Commission Regulation (EC) No 1818/2006 of 11 December 2006 on the implementation of the management system of the quantitative ceiling of potassium chloride in relation to the anti-dumping measures applicable on imports of potassium chloride originating in Belarus

• CELEX: Regulation (EC) No 1818/2006
• Articles: 13

Article 1

1.   This Regulation lays down detailed rules for the management system of the quantitative ceiling of potassium chloride originating in Belarus, as provided for in Article 2(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1050/2006.

2.   All products released for free circulation under the quantitative ceiling referred to in paragraph (1) shall be subject to the presentation of an import authorisation issued in accordance with the Articles below.

Article 2

For the purpose of this Regulation:

1.

‘contract’ means the contract agreed and signed between the exporter and importer;

2.

‘exporter’ means an economic operator having its registered office, central headquarters or a permanent business establishment in Belarus;

3.

‘import authorisation’ means the import authorisation which is issued by the national authorities for the release for free circulation of the product concerned in the Community in accordance with this Regulation;

4.

‘importer’ means any economic operator, which carries out itself, or through a representative acting on its behalf, the formalities for the release for free circulation of the product concerned;

5.

‘national authorities’ means the national authorities of the Member States competent to issue the import authorisation in accordance with this Regulation, as listed in Annex I;

6.

‘product concerned’ means potassium chloride originating in Belarus, falling under CN codes 3104 20 50 and 3104 20 90 (TARIC codes 3104 20 50 10, 3104 20 50 90 and 3104 20 90 00).

Article 3

1.   Only importers may lodge a request or declaration for import authorisations. Such request or declaration may be lodged with the national authorities, as listed in Annex I, in each of the Member States. The quantities requested in individual applications cannot exceed the quantities agreed for in the corresponding contract.

2.   The declaration or request made by the importer in order to obtain the import authorisation shall contain at least the information listed in Annex II.

3.   The importer shall present the original of the contract at the time when the request or declaration for the import authorisation is submitted to the national authorities.

4.   The national authorities shall refuse declarations or requests for import authorisations that are not lodged in accordance with this Regulation.

Article 4

1.   In order to ensure that quantities for which import authorisations are issued do not exceed at any moment the total quantitative ceiling for the product concerned, the national authorities shall issue import authorisations only upon confirmation by the Commission that there are still quantities available within the quantitative ceiling for the product concerned.

2.   The authorised imports shall be counted against the quantitative ceiling laid down for the year in which the request for import authorisation was submitted to the national authorities.

3.   For the purpose of applying paragraph 1, before issuing import authorisations, the national authorities shall notify the Commission of the amounts of the requests for import authorisations, supported by the contract, which they have received. By return, the Commission shall notify whether the requested amount(s) of quantities are available for release for free circulation in the chronological order in which notifications of the national authorities are received (first come first served).

4.   The requests included in the notifications to the Commission shall be valid if they establish clearly in each case the exporting country, the applicable TARIC code, the quantities to be imported, the number of the contract, the CIF or DAF (as applicable and as defined in Incoterms 2000) value of the product concerned at Community frontier by TARIC code and the applicable year of the quantitative ceiling.

5.   The notifications referred to in paragraphs 3 to 4 shall be communicated electronically within the integrated network set up for this purpose, unless for imperative technical reasons it is necessary to use other means of communication temporarily.

Article 5

1.   To the extent that the Commission, pursuant to Article 4, has confirmed that the amount requested is available within the quantitative ceiling, the national authorities shall issue an import authorisation within a maximum of ten working days from the presentation by the importer of the original corresponding contract. Import authorisations shall be issued by the national authorities of any Member State irrespective of the Member State indicated as destination in the contract to the extent that the Commission has confirmed the availability of the amount within the quantitative ceiling.

2.   Import authorisations shall be drawn up in accordance with the model set out in Annex III.

3.   The validity of import authorisations issued by the national authorities shall be valid for three months. If a request or declaration for import authorisation is submitted after 1 October of a given year, the validity of the import authorisation issued on the basis of such declaration or request shall not exceed 31 December of the same year.

4.   The quantities for which the import authorisation is issued shall not exceed the quantity indicated in the contract on the basis of which the import authorisation is issued.

5.   Importers shall not be obliged to import the total quantity covered by an import authorisation in one single consignment.

6.   Obligations and rights deriving from import authorisations or extracts shall not be transferable.

7.   The import authorisations may be issued by electronic means as long as the customs offices involved have access to the import authorisation via a computer network.

8.   Importers shall return the expired import authorisations to the issuing national authorities within 10 working days after the date of their expiry. Importers shall not apply for a new import authorisation as long as 85 % of the quantity of the valid import authorisation has not been imported.

Article 6

Import authorisations shall be issued by national authorities in accordance with Article 4 without discrimination to any importer in the Community wherever the place of his establishment may be in the Community.

Article 7

1.   The national authorities shall notify the Commission immediately after being informed of any quantity that is not used during the duration of validity of the import authorisation. Such quantities shall automatically be transferred into the unused quantities of the quantitative ceiling as soon as possible.

2.   National authorities shall notify the Commission of any cancellation of import authorisation or any equivalent documents already issued, in case where the corresponding contract has been terminated by either the exporter or the importer. However, if the Commission or the national authorities have been informed by the importer of the termination of the contract after some quantities of the product concerned agreed in the contract have been imported into the Community, the quantities in question shall be counted against the quantitative ceiling for the year in which the declaration or request for the import authorisation was submitted to the national authorities.

Article 8

If the Commission finds that the total quantities of the product concerned covered by the contracts in any year reaches the quantitative ceiling, the national authorities shall be informed immediately in order to suspend the further issue of import authorisations.

Article 9

1.   The forms to be used by the national authorities for issuing the import authorisations referred to in Articles 4 to 7 shall conform to the model of the import authorisation set out in Annex III.

2.   Import authorisation forms and extracts thereof shall be drawn up in duplicate, one copy, marked ‘Holder's copy’ and bearing the number 1 to be issued to the applicant, and the other, marked ‘Copy for the issuing authority’ and bearing the No 2, to be kept by the authority issuing the import authorisations. For administrative purposes the national authorities may add additional copies to form 2.

3.   Forms shall be printed on white paper free of mechanical pulp, dressed for writing and weighing between 55 and 65 g/m 2 . Their size shall be 210 × 297 mm; the type space between the lines shall be 4,24 mm (one sixth of an inch); the layout of the forms shall be followed precisely. Both sides of copy No 1, which is the import authorisation itself, shall in addition have a red printed guilloche-pattern background making any falsification by mechanical or chemical means apparent to the eye.

4.   Member States shall be responsible for having the forms printed. The forms may also be printed by printers appointed by the Member State in which they are established. In the latter case, reference to the appointment by the Member State must appear on each form. Each form shall bear the printer's name and address or a mark enabling the printer to be identified.

5.   At the time of their issue the import authorisations or extracts shall be given an issue number determined by the national authority. The import authorisation number shall be notified to the Commission electronically within the integrated network set up under Article 4.

6.   Import authorisations and extracts shall be completed in the official language, or one of the official languages, of the Member State of issue.

7.   The marks of the issuing national authorities and the customs offices or competent administrative authorities shall be applied by means of a stamp. However, an embossing press combined with letters or figures obtained by means of perforation, or printing on the import authorisation may be substituted for the issuing national authority's stamp. The issuing national authorities shall use any tamper-proof method to record the quantity allocated in such a way as to make it impossible to insert figures or references.

8.   The reverse of copy No 1 and copy No 2 shall bear a box in which quantities may be entered, either by the customs authorities when import formalities are completed, or by the competent administrative authorities when an extract is issued. If the space set aside for debits on an import authorisation or extract thereof is insufficient, the competent authorities of Member States may attach one or more extension pages bearing boxes matching those on the reverse of copy No 1 and copy No 2 of the import authorisation or extract. The competent authorities of Member States shall place their stamp so that one half is on the import authorisation or extract thereof and the other half is on the extension page. If there is more than one extension page, a further stamp shall be placed in like manner across each page and the preceding page.

9.   The competent authorities of the Member States concerned may, where indispensable, require the contents of import authorisations or extracts to be translated into the official language or one of the official languages of that Member State.

10.   Import authorisations or extract thereof issued, entries and endorsements made by the authorities of a Member State shall have the same legal effects in each of the other Member States as import authorisations or extracts issued, entries and endorsements made by the competent authorities of these Member States. Import authorisations or extracts issued in accordance with this Regulation shall be valid throughout the customs territory of the European Community.

Article 10

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 1 January 2007.

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX I

ANNEX I

LIST OF NATIONAL AUTHORITIES OF THE MEMBER STATES

BELGIQUE/BELGIË

Service public fédéral économie, PME, classes moyennes et énergie

Administration du potentiel économique

Service licences — Licences

Rue de Louvain 44

B-1000 Bruxelles

Fax [phone]

e-mail:

website:

Federale Overheidsdienst Economie, kmo, Middenstand en Energie

Bestuur Economisch Potentieel

Dienst Vergunningen

Leuvenseweg 44

B-1000 Brussel

Fax: [phone]

e-mail:

website:

ČESKÁ REPUBLIKA

Ministerstvo průmyslu a obchodu

Licenční správa

Na Františku 32

CZ-110 15 Praha 1

Fax: [phone]

e-mail:

website:

EESTI

Majandus- ja Kommunikatsiooniministeerium

Harju 11

EE-15072 Tallinn

Fax: + 372 6313 660

e-mail:

website:

ΕΛΛΑΔΑ

Υπουργείο Οικονομίας & Οικονομικών

Διεύθυνση Καθεστώτων Εισαγωγών-Εξαγωγών, Εμπορικής Άμυνας

Κορνάρου 1

GR-105 63 Αθήνα

Φαξ: (30) 210-328 60 94

Διεύθυνση ηλ. ταχ.:

Δικτυακός τόπος:

ESPAÑA

Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio

Secretaría General de Comercio Exterior

Subdirección General de Comercio Exterior de Productos Industriales

Paseo de la Castellana 162

E-28046 Madrid

Fax [phone]

Correo electrónico:

Sitio web:

DANMARK

Økonomi- og Erhvervsministeriet

Erhvervs- og Byggestyrelsen

Lange Linie Allé 17

DK-2100 København Ø

Fax: + 45-35 46 60 00

e-mail:

website: www.ebst.dk

DEUTSCHLAND

Bundesamt für Wirtschaft und Ausfuhrkontrolle

(BAFA)

Frankfurter Straße 29—35

D-65760 Eschborn 1

Fax: [phone]

e-mail:

website:

ITALIA

Ministero del Commercio internazionale

Direzione generale per la Politica commerciale

Viale America 341

I-00144 Roma

Fax [phone]

E-mail: [email protected]

Website: www.mincomes.it

FRANCE

Ministère de l'économie, des finances et de l'industrie

Direction générale des entreprises

Sous-direction des biens de consommation

Bureau Textile-Importations

Le Bervil

12, rue Villiot

F-75572 Paris Cedex 12

Fax [phone]

e-mail:

website:

IRELAND

Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment

Import/Export Licensing, Block C

Earlsfort Centre

Hatch Street

Dublin 2

Ireland

Fax [phone]

E-mail:

Website: www.entemp.ie

ÖSTERREICH

Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit

Außenwirtschaftsadministration

Abteilung C2/2

Stubenring 1

A-1011 Wien

Fax: [phone]

e-mail:

website:

KYΠΡΟΣ

Υπουργείο Εμπορίου, Βιομηχανίας και Τουρισμού

Υπηρεσία Εμπορίου

Μονάδα Έκδοσης Αδειών Εισαγωγής/Εξαγωγής

Οδός Ανδρέα Αραούζου αρ. 6

CY-1421 Λευκωσία

Φαξ: (357) 22-37 51 20

Διεύθυνση ηλ. ταχ.:

Δικτυακός τόπος:

LATVIJA

Latvijas Republikas Ekonomikas ministrija

Brīvības iela 55

LV-1519 Rīga

Fax: + 371-728 08 82

E-mail: [email protected]

Website: www.em.gov.lv

LIETUVA

Lietuvos Respublikos ūkio ministerija

Prekybos departamentas

Gedimino pr. 38/2

LT-01104 Vilnius

Faksas (370-5) 26 23 974

E. paštas: [email protected],

[email protected]

tinklalapis: www.ukmin.lt

POLSKA

Ministerstwo Gospodarki

Plac Trzech Krzyży 3/5

PL-00-507 Warszawa

Fax: + 48-22-693 40 21

e-mail:

website:

PORTUGAL

Ministério das Finanças

Direcção-Geral das Alfândegas e dos Impostos

Especiais sobre o Consumo

Rua Terreiro do Trigo, Edifício da Alfândega de

Lisboa

PT-1140-060 Lisboa

Fax: [phone]

E-mail:

Sítio web :

SLOVENIJA

Ministrstvo za finance

Carinska uprava Republike Slovenije

Carinski urad Jesenice

Center za TARIC in kvote

Spodnji Plavž 6c

SI-4270 Jesenice

Faks: (386-4) 297 44 72

E-pošta: [email protected]

Spletišče: http://www.carina.gov.si

LUXEMBOURG

Ministère des affaires étrangères

Office des licences

BP 113

L-2011 Luxembourg

Fax [phone]

e-mail: [email protected]

website: www.eco.public.lu/attributions/office_licences/index.html

MAGYARORSZÁG

Magyar Kereskedelmi Engedélyezési Hivatal

Margit krt. 85.

H-1024 Budapest

Fax: [phone]

E-mail:

Website:

MALTA

Diviżjoni għall -Kummerċ

Servizzi Kummerċjali

Lascaris

MT-Valletta CMR02

Fax: + 356-25-69 02 99

e-mail:

website:

SLOVENSKÁ REPUBLIKA

Ministerstvo hospodárstva SR

Odbor licencií

Mierová 19

827 15 Bratislava 212

Slovenská republika

Fax: + 421-2-43 42 39 19

e-mail:

internetová stránka:

SUOMI

Tullihallitus

PL 512

FI-00101 Helsinki

Fax: [phone]

e-mail:

website:

SVERIGE

Statens jordbruksverk

SE-551 82 Jönköping

Fax [phone]

e-post: [email protected]

webbsida: http://www.sjv.se

NEDERLAND

Belastingdienst/Douane centrale dienst voor in- en uitvoer

Postbus 30003, Engelse Kamp 2

NL-9700 RD Groningen

Fax: [phone]

e-mail:

website:

ROMÂNIA

Ministerul Economiei şi Comerţului

Direcţia Generală Politici Comerciale

Str. Ion Câmpineanu nr. 16

Bucureşti, sector 1

Cod poştal: 010036

Fax: [phone]

e-mail: [email protected]

website: www.dce.gov.ro

UNITED KINGDOM

Department of Trade and Industry

Import Licensing Branch

Queensway House — West Precinct

Billingham

TS23 2NF

United Kingdom

Fax [phone]

E-mail:

Website:

БЪЛГАРИЯ

Дирекция ‘Регистриране, лицензиране и контрол’

Министерство на икономиката и енергетиката

ул. ‘Славянска’ 8

1052 София

Fax:

[phone];

[phone];

[phone]

website: www.mee.government.bg

ANNEX II

ANNEX II

The declaration or request made by the importer in order to obtain an import authorisation shall contain:

1.

Exporter (name and full address, telephone/fax number, e-mail address);

2.

Importer (name and full address, telephone/fax number, e-mail address and VAT number);

3.

The exact description of the goods and the TARIC code(s);

4.

Country of origin of the goods;

5.

Country of consignment;

6.

Quantity requested in tonnes;

7.

The CIF or DAF (as applicable and as defined in Incoterms 2000) value of the product concerned at Community frontier by TARIC heading;

8.

Date and number of the contract;

9.

Place and date and signature of the applicant;

10.

The following signed declaration: ‘I, the undersigned, declare that all information presented in this request is true, correct and in conformity with the requirements of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1818/2006.’

ANNEX III

ANNEX III

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European Community import authorisation

1. Consignee (name, full address, country, VAT number)

2. Issue number

3. Year

4. Authority responsible for issue (name, address and telephone No)

5. Declarant/representative as applicable (name and full address)

6. Country of origin (and geonomenclature code)

7. Country of consignment (and geonomenclature code)

8. Last day of validity

9. Description of goods

10. TARIC code

11. Quantity expressed in tonnes

12. Security/guarantee (as applicable)

13. Further particulars

14. Competent authority's endorsement

Date:

(Signature) (Stamp)

Holder's copy

1

1

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15. ATTRIBUTIONS

Indicate the quantity available in part 1 of column 17 and the quantity attributed in part 2 thereof

16. Net quantity (net mass or other unit of measure stating the unit)

19. Customs document (form and number) or extract No and date of attribution

20. Name, Member State, stamp and signature of the attributing authority

17. In figures

18. In words for the quantity attributed

1.

2.

1.

2.

1.

2.

1.

2.

1.

2.

1.

2.

1.

2.

Extension pages to be attached hereto.

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European Community import authorisation

1. Consignee (name, full address, country, VAT number)

2. Issue number

3. Year

4. Authority responsible for issue (name, address and telephone No)

5. Declarant/representative as applicable (name and full address)

6. Country of origin (and geonomenclature code)

7. Country of consignment (and geonomenclature code)

8. Last day of validity

9. Description of goods

10. TARIC code

11. Quantity expressed in tonnes

12. Security/guarantee (as applicable)

13. Further particulars

14. Competent authority's endorsement

Date:

(Signature) (Stamp)

Copy for the issuing authority

2

2

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15. ATTRIBUTIONS

Indicate the quantity available in part 1 of column 17 and the quantity attributed in part 2 thereof

16. Net quantity (net mass or other unit of measure stating the unit)

19. Customs document (form and number) or extract No and date of attribution

20. Name, Member State, stamp and signature of the attributing authority

17. In figures

18. In words for the quantity attributed

1.

2.

1.

2.

1.

2.

1.

2.

1.

2.

1.

2.

1.

2.

Extension pages to be attached hereto.