Furthermore, the Commission proposal is intended as a response to the liberalisation commitments made under WTO auspices after the Community banana scheme had been challenged by the ‘dollar banana’ countries: the tariff-quota scheme is to be abandoned in favour of a scheme based exclusively on a single tariff.

B. whereas the mandate of the Committee of Inquiry was to: (1) investigate alleged contraventions or maladministration in the application of Council Directive 92/96/EEC of 10 November 1992 on the coordination of laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to direct life assurance and amending Directives 79/267/EEC and 90/619/EEC (third life assurance Directive), now codified by Directive 2002/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 November 2002 concerning life assurance, by the United Kingdom's competent authorities in relation to the Equitable Life Assurance Society (Equitable Life), notably as regards the regulatory regime and the m ...[+++]onitoring of the financial health of insurance undertakings, including their state of solvency, the establishment of adequate technical provisions and the covering of those provisions by matching assets; (2) assess whether the Commission has properly fulfilled its duty to monitor the correct and timely transposition of Community law and identify whether systematic weaknesses contributed to the situation that has arisen; (3) assess allegations that the UK regulators consistently failed, over a number of years, and at least since 1989, to protect policy holders by exercising rigorous supervision of accounting and provisioning practices and the financial situation of Equitable Life; (4) assess the status of claims by non-UK European citizens and the adequacy of remedies available under UK and/or EU legislation for policy-holders from other Member States; and (5) make any proposals that it deems necessary in this matter,

1. The tariff preferences referred to in Articles 7 and 8 shall be removed in respect of products originating in a beneficiary country of a section, when the average value of Community imports from that country of products included in the section concerned and covered by the arrangement enjoyed by that country exceeds 15 % of the value of Community imports of the same products from all countries and territories listed in Annex I over three consecutive years, on the basis of the most recent data available on 1 September 2004. For each of the sections XI(a) ...[+++] and XI(b) the threshold shall be 12,5 %.

1. The tariff preferences referred to in Articles 7 and 8 shall be removed in respect of products originating in a beneficiary country, of a section, when the average value of Community imports from that country of products included in the section concerned and covered by the arrangement enjoyed by that country exceeds 15 % of the value of Community imports of the same products from all countries and territories listed in Annex I over three consecutive years, on the basis of the most recent data available on 1 September 2004.

- having regard to the communication from the Commission to the Council on the 'First Come, First Served' method for the banana regime and the implications of a 'tariff only' system (COM(2000) 621 - C5-0528/2000 ),

The Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal to the European Community – in article 25 and in Protocol 2 annexed to that Act – provided the Canary Islands with a special status which was designed to reflect the fact that those islands were not integrated into the Common agricultural policy and, furthermore, because it was not subject to the Community Customs Union, the Community customs rules, nor Value Added Tax.