CELEX: 51975PC0515
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Date: 1975-10-16
Title: Proposal for a Regulation (EEC) of the Council temporarily suspending the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on a certain number of agricultural products (Submitted by the Commission to the Council.)

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                                                  COM(75)515 final.
                                                  Brussels , 16 October 1975 «
                           Proposal for a Regulation
                              ( EEC ) of the Council
                         temporarily suspending the
                  autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties
                  on a certain number of agricultural products
              ( Submitted by the Commission to the Council .)
COK ( 7 ^) 515 finnl .
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l ) Regulation- (EEC ) Nr. 1532/75 of the Council of 16.6.197 !?
       temporarily suspending the autonomous duties 1 'in              '■
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       Customs Tariff duties on a certain n,umber of agricultural products                                                                              .• :
       ( l ) mak&s provision for the period from 1.7 . 19.75 1-9 30.6.1976
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       for suspension of the autonomous duty, * iri» the; Common          J
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       up to the level of 4 $ for chantarelles provisionally preserve*! •                                                                            •'             •
       in brine ., in sulphur wate^ or in otjier pi%sejrvativ« /solutions ,
       but not specially prepared for immediate consumption of sub–                                                                                             ^
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       heading ex 07.03
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       The German government has requested th'e extension of 'this sus-
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       pension to' all mushrooms,, except cultivated nmphrooms , in the                                                     '                  ,
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       same submission , for the period from 1.1*. to 30. 6 . 1976 * since
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       the requirements of the processing indji^ti^y cannot' be met in
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       the Community . Suspension could p.llow Community prq.cessors to                                                                                    ..
       obtain supplies under more favourable conditions and to maintain                                                                       ' '<
       their competitiveness in relation to suppliers of finished pro–
       ducts . In these circumstances the Commission considers it desi­
       rable to endorse the German request .                                                                 ,                                             v
 2 ) The Community processing industry needs a considerable quantity of dried ,
       onions which are principally used in dehydrated products such as soups and
       stuffings . This requirement cannot be met in the Community. For this reason
       industries in this category in the United Kingdom , where the                                                 , 4 .
       requirement is some 9000 tonnes (a value of 280.000 U.A. ), are
       obliged to obtain supplies of a volume of about 8 . 050 tonnes                                           *
       from third countries (Bulgaria, Romania, the United States and
   • Lebanon ). A suspension of duty ( CCT rate s 18 $) could allow the ,
       processing industry to obtain supplies of this basic vegetable
       under more favourable conditions .                                       ,                               •
       ( l ) O.J. Nr.L 156 of 18.6.1975 , p.l .
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    In these circumstances the Commission considers it desirable -
    following the request of the government of the United Kingdom -
    to suspend the Common Customs Tariff duty for this product for
    six months and to restrict this measure to a duty of 14
    taking into account the interests of the users as well as the
    producers of dried onions in the Community .
3 ) With regard to the desirability of a suspension of Common
    Customs Tariff duties on bitter or Seville oranges , fresh
    or dried of subheading ex 08.02 A II and almonds of subheading
    08.05 A II , the Commission is not prepared to propose such a
    measure at the present stage , in view of the fact that nego­
    tiations on the subject of agreements with third countries which
    are suppliers of these products have not yet ended .
 ---pagebreak---                           Proposal for a ,              .
                   REGULATION ( EEC ) OP THE COUNCIL .
              temporarily suspending "the autonomous Common                 i
              Customs Tariff duties on a certain number of
              agricultural products                     .   ,
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                                                                                          V.
THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                                         ■
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having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic             ; ,
 Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof ?                • f    \      ,
having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
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having regard to the Opinion of the European Parliament ;
whereas the production in the Community of the produces to which
 this Regulation applies is at present inadequate or non-existent and whereas
producers thus cannot meet the needs of the user industries in the
Community ;                                    -    •
whereas it is in the interest of the Community to suspend the autonomous
 Common Customs Tariff duties in certain cases only partially
because these goods are produced in the Community , and in other
cases to suspend them completely ;
whereas in view of the difficulty of assessing accurately short-term
trends in the economic situation in the relevant sectors , suspension
measures should be taken only for temporary periods , the length of         /
which is to be determined by reference to the interests of Community
production ,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                         ■
                             Article 1
Prom 1 January to 30 June      197 o "the autonomous Common Customs
Tariff duties on the products listed in the Annex to
this Regulation shall be suspended at the level jtherein indicated in
respect of each of them.
 ---pagebreak---                      Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 Januaiy 1976 *
     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:
CCT heading No      Description of goods       Rate of autonomous
                                               duxy
ex 07 • 03 E   Mushrooms , excluding cultiva­
               ted mushrooms preserved in brine ,
               in sulphur water or in other pre­
               servative solutions , "but not spe­
               cially prepared for immediate
               consumption                              4%
ex 07.04 A     Dried onions