CELEX: 51977PC0225
Language: en
Date: 1977-05-26
Title: Proposal for Council Regulation (EEC) amending Regulations (EEC) Nos 3035/76 and 3036/76 opening, allocating and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for dried figs and dried grapes falling within subheadings ex 08.03 B and 08.04 B I of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Spain (1977) (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak---  COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNÎTIE
                                                      COM(77)225 final .
                                                      Brussels , 26 May 1977
                                Proposal for
                          Council Regulation (EEC )
            amending          Regulations (ESC ) Nos 3035/ 76 and
            3036/76 opening , allocating and providing for the
            administration of Community tariff quotas for dried
            figs and dried grapes falling within subheadings
            ex 08.03 B and 08.04 B I of the Common Customs
            Tariff , originating in Spain ( 1977 )
               ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
CCLI(77 ) 225 final .
 ---pagebreak---                        EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
   1.   On the basis of the EEC-Spain Agreement of 1970 , each year the
        Community opens annual Community tariff quotas at reduced rates ©f
       duty , in respect of figs and grapes falling within subjeadings ex
                                                                          £
       08.03 B and 08.04 B I of the CCT , originating in Spain , as indicated
                                                                            ' *
       below :
       - 200 metric tons at duties of 3% for dried figs , imported
          in immediated containers of a net capacity of 15 kg or less
       - 1 700 metric tons duty-free for dried grapes , imported in
          immediate containers of a net capacity of 15 kg or less .
       These tariff quotas relate only to imports into the Community as
                                                                  1
       originally constituted and at present cover the year 1977 .
1
  0J No L 350, 20.12.1976, page 25 .
 ---pagebreak---                              2
2. 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 t'.ese
   circumstances the Community tariff quotas referred to above should be
   extended to cover the three new Member States . For dried grapes
   similarly account should be taken of the estimated volume of imports
   of the product  in question into those three Member States in the
   second half of the current year and the quota volume should be
   increased accordingly , that is to 100 metric tons .
   In accordance with normal practice , a portion of this additional
   volume would be allocated to each of the three Member States
   concerned and the remainder allocated to existing Community
   reserve .
   For the tariff quota for dried figs , the imports in the last
   years were nihil in the new Member States and negligible for the six
   original Member States . It seems therefore not to be appropriate
   to increase the volume of this quota .
3. This tariff measure should be applicable from 1 July 1977 . It is
   essential that it be adopted as rapidly as possible .
H. This is the purpose of the proposal annexed hereto .
 ---pagebreak---                      Proposal for
           Council Regulation ( EEC )
      amending          Regulations ( EEC ) Nos 3035 /76 and 3036/76 opening ,,
      allocating and providing for the administration of Community tariff
      quotas for dried figs and dried grapes falling within subheadings
      ex 08.03 B and 08.04 B I 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 Articles 43 and 113 thereof ,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parlement ,
Whereas  Council Regulations ( EEC ) Nos 3035/76 and 3036/76
of 9 December 1976 lay down tariff
arrangements for imports of dried figs and dried grapes falling within
subheadings ex 08.03 B and 08.04 B I 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
1977 ; whereas the import arrangements for the products in question should
be aligned throughout the Community as from 1 July 1977; whereas in
consequence the above Regulation must be amended;
  0J No L 350, 20.12.1976, pp . 25 and 28
2
  0J No L 73^ 27.3.1972, p. 14 .
 ---pagebreak---                              2
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                             Article 1
Regularion ( EEC ) No 3035 / 76 is hereby amended as follows
Article 2 shall read as follows :
"1 . A first instalment / amounting to 190      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 be as follows :
     Germany                 40   tonnes
     Bénélux             ,   40   tonnes
     Denmark                   5  tonnes
     France                  40   tonnes
     Ireland                   5  tonnes
     Italy                   40   tonnes
     United Kingdom          20 . tonnes
     2 . The second instalment of 10     tonnes     shall constitute the
     reserve ."
                             Article 2
Regulation ( EEC ) No 3036/ 76 is hereby amended as follows :
1.    In Article 1 the volume of 1,700      tonnes      for dried grapes
     falling within tariff subheading 08.04 B I shall be increased
     to 1,800 tonnes .
 ---pagebreak--- 2-   Article 2 shall read as follows :
       1 . A first instalment , amounting to 1,440 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 be as
     follows   :
           Germany              55   tonnes
           Bénélux             177   tonnes
           Denmark                5  tonnes
           France              870   tonnes
           Ireland              10   tonnes
           Italy               258   tonnes           * "
           United Kingdom       65   tonnes
     2 . The second instalment of 360    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
all Member States .
Done at Brussels ,                              For the Counci I
                                                 The President
 ---pagebreak--- FINANCIAL     STATEMENT
1 . Budget line concerned : Ch . 12 Art . 120
2 . Legal basis :     Art . 43 and 113
3 . Title of the tariff measure :
     Proposal for            Regulation ( EEC ) No       / 77 amending Council
   ' Regulation ( EEC ) Nos 3035 / 76 and 3036 / 76 opening , allocating and
     providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for
     dried figs and dried grapes falling within subheadings ex 08.03 B
     and 08.04 B I of the Common Customs Tariff , originating in Spain
     ( 1977 )
4 . Objectives :      Extension of contractual tariff measures to vocer
                      cover the three new Member States
5 . Method of calculation : .
     - No of CCT          : ex 08.03 B                        08.04 B I
     - Quota volume       : unchanged                         100 mt
     - Quota duty rate : 3%                                   duty-free
     - Duty rate CCT      ï 10%                               4%
6 . Loss of receipts :
     280,000 to 320,000 EUR according to the use of the quota of
     dried grapes .