Council Regulation (EEC) No 3357/91 of 7 November 1991 amending Regulation (EEC) No 918/83 setting up a Community system of reliefs from customs duty

COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3357/91  of 7 November 1991  amending Regulation (EEC) No 918/83 setting up a Community system of reliefs from customs duty
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 28 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas the administrative simplification provided for in Article 27 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 918/83 of 28 March 1983 setting up a Community system of reliefs from customs duty (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 4235/88 (2), must, if it  is to be effective, be applied to all imports of consignments made up of goods of negligible value;
Whereas Article 27 of Regulation (EEC) No 918/83 should be amended accordingly;
Whereas the provisions of Articles 52 to 57, 63a and 63b, and 72 to 77 of Regulation (EEC) No 918/83 should be revised in the light of experience in order to remove conditions which are expensive and complicated to apply and thus to facilitate imports  of the goods in question;
Whereas the condition of non-equivalence of Community products should therefore be abolished, since, where it is still really applied, it does not succeed in providing effective protection as it comes too late in the process of development of these  products, and since its implementation is fraught with disputes amongst experts which can sensibly be settled only by more or less systematically giving way to the importer's interests and by recognizing his right to a relief owing to the special  circumstances surrounding his import,