31974R2902

No L 313 / 8 Official Journal of the European Communities 25 . 11.74

REGULATION (EEC ) No 2902/74 OF THE COUNCIL of 7 November 1974

establishing Community supervision of imports of certain products originating in Finland

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES , Whereas , for the products which, in accordance with Articles 2 and 3 of the Agreement, are subject to the normal timetable for the abolition of customs duties Having regard to the Treaty establishing the it is necessary to follow the trend of imports ; European Economic Community, and in particular whereas to this end the Community should be Article 113 thereof ; empowered to take, where appropriate, measures to avoid any prejudice to industry in the Community; Having regard to the proposal from the whereas it is, therefore, desirable that imports of Commission ; these products also be subjected to a system of supervision , Whereas an Agreement (*) between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Finland was signed on 5 October 1973 ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas Articles 2 and 3 of that Agreement make provision for the progressive abolition of customs duties in respect of the products to which the Article 1 Agreement applies, whereas by way of derogation from these Articles, Articles 1 , 2 and 3 of Protocol 1 annexed to the Agreement lay down that, for 1 . From 1 January until 31 December 1975 , imports of certain products listed in Annex C to that imports of products originating in Finland to which Protocol , the reduction of duties shall be limited to annual indicative ceilings are applied in accordance indicative ceilings above which the customs duties with Articles 1 , 2 and 3 and Annex C to Protocol 1 applicable to third countries may be reintroduced ; of the Agreement between the European Economic whereas application of this last provision requires Community and the Republic of Finland shall be that the Community be regularly informed of the subjected to Community supervision. trend of imports of the products in question originating in Finland ; whereas it is, therefore, The description of the products referred to in the desirable that imports of these products be subjected preceding subparagraph, their tariff headings and to a system of supervision ; statistic numbers and the levels of the indicative ceilings are given in Annex I. Whereas this objective may be achieved by means of an administrative procedure based on setting off 2. Amounts shall be set off against the indicative imports of the products in question against the ceilings as and when products are submitted to the indicative ceilings at Community level, as and when customs authorities under cover of a declaration that these products are submitted to the customs they have been made available for consumption and authorities under cover of declarations that they accompanied by a movement certificate conforming have been made available for consumption ; whereas to the rules contained in Protocol 3 of the this administrative procedure must make provision for the reintroduction of customs tariff duties as Agreement referred to in paragraph 1 . soon as the ceilings have been reached at Community level ; Goods shall be set off against the indicative ceiling only if the movement certificate has been submitted before the date on which customs duties are Whereas this administrative procedure requires close reimposed . and particularly rapid cooperation between the Member States and the Commission ; whereas the latter must, in particular, be able to follow the The reaching of a ceiling shall be determined at progress of amounts set off against the indicative Community level on the basis of imports set off ceilings and keep the Member States informed ; against it in the manner defined in the preceding whereas this cooperation must be all the closer since subparagraphs . the Commission must be able to take adequate measures to reintroduce customs tariff duties whenever one of the ceilings has been reached ; The Member States shall periodically inform the Commission of imports effected in accordance with H OJ No L 328 , 28 . 11 . 1973 , p. 2 . the above rules .

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3 . As soon as the ceilings have been reached, the accompanied by a movement certificate conforming Commission may issue a Regulation reimposing the to the rules contained in Protocol 3 of the customs duties provided for in Article 3 ( f) of Agreement referred to in Article 1 shall be taken into Protocol 1 of the Agreement until the end of the consideration . calendar year.

Article 2 Article 3 During the period from 1 January until 31 December For the implementation of this Regulation the 1975 , imports of the products referred to in Annex II Commission shall take all necessary measures in which originate in Finland shall be subjected to close cooperation with the Member States . Community supervision . The Member States shall periodically inform the Commission of imports of these products ; to this Article 4 end, only products submitted to the customs authorities under cover of a declaration that they This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January have been made available for consumption and 1975 .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels , 7 November 1974.

For the Council

The President A. JARROT

No L 313 / 10 Official Journal of the European Communities 25 . 11 . 74

ANNEX 1

LIST OF PRODUCTS SUBJECT TO INDICATIVE CEILINGS UPON IMPORTATION IN 1975

Order CCT Nimexe Code Level of ceiling No Description — metre tons — heading No

1 2 3 4

48.01 Paper and paperboard ( including cellulose wadding), machine-made, in rolls or sheets : C. Kraft paper and Kraft board : II . Other : I SF 1 — Kraftliner ( a) 48.01-15 , 21 , 31 230 968 I SF 2 — Kraft paper for large bags (a) 48.01-16, 23 159 386 I SF 3 — Other 48.01-08 , 09, 11 , 12, 13 , 164 276 17, 19 , 25 , 26, 27, 28 , 29, 33 ex E. Other : I SF 4 — Bible paper ( India paper), copying 48.01-58 , 61 , 62, 66 30 221 tissue ; other printing paper and other writing paper, not containing mechanical wood pulp or in which mechanical wood pùlp does not represent more than 5 °/o ( a) I SF 5 — Printing paper and writing paper, 48.01-64, 68 475 504 containing mechanical wood pulp ( a), excluding copying tissue I SF 6 — Fluting paper for corrugated 48.01-75 250 267 paperboard ( a) I SF 7 — Sulphite paper for wrapping 48.01-71 , 73 16 472 purposes ( a) I SF 8 — Other, excluding cellulose wadding 48.01-41,43,45,52, 53 , 197 513 and tissues 54, 55, 56, 77, 82, 84, 86 , 88,91, 93 , 95, 97 I SF 9 48.03 Parchment or greaseproof paper and 48.03-all Nos 11 648 paperboard , and imitations thereof, and glazed transparent paper, in rolls or sheets 48.05 Paper and paperboard , corrugated (with or without flat surface sheets), creped, crinkled, embossed or perforated, in rolls or sheets : ISF 10 B. Other 48.05-21 , 29 , 30, 50, 80 42 924 48.07 Paper and paperboard, impregnated, coated, surface-coloured, surface-decorated or printed (not being merely ruled , lined or squared and not constituting printed matter within Chapter 49 ), in rolls or sheets : B. Other : I SF 11 — Coated printing or writing paper 48.07-57, 58 , 59 41 498 ISF 12 — Other 48.07-55 , 56, 64, 65 , 66, 164 738 68 , 70, 81 , 85 , 91 , 97, 99 48.15 Other paper and paperboard, cut to size or shape : ISF 13 B. Other 48.15-10, 21 , 29, 30, 40, 13 057 50, 61 , 65, 95 , 99 73.02 Ferro-alloys : ISF 14 E. Ferro-chromium and ferro-silicochromium 73.02-51 , 55 10 757

(a ) Subject to compliance with the definitions in fine .

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DEFINITIONS

ex 48.01 C II Kraftliner ' Kraftliner' means machine-finished or machine-glazed paper or paperboard , in rolls, containing not less than 80 % of chemical sulphate softwood pulp calculated on total fibre content, weighing more than 110 g/m2 and having a Mullen burst ratio of not less than 35 .

ex 48.01 C II Kraft paper for large sacks ' Kraft paper for large sacks' means machine-finished paper, in rolls, containing not less than 80 °/o of chemical sulphate softwood pulp calculated on total fibre content, weighing not less than 60 g/m2 but not more than 115 g/m2, having a Mullen burst ratio of not less than 38 , and having a stretch factor of more than 4-5 % in the cross direction and of more than 2 °/o in the machine direction .

ex 48.01 E Other printing paper and other writing paper, not containing mechanical wood pulp or containing not more than 5 °/o of mechanical wood pulp ' Other printing paper and other writing paper, not containing mechanical wood pulp or containing not more than 5 % of mechanical wood pulp' means paper other than machine-glazed , used for printing or writing, which contains not more than 5 % of mechanical wood pulp calculated on total fibre content.

ex 48.01 E Printing paper and writing paper, containing mechanical wood pulp ' Printing paper and writing paper containing mechanical wood pulp ' means paper other than machine-glazed, used for printing and writing, containing more than 5 % of mechanical wood pulp calculated on total fibre content.

ex 48.01 E Fluting paper for corrugated paperboard 'Fluting paper for corrugated paperboard' means paper, in rolls, containing not less than 65 °/o of unbleached semi-chemical hardwood pulp (pulp obtained from wood by light chemical treatment followed by mechanical treatment) calculated on total fibre content and having a CMT (Concora Medium Test) crush resistance exceeding 20 kp .

ex 48.01 E Sulphite paper for wrapping purposes 'Sulphite paper for wrapping purposes' means machine-glazed paper, containing more than 40 % of chemical bisulphite wood pulp, calculated on total fibre content, having an ash content of not more than 8 °/o and having a Mullen burst ratio of not less than 15 .

No L 313 / 12 Official Journal of the European Communities 25.11.74

ANNEX II

LIST OF PRODUCTS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 2

Order CCT Description Nimexe Code No heading No

1 2 3 4

II SF 1 44.15 Plywood, blockboard, laminboard, battenboard and similar 44.15 - all Nos laminated wood products (including veneered panels and sheets ); inlaid wood and wood marquetry

II SF 2 44.18 Reconstituted wood , being wood shavings, wood chips, sawdust, 44.18 - all Nos wood flour or other ligneous waste agglomerated with natural or artificial resins or other organic binding substances, in sheets, blocks or the like

II SF 3 48.09 Building board of wood pulp or of vegetable fibre, whether or not 48.09 - all Nos bonded with natural or artificial resins or with similar binders

56.01 Man-made fibres (discontinuous), not carded, combed or otherwise prepared for spinning : II SF 4 B. Regenerated textile fibres 56.01-21 , 23 , 25 , 29

56.02 Continuous filament tow for the manufacture of man-made fibres (discontinuous): II SF 5 B. Of regenerated textile fibres 56.02-21 , 23 , 25 , 29

II SF 6 74.03 Wrought bars, rods, angles, shapes and sections, of copper ; copper 74.03 - all Nos wire

II SF 7 74.04 Wrought plates, sheets and strips, of copper 74.04 - all Nos

II SF 8 74.05 Copper foil (whether or not embossed , cut to shape, perforated, 74.05 - all Nos coated, printed or backed with paper or other reinforcing material ) of a thickness (excluding any backing) not exceeding 0-15 mm

II SF 9 74.06 Copper powders and flakes 74.06 - all Nos

II SF 10 74.07 Tubes and pipes and blanks therefor, of copper ; hollow bars of 74.07 - all Nos copper

78.01 Unwrought lead ( including argentiferous lead); lead waste and scrap : A. Unwrought : II SF 11 II . Other 78.01-12 , 13 , 15 , 19

79.01 Unwrought zinc ; zinc waste and scrap : II SF 12 A. Unwrought 79.01-11 , 15

II SF 13 81.01 Tungsten (wolfram ), unwrought or wrought, and articles thereof 81.01 - all Nos

II SF 14 81.02 Molybdenum, unwrought or wrought, and articles, thereof 81.02 - all Nos

II SF 15 81.03 Tantalum, unwrought or wrought, and . articles thereof 81.03 - all Nos

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Order CCT Description Nimexe Code No heading No

1 2 3 4

81.04 Other base metals, unwrought or wrought, cermets , unwrought or wrought :

II SF 16 B. Cadmium 81.04-16, 18 C. Cobalt : II SF 17 II . Wrought 81.04-23 II SF 18 D. Chromium 81.04-26, 28 II SF 19 E. Germanium 81.04-31 , 33 II SF 20 F. Hafnium ( celtium) 81.04-36, 38 II SF 21 G. Manganese 81.04-41 , 43 II SF 22 H. Niobium ( columbium ) 81.04-46, 48 II SF 23 IJ. Antimony 81.04-51,53 II SF 24 K. Titanium 81.04-56, 58 II SF 25 L. Vanadium 81.04-61,63 II SF 26 M. Uranium depleted in U 235 81.04-69 II SF 27 O. Zirconium 81.04-81 , 83 - II SF 28 P. Rhenium 81.04-91,93 II SF 29 Q. Gallium ; indium ; thallium 81.04-94,95 II SF 30 R. Cermets 81.04-97, 98