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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) No 3665 / 85

of 20 December 1985

opening and providing for the administration of a Community preferential ceiling for certain petroleum products refined in Turkey and establishing Community supervision of imports thereof 1986

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES , Whereas , in accordance with Article 119 of the Act of Accession of Greece, the Council adopted Regulation ( EEC ) No 3555 / 80 determining the arrangements to be applied with regard to imports into Greece , originating in Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Algeria , Israel , Malta , Morocco , Portugal , Syria , Tunisia Economic Community , and in particular Article 113 or Turkey ( 3 ); thereof,

Whereas in the absence of a Protocol as provided for in Articles 179 and 366 of the Act of Accession of Spain and Having regard to the proposal from the Commission , Portugal , the Community must take the measures referred to in Articles 180 and 367 of that Act ; whereas , this Regulation therefore applies to the Community of Nine; Whereas , pending the entry into force of the Supplementary Protocol signed in Ankara on 30 June 1973 containing the adjustments to be made to the Agreement Whereas the application of the ceiling requires that the establishing an association between the European Community should be regularly informed of the trend of Economic Community and Turkey and to the Additional imports of these products should therefore be subject to a Protocol 0 ) consequent on the accession of new Member system of supervision ; States , the Community has undertaken , in an Interim Agreement ( 2 ) which runs only for a limited period prior to the entry into force of this Supplementary Protocol , which Whereas this objective may be attained by means of an is applicable until 31 December 1974 but which has been administrative procedure based on setting off imports of extended for 1986 in accordance with the terms laid down the products in question against the ceiling, at Community in Article 13 thereof, to implement certain provisions of the level , as and when these products are submitted to the Supplementary Protocol relating to trade in goods ; customs authorities under cover of declarations that they whereas , under Article 6 of the Interim Agreement have been made available for free circulation ; whereas this amending the first paragraph of the Sole Article of Annex 1 administrative procedure must take provision for the to the Additional Protocol , the Community must totally reintroduction of the Common Customs Tariff duty as suspend the customs duties applicable to certain petroleum soon as the said ceiling has been reached at Community products falling within Chapter 27 of the Common level ; Customs Tariff, refined in Turkey , within the limit of an annual Community tariff quota of 340 000 tonnes ; whereasj for the products concerned , a provisional Whereas this administrative procedure requires close and adjustment should be made to these tariff preferences , very rapid cooperation between the Member States and the consisting essentially of substituting for the Community Commission , which must be able to monitor the amounts tariff quota a Community ceiling which amounts, after set off against the ceiling and keep the Member States successive increases , to 705 000 tonnes , above which the informed thereof; whereas this cooperation must be all the customs duties applicable to third countries may be closer to enable the Commission to take adequate measures reintroduced ; to reintroduce the Common Customs Tariff duty whenever the ceiling is reached .

(!) OJ No L 293 , 29 . 12 . 1972 , p . 4 . H OJ No L 277 , 3 . 10 . 1973 , p . 2 . ( 3 ) OJ No L 382 , 31 . 12 . 1980 , p. 1 .

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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION suspended in the Community of Nine for certain petroleum products referred to hereinafter and refined in Turkey, within the limits of a Community ceiling of 705 000 tonnes . Article 1

1 . From 1 January to 31 December 1986 the Common 2 . The petroleum products to which paragraph 1 applies Customs Tariff duties shall , subject to Article 2 , be totally are the following:

CCT heading Description No

27.10 Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals other than crude; preparations not elsewhere specified or included , containing not less than 70 % by weight of petroleum oil or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals , these oils being the basic constituents of the preparations : A. Light oils: III . For other purposes B. Medium oils : III . For other purposes C. Heavy oils : I. Gas oils : c) For other purposes II . Fuel oils : c) For other purposes III . Lubricating oils , other oils : c) To be mixed in accordance with the terms of Additional Note 7 to this chapter ( a) d ) For other purposes

27.11 Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons : B. Other : I. Commercial propane and commercial butane : c) For other purposes

27.12 Petroleum jelly : A. Crude : III . For other purposes B. Other

27.13 Paraffin wax , micro-crystalline wax , slack wax , ozokerite , lignite wax , pest wax and other mineral waxes , whether or not coloured : B. Other : I. Crude : c) For other purposes II . Other

27.14 Petroleum bitumen , petroleum coke and other residues of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals : C. Other

( a ) Entry under this subheading is subject to conditions to be determined by the competent authorities .

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3 . Imports of the petroleum products referred to in duties applicable to third countries until the end of the paragraph 1 shall be subject to Community supervision . calendar year .

4 . Imports of the products shall be set off against the Article 3 ceiling as and when they are submitted to the customs authorities under cover of a declaration that they have been Member States shall forward to the Commission not later made available for free circulation . than the 15th day of each month a statement of the imports effected during the preceding month . If the Commission so 5 . The extent to which the ceiling has been used shall be requests , they shall forward this statement, in respect of determined at Community level on the basis of the imports 10-day periods , whithin five clear days of the expiry of set off against it in the manner defined in paragraph 4 . each such 10-day period . 6 . Member States shall inform the Commission at the intervals and within the time limits specified in Article 3 of Article 4 any imports effected in accordance with the above rules . The Commission shall take all necessary measures for the implementation of this Regulation in close cooperation with the Member States . Article 2

As soon as the ceiling referred to in Article 1 ( 1 ) has been Article 5 reached at Community level , the Commission may issue a Regulation reintroducing the Common Customs Tariff This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1986 .

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

Done at Brussels , 20 December 1985 .

For the Council

The President

R. KRIEPS