CELEX: 51977PC0341
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Date: 1977-07-19
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for wines from fresh grapes and grape must with fermentations arrested by the addition of alcool falling within heading No 22.05 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating entirely in Greece (Presented to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                        COM(77)341 final.
                                                        Brussels . July 19 , 1977
                                  Proposal for a
                             COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC )
           opening , allocating and providing for the administration of a
           Community tariff quota for wines from fresh grapes and grape
           must with fermentations arrested "by the addition of alcool
           falling within heading Ho 22.05 of the Common Customs Tariff ,
                            originating entirely in Greece
                     (Presented to the Council by the Commission)
C0H(77) 341 final
 ---pagebreak---                           EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
Pending a decision by the Association Council under Article 35
36(1 ) of the EEC-Greece Association Agreement , the Council has
laid   down the arrangements applicable as from 29 April 1977 to
imports of wines of fresh grapes and grape must with fermentation
arrested by the a'ddition of alcohol , falling within CCT heading
No 22.05 and wholly obtained in Greece .    The arrangements provide
for the opening for these products of a Community tariff quota
of an annual volume of 420 000 hectolitres , at rates of duty
corresponding to 15% of those specified in the Common Customs
Tariff .
The purpose of the proposal for a regulation annexed hereto is
to renew for 1978 arrangements laid down for 1977 .
The details of the arrangements proposed     remain the same as
those adopted for the 1977 tariff quota , save , however , for
the volume of the Community reserve , which is raised from 1%
to approximately 10% , and the authorization granted to the
Member States to divide , as a guide , their shares into two
parts , one for table wines and the other for wines intended
for the manufacture of vermouth , such authorization not being
renewed in the proposal .
As for the Community reserve , the Commission feels that a
volume corresponding to some 1% of the quota cannot enable the
reserve , to play , from the time the quota is opened , the role
as a buffer stock which it was intended to have .     Although the
reserve is usually 20% of the quota volume , the Commission
proposes that as an experiment the level of the reserve be
fixed at 10% for 1978 .
As regards the authorization given to the Member States to
divide their shares , the Commission feels that such a measure ,
which moreover seems to serve no useful purpose , is justified
only in a transitional phase between purely national and wholly
Community arrangements .
 ---pagebreak--- Moreover , to assist the Commission in carrying out the
supervisory task entrused to it under the Treaties ,
Article 10 of the proposal stipulates that the Member
States must inform it , within a certain period , of the
measures they have taken to implement the tariff arrangement .
 ---pagebreak---                                               Proposal for a
                                COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No
                                                 of
              opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff
              quota for wines from fresh grapes and grape must with fermentation arrested by
              the addition of alcohol falling within heading No 22.05 of the Common
                               Customs Tariff, originating entirely in Greece
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN
COMMUNITIES.                                             Whereas it is in particular necessary to guarantee all
                                                         importers of the Member States equal and uninter­
                                                         rupted access to the said quota and uninterrupted
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European    application of the rate laid down for that quota to all
Economic Community, and in particular Articles 43        imports into such Member States of the products
and 1 1 3 thereof,                                       concerned until the quota has been used up ; whereas
                                                         having regard to the above principles the Community
Having regard to the proposal from -the Commission,      nature of the quota can be respected by allocating the
                                                         Community tariff quota among the Member States :
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia­     whereas, to reflect most accurately the actual develop­
ment                                                     ment of the market in the products concerned, such
                                                         allocation should be in proportion to the needs of the
                                                         Member States, assessed by reference both to the statis­
Whereas , pending a decision by the                      tics relating to imports from Greece over a representa­
Association Council pursuant to                          tive period, and to the economic outlook for the quota
Article 35 or 36 ( 1 ) of the EEC-                       period concerned ;
Greece Association Agreement ,
the special import arrangements
decided in the course of 1977 should
be reintroduced in 1978 for winesfrom                    Whereas, on the basis of the statistics at present avail­
                                                         able , imports from Greece into the Member States in
fresh grapes , and grape must with                        1974, 197.S and 1976 of the product concerned have
fermentation arrested by the                             developed as follows and represent the following
addition of alcohol originating                          percentages of total imports into the Community :
entirely in Greece ; whereas a
Community tariff quota of 420 000                                 Mi- mK- r Slitti**  I     l"4
hectolitres per annum should
accordingly be opened at a reduced
                                                         Beni'lux                         55-02             7 Ml
duty for 1978 ;                                           Dcnmnrk                           ( 105
                                                                                                   66-66
                                                                                                    0-1 1 1  0-1 1
                                                         Germany                          .17-04   26-46    22-15
                                                         France                             6-21    6        .1.(5
                                                         Ircinoii                           0-05    0-02     (M )
                                                          Italy                             0-14    01)2     0-02
                                                          United Kingdom             I  •    I -4V  0-71     0-Κ5
                                                         Whereas, taking into account these figures ami the
                                                         foreseeable development of the market in the product
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concerned during 1978, the initial shares in the                               States and the Commission , and the Commission
volume of the quota may be fixed approximately at                              must be in a position to follow the extent to which
the following percentages :                                                    the tariff quota has been used up and to inform the
                                                      64-06
                                                                               Member States thereof ;
      Bcnclux
      Denmark                                           0-53
                                                                               Whereas if, at a specified date in the quota period, a
      Germany                                          29-89
                                                                               considerable quantity of the initial quota share
      France                                            267
                                                                               remains in any Member State, it is essential that the
      Ireland                                           0-36                   Member State should return a certain proportion
      Italy                                             0-36                   thereof to the reserve , in order to avoid part of the
      United Kingdom                                    213                    Community quota remaining unused in one Member
                                                                               State when it could be used in others ;
Whereas in order to take into account the import
trends for the product concerned in the Member                                 Whereas, since      the   Kingdom           of    Belgium , the
States, the quota volume should be - divided into two                           Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of
instalments, the     first   instalment being allocated                         Luxembourg arc united in and represented by the
among the Member States and the second forming a                                Benelux Economic Union , any measure concerning
reserve intended ultimately to cover the requirements                           the administration of the quota shares allocated to
of the Member States, should their initial share be ,                           that economic union may be carried out by any of its
used up ; whereas, in order to ensure a certain degree                          members,
of security to importers, the first instalment of the
Community quota should be determined at a rela­
tively high level , which under present circumstances                           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
could be approximately 90% of the quota volume ;
                                                                                                       Artide I
Whereas the initial shares may be used up fairly
                                                                                     During the period from 1 January
quickly ; whereas, therefore, to avoid disruption of'                            I.    to 31 December 19 /8 , a Community tariff
supplies any Member State which has almost used up                             of 420 000           hectolitres shall be opened in the
its initial share, should draw a supplementary share                            Community for wine of fresh grapes and grape must
from the Community reserve ; whereas this must be                               with fermentation arrested by the addition of alcohol
done by each Member State as each one of its supple­                            falling under heading No 22.05 of the Common
mentary shares is almost used up, and as many times                             Customs Tariff, originating entirely in Greece.
as the reserve allows ; whereas the initial and supple­
mentary shares must be valid until the end of the                               Within this tariff quota, the Common Customs Tariff
quota period ; whereas this form of administration                              duty shall be reduced to the levels indicated in the
requires close collaboration between the Member                                 table below :                   -
              CCT heading No                                  Description of lootis                               Raiv of duly
                             I
              22.05            Wine of fresh grapes ; grape must with fermentation arrested by
                               the addition of alcohol :
                               A. Sparkling wine                            .                                6      u.a. per ni
                             i
                               B. Wine in bottles with 'mushroom stoppers held in place by
                                   ties or fastenings, and wine otherwise put up with an excess
                                   pressure of not less than I atmosphere but less than 3 atmos­
                                   pheres, measured at a temperature of 20 "C                                6      u.a . per hl
                               C. Other
                                  ' I. Of an Actual alcoholic strength not exceeding l .) , in
                                         containers holding :
                                         (a) 2 litres or less . .                          .                  I-K u.a. per ht
                                         (b) More than 2 litres                                               I *.) u-n. per hl
                                    II . Of an actual alcoholic strength exceeding 13° but not
                                         exceeding \ S° t in containers holding :
                                         (a) 2 litres or less                                                 2*1 u.n . per hl
                                         (b) More than 2 litres                        . , .                  I 6 u-a. per hl
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                        CCT hcMinx No                                   IX'H'nnlton ol gotxk                                  K*ir ol tlun
                                                                                                                         i
                       22.05 C              III . Of an actual alcoholic strength exceeding 15                but not
                       (i'UUtlt)                   exceeding 18 , in containers holding :
                                                   (a) 2 litres or less :
                                                       2 . Other .   . ' .   .   .                                         2*5 u.a. per hl
                                                   (b) More than 2 litres :
                                                       3 . Other                                                  . . .    2*1 u.a. per hl
                                            IV. Of an actual alcoholic strength exceeding 18° but not
                                                  exceeding 22° , in containers holding :*                              I
                                      ι
                                                  (a) 2 litres or less :
                                                       2. Other                                         \ . . . . . j      2'K u.a . per hl
                                       I          (b) More than 2 litres :                                     '        i
                                                       3 . Other                                                           2-K u.a. per hl
                                             V. Of an actual alcoholic strength exceeding 22° , in ;
                                                   containers holding :
                                                  (a) 2 litres or less                                                     0-2 u.a . per hl
                                       I                    .                                             i '              and per degree
                                                                                                                            + 1 S u.a . per
                                                                                                                           hl
                                                  (b) More than 2 litres                                                   0-2 u.a. per hl
                                                                                                                           and per degree
                                                                      •  ■                                              i
                                                                                         that Member State shall without delay, by notifying
                                                                                         the Commission , draw a second share equal to 15%
                                                                                         of its initial share, rounded up to the next unit where
                                                                                         appropriate, to the extent that the amount in the
                                                                                         reserve allows .
                                  Anide 2
                                                                                         2-.-  If, after its initial share has been exhausted ,
                                                                                         90 % or more of the second share drawn by that
        1.    The tariff quota referred to in Article 1 ( I ) shall                      Member State has been exhausted, it shall , in the
        be divided into two instalments .
                                                                                         manner provided for in paragraph I , draw a third
                                                                                         share equal to 7-S % of its initial share.
        2.    A first instalment, amounting to380 000 hectoli-
        tres, shall be shared among the Member States ; the                              .V    If, after its second share has been exhausted ,
        shares which subject to Article 5 shall be valid from                            90 % or more of the third share drawn by that
1 January until 31 December 1978 , shall be                                              Member State lias been used up, it shall , in the
as follows :                                     – "»                   –                manner provided for in paragraph I , draw a fourth
              Bénélux                                 243 450                            share equal to the third.
              Denmark                                      2 000
              Germany                          .      1 1 3 600
              France                                    10 150
                                                                                         This process shall be applied until the reserve is
                                                                                         exhausted.
              Ireland                                      1 350
              Italy                                        1 350
              United Kingdom                               8 100 "                       4.     Notwithstanding paragraphs I , 2 and .1, Member
                                                        40 000                           States may draw smaller shares than those fixed in
        3.    The second instalment of           '        hectolitres shall              those paragraphs if there is reason to believe that
        constitute the reserve .                                                         those shares might not be used up. They shall inform
                                                                                         the Commission of their reasons for applying this
                                                                                         paragraph . . ,
                                   A Ì tùie 3
                                                                                                                      Article 4
         1.   If 90 "/« or more of any Member States initial
        share, as laid down in Article 2 ( 2 ), or 90 % or more
        of that share less the amount returned to , the reserve                          Each of the additional shares drawn pursuant to
        where Article S lias been applied, has been exhausted.                           Article .1 shall be valid until .il December 1978 .
 ---pagebreak---                          Artide 5
                                                                                               A rttde  8
Member Stole* shall return to the reserve, not later
than 1 October 1978, the unused portion of their                       At the request of the Commission , Member Stales
initial share which, on 15 September 1978 ^ is in                      shall inform it of imports of the products in question
excess of 20 % of the initial amount . They may return                 actually charged against their shares.
a greater portion if there arc grounds for believing
that such portion may not be used in full .                                                   Artide    9
The Member States shall, not later than 1 October                      The Member States and the Commission shall coop­
1978, notify the Commission of the total imports of                    erate closely in order to ensure the correct application
the products concerned effected under and charged .                    of this Regulation.
against the Community quota up to 15 September
 1978 inclusive and, where appropriate, of the propor­
tion of their intial shares that they are returning to the                                     Article 10
reserve .
                         Artide 6
                                                                       The Member States shall forward to
                                                                       the Commission within 45 days of
The Commission shall keep account of the shares                        the
                                                                        ■ \.upublication
                                                                                   /!«• ' . of this Regulation  9
opened by Member States in accordance with Articles                    in the Official Journal of the
                                                                       1n          Official Journal of tl
2 and 3 and shall inform each of them of the extent                    European Communities ,,, the provisions  pr<
to which the reserve has been used as soon as it                       they have adopted with a view          Viei to its
receives the notification.                                   ,         application .
The Commission shall , not later than 5 October I978,A •
 notify the Member States of the state of the reserve
 after the return of shares pursuant to Article 5 .
 The Commission shall ensure that any drawing which
 uses up the reserve is limited to the balance available                                  .                    •
 and, for this purpose, shall specify the amount thereof
 to the Member State which makes the final drawing.                                             Article J1
                                                                    ;    This Regulation shall enter into force on
                          Article 7                        '                            '
                                                                         1 January 1978 .
  1.   Member States shall take all measures necessary
 to ensure that supplementary shares drawn pursuant
 to Article 3 are opened in such a way that charges "
 may be made without interruption against their
 combined shares of the Community quota.
 2. Member States shall ensure that importers of the
 said products established in their territory have free
 access to the shares allocated to them or drawn from '
 the reserve.
 3. Member States shall charge imports of the said
 goods against their shares as and when the goods are ,
 entered for home use .
 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.
                     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                     States.
                      Done at Brussels,
                                                                                For the Connu'/
                                                                                 The Président
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT
1 . Budget line concerned 5 Ch . 12 Art . 120
2 . Leqal basis : Articles 43 and 113 of the Treaty
3 . Title of the tariff measure :
    Proposal for a Council Regulation ( EEC ) opening , allocating and providing
    for the administration of a Community tariff quota for wines from fresh
    grapes and grape, must with fermentation arrested by the addition of
    alcohol falling within heading No 22.05 of the Common Customs Tariff ,
    originating entirely in Greece
4 . Objectives :
     '  To assure , for Greek wines , a preferential treatment in the context
        of an interim regime between the national regimes provided for in      ;
        Protocol 14 to the Agreement EEC-Greece and the regime to be defined
        in accordance with Article 35 or Article 36(1 ) of the Agreement .
5 . Method of calculation :
     - No of CCT            22.05
      - ^ uota volume       420 000 hl
     - Quota duty rate      15% of CCT duty rates
      - Duty rate CCT       from 9 to 40 UA / hl
6 . Loss of receipts :       6,300,000 UCE