CELEX: 51992PC0557
Language: en
Date: 1992-12-14
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural and industrial products (2nd series 1993)

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                                   C0M(92) 557 final
                                                                   Brussels, 14 December 1992
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                                                      Proposal for a
                                                COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
                                  opening and providing for the administration of
                                    Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural
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 ---pagebreak---                              EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1.    Subsequent to requests made by various Member States, the Services of
      the Commission have examined, in conjunction with the Government
      experts concerned, the question of opening in 1993 tariff quotas for
      various products.
2.    Following this examination, which took place during the "Economic
      Tariff" group meetings, it has been determined that the opening of
      tariff quotas for the following products could have the agreement of
      the Member States without disturbing the markets for such products:
      Vanadiumoxides :                                6 000 T      at 0%
      Magnetrons:                                   400 000 pieces at 0%
      Ant imony:                                     15 000 T      at 0%
      BenzyIi dene D-gIuc i do I                         55 T      at 0%
      Mushrooms:                                        420 T      at 0%
      O-Cresol:                                      12 000 T      at 0%
      Glutathione:                                        3 T      at 0%
This is the aim of this proposal
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 ---pagebreak---                                                                        Proposal for a
                                                        COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No                           /92
                                                                        of
                            opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain
                                                  agricultural and industrial products (second series 199$)
                                                                                    whereas the decision for the opening ot autonomous
                                                                                     t a r i f f quotas should be taken by the Community;
      THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
                                                                                    whereas, to ensure the efficiency of a common acminis-
      Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European! tration of these quotas, there i s no reasonable obstacle
      Economic Community, and in particular Article 28Jto authorising the Member States to draw from the quota-
      thereof,                                                                      volumes the necessary quantities corresponding to
                                                                                    actual imports; whereas this method of administration
      Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                            requires close cooperation between the Member States and
                                                                                    the Commission and the latter must i n particular be able
      Whereas production in the Community of certain t o monitor t h e r a t e a t which t h e quotas a r e used up and
      agricultural and industrial products will remain in the course inform t h e Member S t a t e s a c c o r d i n g l y ;
      of 1993 unable to • meet the specific requirements
      of the user industries in the Community; whereas,
      consequently, Community supplies of products of this type
      will depend to a considerable extent on imports from
      third countries; whereas the most urgent Community
      requirements for the products in question should be met
      immediately on the most favourable terms;                                         Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of the
                                                                                        Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are united
                                                                                        within and jointly represented by the Benelux Economic
      Whereas Community tariff quotas at                              zero duty
                                                                                        Union, all transactions concerning the administration of the
      should therefore be opened within the limits of appropriate
                                                                                        quantities drawn by that economic union may be carried out
      volumes for a period up to                                 31 December by any one of its members,
      1993 taking account of the need not to disturb the markets
      for such products nor the starting out or development of HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
      Community production;
                                                                                                                   Article I
      Whereas it is necessary, in particular, to ensure for all
      Community importers equal and uninterrupted access to the                                                1975
      said quotas and to ensure the uninterrupted application of                       1.       From 1 Januaryjuntil the date shown in the table below
      the rates laid down for the quotas to all imports of the                        the customs duties applicable to imports into the Community
      products concerned into all Member States until the quotas                      of the products listed below shall be suspended at the levels
      have been used up;                                                               and within the limits of the Community tariff quotas shown
                                                                                       below:
                  CNcode                                                                                      Amount of      Quota duty     End of
   Order N o                                                      Description
                      (1)                                                                                        quota          (%)      quota period
 09.2703      ex 2825 30 00       Vanadiumoxides and hydroxides, not in the form of powder,                      6000"         0        31.12.1993
                                  exclusively for the production of alloys ( a )                                 T
 09.2797      ex 8540 41 00        Magnetrons with a power output of less than 1 000 W , for the              400 000          0        31.12.1993
                                   manufacture of microwave ovens ( a )                                          pieces
  09.2817      ex 8110 00 11       Antimony ingots                                                              15 000         0        31.12.1993
                                                                                                                 T
  09.2827     ex 2932 90 79         1,3-2,4-Di-o-benzylidene D-glucidol with a purity by weight not                   55       0        31.12.1993
                                   less than 96 %                                                                 7
09.2349 ex0710 80 a 1 Mushrooms of the species Auricularia polytricha                                               420        0        31.12.1993
                                    steamed, cut into strips of a width of 6 mm or                               T
                                   more but not more than 8 nm, for the manufactu-
                                    re of prepared meals (a)
09.2851 ex2907 12 a 0-Cresol having a purity of not less than 98,5%
                                 1                                                                              12 000         0        31.12.1993
                                                                                                                 T
09.2853 ex2930 9 0 a ) Glutathione                                                                                     3       0        31.12.1993
                                                                                                                 T
i%) See Taric codes in the Annex.
 (1) Checks on their prescribed end-use shall be carried out pursuanr to the relevant Comunity provisions.
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 ---pagebreak---                             Article 1
The tariff quotas referred to in Article 1 shall be managed
by the Commission, which may take any appropriate
administrative measures to ensure that they are managed
efficiently.
                            Article 3
Where an importer presents a declaration covered by this
Regulation for release for free circulation in a Member State,
applying to take advantage ofthe preferential arrangements,
and the entry is accepted by the customs authorities, the
Member State concerned shall, by notifying the Commission,
draw an amount corresponding to its requirements from the
appropriate quota volume.
Requests for drawings, indicating the date on which the
entries were accepted, must be sent to the Commission
without delay.
 Drawings shall be granted by the Commission in
chronological order of the dates on which the customs
authorities of the Member States concerned accepted the
entries for release for free circulation, to the extent that the
available balance so permits.
If a Member State does not use a drawing in full it shall return
any unused portion to the corresponding quota volume as
soon as possible.
If the quantities requested are greater than the available
balance of the quota volume, the balance shall be allocated
among applicants pro rata. The Commission shall inform the
Member States of the drawings made.
                            Article 4
Each Member State shall ensure that importers of the
products in question have equal and continuous access to the
quotas for as long as the balance of the relevant quota volume
so permits.
                            Article S
The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied with.
                            Article 6
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 199J.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.
Done at Brussels, 19 December 1991.
                                                                    For the Council
                                                                     The President
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 ---pagebreak---               ANNEX
           TARIC codes
Order Nos.          CN codes     /TARIC codes
09.2703             ex 2825 30 00/    10
09.2797             ex 8540 41 00/    91
09.2817             ex 8110 00 11/    10
09.2827             ex 2932 90 79/    80
09.2849             ex 0710 80 60/    10
09.2851             ex 2907 12 00/    10
09.2853             ex 2930 90 80/    16
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 ---pagebreak---  FINANCIAL RECORD
 1.     Budget line concerned : Chap. 12 Art. 120
 2.     Legal basis : Art. 28 of the Treaty
 3.     Title of the tariff measure concerned : Proposal for a Council
        Regulation opening and providing for the administration of Community
        tariff quotas for certain agricultural and industrial products (2nd
        series 1993).
4.      Object ive : To ensure an adequate supply for Community user-
        industries.
5.      Method of calculation :
  Descr ipt ion     Quant i-     Pr ice    Normal   Quota duty     Duty-loss
    of the           t ies     (Ecu/unit)   rate
    products                               (in % )     (In % )     (in Ecus)
  Vanadiumoxides      6 000 T     4 630      5.5          0         1 527 900
  Magnetrons        400 000 P         22     5.1          0           448 800
  Ant imony          15 000 T     1 617      8            0         1 9 4 0 400
  Benzylidene D -         55 T   22 050      6.9          0            86 679
   gIuc i do I
 Mushrooms               420 T   18 900     18            0         1 428 840
 0-Cresol            12 000 T        940     2.1          0           236 880
 Glutathione               3 T  271 428      7.6          0            61 885
Compared with quotas opened in 1992, increased loss of 5 731 384 -
4 427 451 - 1 303 933 ecus
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