CELEX: 31973R3593
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-28 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3593/73 of the Council of 28 December 1973 on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for certain plywoods of coniferous species, falling within heading No ex 44.15 of the Common Customs Tariff (1974)

31 . 12. 73                         Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 365/45
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 3593/73 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                 of 28 December 1973
             on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for certain
             plywoods of coniferous species, falling within heading No ex 44.15 of the Common
                                                 Customs Tariff (1974)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       Member States, the shares may be determined as
                                                               follows :
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                                                    (in cubic metres)
European Economic Community, and in particular                              Benelux                   65 000
Article 28 thereof;
                                                                            Denmark                   85 000
                                                                            Germany                   68 000
Having regard to the draft Regulation submitted by
the Commission;                                                             France                     9 000
                                                                            Ireland                   20 000
Whereas, under Protocol No 11 to the Act of                                 Italy                      7 000
Accession (x), the Community is to open two nil duty                        United Kingdom           246 000
Community tariff quotas from 1 January 1974 for
certain plywoods of coniferous species falling within          Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the
heading No ex 44.15 of the Common Customs Tariff,              Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of
the volume thereof to be decided annually when it is
                                                               Luxembourg are jointly represented by the Benelux
established that all possibilities of supply on the
                                                               Economic Union, any measure concerning the
internal market of the Community will be exhausted             administration     of the   shares    allocated    to that
during the period for which the quotas are open;
                                                               economic union may be carried out by one of its
whereas, on the basis of forecasts made by the
                                                               members,
Member States, the foreseeable import requirements
for the products in question during the year 1974
amount to 873 500 m8; whereas, in the light of the             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
provisions of the abovementioned Protocol
concerning the exhaustion of possibilities of
supply on the internal market of the Community, the                                    Article 1
volume of the tariff quota to be opened at the
beginning of the year should be limited to 500 000             1 . During the period from 1 January to 31
m3 ; whereas fixing the volume at this level does not          December 1974 a Community tariff quota of 500 000
exclude adjustment during the period for which the             m3 shall be opened in the Community for the
quota is open; whereas the requirements mentioned              following products falling within heading No ex
above do not include imports to which other                    44.15 of the Common Customs Tariff :
preferential tariff treatment may apply, in particular
under the European Free Trade Association                      (a) plywood of coniferous species, without the
arrangements ; whereas the duties to be applied by                  addition of other substances, of a thickness
the new Member States under the said tariff quota                   greater than 9 mm, the faces of which are not
must be in conformity with the provisions of the Act                further prepared than the peeling process ;
of Accession, and in particular with those of Article
39 thereof;                                                    (b) plywood of coniferous species, without the
                                                                    addition of other substances, sanded, and of a
                                                                    thickness greater than 18-5 mm.
Whereas, in view of the comparatively low volume of
the quota compared with the foreseeable needs of the           2. Imports of the product in question may not be
 Community, a system based on a single allocation              charged under this tariff quota if they are already free
among Member States should be provided, without                of customs duties under other preferential tariff
derogating from the Community nature of the quota              treatment applied by certain Member States, in
in question; whereas, on the basis of forecasts by the         particular the European Free Trade Association
                                                               arrangements .
                                                               3 . Within this tariff quota the Common Customs
 O OJ No L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 170.                            Tariff duties shall be totally suspended.
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4.     Within this tariff quota, new Member States              established in their territory have free access to the
shall apply duties calculated in accordance with the            share allocated to them .
relevant provisions set out in the Act of Accession.
                                                                2. Member States shall charge imports of the said
                                                                goods against their shares as and when such products
                        Article 2                               are entered for home use.
The Community tariff quota referred to in Article               3.    The extent to which a Member State has used
1 ( 1 ) shall be distributed among Member States as             up its share shall be determined on the basis of the
follows :                                                       imports charged in accordance with paragraph 2.
                                 (in cubic metres)
                                                                                       Article 4
              Benelux                  65 000
              Denmark                  85 000                   Member States shall inform the Commission at
              Germany                  68 000                   regular intervals of imports actually charged against
                                                                their shares .
              France                    9 000
                                                                                       Article 5
              Ireland                  20 000
              Italy                     7 000                   Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
              United Kingdom          246 000                   closely to ensure that the provisions of this
                                                                Regulation are observed.
                        Article 3                                                      Article 6
1 . Member States shall take all measures necessary             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
to ensure that importers of the product in question             1974 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 28 December 1973 .
                                                                                  For the Council
                                                                                    The President
                                                                                  Ove GULDBERG