31987R1861

1 . 7 . 87 No L 176 / 1 Official Journal of the European Communities

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) No 1861 / 87

of 25 June 1987

opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for a certain variety of polyvinylpyrrolidone falling within subheading ex 39.02 C XIV a) of the Common Customs Tariff

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES , cover requirements which cannot be determined with sufficient accuracy , it seems possible to avoid allocating among the Member States , without prejudice to the drawing against the quota volume of such quantities as Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European they may need, under conditions and according to a Economic Community, and in particular Article 28 procedure to be specified ; whereas this method of thereof, management requires close cooperation between the Member States and the Commission and the latter must in particular be able to monitor the rate at which the quota is used up and inform the Member States thereof; Whereas production in the Community of polyvinylpyrrolidone intended for the pharmaceutical industry and falling within subheading ex 39.02 C XIV a ) of the Common Customs Tariff is currently insufficient to Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of meet the requirements of the processing industries in the the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are Community; whereas, consequently, Community supplies united within and jointly represented by the Benelux of products of this type currently depend to a considerable Economic Union , all transactions concerning the extent on imports from third countries ; whereas the most administration of shares allocated to that economic union urgent Community requirements for the product in may be carried out by any one of its members, question should be met immediately on the most favourable terms; whereas a nil duty Community tariff quota should therefore be opened within the limits of an appropriate amount for a period from 1 July to 31 December 1987 ; whereas, in order not to jeopardize the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : balance of the market for this product , the volume of the Community tariff quota should be fixed at 60 tonnes;

Article 1 Whereas it is necessary , in particular, to ensure to all Community importers equal and uninterrupted access to 1 . From 1 July to 31 December 1987 the common the abovementioned quota and uninterrupted application customs duty applicable on import of the product of the rates laid down for that quota to all imports of the mentioned below shall be suspended at the level and within product concerned into all Member States until the quota the limit of the Community tariff quota indicated for has been used up ; whereas, however, since the quota is to each :

CCT Quota Quota Order No heading Description volume duty No (tonnes) ( % )

09.1931 ex 39.02 C XIV a) Polyvinylpyrrolidone , presented in powder form , the particles of which are less than 38 micrometres and which has a solubility in water at 25 °C of less than , or equal to , 1,5 % by weight and which is intended for the pharmaceutical industry 60 0

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Within the limit of this tariff quota the Kingdom of Spain 3 . Member States shall charge imports of the said goods and the Portuguese Republic shall apply customs duties aginst their drawings as and when the goods are entered for calculated in accordance with the relevant provisions laid free circulation . \ down by the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal. 4 . The extent to which the quota has been used up shall 2 . If an importer notifies an imminent importation of the be determined on the basis of the imports charged in product in question in a Member State and requests the accordance with paragraph 3 . benefit of the quota , the Member State concerned shall inform the Commission and draw an amount corresponding to these requirements to the extent that the Article 3 available balance of the reserve permits this .

At the request of the Commission, Member States shall 3 . The shares drawn pursuant to paragraph 2 shall be valid until the end of the quota period. inform it of imports actually charged against the quota .

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1 . Member States shall take all appropriate measures to The Member Sates and the Commission shall collaborate ensure that their drawings pursuant to Article 1 (2 ) are closely in order to ensure that this Regulation is complied carried out in such a way that imports may be charged with . without interruption against their accumulated shares of the Community quota .

2 . Each Member State shall ensure that importers of the Article 5 said goods have access to the quota so long as the residual balance of the quota volume allows this . This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1987 .

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

Done at Luxembourg, 25 June 1987 .

For the Council

The President

H. DE CROO