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REGULATION (EEC) No 1599/75 OF THE COUNCIL of 24 June 1975

on the arrangements applicable to agricultural products and certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the 'overseas countries and territories '

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES , from customs duties, for the application of any other measure relating to their importation ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the (ii) for products other than those referred to under European Economic Community, and in particular (i), the Community shall take the necessary Articles 43 and 113 thereof; measures to ensure, as a general rule, more favourable treatment than the general treatment Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No applicable to the same products originating in 1059/69 (*) of 28 May 1969 laying down the trade third countries to which the most-favoured­ arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting nation clause applies'; from the processing of agricultural products, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1491 /73 (2), and in particular Article 12 thereof; Whereas, when this convention was signed, the Community and the ACP States agreed in an Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; exchange of letters to apply autonomously from 1 July 1975 certain provisions of the convention relating to trade in goods, including those of Article Having regard to the Opinion of the European 2 (2) ( a); Parliament ;

Whereas the ACP-EEC Lomé convention hereinafter Whereas the application of these provisions is to be called 'the convention', between the African , deferred with regard to products falling within Caribbean and Pacific States , hereinafter called the heading Nos 06.03 and 06.04 of the Common 'ACP States', and the European Economic Customs Tariff, by virtue of the statement entered Community was signed on 28 February 1975 ; in the minutes of the signature of the convention whereby the date from which these products will be Whereas Article 2 (2) (a) of that convention lays admitted to the Community free of customs duties down- that : 'Products originating in the ACP States : will be notified to the ACP States as soon as possible, as the Community must first settle problems related — listed in Annex II to the Treaty when they come under a common organization of the market to Community , import arrangements for these products ; within the meaning of Article 40 of the Treaty; or — subject, on importation into the Community, to Whereas, for the remainder, Council Regulation specific rules introduced as a result of the (EEC) No 1598/75 (3) of 24 June 1975 on the advance implementation of the common agricultural implementation of certain provisions of the ACP­ policy ; EEC Lomé convention relating to trade in goods applies from 1 July 1975 ; shall be imported into the Community notwithstand­ ing the general arrangements applied in respect of third countries, in accordance with the following Whereas Article 1 (2) stipulates that paragraph 1 provisions : shall not prejudice the application of Article 38 of the Act of Accession ; and whereas the customs (i) those products shall be imported free of customs duties which are temporarily provided under the duties for which Community provisions in force aforesaid Article 38 therefore remain generally at the time of importation do not provide, apart applicable ;

(x) OJ No L 141 , 12 . 6. 1969 , p . 1 . (2) OJ No L 151 , 7. 6. 1973 , p . 1 . (3) See page 1 of this Official Journal.

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Whereas the market in raw tobacco, as last amended by the Act of Accession (16), — Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 (*) of 27 — Council Regulation (EEC) No 1308/70 (17) of June 1968 on the common organization of the 29 June 1970 on the common organization of market in beef and veal, as last amended by the market in flax and hemp, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1855/74 (2), the Act of Accession,

— Council Regulation (EEC) No 2142/70 (3) of — Council Regulation (EEC) No 1696/71 ( 18) of 20 October 1970 on the common organization of 26 July 1971 on the common organization of the the market in fishery products, as last amended market in hops, as last amended by the Act of by Regulation (EEC) No 1182/75 (4), Accession,

— Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC (5) of — Council Regulation (EEC) No 234/68 (19) of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a 27 February 1968 on the establishment of a common organization of the market in oils and common organization of the market in live trees fats, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) and other plants, bulbs, roots and the like, cut No 1707/73 (6), flowers and ornamental foliage, as last amended by the Act of Accession, — Council Regulation No 120/67/EEC (7) of 13 June 1967 on the common organization of the market — Council Regulation (EEC) No 2358/71 (20) of in cereals, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) 26 October 1971 on the common organization of No 665/75 (8), the market in seeds, as last amended by Regulation (EEC ) No 671/75 (21), — Council Regulation No 359/67/EEC (9) of 25 July 1967 on the common organization of the market — Council Regulation (EEC) No 827/68 (22) of 28 in rice, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) June 1968 on the common organization of the No 668 /75 ( 10), market in certain products listed in Annex II to the Treaty, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1067/74 (23), and — Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 (n ) of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last amended — Council Regulation (EEC) No 1067/74 of 30 April 1974 on the common organization of the market by Regulation (EEC) No 2745 /72 (12), in dehydrated fodder, as last amended by Regula­ tion (EEC) No 1420/75 (24), — Council Regulation (EEC) No 865/68 (13) of 28 June 1968 on the common organization of the market in products processed from fruit and establish trade arrangements with third countries ; vegetables, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 981 /75 ( 14), Whereas, on the one hand, these arrangements provide only for the application of custom duties on — Regulation (EEC) No 1059/69, the importation of a number of products ; whereas it should therefore be ensured that the exemption — Council Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 (15) of from duties provided for in Article 2 (2) (a) (i) of the 21 April 1970 on the common organization of convention is applied from 1 July 1975 ;

Whereas, on the other hand, these trade arrangements (x) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 24. involve the application of customs duties and import (2) OJ No L 195 , 18 . 7. 1974 , p. 14. levies on beef and veal and on products processed (3) OJ No L 236, 27. 10. 1970 , p. 5 . from fruit and vegetables, the charging of levies in (4) OJ No L 118 , 8 . 5. 1975 , p. 1 . (5) OJ No 172, 30. 9 . 1966, p. 3025/66 . (6) OJ No L 175 , 29. 6. 1973 , p. 5 . (7) OJ No 117, 19 . 6. 1967 , p : 2269/67 . (16) OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 14. (8) OJ No L 72 , 20 . 3 . 1975 , p. 14. (17) OJ No L 146 , 4. 7. 1970, p. 1 . (9) OJ No 174, 31 . 7. 1967, p . 1 . ( 18) OJ No L 175 , 4. 8 . 1971 , p. 1 . (10) OJ No L 72 , 20. 3 . 1975 , p. 18 . (19) OJ No L 55 , 2. 3 . 1968 , p. 1 . (u) OJ No L 118 , 20. 5. 1972 , p . 1 . (20) OJ No L 246, 5. 11 . 1971 , p. 1 . (12) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12 . 1972, p . 14. (21) OJ No L 72, 20. 3 . 1975 , p. 21 . (13) OJ No L 153 , 1 . 7. 1968 , p. 8 . (22) OJ No L 151 , 30 . 6. 1968 , p . 16 . (14) OJ No L 95 , 17. 4. 1975 , p. 2. H OJ No L 120, 1 . 5 . 1974, p . 2. (15) OJ No L 94, 28 . 4. 1970, p. 1 . (24) OJ No L 141 , 3 . 6 . 1975 , p. 1 .

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respect of cereals, rice and products processed from Whereas provisions similar to those for products cereals and rice, the charging of an ad valorem duty originating in the ACP States are envisaged for and a variable component on certain goods resulting agricultural products and certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products, the from the processing of agricultural products application of customs duties and other measures in originating in the 'overseas countries and territories' respect of imports of fishery products, certain fruit associated with the European Economic Community, and vegetables and oils and fats ; whereas the hereinafter called 'countries and territories'; obligations of the Community towards the ACP Whereas a Council Regulation is envisaged to States arising from Article 2 (2) (a) (ii) of the define the interim arrangements for trade with the convention may be fulfilled by granting total or 'countries and territories'; whereas, pending the entry partial exemption from import charges for the into force of that Regulation, the rules of origin laid products in question where they originate in the ACP down in Regulation (EEC) No 1598/75 should be States ; applied mutatis mutandis to products imported from the 'countries and territories'; whereas, following the entry into force of the Regulation on the interim Whereas, in order to make exports of beef and veal arrangements for trade with the 'countries and easier for the ACP States concerned, provision should territories', the provisions of the said Regulation temporarily be made for the possibility of partially relating to origin should be applied to those offsetting the import charges arising from present products, trends in the world market situation ;

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas it should be specified that the advantages Article 1 resulting from Article 2 (2) (a) of the convention are accorded only to originating products within the 1 . This Regulation shall apply to products meaning of Protocol 1 concerning the definition of originating in the ACP States listed in Annex I or in the concept of 'originating products' and methods the ' countries and territories' listed in Annex II. of administrative cooperation, annexed to the convention ; 2. The rules of origin applicable to such of these products as are imported from the ACP States shall be those set out in Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 1598/75 . Until the entry into force of the Council Whereas, until the entry into force of the convention, Regulation on the interim arrangements for trade the provisions relating to the definition of the with the ' countries and territories ' these same rules of concept of 'originating products' and methods of origin shall apply mutatis mutandis to products administrative cooperation laid down in Annex II to imported from the 'countries and territories' referred Council Regulation (EEC) No 1598/75 are applic­ to in paragraph 1 . able ; After the entry into force of the said Regulation, its provisions on origin shall apply to imports from Whereas, furthermore, these advantages should, the 'countries and territories' of the products covered according to the case, be combined with certain by this Regulation. conditions and limited to certain annual and TITLE I multiannual quantities ; Beef and veal

Article 2 Whereas the safeguard clauses provided for in the Regulations on the common organization of markets 1 . The beef and veal products referred to in Article 1 are applicable ; of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 shall be imported free of customs duties .

2. Until 31 December 1975 , the duties on Whereas in addition specific safeguard clauses must imports from ACP States of the products referred to be provided for certain products ; in Article 1 (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 shall be reduced by an amount to be fixed quarterly by the Commission and corresponding to 90% of the Whereas there have traditionally been trade flows average of the import duties during the reference from the ACP States towards the French overseas period referred to in paragraph 4. departments, and whereas provision should therefore be made for measures favouring imports of certain 3 . Paragraph 2 shall apply to all imports for which products originating in the ACP States into these the importer proves that an export tax of an amount French overseas departments to meet their supply corresponding to the reduction referred to in para­ requirements ; graph 2 has been charged by the exporter State.

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4. The arrangements for applying paragraphs 2 and Common Customs Tariff, referred to in Article 1 3 shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure (2) ( a) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC, undergo provided for in Article 27 of Regulation (EEC) appreciable changes in relation to the present No 805 /68 . situation, the Council, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission, shall adopt special measures. These arrangements shall, in particular, cover :

( a) the basis for calculation and the reference period TITLE IV to be taken into consideration for fixing the amount by which the import duties are reduced; Cereals (b) the rules for fixing the corresponding amount to be charged by the exporter State; Article 7 (c) admissible proof and inspection measures. 1 . The levy applicable to imports of maize falling Article 3 within subheading 10.05 B of the Common Customs Tariff shall be that fixed in accordance with Article Where, in the course of a year, imports into the 13 of Regulation No 120/67/EEC, reduced by 1-50 Community of beef and veal falling within units of account per metric ton. subheading 02.01 A II a) of the Common Customs Tariff and originating in an ACP State or ' country or territory' exceed a quantity equivalent to that of 2 . The levy applicable to imports of millet falling imports into the Community during the years between within subheading 10.07 B of the Common Customs 1969 and 1974 inclusive in which the greatest Tariff and of grain sorghum following within quantity of Community imports of the origin in subheading 10.07 C of the Common Customs Tariff shall be that fixed in accordance with Article 13 of question was recorded, plus an annual growth rate of 7% , exemption from customs duties on the products Council Regulation No 120/67/EEC, reduced by 50 % . of that origin shall be partially or totally suspended in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 27 of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 . TITLE V

In such a case, the Commission shall report to the Rice Council, which, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission, shall decide on Article 8 the treatment to be applied to the imports concerned . The levy applicable to imports of rice falling within heading No 10.06 of the Common Customs Tariff TITLE II shall be equal, per 100 kg of product, to the levy applicable to imports of rice from third countries, reduced as follows : Fishery products ( a) for paddy rice falling within subheading 10.06 Article 4 A I of the Common Customs Tariff :

— by 50% , and The fishery products referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 2142/70 shall be imported free — by 0-30 unit of account ; of customs duties . ( b ) for husked rice falling within subheading 10.06 A II of the Common Customs Tariff : TITLE III — by 50% , and Oils and fats — by 0-30 unit of account ;

Article 5 ( c) for semi-milled rice falling within subheading 10.06 B I of the Common Customs Tariff : The oils and fats products referred to in Article 1 (2) (a) and (b ) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC shall — by the amount for the protection of the be imported free of customs duties . industry referred to in Article 14 (3 ) of Regulation No 359/67/EEC, converted by reference to the conversion rate between Article 6 milled rice and semi-milled rice referred to in Should the volume of imports of any of the oil the third indent of Article 19 (a) of that seeds falling within subheading ex 12.01 B of the Regulation ;

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imports of rice originating in the ACP States or in — by 50% of the levy thus reduced, and the ' countries and territories'. —• by 0-45 unit of account; (d) for milled rice falling within subheading 10.06 2. As regards such imports, however, the levy B II of the Common Customs Tariff : applicable on the day of exportation shall be applied, if the applicant so requests when applying for the — by the amount for the protection of the licence referred to in Article 10 ( 1 ) of the above industry referred to in Article 14 (3 ) of Regulation, to an importation to be effected during Regulation No 359/67/EEC ; the period of validity of the licence. — by 50% of the levy thus reduced, and

— by 0-45 unit of account; Article 11 (e) for broken rice falling within subheading 10.06 C of the Common Customs Tariff; Where, in the course of a year, imports into the Community of rice originating in an ACP State or — by 50% , and in a 'country or territory' exceed a quantity — by 0-25 unit of account. equivalent to the average quantity of annual imports into the Community of the origin in question over the past three years for which statistics are Article 9 available plus 5% , the provisions of Article 8 shall be totally or partially suspended in respect of the 1 . The provisions of Article 8 shall apply only if the products of the origin in question in accordance cif export price of a given quantity, increased by with the procedure laid down in Article 26 of the levy applicable to imports of rice originating in Regulation No 359/67/EEC. the ACP States or in the 'countries and territories ' is at the time of exportation, for that quantity, equal to or more than : In such a case, the Commission shall report to the Council which, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission, shall decide on — for husked rice, milled rice and broken rice, the the treatment to be applied to the imports concerned. threshold price of each of these products, reduced by amounts of 0-30, 0-45 and 0-25 unit of account respectively ; TITLE VI

— for paddy rice, the threshold price of husked rice Products processed from cereals and rice adjusted by reference to the conversion rate, processing costs and the value of the by-products Article 12 to be taken for conversion from the husked state to the paddy state, reduced by an amount of 1 . The levy applicable to imports of the products 0-30 unit of account ; listed in Annex A to Regulation No .120/67/EEC and of the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (c) of — for semi-milled rice, the threshold price of milled Regulation No 359/67/EEC shall be equal to the rice adjusted by reference to the conversion rate, levy applicable to imports of those products from processing costs and the value of the by-products third countries reduced by the fixed component to be taken for conversion from the round grained specified for each of the products in question. milled state to the round grain semi-milled state, , reduced by an amount of 0-45 unit of account. 2. The variable component of the levy shall be reduced : 2. In order to permit the necessary checks, the — by 0-15 unit of account per 100 kg for the documents accompanying the goods must show the products falling within subheading 07.06 A of cif price at which the product is sold and the date the Common Customs Tariff; of exportation, together with all details regarding — by 0-30 unit of account per 100 kg for the quality enabling the product to be defined. This products falling within heading No 11.06 of the document must be stamped by the competent Common Customs Tariff; authorities in the exporting ACP State, 'country or territory'. — by 50% for the products falling within subhead­ ing 11.08 A V of the Common Customs Tariff. Article 10 3 . The variable component of the levy shall not 1 . Article 13 (2) of Regulation No 359 /67/EEC be charged in respect of the following products shall not apply to the levies to be charged on originating in the 'countries and territories':

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CCT Description of goods heading No

07.06 Manioc, arrowroot, salep , Jerusalem artichokes, sweet potatoes and other similar roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, fresh or dried, whole or sliced ; sago pith : ex A. Manioc arrowroot, salep and other similar roots and tubers with high starch content, excluding sweet potatoes : — Arrowroot

11.06 Flours and meal of sago and of manioc, arrowroot, salep and other roots and tubers falling within heading No 07.06 : ex A. Denatured : — Flours and meal of arrowroot B. Other : ex I. For the manufacture of starches : — Flours and meal of arrowroot ex II . Other : — Flours and meal of arrowroot

11.08 Starches ; inulin : A. Starches : ex V. Other : — Arrowroot starch

TITLE VII

Fruit and vegetables

Article13¶

1 . The products listed below shall be imported free of customs duties :

CCT Description of goods heading No

07.01 Vegetables , fresh or chilled : F. Leguminous vegetables , shelled or unshelled G. Carrots , turnips, salad beetroot, salsify, celeriac, radishes and similar edible roots : ex IV . Other : — Radishes (Raphanus sativus), known as ' Mooli' S. Sweet peppers T. Other

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CCT Description of goods heading No

08.02 Citrus fruit, fresh or dried : D. Grapefruit E. Other

08.08 Berries, fresh : E. Papaws ex F. Other : — Passion fruit '

08.09 Other fruit, fresh

2. The products listed below shall be imported subject to customs duties equal to 20% of the Common Customs Tariff duties :

CCT Description of goods heading No

08.02 Citrus fruit, fresh or dried : A. Oranges B. Mandarins including tangerines and satsumas ; Clementines, wilkings and other similar citrus hybrids

Article14¶

1 . Any decision taken under Article 29 (2) and (3 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 and relating to the products listed in Article 13 of this Regulation shall be communicated to the ACP States concerned.

2. Furthermore, if serious disruptions occur as a result of a large increase in imports of of products listed in Article 13 ( 1 ) and (2) of this Regulation and originating in the ACP States or in the ' countries and territories', or if these imports create difficulties which bring about a deterioration in the economic situation of a region of the Community, Articles 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 1598/75 or the corresponding rules concerning the countries and territories shall apply.

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TITLE VIII

Products processed from fruit and vegetables

Article15¶

1 . The products listed in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 865/68 shall be imported free of customs duties.

2. Levies shall not be charged on imports of the products listed below :

CCT Description of goods heading No

20.06 Fruit otherwise prepared or preserved , whether or not containing added sugar or spirit : B. Other : I. Containing added spirit : b) Pineapples, in immediate packings of a net capacity : 1 . Of more than 1 kg : aa) With a sugar content exceeding 17 % by weight 2. Of 1 kg or less : aa) With a sugar content exceeding 19 % by weight e) Other fruits : ex 1 . With a sugar content exceeding 9% by weight : — Grapefruit segments

II. Not containing added spirit : a) Containing added sugar, in immediate packings of a net capacity of more than 1 kg : 2. Grapefruit segments 5. Pineapples : aa) With a sugar content exceeding 17 % by weight 9 . Mixtures of fruit : l

ex aa) Mixtures in which no single fruit exceeds 50 % of the total weight of the fruits : — Mixtures of pineapples, papaws and pomegranate ex bb) Other : — Mixtures of pineapples, papaws and pomegranate b) Containing added sugar, in immediate packings of a net capacity of 1 kg or less : 2. Grapefruit segments 5 . Pineapples : aa) With a sugar content exceeding 19 % by weight

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CCT Description of goods heading No

20.06 B. II. b) 9. Mixtures of fruit : (cont'd) ex aa) Mixtures in which no single fruit exceeds 50% of the total weight of the fruits : — Mixtures of pineapples, papaws and pomegranate ex bb) Other : — Mixtures of pineapples, papaws and pomegranate

20.07 Fruit juices (including grape must) and vegetable juices, whether or not containing added sugar, but unfermented and not containing spirit : B. Of a specific gravity of 1-33 or less at 15° C : II . Other : b) Of a value of 30 u.a . or less per 100 kg net weight : • 5 . Pineapple juice : aa) With an added sugar content exceeding 30% by weight 8 . Mixtures : bb) Other : ex 11 . With an added sugar content exceeding 30% by weight : — Pineapple, papaw and pomegranate juice

TITLE IX of the Community, the Community may take the necessary safeguard measures, including those intended to offset any deflection of trade. For the Unmanufactured tobacco purpose of implementing the safeguard measures vis-à-vis the ACP States or the 'countries and territories', Articles 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Regulation (EEC) Article 16 No 1598/75 or the corresponding rules concerning the countries and territories shall apply. The tobacco products listed in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 shall be imported free of customs duties . TITLE X

Article 17 Goods to which Regulation (EEC) 1 . Any decision taken pursuant to Article 10 (2) and No 1059/69 applies (3 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 shall be communicated to the ACP States concerned . Article 18 2. Furthermore, if serious disruptions occur as a result of a large increase in duty-free imports of 1 . No fixed component shall be charged on imports the products falling within heading No 24.01 of the of goods to which Regulation (EEC) No 1059/69 Common Customs Tariff, originating in the ACP applies. States or in the 'countries and territories', or if these imports create difficulties which bring about 2. The variable component shall not be charged on a deterioration in the economic situation of a region imports of the goods listed below :

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CCT Description of goods heading No

17.04 Sugar confectionery, not containing cocoa :

C. "White chocolate

18.06 Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa :

C. Chocolate and chocolate goods, whether or not filled ; sugar confectionery and substitutes therefor made from sugar substitution products , contain­ ing cocoa

19.02 Preparations of flour, meal, starch or malt extract, of a kind used as infant food or for dietetic or culinary purposes , containing less than 50 % by weight of cocoa :

B. Other : I. Containing no milk fats or containing less than 1-5 % by weight of such fats : d) Containing 45% or more but less than 65 % by weight of starch

19.04 Tapioca and sago ; tapioca and sago substitutes obtained from potato or other starches

19.07 Bread, ships' biscuits and other ordinary bakers' wares, not containing added sugar, honey, eggs , fats, cheese or fruit :

D. Other, containing by weight of starch : ex II. 50% or more, excluding ships' biscuits

19.08 Pastry, biscuits, cakes and other fine bakers' wares , whether or not containing cocoa in any proportion :

B. Other : IV. Containing 50% or more but less than 65 % by weight of starch : a) Containing no sucrose or containing less than 5 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) : ex I. Containing no milk fats or containing less than 1-5 % by weight of such fats : — Biscuits

V. Containing 65 % or more by weight of starch : ex a) Containing no sucrose or containing less than 5 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose) : — Biscuits ex b) Other : — Biscuits

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TITLE XI

Other markets subject to common organization

Article19¶

The products referred to in Regulations (EEC) No 234/68, (EEC) No 827/68, (EEC) No 1308/70, (EEC) No 1696/71 , (EEC) No 2358/71 and (EEC) No 1067/74 shall be imported free of customs duties, with the exception of the products listed below:

CCT Description of goods heading No

06.03 Cut flowers and flower buds of a kind suitable for bouquets or for ornamen­ tal purposes , fresh , dried, dyed, bleached, impregnated or otherwise prepared

06.04 Foliage, branches and other parts (other than flowers or buds under 06.03 ) of trees , shrubs or bushes and other plants , and mosses , lichens and grasses, being goods of a kind suitable for bouquets or ornamental purposes, fresh, dried, dyed, bleached, impregnated or otherwise prepared

TITLE XII

Provisions relating to the French overseas departments

Article20¶

The levies shall not be applied to imports into the French overseas departments of the products listed below originating in the ACP States or in the 'countries and territories ':

CCT Description of goods heading No

01.02 Live animals of the bovine species : A. Domestic species : II . Other

02.01 Meat and edible offals of the animals falling within heading No 01.01 , 01.02, 01.03 or 01.04, fresh , chilled or frozen : A. Meat : II . Of bovine animals : a) Of domestic bovine animals

10.06 Rice

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Article 21 However, the amount resulting from such reduction may not be less than the highest accession 1 . The levy applicable to imports into the French compensatory amount actually applicable, where appropriate, by the importing Member State on the overseas deparments of maize falling within day of importation in its trade with the other subheading 10.05 B of the Common Customs Tariff Member States. originating in the ACP States or in the 'countries and territories' shall be that fixed in accordance with Article 13 of Regulation No 120/67/EEC reduced by 2. The exemption referred to in Article 12 (3 ), six units of account per metric ton. Article 15 (2) and Article 18 (2) shall be limited to the highest accession compensatory amount actually 2. If imports into the French overseas departments applicable, where appropriate, by the importing of maize originating in the ACP States or in the Member State on the day of importation in its trade ' countries and territories' have exceeded 4 500 with the other Member States. metric tons in a year, and if such imports are causing or are likely to cause serious disturbances in the market, the Commission shall take the necessary measures, at the request of a Member State or on its Article 23 own initiative.

If necessary, detailed rules for the application of this 3 . Any Member State may, within three working Regulation shall be adopted in accordance with the days of notification of the measure taken by the procedure laid down in Article 26 of Regulation Commission, refer that measure to the Council. The No 120/67/EEC or, as the case may be, in the Council shall meet forthwith. It may amend or corresponding Articles of the other Regulations on declare void the measure in question, acting by a the common organization of the agricultural markets. qualified majority.

TITLE XIII Article 24 General and final provisions

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1975 . Article 22 It shall apply until the convention enters into force 1 . The reductions provided for by this Regulation and until 29 February 1976 at the latest. shall be calculated by reference to the levies and variable components applicable, at any given time, to imports from third countries into the Community The Council may decide to extend the application as originally constituted. of this Regulation beyond that date.

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

Done at Luxembourg, 24 June 1975 .

For the Council

The President

G. FITZGERALD

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ANNEX I

List of States referred to in Article 1 ( 1 )

Bahamas Liberia Barbados Malagasy Republic Botswana Malawi Burundi Mali Cameroon Mauritania Central African Republic Mauritius Chad Niger People's Republic of the Congo Nigeria Dahomey Rwanda Equatorial Guinea Senegal Ethiopia Sierra Leone Fiji Somali Gabon Sudan Gambia Swaziland Ghana Tanzania Grenada Togo Guinea Tonga Guinea Bissau Trinidad and Tobago Guyana Uganda Ivory Coast Upper Volta Jamaica Western Samoa Kenya Zaire Lesotho Zambia

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ANNEX II

List of the 'countries and territories' referred to in Article 1 ( 1 )

1 . Overseas countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands : — Surinam, — The Netherlands Antilles (Aruba, Bonaire, Curasao and St Martin, Saba, St Eustatius).

2. ( Overseas territories of the French Republic : — Saint Pierre and Miquelon , — The Comoro Archipelago , — The Territory of the Afars and Issas , — New Caledonia and Dependencies , — Wallis and Futuna Islands, — French Polynesia, — French Southern and Antarctic Territories .

3 . Overseas countries and territories of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ire­ land : — Belize, — Brunei, — Associated States in the Caribbean : Antigua, Dominica , St Lucia , St Vincent, St Chris­ topher, Nevis and Anguilla , — Cayman Islands, — Falkland Islands and Dependencies, — Gilbert and Ellice Islands , — British Solomon Islands, — Turks and Caicos Islands, — British Virgin Islands , — Montserrat, — Pitcairn, — St Helena and Dependencies, — The Seychelles, — British Antarctic Territory, — British Indian Ocean Territory.

4. Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides .