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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 France 9 000 the Commission ; 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 (b) plywood of coniferous species, without the 39 thereof; addition of other substances, sanded, and of a thickness greater than 18-5 mm. Whereas, in view of the comparatively low volume of 2. Imports of the product in question may not be the quota compared with the foreseeable needs of the charged under this tariff quota if they are already free Community, a system based on a single allocation of customs duties under other preferential tariff among Member States should be provided, without treatment applied by certain Member States, in derogating from the Community nature of the quota particular the European Free Trade Association in question; whereas, on the basis of forecasts by the 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.

3 . The extent to which a Member State has used The Community tariff quota referred to in Article 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 regular intervals of imports actually charged against Germany 68 000 their shares . France 9 000 Article 5 Ireland 20 000

Italy 7 000 Member States and the Commission shall cooperate closely to ensure that the provisions of this United Kingdom 246 000 Regulation are observed.

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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