Council Regulation (EC) No 2631/97 of 18 December 1997 amending Regulation (EC) No 2505/96 opening and providing for the administration of autonomous Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural and industrial products

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 2631/97 of 18 December 1997 amending Regulation (EC) No 2505/96 opening and providing for the administration of autonomous Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural and industrial products
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 28 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas, by virtue of Regulation (EC) No 2505/96 (1), the Council opened Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural and industrial products; whereas Community demand for the products in question should be met under the most favourable conditions; whereas Community tariff quotas should therefore be opened at reduced or zero rates of duty for appropriate volumes, and increased or extended in the case of certain existing tariff quotas, avoiding any disturbance to the markets for these products;
Whereas it is no longer in the Community's interest to maintain a Community tariff quota on some of the products covered by the above Regulation, and those products should therefore be removed from the table in Annex I;
Whereas in order to take account of amendments to the combined nomenclature, some of the Taric codes need to be changed;
Whereas in view of the large number of amendments coming into effect on 1 January 1998 and in order to clarify matters for the user, these amendments should be made by replacing the table in Annex I to the above Regulation by the table in the Annex to this Regulation;
Whereas Regulation (EC) No 2505/96 should therefore be amended,