31987R4168

No L 398 / 14 Official Journal of the European Communities 31 . 12 . 87

COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 4168/87

of 21 December 1987 opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for dried grapes falling within subheadings 0806 20 11 or 0806 20 19 of the combined nomenclature and originating in Cyprus ( 1988 )

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding system ; whereas this Regulation must take account of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European that fact by indicating the combined nomenclature codes Economic Community, and in particular Article 113 within which the said products fall ; thereof, Whereas equal and continuous access to the quota Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, should be ensured for all Community importers and the rates laid down for the quota should be applied consist­ Whereas the Agreement establishing an Association ently to all Member States until the quota is exhausted ; between the European Economic Community and the whereas, however, the quota should not in this case be Republic of Cyprus, as supplemented by the Protocol allocated among the Member States, without prejudice laying down the conditions and procedures for the to the drawing against the quota volume of such quan­ implementation of the second stage of the said tities as they may need, under conditions and according Agreement and adapting certain provisions thereof (x), to the procedure laid down in Article 1 (2); whereas this provides for the opening of an annual duty-free method of administration requires close cooperation Community tariff quota of 1 500 tonnes for dried grapes between the Member States and the Commission and the falling within subheading 0806 20 11 and 0806 20 19 of latter must in particular be able to monitor the rate at the fcombined nomenclature and originating in Cyprus ; which the quota is used and inform the Member States whereas pursuant to Article 18 of the Protocol in accordingly; question, this volume is subject to an annual increase of Whereas since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of 5 % from the entry into force of the Protocol, and will the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg therefore be 1 575 tonnes in 1988 ; whereas, within the are united within and jointly represented by the Benelux limits of the tariff quota, the Kingdom of Spain and the Economic Union, any operation concerning the adminis­ Portuguese Republic will apply customs duties calculated tration of the quota shares allocated to that economic in accordance with the Protocol to the Association union may be carried out by any one of its members, Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Cyprus consequent upon the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : accession of the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic to the Community (2); whereas the Community Article 1 tariff quota should therefore be opened for 1988 ; 1 . From 1 January to 31 December 1988 the customs Whereas from the date on which the said quota is duty applicable to imports into the Community of the opened, the nomenclature used in the Common Customs following products shall be suspended at the level Tariff will be replaced by the combined nomenclature indicated and within the limits of a Community tariff based on the International Convention on the quota as shown below :

Order No CN code Amount of quota Quota duty Description (tonnes) ( %)

Grapes, fresh or dried : — Dried : — In immediate containers of a net capacity not exceeding 2 kg : 09.1413 0806 20 11 Currants 0806 20 19 Other — Other : ex 0806 20 91 Currants in immediate containers of a net capacity not exceeding 15 kg, originating in Cyprus 1 575 Free Other in immediate containers of a net capacity not ex 0806 20 99 exceeding 15 kg, originating in Cyprus

0) OJ No L 393 , 31 . 12 . 1987 , p. 2 . O OJ No L 393, 31 . 12 . 1987, p. 37.

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Within the limits of this tariff quota the Kingdom of 2 . Each Member State shall ensure that importers of the product concerned have free access to the quota for Spain and the Portuguese Republic shall apply customs duties calculated in accordance with the relevant such time as the residual balance of the quota volume so permits. provisions of the Protocol to the Association Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Cyprus consequent on the accession of the 3 . Member States shall charge imports of the said Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic to the goods against their drawings as and when the goods are entered with the customs authorities for free circulation. Community.

2. If an importer gives notification of imminent 4. The extent to which the quota has been used up imports of the product in question into a Member State shall be determined on the basis of the imports charged and applies to take advantage of the quota, the Member in accordance with paragraph 3 . State concerned shall inform the Commission and draw an amount corresponding to its requirements to the Article 3 extent that the available balance of the reserve so permits. At the request of the Commission, Member States shall inform it of imports actually charged against the quota. 3 . The shares drawn pursuant to paragraph 2 shall be valid until the end of the quota period. Article 4 Article 2 The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate 1 . Member States shall take all appropriate measures closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied with. to ensure that their drawings pursuant to Article 1 (2) enable imports to be charged without interruption Article 5 against their accumulated shares of the Community quota. This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1988 .

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

Done at Brussels, 21 December 1987 .

For the Council

The President

B. HAARDER