CELEX: 51987PC0464(01)
Language: en
Date: 1987-10-01
Title: Proposal for a Council Regulation opening a Community tariff quota for frozen buffalo meat falling within subheading 0202 30 90 of the combined nomenclature (1988)

24.10. 87                                Official Journal of the European Communities                               N o C 286/7
                                                                 II
                                                         (Preparatory Acts)
                                                   COMMISSION
              Proposal for a Council Regulation opening a Community tariff quota for frozen buffalo meat
                         falling within subheading 0202 30 90 of the combined nomenclature (1988)
                                                        COM(87) 464 final
                                (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 7 October 1987)
                                                          (87/C 286/09)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                              Whereas the detailed rules to implement these provisions
                                                                      should be drawn up in accordance with the procedure
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 laid down in Article 27 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
Economic Community, and in particular Articles 43 and                 805/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common organization of
 113 thereof,                                                         the market in beef and veal (*), as last amended by Regu-
                                                                      lation (EEC) No 467/87 (2),
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard       to  the    opinion   of   the    European
Parliament,                                                                                      Article 1
                                                                      1.     A Community tariff quota for frozen buffalo meat
Whereas the Community has undertaken, within the
                                                                      falling within subheading 0202 30 90 of the combined
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), to
                                                                      nomenclature shall be opened for 1988.
open an annual Community tariff quota at a rate of duty
of 20 % for 2 250 tonnes of frozen buffalo meat falling              The total volume of this quota shall be 2 250 tonnes.
within subheading 0202 30 90 of the combined                          2.     Under this quota the applicable duty of          the
nomenclature; whereas this quota should therefore be                  Common Customs Tariff shall be fixed at 20 %.
opened for 1987; whereas, under Article 282 of the 1985
Act of Accession, the Portuguese Republic is authorized                                          Article 2
to postpone until the beginning of the second stage the
progressive application to imports of preferences                     Detailed rules for the application of this Regulation shall
granted, unilaterally or by agreement, by the Community              be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down
to certain third countries;                                          in Article 27 of Regulation (EEC) N o 805/68, and in
                                                                     particular:
Whereas there should be a guarantee of equal and                      (a) provisions to guarantee the nature of product, where
continuing access by all interested traders within the                     it is coming from and its origin;
Community to the said quota and of uninterrupted                      (b) provisions concerning recognition of the document
application of the rate laid down for that quota, to all                   to enable verification of the guarantee referred to in
imports of the product in question, in all the Member                      (a).
States, up to the limit of the volume of the quota;
whereas it seems appropriate, to this end, to set up a                                           Article 3
system of use of the Community tariff quota, based on
the presentation of a certificate of authenticity                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1988.
guaranteeing the nature of the product, where it is                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
imported from and its origin;                                        directly applicable in all Member States.
                                                                     O OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 24.
                                                                     (*) OJ No L 48, 17. 2. 1987, p. 1.