31976R2634

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 2634/76

of 19 October 1976

on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for rosin, including 'brais resineux', falling within subheading 38.08 A of the Common Customs Tariff (1977)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Ireland 81 Italy 9 050 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the United Kingdom 9 290 European Economic Community, and in particular Total 58 660 ; Article 28 thereof,

Whereas 25 % of this total represents 14 665 metric tons ; Having regard to the draft Regulation submitted by the Commission, Whereas, in view of the negligible size of such a quota in comparison with the Community's requirements, a system of utilization should, without Whereas the production in the Community and in derogating from the Community nature of the tariff Greece of rosin falling within subheading 38.08 A of quota, be provided, based on a single allocation the Common Customs Tariff is currently insufficient between the Member States ; whereas this allocation to meet the requirements of the processing industries should be calculated by the same method as is used in the Community; whereas, consequently, to establish a total quota of 25 % of the imports of Community supplies of products of this type each Member State from the same third countries ; currently depend to a considerable extent on imports whereas, calculated in such a manner, this allocation from third countries ; should be as set out in Article 2 ;

Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Whereas, under Decision 1 /75 of the Association Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Council on the application of paragraph 3 of Luxembourg are united within and jointly Protocol 10 to the Agreement establishing an represented by the Benelux Economic Union, any Association between the European Economic measure concerning the administration of the shares Community and Greece, the Community may open allocated to that Economic Union may be carried out autonomous tariff quotas for rosin provided that, for by any one of its members, the Community as a whole, the annual quotas do not exceed 25 % of the Community's imports from third countries not associated with or linked to it by a HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : preferential agreement during the last year for \vhich statistics are available; whereas the most urgent Community requirements for the products in Article 1 question should be met immediately on the most favourable terms; whereas a nil duty Community tariff quota should therefore be opened within the During the period from 1 January to 31 December limits of the above amount; 1977, the Common Customs Tariff duty for rosin, including 'brais resineux', falling within subheading 38.08 A shall be totally suspended within the limits Whereas, in 1975, the imports of rosin from third of a Community tariff quota of 14 665 metric tons. countries not associated with qr linked to the Community by a preferential agreement were as The tariff quota rate of duty to be applied by the follows : new Member States shall be nil .

in metric tons Benelux 7 638 Article 2 Denmark 145 The Community tariff quota referred to in Article 1 Germany 25 329 shall be allocated as follows among the Member France 7 127 States :

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m metric tons imports of the product in question entered with the Benelux 1 910 customs authorities for home use.

Denmark 36 Germany 6 332 Article 4 France 1 782 At the Commission's request, Member States shall Ireland 20 inform it of the imports actually charged against their Italy 2 262 shares . United Kingdom 2 323 . Article 5

Article 3 Member States and the Commission shall cooperate closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied 1 . Member States shall take all appropriate with . measures to ensure that importers of the product in question established in their territory have free access to the shares allocated to them , Article 6

2 . The extent to which a Member State has used This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January up its share shall be determined on the basis of the 1977 .

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

Done at Luxembourg, 19 October 1976 .

For the Council

The President

M. van der STOEL