CELEX: 51991PC0346
Language: en
Date: 1991-09-20
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain industrial products ( third series 1991 )

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              COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                    C0M(91) 346 final
                                                    Brussels, 20 September 1991
                                       Proposal for a
                                  COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
                      opening and providing for the administration of
                      Community tariff quotas for certain industrial
                                products (third series 1991)
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                           EXPLANATORY MEMORAHDTJM
1. In response to requests from Member States the Commission, jointly with
   the appropriate government experts, has been considering the
   desirability of opening tariff quotas for a number of industrial
   products for 1991.
2. Study of the question at meetings of the Boonamio Tariff Problems Group,
   most recently on 28 June, Indicated that agreement would be forthcoming
   from the Member States on tariff quotas for the following products with
   no resultant disturbance of the markets concerned:
        flat-rolled products: 75 tonnes at 0%
        ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymers: 3 500 tonnes at 0%
        sterile serum: 3 000 litres at 0%
        benzylidene D-glucitol: 30 tonnes at 0%
        Solid extract of wood rosin: 250 tonnes at 0 %
We accordingly present the following proposal.
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                                                        Proposal for a
                                     COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No                   791
                                                     of            1991
                 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for
                                            certain industrial products ( t h i r d s e r i e s 1 9 9 1 )
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES.                        Whereas, it is appropriate to take the necessary measures
                                                                to ensure efficient Community administration of these
                                                                tariff quotas while offering the Member States the oppor-
                                                                tunity to draw from the quota volumes the necessary
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                quantities corresponding to actual imports ; whereas this
Economic Community, and in particular Article 28
                                                                method of administration requires close cooperation
thereof,
                                                                between the Member States and the Commission and the
                                                                latter must in particular be to able to monitor the rate at
                                                                which the quotas are used up and inform the Member
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,              States accordingly ;
                                                                Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of
Whereas production in the Community of certain                  the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
industrial products will remain in the course of 1991           are united within and jointly represented by the Benelux
unable to meet the specific requirements of the user            Economic Union, all transactions concerning the ad-
industries in the Community ; whereas, consequently,            ministration of the quantities draw by that economic
Community supplies of products of this type will depend         union may be carried out by any one of its members,
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 Community tariff
quotas at zero duty should therefore be opened within the
limits of appropriate volumes for a period up to
                         31 December 1991 taking account        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION
of the need not to disturb the markets for such products
nor the starting out or development of Community
production ;
Whereas it is necessary, in particular, to ensure for all
Community importers equal and uninterrupted access to
the said quotas and to ensure the uninterrupted applica-
tion of the rates laid down for the quotas to all imports of
the products concerned into all Member States until the
quotas have been used up ;
                                                                        Article 1
                       1. From the date of entry into force of this Regulation until
                           31 December 1991, the duties applicable to imports of the following
                           products shall be suspended at the levels and up to the ljjtdts of the
                           Community tariff quotas shown below:
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Order No        CN code                   •Description              Expiry date      Quota        Quota
                  (a)                                                                volune       duty (X)
           ex 7226 10 91        Flat-rolled products of slllcon-    31 December 1991      75 t        OX
90.2731                         electrical steel, cold-rolled,
                                grain oriented, of a width not
                                exceeding 500 nn, of a thickness of
                                0.23 •• or loss, with a nominal
                                •agnetlc inversion loss rate of
                                0.8 watt/kilo or less established
                                by the Epstein Method using a
                                50-cycle current and a 1.7 tes I a
                                 Induction
           ex 3905 20 00        Ethylene-vlnyl alcohol copolymers   31 Decenber 1991 2 500 t          OX
90.2823                         with an ethylene content expressed
                                 in ioles of 38X ninlnun and 46X
                                naxlnun, and with a netting point
                                of 160°C or lore not not exceeding
                                1850C, for the manufacture of
                                biodegradable products, with a
                                •iniiui starch content of 40X1
            ex 3002 10 99       Sterile serun obtained fron bovine 31 Decenber 1991  3 000 litres     OX
90.2825                         foetal blood, with an endotoxin
                                content of less than 0.3
                                nongrans/nl, for the manufacture of
                                •onoclonal entlbodies to be used
                                for therapeutic purposes In cases
                                of septic shock1
            ex 2932 90 70       1,3-2,4-DI-o-benzylIdene D-glucldol 31 Decenber 1991     30 t         OX
90.2827                         with a purity by weight no less
                                than 96X
09.2 829   ex 3806 90 00        Solid extract of wood rosin, not    31 Decenber 1991    250 t         OX
                                soluble In aliphatic hydrocarbons
                                having a residual acid content of
                                30X or less, a netting point of
                                over 100°C and an acid nunber lower
                                than 100.
           (a) See Tarlo codes i n annex.
           1
              The end-use of this product will b e monitored i n accordance with the
              relevant C o m m u n i t y p r o v i s i o n s .
2. Within the limits of these tariff q u o t a s , Spain and Portugal shall apply customs
duties calculated in accordance with the relevant provisions of the 1985 Act of
Accession.
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                                                                 ties of the Member States concerned accepted the entries
                                                                 for release for free circulation, to the extent that the avai-
                                                                 lable balance so permits.
                                                                 If a Member State does not use a drawing in full, it shall
                                                                 return any unused portion to the corresponding quota
                          Article 2                              volume as soon as possible.
The tariff quotas referred to in Article 1 shall be managed      If the quantities requested are greater than the available
by the Commission, which may take any appropriate                balance of the quota volume, the balance shall be allo-
administrative measures to ensure that they are managed          cated among applicants pro rata. The Commission shall
efficiently.                                                     inform the Member States of the drawings made.
                                                                                            Article 4
                          Article 3
                                                                 Each Member State shall ensure that importers of the
Where an importer submits a product covered by this              products in question have equal and continuous access to
Regulation for release for free circulation in a Member          the quotas for as long as the balance of the relevant quota
State, applying to take advantage of the preferential            volume so permits.
arrangements, and the entry is accepted by the customs
authorities, the Member State concerned shall, by noti-                                     Article 5
fying the Commission, draw an amount corresponding to
its requirements from the appropriate quota volume.              Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
                                                                 closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied with.
Requests for drawings, indicating the date on which the
entries were accepted must be sent to the Commission                                        Article 6
without delay.
                                                                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day
Drawings shall be granted by the Commission in chrono-            following its publication in the Official Journal of the
logical order of the dates on which the customs authori-          European Communities.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels,
                                                                             For the Council
                                                                               The President
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                          ANNEX
                       Tarif codes
Order No   CN codes            Tarif codes
09.2781  ex 7226 10 91             * 20
09.2823  ex 3905 20 00             * 10
09.2825  ex 3002 10 99             * 20
09.2827  ex 2932 90 70             * 80
90.2829  ex 3806 90 00            * 30
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    FICHE FINANCIERE
     1.        Ligne budgétaire concernée : Chap. 12 art. 120
    2.         Base juridique : art. 28 du traité
     3.         Intitulé de la mesure tarifaire : Proposition de règlement
               du Conseil portant ouverture et mode de gestion de
               contingents tarifaires pour certains produits Industriels
                (3eme série 1991).
    4.         Objectif : Assurer la oouverture à des conditions
                favorables, des besoins communautaires.
    5.         Mode d e calcul :
 Désignation des    Quantités   Prix en   Droit       Droit contin-        Perte de
    produits                  écus/unitô normal (en %)genta Ire (en %) recettes (en écus)
Produits laminés       75 t      1 944       6,0                              8.748
plats
Copolymàre            3.500 t    5300       12,5                          2.318.750
d'éthyléne et d'
alcool vinyl ique
Sérun stér I le       3000         275       5,7                             47.000
                      litres
Benzylidène              30 t   20 000       6.9                             41.400
D-glucitol
extraits de           250 t      1 000       4,6                             11.500
oolcphanes
                                                                          2.427.398
    Nouvelles mesures t a r i f a i r e s .
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