No L 318/18 Official Journal of the European Communities 20.12.93 COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 3448/93 of 6 December 1993 laying down the trade arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Articles 43 and 113 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (*), Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (3, Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (*), Whereas Articles 38 to 47 of the Treaty provide for the establishment of a common agricultural policy covering the agricultural products listed in Annex II to the Treaty; . Whereas certain agricultural products are used in numerous goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty; Whereas it is necessary to provide for measures under the common agricultural policy and the common commercial policy to take account of the impact of trade in such goods on the objectives of Article 39 of the Treaty and of how measures adopted to implement Article 43 of the Treaty affect the economic position of such goods, given the differences between the costs of procuring agricultural products within and outside -the Community and the differences in the prices of agri- cultural products; : Whereas the Treaty lays down that agricultural policy and commercial policy are Community policies; whereas it is necessary to establish for certain goods resulting from the processing of agricultural products general and comprehensive  rules, applicable throughout the Community, relating to trade in these goods, in order to attain the objectives of the Treaty; Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3033/80 of 11 November 1980 laying down the trade arrangements applicable to certain goods resulting from the processing (") OJ No C 126, 7. 5. 1993, p. 13. (*) OJ No C 315, 22. 11. 1993. ¢) OJ No C 304, 10. 11. 1993, p. 8. of agricultural products (*) provides for the levying on imports of certain goods of a charge consisting of a fixed component for the protection of the processing industry and a variable component to offset any difference between the prices of the relevant agricultural products in the Community and on the world market; Whereas the overall approach of the arrangements . introduced by Regulation (EEC) No 3033/80 must be maintained, with certain extensions as explained below and certain adjustments; whereas, on the one hand, it is appropriate to draw up, in respect of the goods to which the arrangements currently apply, set out in Table 1 of Annex B, the list of agricultural products for which price differences between the world market and the Community market can be offset on importation, and, on the other hand, it must be possible to identify among those agricultural products the basic products for which such differences are actually recorded, the quantities of other agricultural products, assimilated products or products resulting from their processing being converted into equivalent quantities of basic products; Whereas certain amendments are needed to the rules applicable to trade in these goods to take account of developments in the Community’s agreements and in the common agricultural policy; Whereas certain goods falling within Chapters 1 to 24 of the combined nomenclature are not covered by Regu- lation (EEC) No 3033/80; whereas these goods are also obtained using agricultural products subject to the common agricultural policy; whereas the charges applied to imports of such goods must therefore likewise cover the difference between the world market prices and the prices on the Community market for the agricultural products used in their production and ensure the protection of the processing industry concerned; whereas it is therefore necessary to consolidate the rules applying to all the goods obtained in significant proportion from agricultural products; ‘Whereas, under agreements entered into, the Community is to limit such charges to covering, in whole or in part, differences in the price of agricultural products used in the production of the goods in question; whereas it is accordingly necessary to establish for these goods that part of the overall charge which covers the differences between the prices of the agri- cultural products taken into account; () OJ No L 323, 29. 11. 1980, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1436/90 (O] No L 138, 31. 5. 1990, p. 9).