Traduction de «Autonomous tariff suspension » (Anglais → Français) :

The Commission communication concerning autonomous tariff suspensions and quotas defines the guiding principles and the procedure for dealing with requests for autonomous tariff suspensions or quotas.

The Commission therefore concluded that the conditions for proposing such autonomous tariff suspensions or quotas under Article 26 of the Treaty establishing the European Community were not fulfilled, and therefore considered these requests to be rejected.

The British authorities have therefore at the beginning of May 2001 transmitted a request to replace their request for an autonomous tariff quota by a request for an autonomous tariff suspension for the same product at a duty rate of 3 %.

In the first quarter of the 2001 the representatives of several Member States indicated that an autonomous tariff suspension at a reduced duty rate might be acceptable them.

The Commission will carefully study whether the modified request can be accepted in view of the principles set out in the “Commission communication concerning autonomous tariff suspensions and quotas”.

WHEREAS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CUSTOMS UNION IS GOVERNED IN THE MAIN BY TITLE 1 , CHAPTER 1 OF THE TREATY ; WHEREAS THAT CHAPTER OF THE TREATY CONTAINS A SERIES OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS , DEALING IN PARTICULAR WITH THE ELIMINATION OF CUSTOMS DUTIES BETWEEN MEMBER STATES , THE ESTABLISHMENT AND PROGRESSIVE INTRODUCTION OF THE COMMON CUSTOMS TARIFF AND THE AUTONOMOUS ALTERATION OR SUSPENSION OF THE DUTIES THEREIN ; WHEREAS THE WORDS " AUTONOMOUS ALTERATION OR SUSPENSION OF DUTIES IN THE COMMON CUSTOMS TARIFF " IN ARTICLE 28 , DO NOT MAKE IT POSSIBLE TO BASE THE PROVISIONS RELATING TO VALUE FOR CUSTOMS PURPOSES ON THAT ARTICLE ; WHEREAS , WHILE ARTICLE 27 PROVIDES THAT MEMBER STATES SHALL , BEFORE THE END OF THE FIRST STAGE AND IN SO FAR AS ...[+++] MAY BE NECESSARY , TAKE STEPS TO APPROXIMATE THEIR PROVISIONS LAID DOWN BY LAW , REGULATION OR ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION IN RESPECT OF CUSTOMS MATTERS , THAT ARTICLE DOES NOT EMPOWER THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE COMMUNITY TO ISSUE BINDING PROVISIONS IN THAT FIELD ; WHEREAS , HOWEVER , A THOROUGH EXAMINATION , UNDERTAKEN JOINTLY WITH MEMBER STATES , HAS SHOWN THE NEED IN CERTAIN FIELDS FOR DECISION , BY BINDING ACTS OF THE COMMUNITY , UPON MEASURES ESSENTIAL FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF CUSTOMS LEGISLATION WHICH WILL ENSURE UNIFORM APPLICATION OF THE COMMON CUSTOMS TARIFF ;