31987R4179

31 . 12 . 87 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 399 / 19

COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) No 4179 / 87

of 21 December 1987

opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for apricot pulp falling within code No ex 2008 50 91 of the combined nomenclature and originating in Tunisia ( 1988 )

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES , of the Community and Statistics of Trade between Member States ; whereas, from the date given above, the combined nomenclature should be used for the description of the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European products covered by this Regulation; Economic Community , and in particular Article 113 thereof, Whereas equal and continuous access to the abcrvementioned quota should be ensured for all Community importers and the rate laid down for the quota should be applied Having regard to the proposal from the Commission , consistently to all imports of the product in question into all the Member States until the quota is exhausted ; whereas , in the present case , this quota should not be allocated among the Member States , without prejudice to the drawing against Whereas the Cooperation Agreement between the European the quota volume of such quantities as they may need, under Economic Community and the Republic of Tunisia (*), as the conditions and according to the procedure specified in supplemented by the Additional Protocol to that Article 1 ( 2 ); whereas this method of administration requires Agreement ( 2 ), provides for the opening by the Community close cooperation between the Member States and the of an annual Community tariff quota of 4 300 tonnes of Commission and the latter must in particular be able to apricot pulp falling within code No ex 2008 50 91 of the monitor the rate at which the quota is used and inform the combined nomenclature and originating in Tunisia ; Member States accordingly;

Whereas , within the limits of this tariff quota, customs duties Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium , the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are united are to be abolished progressively over the same periods and in accordance with the same timetables as those laid down in within and jointly represented by the Benelux Economic Articles 75 and 243 of the Act of Accession of Spain and Union , any operation relating to the administration of the Portugal ; whereas , for 1988 , the quota duty is to be equal to quota shares allocated to that economic union may be carried 62,5% of the customs duty actually applied in respect of out by any of its members , third countries ; whereas , within the limits of this tariff quota , the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic are to apply customs duties calculated in accordance with Council Regulation (EEC ) No 2573 / 87 of 11 August 1987 laying down the arrangements for trade between Spain and Portugal HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : on the one hand and Algeria , Egypt , Jordan , Lebanon , Tunisia and Turkey on the other ( 3 ); whereas the Community tariff quota in question should therefore be Article 1 opened for 1988 ;

1 . From 1 January to 31 December 1988 , the customs Whereas the Community has adopted, with effect from duty applicable to imports into the Community of the 1 January 1988 , a combined nomenclature for goods which following products originating in Tunisia shall be suspended meets the requirements of the Common Customs Tariff and at the level indicated and within the limits of a Community the Nomenclature of Goods for the External Trade Statistics tariff quota as shown below:

H OJ No L 265 , 27 . 9 . 1978 , p. 1 . ( 2 ) OJ No L 297 , 21 . 10 . 1987 , p . 36 . ( 3 ) OJ No L 250 , 1 . 9 . 1987 , p. 1 .

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

09.1203 2008 Fruits , nuts and other edible parts of plants , otherwise prepared or preserved , whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or spirit , not elsewhere specified or included : 2008 50 — Apricots : — — Not containing added spirit: \ — — — Not containing added sugar , in immediate packings of a net content : ex 2008 50 91 — — — — Of 4,5 kg or more : — Apricot pulp 4 300 10,6

Within the limits 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 against their drawings as and when the goods are entered calculated in accordance with Regulation ( EEC ) No with the customs authorities for free circulation . 2573 / 87 . 4 . The extent to which the quota has been used up shall be 2 . If an importer gives notification of imminent imports determined on the basis of the imports charged in accordance of the product in question into a Member State and applies to with paragraph 3 . take advantage of the quota , the Member State concerned shall inform the Commission and draw an amount corresponding to its requirements to the extent that the Article 3 available balance of the reserve so permits . At the request of the Commission , Member States shall 3 . The shares drawn pursuant to paragraph 2 shall be inform it of imports actually charged against their quota valid until the end of the quota period . shares .

Article 2 Article 4 1 . Member States shall take all appropriate steps to The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate ensure that their drawings pursuant to Article 1 ( 2 ) enable closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied with . imports to be charged without interruption against their accumulated shares of the Community quota .

2 . Each Member State shall ensure that importers of the Article 5 product concerned have free access to the quota for such time as the residual balance of the quota volume so permits . 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