Community law: application to the Canary Islands (amend. Regulation (EEC) No 1911/91)

The committee adopted a report by Mr Manuel MEDINA ORTEGA (PES, E) approving the Commission proposal to suspend the phasing-out of the special APIM tax on imports to the Canaries for a very small number of products.The committee, however, considered it more appropriate to suspend the phasing-out of the APIM completely, and not just for selected products. It stressed that such a suspension was logical in the light of the new Treaty provisions on the outermost regions of the EU, and concluded that it was reasonable to extend the validity of the APIM pending the adoption of new rules and arrangements for the outermost regions as provided for in Article 299 of the Amsterdam Treaty.