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COMMISSION DECISION No 1159/82/ECSC

of 14 May 1982

on certain information to be supplied by steel undertakings

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN

COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, and in particular Article 47 thereof,

Whereas, under Article 46 of the ECSC Treaty, the Commission is required to conduct a continuous study of market trends and to draw up periodically programmes indicating foreseeable developments in production, consumption, exports and imports; whereas such forward programmes relating to all these matters are drawn up by the Commission and published quarterly;

Whereas the measures taken by the United States steel industry in respect of certain exports to the United States by Community steel undertakings could disturb trade between the European Coal and Steel Community and the United States of America, and also have repercussions on the Community market; whereas, in order to avoid such problems on the Community market and the better to ensure observance of one of the Community's objectives as set out in Article 3 (f) of the Treaty, it is necessary that the Commission be able to draw up more precise forecasts of exports to the American market;

Whereas, to achieve this objective, the Commission must be kept continuously notified of the composition of order books and of deliveries already made to the American market;

Whereas Decision No 14/64 of 8 July 1964 (1) requires undertakings to keep records of orders and a sales journal;

Whereas to enable the Commission to assess more closely the pattern of exports, it is necessary that it should receive from undertakings information in respect of December 1981 and January, February, March and April 1982,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

1. Undertakings shall provide the Commission monthly by telex with the information specified in the Annex concerning their orders and deliveries in the United States of America. These statements must reach the Commission not later than 10 working days after the end of the month.

2. The products subject to this requirement are those listed in Statistical Office questionnaires Nos 2-72 and 2-81. However, the requirement to supply statements of information concerns only ordinary steel. The statements shall be made in accordance with the form given in the Annex.

Article 2

1. The first statement shall be provided by the 10th working day of the month which follows the publication of this Decision in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

2. The first statement shall be accompanied by the information specified in columns 1, 2 and 3 of the form in the Annex concerning December 1981, and January, February, March and April 1982.

Article 3

This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

This Decision shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 14 May 1982.

For the Commission

Étienne DAVIGNON

Vice-President

(1) OJ No 120, 28. 7. 1964, p. 1967/64.

ANNEX

Statistics of orders and deliveries of ordinary steel products to the United States and its external territories

The following monthly information must reach the Commission not later than the 10th of each month by telex No 21877 COMEU B, addressed to Office 1-29, 6 Rond-Point Schuman, B-1040 Brussels. In as far as columns (1), (2) and (3) are concerned, the information requested relates to the preceding month.

1.2.3.4 // A. 1. Undertaking: // 2. Plant: // 3. Year: // 4. Month:

B.

(Units: tonnes)

1.2.3.4.5.6 // // // // // // // Products // Line // Orders for the previous month // Order book as at the first day of the current month // Deliveries in the previous month // Scheduled deliveries for the following three months // // // (1) // (2) // (3) // (4) // // // // // // // A. Ingots, semis and hot-rolled wide coils: // // // // // // Ingots and semis (1) // 010 // // // // // // // // // // // Hot-rolled wide coils // 020 // // // // // // // // // // // B. Finished rolled products: // // // // // // Heavy permanent way material // 101 // // // // // // // // // // // Light permanent way material // 102 // // // // // // // // // // // Sheet piling // 103 // // // // // // // // // // // Wide flanged beams // 104 // // // // // // // // // // // Other beams, sections and channels, 80 mm and over and zores // 105 // // // // // // // // // // // Wire rod in coil // 106 // // // // // // // // // // // Concrete reinforcing bars (including straightened rod) // 107 // // // // // // // // // // // Other merchant bars // 108 // // // // // // // // // // // Universals // 109 // // // // // // // // // // // Hot-rolled strip (less than 600 mm) including tube strip // 110 // // // // // 1.2.3.4.5.6.7 // // // // // // // // // 4;76 mm and over // 111 // // // // // Hot-rolled plate and sheet: // 3 to 4;75 mm // 112 // // // // // // less than 3 mm // 113 // // // // // // // // // // // // Cold-rolled plate and sheet (including coils): // 3 mm and over // 114 // // // // // // less than 3 mm // 115 // // // 1.2.3.4.5.6 // // // // // // // Total finished rolled products (101 to 115) // 100 // // // // // // // // // // // C. End products: // // // // // // Cold-rolled strip for tinplate // 141 // // // // // // // // // // // Tinplate and other tinned sheet (2) // 142 // // // // // // // // // // // Blackplate // 143 // // // // // // // // // // // Galvanized, lead and other coated sheet // 144 // // // // // // // // // // // Hot- or cold-rolled electrical sheet and hot-rolled electrical strip // 145 // // // // // 1.2.3.4.5.6.7 // // // // // // // // of which: // loss of 2 W/kg and over (3) // 151 // // // // // // loss of 2 W/kg (3) // 152 // // // // // // grain oriented (3) // 153 // // // 1.2.3.4.5.6 // // // // // // // Total end products (141 to 145) // 140 // // // // // // // // // // // Total ordinary steel (010 + 020 + 100 + 140) // 160 // // // // // // // // // //

(1) Including rounds and squares for tubes.

(2) Including sheet and plate electrolytically coated with chromium oxides or with chromium and chromium oxides (TFS).

(3) Losses relating to a sheet of 0;5 mm thickness (Epstein method, 50 Hz current and with an induction of 10 000 Gauss).