CELEX: 51977PC0223
Language: en
Date: 1977-05-26
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) amending Regulations (EEC) Nos 3030/76 and 3031/76 opening, allocating and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for other woven fabrics of cotton falling within heading No 55.09 and for certain petroleum products falling within Chapter 27 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Spain (1977) (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                      COM(77)223 final
                                      Brussels . 26 May 1977
                            Proposal for a
                      COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
        amending Regulations ( EEC ) Nos 3030/ 76 and 3031 / 76
       opening , allocating and providing for the administration
       of Community tariff quotas for other woven fabrics of
        cotton falling within heading No 55.09 and for certain
       petroleum products falling within Chapter 27 of the
       Common Customs Tariff , originating in Spain ( 1977 )
             ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
 C0M(77 ) 223 final
 ---pagebreak---                      EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1.   On Che basis of the EEC-Spain Agreement of 1970 , each year
     the Community opens annual Community tariff quotas at
     reduced rates of duty , in respect of other woven fabrics
     of cotton falling within heading No 55.09 of the CCT
     and certain petroleum products falling within Chapter 27
     of the CCT , originating in Spain, as indicated below :
     - 1,800 metric tons at duty rates of 5.2 /5.6/6.0 Z
       for other woven fabrics cotton
     - 120,000 metric tons at duty rate of 0.6 to 2.8 Z
       for certain petroleum products . •
     These tariff quotas relate only to imports into the Conmunity
     as originally constituted and at present cover the year 1977 *.
2.   The special tariff treatment applied by the three new Member
     States to imports of the products in question from Spain will
     end on 30 June of this year . Import arrangements must be
     aligned throughout the Community from 1 July 1977 onwards ,
     since pursuant to the Act of Accession and in particular
     Article 59 thereof , from that date the new Member States are
 0J No L 350 , 20.12.1976 , page 1 .
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   obliged to apply to imports of the products in question the
   customs duties set out in the Common Customs Tariff .
3. Since it is hardly to be assumed that the additional protocol
   on which negotiations between the Community and Spain began
   on 6 May 1977 will be applicable from 1 July 1977 , the
   Commission considers that in these circumstances the Commu­
   nity tariff quotas referred to above should be extended to
   cover the three new Member States . Similarly account should
   be taken of the estimated volume of imports of the products
   in questionr into those three Member States in the second
   half of the current year and the quota volumes should be
   increased accordingly .   This would result in the following
   increases :             1
   - of 50 metric tons for other woven fabrics of cotton ,
   - of 100,000 metric tons for certain petroleum products .
   In accordance with normal practice , a portion of each of these
   additional volumes would be allocated to each of the three Member
   States concerned and the remainder allocated to existing
   Community reserves .
4. This tariff measure should be applicable from 1 July 1977 .
   It is essential that it be adopted as rapidly as possible .
5. This is the purpose of the proposal annexed hereto .
 ---pagebreak---                       Proposal cor
           Council Regulation ( EEC )
      amending          Regulations (EEC ) Nos 3030 / 76 and 3031 / 76
      opening , allocating and providing for the administration
      of Community tariff quotas for other woven fabrics of cotton
      falling within heading No 55.09 and for certain petroleum
      products falling within' Chapter 27 of the Common Customs
      Tariff , originating in Spain ( 1977 )
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,'
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic
Community , and in particular Article 113 thereof ,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
                                                                                1
Whereas Council Regulations (EEC) Nos 3030/ 76 and 3031 / 76 of 9 December 1976
lay down tariff arrangements for imports of other woven fabrics
of cotton falling within heading 55.09 and for certain petroleum
products falling within Chapter 27 of the Common Customs Tariff ,
originating in Spain , only in respect of the Member States of the Community
as originally constituted ; whereas those arrangements are applicable for
                                                  2
1977 ; whereas , pursuant to the Act of Accession , imports of the products
in question into the three new Member States will be subject from 1 July
1977 to the customs duties set out in the Common Customs Tariff ; whereas
the import arrangements for the products in question must be aligned
throughout the Community as from that date ; whereas in consequence the
above Regulations must be amended in order to permit the three new Member
States to participate in the tariff arrangements referred to above ,
 OJ No L 350 , 20.12.1976 , pp, 1 and 5
20J No L 73 , 27.3.1972 , p. 14.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                            Article 1
Regulation ( EEC ) No 3030/ 76 is hereby amended as follows :
1.   In Article 1 the volume of 1,800 metric tons for other
     woven fabrics of cotton falling within heading No 55.09
     shall be increased to 1,850 metric tons .
      Article 2 shall read as follows :
     " 1 . A first instalment , amounting to 1,390 tonnes
     of the Community tariff quota referred to in Article 1 ,
     shall be allocated among the Member States ; the respec­
     tive shares , which subject to Article 5 shall be valid
     until 31 December 1977 , shall be as follows :
           Germany               80 tonnes
           Bénélux               80 tonnes
           Denmark                5 tonnes
           France               920 tonnes
           Ireland               10 tonnes
           Italy                270 tonnes
           United Kingdom        25 tonnes
     2 . The second instalment of 460 tonnes shall
     constitute the reserve ."
                           Article 2
Regulation (EEC ) No 3031 / 76 is hereby amended as follows :
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1.   In Article 1 the volume of 1,200,000    tonnes for
     certain petroleum products falling within Chapter 27 of
     the Common Customs Tariff shall be increased to
     1,300,000 tonnes .
2-   Article 2 shall read as follows :
     "1.   A first instalment , amounting to 1,000,000 tonnes
           of the Community tariff quota referred to in
     Article 1 , shall be allocated among the Member States ;
     the respective shares , which subject to Article 5 shall
     be valid until 31 December 1977 , shall consist of the
     following amounts : '
           Germany              425 000  tonnes
           Bénélux              300 000  tonnes
           Denmark                 5 000 tonnes
           France               100 000  tonnes
           Ireland                 5 000 tonnes
           Italy                100 000  tonnes
           United Kingdom         65 000 tonnes
     2 . The second instalment of 300 000 tonnes shall
     constitute the reserve ."
                          Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following
its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
It shall apply from 1 July 1977.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
applicable in all Member States .
Done at Brussels ,                              For the Council
                                                 The President
 ---pagebreak--- FINANCIAL     STATEMENT
1 . Budget line concerned : Ch . 12 Art . 120
2 . Leqal basr£ :    Art . n 3
3 . Title of the tariff measure :
    Proposal foij Council Regulation ( EEC ) No .../ 77 amending Council
    Regulations ( EEC ) Nos 3030 / 76 and 3031 / 76 opening , allocating and
    providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for
    other woven fabrics of cotton falling within heading No 55.09
    and for certain petroleum products falling within Chapter 27 of
    the Common Customs Tariff , originating in Spain ( 1977 )
4 . Objectives :
   Extension of contractual tariff measures to the three new Member States .
5 . Method of calculation
     - No of CCT               55.09                      ex Chapter 27
     - Quota volume            50 metric tons               100 000 metric tons
     - Quota duty rate         5.2 to 6%                   0.6 to 2.8%
     - Duty rate CCT           13 to 15%                    1.5 to 7%
6 . Loss of receipts
             10,000 to 12,000 EUR according to the use of the quota ( 55.09 )
            800,000 to 1,000,000 EUR according to the use of the quota
             (Chapter 27 ).
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