Tariff and originating in Spain ;
whereas, the quota duty is equal to 40 % of the                     Italy                          7-4      4-7      2-9
Common Customs Tariff duty in respect of the                       United Kingdom                 14-8      8-5      3-2
products concerned ;
                                              ; whereas this
Community tariff quota should be opened for 1983 •                 Whereas, in view of these factors, of market forecasts
                                                                   for the products in question and in particular of the
                                                                   estimates submitted by certain Member States, initial
Whereas it is in particular necessary to ensure to all             quota shares may be fixed approximately at the
Community importers equal and uninterrupted access                 following percentages :
to the abovementioned quota and uninterrupted
application of the rate laid down for that quota to all                      Benelux                            5-2
imports of the products concerned into all Member                            Denmark                            0-3
States until the quota has been used up ; whereas,
having regard to the principles mentioned above, the                         Germany                            5-2
Community nature of the quota can be respected by
                                                                             Greece                             5-2
                                                                             France                           52.0
                                                                             Ireland                          19.5
(' ) OJ No L 182 , 16 . 8 . 1970 , p. 1 .                                    Italy                            11.0
O OJ No L 326, 13 . 11 . 1981 , p. 2 .
                                                                             United Kingdom                     16
 ---pagebreak---                                                                   - 2 -                                  ANNEX B
 whereas, in order to take into account import trends                 Whereas if, at a given date in the quota period, a
for the products concerned in the various Member                      substantial quantity of an initial share remains unused
States, the quota volume should be divided into two                   in a Member State, it is essential that that Member
instalments, the first being shared among the Member                  State should return a significant proportion to the
States and the second constituting a reserve to cover                 reserve, to prevent a part of any Community quota
at a later date the requirements of those Member                      from remaining unused in one Member State when it
States having used up their initial quota shares ;                    could be used in others ;
whereas, in order to give importers in each Member
State a certain degree of security, the first instalment
of the Community quota should under present                           Whereas since the Kingdom of Belgium, the
circumstances be fixed at 77% of the quota ;                          Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand . Duchy
                                                                      of Luxembourg are united within and jointly
                                                                      represented by the Benelux Economic Union, any
                                                                      operation concerning the administration of the quota
 whereas the Member States' initial shares may be                     shares allocated to that economic union may be
 used up at different times ; whereas, in order to take               carried out by any of its members,
this fact into account and avoid any break in
 continuity, any Member State which has almost used
 up its initial share should draw an additional share
 from the reserve ; whereas this must be done by each                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Member State as and when each of its additional
 shares is almost used up, and repeated as many times
 as the reserve allows ; whereas the initial and                                               Article 1
 additional shares must be valid until the end of the
 quota period ; whereas this method of administration                  From 1 January until 31 December 1983 , the
requires close cooperation between the Member                          Common Customs Tariff duties in respect of the
 States and the Commission, and the latter must be in                  products originating in Spain and listed below shall be
 a position to monitor the extent to which the quota                   partially suspended at the levels indicated for each of
 volume has been used up and to inform the Member                      them within the limits of a global Community tariff
 States thereof; .                                                     quota of 2 013 tonnes :
                   CCT
                                                                                                         Rate of
                  heading                                   Description                                 duty (%)
                    No
                   55.09       Other woven fabrics of cotton :
                              A. Containing 85 % or more by weight of cotton :
                                   I. Of a width of less than 85 cm                                       4.8
                                  II. Other                                                               5.0
                               B. Other :
                                   I. Of a width of less than 85 cm                                       5.0
                                  II . Other                                                              5.3
Within the limits of this tariff quota, Greece shall                                                              (tonnes)
apply duties calculated in accordance with the                                 Bénélux                                  80
relevant provisions in the 1979 Act of Accession and
                                                                               Denmark                                   5
in the Protocol .
                                                                               Germany                                . 80
                          Article 2                                            Greece                                   80
                                                                               France                                800
1 . A first instalment amounting to 1540 tonnes of
the Community tariff quota referred to in Article 1                            Ireland                               300
shall be allocated among the Member States ; the                              Italy                                    170
respective shares, which subject to Article 5 shall be
valid until 31 December 198 7. shall be as follows :                          United Kihgdom                            25
 ---pagebreak---                                                         - 3 -                                  ANNEX B
2.     The second instalment of 473 tonnes shall              The Member States shall, not later than 1 October
constitute the reserve.                                        198 3 /iotify the Commission of the total quantities of
                                                              the products in question imported up to 15 September
                                                              198 3 and charged against the tariff quota and of any
                                                              quantities of the initial shares returned to the reserve.
                         Article 3
1.     If 90 % or more of a Member State's initial
share as specified in Article 2 ( 1 ), or 90 % of that                                  Article 6
share minus the portion returned to the reserve where
Article 5 is applied, has been used up, then, to the         The Commission shall keep an account of the shares
extent permitted by the amount of the reserve, that           opened by Member States in accordance with Articles
Member State shall forthwith, by notifying the                2 and 3 and shall , as soon as it is notified, inform
Commission, draw a second share equal to 15 % of              each Member State of the extent to which the reserve
its initial share, rounded up where necessary to the .        has been used up.
next unit.         -                 -
                                                              It shall inform the Member States, not later than
2. If, after its initial share has been used up, 90 %         5 October 1983 , of the amount in the reserve after
or more of the second share drawn by a Member                 quantities have been returned pursuant to Article 5.
State has been used up, that Member State shall , in
accordance     with   the   conditions  laid down    in
paragraph 1 , draw a third share equal to 7-5 % of its       The Commission shall ensure that any drawing which
initial share, rounded up where necessary to the next         exhausts the reserve does not exceed the balance
unit.                                                         available and, to this end, shall notify the amount of
                                                              that balance to the Member State which makes such
                                                              last drawing.
3 . If, after its second share has been used up, 90 %
or more of the third share drawn by a Member State
has been used up, that Member State shall, in
accordance with the same conditions, draw a fourth                                      Article 7
share equal to the third.
                                                              1.    The Member States shall take all measures
This process shall continue until the reserve is used         necessary to ensure that additional shares drawn
up .
                                                             pursuant to Article 3 are opened in such a way that
                                                              imports may be charged without interruption against
                                                              their accumulated shares of the Community quota.
4. By way of derogation from paragraphs 1 , 2 and
3, a Member State may draw shares smaller than                2.    The Member States shall ensure that importers
those fixed in those paragraphs if there is reason to         of the products in question
believe that these might not be used up. It shall                        have free access to the shares allocated to
inform the Commission of its reasons for applying             them.
this paragraph.
                                                              3.    The Member States shall charge imports of the
                         Article 4
                                                              said goods against their shares as and when the goods
                                                              are entered with the customs authorities for free
                                                              circulation .
Each of the additional shares drawn pursuant to
Article 3 shall be valid until 31 December 198 3-
                                                             4.     The extent to which a Member State has used
                                                              up its share shall be determined on the basis of the
                                                              imports charged in accordance with paragraph 3.
                         Article 5
The Member States shall return to the reserve, not
                                                                                        Article 8
later than 1 October 1983 , such unused portion of
their initial share which, on 15 September 1983 , is in
excess of 20 % of the initial volume. They may return         At the request of the Commission, Member States
a larger quantity if there are grounds for believing,         shall inform it of imports of the products concerned
that it may not be used.                                      actually charged against their shares.
 ---pagebreak---                                                        - 4 -                             ANNEX B
                       Article 9                                                  Article ÎO
The Member States and the Commission shall                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
cooperate closely in order to ensure compliance with        1983 .
this Regulation.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels.
                                                                                 For the Council
                                                                                  The President