CELEX: 31990R3598
Language: en
Date: 1990-12-13 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3598/90 of 13 December 1990 on the arrangements applicable to agricultural products subject to reference quantities and originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the overseas countries and territories (1991)

14. 12. 90                                Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 350/47
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3598/90
                                                      of 13 December 1990
                   on the arrangements applicable to agricultural products subject to reference
                   quantities and originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the
                                           overseas countries and territories (1991)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         on the advance implementation of the Protocol to the
                                                                    Third ACP-EEC Convention (*) consequent on the Acces­
                                                                    sion of the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               Republic to the European Communities, the said
Economic Community,                                                 reference quantities shall be applied in Spain and
                                                                    Portugal ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 of
5 March 1990 on the arrangements applicable to agricul­             Whereas, in order to enable the competent authorities
                                                                    within the Commission to establish an annual trade
tural products and certain goods resulting from the
processing of agricultural products originating in the              balance sheet for each of the products and, if necessary, to
African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the overseas            put into application the arrangement provided for in
countries and territories ('), and in particular Articles 1 6       Article 16 (3) of the abovementioned Regulation (EEC)
and 27 thereof,                                                     No 715/90, these products are subject to a statistical
                                                                    surveillance in accordance with Council Regulations
                                                                    (EEC) No 2658/87 (*) and (EEC) No 1736/75 (2) ;
Whereas Article , 16 ,of Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 stipu­
lates for certain agricultural products, covered by that            Whereas imports of the products in question are charged
Regulation and originating in those countries, the                  against the reference quantities at Community level
progressive reduction, subject to reference quantities laid         within pre-established timetables, as and when the
down within a set timetable, of the customs duties ;                products are entered with the customs authorities for free
                                                                    circulation ; whereas, therefore, it is appropriate to
                                                                    establish reference quantities for those products listed in
Whereas, under the provisions of Council Regulation                 the Annex ;
(EEC) No 486/85 (2), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 3530/89 (3), when the rate of customs duty applied to
imports into the Community of Ten of a product subject              Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
to a reference quantity is lower than that applying in              in accordance with the opinion of the Management
respect of Spain, Portugal or both of these Member States,          Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
the process of dismantling begins once duty on imports
of that product from Spain and Portugal falls below that
applied to imports of the product in question from the
other countries ; whereas, for this reason, the Annex to
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
this Regulation lists only products in respect of which
tariff dismantling begins or continues in 1991 ;
                                                                                             Article 1
Whereas by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2573/90
of 5 September 1990 totally suspending certain customs
duties applicable by the Community of Ten to imports                 1 . Imports into the Community of certain products
from Spain and Portugal (4) of the products listed in               originating in the African, Carribean and Pacific States or
Annex II to the Treaty, the said duties shall be totally            in the overseas countries and territories shall be subject to
suspended when they reach a level of 2 % or less ;                  reference quantities and to a statistical surveillance.
whereas the same rates of duties should be applied to
imports of these products originating in the African,               The products referred to in the first subparagraph, their
Caribbean and Pacific States or in the overseas countries
                                                                    CN codes, the periods of validity and the levels of the
and territories ;                                                   reference quantities are set out in the Annex.
Whereas by virtue of Council Regulation (EEC) No                    2. Quantities shall be charged against the reference
1820/87 of 25 June 1987 concerning the application of               quantities as and when products are entered with customs
Decision No 2/87 of the ACP-EEC Council of Ministers                authorities for free circulation and accompanied by a
                                                                    movement certificate. If the movement certificate is
(') OJ  No L  84, 30. 3. 1990, p. 85.
 2  OJ  No L  61 , 1 . 3. 1985, p. 2.                               0 OJ No L 172, 30. 6. 1987, p. 1 .
(3) OJ  No L  347, 28 . 11 . 1989, p. 3 .                           («) OJ No L 256, 7. 9. 1987, p. 1 .
0   OJ  No L  243, 6. 9. 1990, p. 19.                               0 OJ No L 183, 14. 7. 1975, p. 3.
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submitted a posteriori, the goods shall be charged against      tical Office of the European Communities in application
the corresponding reference quantity at the moment              of Regulations (EEC) No 2658/87 and (EEC) No 1736/75.
when the goods are entered for free circulation.
                                                                                          Article 2
                                                                The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
                                                                closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied with.
The extent to which the reference quantities are used up
shall be determined at Community level on the basis of                                    Article 3
the imports charged against them in the manner defined
in the first subparagraph, as communicated to the Statis        This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1991 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 13 December 1990.
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                         Christiane SCRIVENER
                                                                      Member of the Commission
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                                                                    ANNEX
                                                                                                                                        (tonnes)
      Order                           Taric code                                                                                   Reference
       No
                     CN code
                                           (')
                                                                            Description                            Period
                                                                                                                                   quantities
     12.0020      ex 0703 10 19     0703 10 19*91      Onions, fresh or chilled                             1.2 — 15.5. 1991           800
                                    0703 10 19 * 92
                                    0703 10 19 ' 93
     12.0040      ex 0703 20 00     0703 20 00 * 10    Garlic, fresh or chilled                             1.2 — 31.5. 1991           500
                                    0703 20 00*20
                                    0703 20 00 * 30
     12.0010      ex 0706 10 00     0706 10 00 * 11    Carrots, fresh or chilled                            1 . 1 — 31.3 . 1991        800
     12.0120      ex 0706 90 90     0706 90 90 * 20    Salad beetroot, fresh or chilled                    1 . 1 — 31 . 12. 1991       100
     12.0130      ex 0707 00 1 1    0707 00 1 1 * 1 1  Small cucumbers                                     1 . 1 — 31 . 12. 1991       100
                  ex 0707 00 19     0707 00 11 * 18
                                    0707 00 19 * 10
     12.0070          0802 31 00    0802 31 00 * 00    Walnuts, in shell or shelled                        1 . 1 — 31 . 12. 1991       700
                      0802 32 00    0802 32 00 * 00
     12.0140      ex 0805  10 21    0805  10   21 *    Oranges, fresh or dried                             15.5 — 30.9 . 1991       25 000
                  ex  0805 10 25    0805  10   25 *
                  ex  0805 10 29    0805  10   29 *
                  ex  0805 10 31    0805  10   31 * 10
                  ex  0805 10 35    0805  10   35 * 10
                  ex  0805 10 39    0805  10   39 * 10
                  ex  0805 10 70    0805  10   70 * 12
                                    0805  10   70 * 92
     12.0160          0809 40 90    0809 40 90*00      Sloes                                               1 . 1 — 31 . 12. 1991       500
(') The Taric codes shown are those applicable on the date of entry into force of the present Regulation .