CELEX: 51976PC0299
Language: en
Date: 1976-06-21
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL on the opening, allocation and administration of a 1977 Community tariff quota for dried grapes falling within subheading No 08.04 B I of the Common Customs Tariff in immediate containers of a net capacity of 15 kg or less (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                              Brussels ,   21 June 1076
                 •                      PROPOSAL FOR A                          ,
                             . REGULATION (ESC) OP THE COUNCIL
on the opening , allocation and. administration of a 1977 Community tariff
            quota for dried grapes falling within subheading No 08.04 B I
                 of the Common Customs Tariff in immediate containers of
                           , ■ a net capacity of 15 kg or less
                       ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
     ι . , ·.· ·
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 ---pagebreak---                             EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
 1 , The draft [Regulation annexed hereto concerns the erira onnes
     Community tariff quota to be opened for 1977 in respect of
     dried grapes in immediate containers of a net capacity of
     15 kg or less falling within subheading No 08.04 B I of the
     Common Customs Tariff .
     Provision was first made for such quota in the trade agreement
     concluded between the Community and Iran . Since , however ,
     that agreement expired on 30 November 1973 and was not renewed ,
     the Community conGiderod it desirable since 1974 to open an autonomous
     tariff quota on the terms and conditions fixed for that agreement .
     At the consultation meeting held in April 1976 , the delegations of
     the Member States pronounced themselves in favour of the opening for
     the year 1977 of an autonomous tariff quota at a duty of 1.2 $ of which
     the amount should , to avoid the preliminary agreement of the Council
     of Association provided for by the Association Council decision IT0 l/75
     on tho allocation of the provisions of paragraph 3 of Protocol N° 10
     of the EEC-Greece Association Agreement , be limited to 15 % of actual
     Community imports in 1973 , coming from third countries not associated
     with the Community nor linked with it by a preferential agreement .
2 . Since the Community tariff quota in question is relatively small
    compared with total imports into the Community and since all
    the Member States will undoubtedly exhaust their shares rapidly ,
    a division of the quota into shares allocated definitively to
 ' each Member State would not appear to compromise the Community
    nature of the quota . This solution has been adopted in similar
    situations in the past .
    The shares to be allocated on this basic to the Member States ,
    and thoir respective total 1973 imports from non-associated
    third countries.' are shown in the following table : -
                                         «
 ---pagebreak---                                   ( in metrio tons )
               Total 1973 imports             Quota nharo
Bénélux               5 275          .                791
Denmark               2 236                           335
Germany              15 5°7                        2 335
Franco                3 8.11                          572
Ireland               1 868                           280
Italy                   205                            31
United Kingdom       26 859                        4 029
                     55 821                         8 373
 ---pagebreak---                               REGULATION (I-EC) No . . ./76OF THE COUNCIL
                                                   01  ,.! ·····
              011 tlic opening , allocation ami administration of a Comiminity tnrifl quota for dried
              grapes in immediate containers of a net capacity of 15 kg or less , fallin'j* within subheading
                                   0S.04 1$ 1 of the Common Customs Tariff ( 1977)
THE COUNCIL OK THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                      to that Economic Union may be carried out by any
                                                               one of its members,
Having repaid to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community, and in particular                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Articlc43 thereof;
                                                                                           Article 1
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
                                                               1 . During the period 1 January to 31 December
                                                               1977 , a Community tariff quota of S 373 metric tons
Having regard to the Opinion of the European                   shall be opened for dried grapes in immediate
Parliament      ;                                              containers of a net capacity of 15 kg or less falling
                                                               within subheading 08.04 B 1 of the Common Customs
                                                               Tariff.
Whereas a Community tariff quota for dried grapes
in immediate containeis of a net capacity of 15 kg             2. Within the limits of this tariff quota , the Common
or less, falling within subheading 08.04 B 1 of the            Customs Tariff duty shall be suspended at the level
Common Customs Tarifl , should be opened for 197 7             of 1-2% .
at a duly of l-2 "'n ; whereas the volume of this quota
should be limited to 15% of Community imports in               3 . New Member States shall , within the said tariff
1973 from third countries not associated with the
                                                               quota, apply duties calculated in accordance with
Community nor linked to it by a preferential                   the relevant provisions of the Act of Accession .
agreement ; whereas, 011 this basis, the volume of the
quota is fixed at 8 .373 metric tons ; whereas the
duties to be applied by the new Member Slates within                                        Article 2
the - said taiilf quota should be calculated in
accordance with the relevant provisions of the Act             The tariff quota set out in Article 1 shall be divided
of Accession ;                                                 among the Member States as follows :
                                                                                                         in metric tons
Whereas, in view of the comparatively low volume                        Bcnclux                                 791
of the quota compared with the needs of the                             Dcnmnrk                                 335
Community, a system for its utilization based on
a single allocation among Member States should be                      Germany                                2 335
provided , without derogating from the Community                        France                                  572
nature of the tariff quota ; whereas, in accordance                     Ireland                                 280
 with the needs forecast by each Member State, the                      Italy                                     31
 shares may be determined as set out in Article 2;
                                                                        United Kingdom                        4 029 ;
Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom                                          Article 3
of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of
 Luxembourg arc united within and jointly represented           1 . Member States shall take all appropriate
 by the Benelux Economic Union, any measure                    measures to ensure that importers of the products in
 concerning the administration of the quotas allocated         question established in their territory have free access
                                                                to the shares allocated to them.
                                                               2. The extent to which a Member State has used
                                                               lip its share shall be determined on the basis of the
 ---pagebreak--- imports of the products in question entered with the                                Article 5
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                                                             Mi'mlvr St.Ui'K niul tlw CommUftiun oh nil atnivrm ?
                                                             closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied
                                                             with .
                         Article 4
                                                                                    Article 6
At the Commission's request, Member States shall
inform it of the imports actually charged against            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
their shares.                                                1977 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Bru&ss.i.'S
                                                                               For the Council
                                                                                 The President