CELEX: 51990PC0249
Language: en
Date: 1990-06-12
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) OPENING AND PROVIDING FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY TARIFF QUOTAS FOR CERTAIN CHEMICAL PRODUCTS ( 1990 )

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                      COM(90))249 final
                                      Brussels, 12 June 1990
                           Proposal for a
                      COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
      opening and providing for the administration of autonomous
                   community tariff 'quotas, for certain
                         chemical products
                             (1990)
                   (presented by the Commission)
 ---pagebreak---                        EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
   Subsequent to requests made by various Member States, the Services of
   the Commission nave examined, in conjunction with the Government experts
   concerned, the question of opening in 1990             • tariff quotas
    for two new chemical products.
2. Following this examination, which took place during the "Economic Tariff"
                   last
   group meetings |held in particular on 2 April   1990, 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:
   - copolymers of ethylene and methacrylic acid: A 200 tonnes at A%
   - high-viscosity poly-alpha-olefin: 2 200 tonnes at 01.
   This is the purpose of this proposal.
 ---pagebreak---                                                     Proposal for a
                                       COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No
                                                        of
                opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for
                            certain                         chemical                products
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                             Whereas, it is appropriate tô take the necessary measures
                                                                     to ensure efficient Community administration of these
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               tariff quotas while offering the Member States the
 economic Community, and in particular Article 28                    opportunity to draw from the quota volumes the
thereof,                                                             necessary quantities corresponding to actual imports ;
                                                                     whereas this method of administration requires close
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                   cooperation between the Member States and the
                                                                     Commission and the latter must in particular be able to
Whereas    production in the Community of certain                    monitor the rate at which the quotas are used up and
                  ch Sirica I            products is currently       inform the Member States accordingly ;
unable to meet the specific requirements of the user
industries in the Community ; whereas, consequently,                 Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of
Community supplies of products of this type currently                the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
depend to a considerable extent on imports from third                are united within and jointly represented by the Benelux
countries ; whereas the most urgent Community                        Economic Union, all transactions concerning the
requirements for the products in question should be met              administration of the quantities draw by that economic
immediately on the most favourable terms ; whereas zero              union may be carried out by any one of its members,
duty Community tariff quotas should therefore be opened
within the limits of appropriate volumes for a period
up to 61 December 19v0; taking account of the reed
not to disturb the markets for such products nor
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION
 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
application 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 u p ;
                                                                                    Article I
LFrom the c b t ë ^ ^ t r y l n b T ^ r o r c e ' o f this Regulation uhli I 31 December 1990, the customs duties
   applicable to imports into the Community of the products listed below shall be suspended at
   the levels and within the limits of the Connunity t a r i f f quotas shown below:
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                    CN cod»                                Description                               Amount of        Quota duty
      (Xk-r No
                        (a)                                                                            quota             CM
                                                                                                    (in tonnes)
  09.2725       iex3901 90 00 Copolymers of ethylene and methacrylic acid,
                                    containing from 8X to 12% by weight of methacry-
                                    lic acid, put up in one of the forms referred
                                    to in Note 6(b) to Chapter 39                                     4200
  09.2727       ex3902 90 GO Synthetic poly-alpha-olefin having a kinetic
                                   viscosity of not less than 38 x 16"^ m2 5*1
                                    (38 centistokes) at 100°C measured using the
                                   ASTW 0 445 method, for t i e manufacture of lubri-
                                    cating o i l (1)                                                  2200
   (a) TARIC codes: 3901 9U 00 * 9 7
                        3901901 0 0 * 9 5
   v.1) Control .of the use for this special purpose shall be carried out pursuant to the relevant Community
         provisions.                                                                                     _____ j
     2.Within the limits of these tariff quotas the Kingdom           notifying the Commission, draw an amount corre-
 of Spain and the Portuguese Republic shall apply customs             sponding to its requirements from the appropriate quota
 duties calculated in accordance with the relevant                    volume.
  provisions of the 1985 Act of Accession.
                            Article 2                                 Requests for drawings, indicating the date on which the
                                                                      entries were accepted, must be sent to the Commission
                                                                      without delay.
 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.
                                                                      Drawings shall be granted by the Commission in chrono-
                                                                     logical 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
                            Article 3                                the available balance so permits.
Where .in importer presents a present covered by this
Regulation for release for free circulation in a Member
State, applying to take advantage of the preferential                If a Member State does not use a drawing in full it shall
arrangements, and the entry is accepted by the customs               return any unused portion to the corresponding quota
authorities, the Member State concerned shall, by                    volume as soon as possible.
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If the quantities requested are greater than the available        the quotas for as long as the balance of the relevant quota
balance of the    quota volume, the balance shall be              volume so permits.
allocated among    applicants pro rata. The Commission
shall inform the   Member States of the drawings made.                                      Article 5
                                                                  The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
                                                                  closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied with.
                         Article 4
                                                                                            Article 6
Each Member State shall ensure that importers of the
products in question have equal and continuous access to          This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day
                                                                  following its publication in the Official Journal of
                                                                  the European Communities.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.
Done at Brussels,
                                                            For the Council
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 ---pagebreak---     FICHE FINANCIERE
    1.       Ligne budgétaire concernée : Chap. 12 art*. 120
    2.       Base juridique : art. 26 du traité
    3.       Intitulé de la mesure tarifaire : Proposition de règlement
             du Conseil portant ouverture et mode de gestion de
             contingents tarifaires autonomes pour certains produits
             chimiques.
    4.       Objectif : Assurer la couverture à des conditions
             favorables, des besoins communautaires.
    5.       Mode de calcul :
 Designation des  QuantItes   Prix en   Droit        Droit oontln-       Perte de
    prodults                6cus/unit6 normal (en X) gentalre (en %) reoettes (en ecus)
Gopolymeres
d'ethylene et
d'aclde methacry- 4 200      1 097,22      12,5              4             391 708
lique
Poly-alpha-olefl-
ne de haute vls-
coslte            2 200      3000          12,5              0             825 000
                                                                         1 216 708
    Nouvelles mesures tarifaires.
 ---pagebreak---          FICHE D'IMPACT SUR LA COMPETITIVITE ET L'EMPLOI
La présente proposition vise l'ouverture de contingents
tarifaires communautaires autonomes destinés à couvrir, à des
conditions favorables, les besoins des industries utilisatrjLoes.
Elle aura pour effet de permettre à ces industries de /
concurrencer celles des pays tiers sur les marchés de la
Communauté et des pays tiers et de maintenir ou même d'améliorer
l'emploi dans la Communauté.                                  ,
                                                                  +
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