COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION No 3772/92/ECSC

of 22 December 1992

on automatic prior Community surveillance of imports of certain iron and steel products covered by the ECSC Treaty originating in non-member countries

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, and in particular Article 74 thereof,

Whereas by Recommendation No 3909/91/ECSC (1), the Commission made imports into the Community of certain iron and steel products covered by the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community subject to Community surveillance;

Whereas the completion of the internal market requires that the formalities to be accomplished by Community importers be the same wherever the goods may be cleared;

Whereas the import documents issued for the purposes of Community surveillance must be valid throughout the Community, regardless of the Member State of issue;

Whereas, the issue of import documents, while subject to standard conditions at Community level, is to be the responsibility of the national authorities,

MAKES THE FOLLOWING RECOMMENDATION:

Article 1

1. The release for free circulation in the Community of iron and steel products covered by the ECSC Treaty listed in Annex I, originating in non-member countries other than the countries of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), shall be subject to the issue of an import document.

2. The import document shall be issued or endorsed by the competent authority in the Member States, free of charge and for any quantities requested, upon receipt of the application and in any case within not more than ten working days of the submission by a Community importer, of the completed application regardless of the importer's place of establishment in the Community.

3. Paragraph 2 shall apply without prejudice to the applicability of Community quantitative limits.

4. The import document shall be valid throughout the Community, regardless of the Member State of issue.

5. The importer's application and the import document shall be made out on a form conforming to the specimen in the Annex to this Recommendation.

6. The period of validity of the import document is hereby fixed at three months, without prejudice to possible changes in the import arrangements in force.

7. Unused or partly used import documents may be renewed.

Article 2

1. The importer's application must state:

(a) the third-country consignor's name and address;

(b) the full name and address of the importer (consignee);

(c) the exact description of the goods and the EEC nomenclature code(s);

(d) the country of origin;

(e) the country of consignment;

(f) the net weight, by EEC nomenclature heading;

(g) the cif value in ecus at Community frontier by EEC nomenclature heading;

(h) whether the products concerned are seconds or of substandard quality (2);

(i) the proposed date(s) and place(s) of customs clearance. Where customs clearance is to take place in a State other than that which issued the licence, the licensing authority shall immediately notify the competent authority in the country of customs clearance.

2. The importer shall certify that his application for an import document is accurate and shall submit a copy either of the purchase contract(s) or of the vendor's order confirmation(s); confirmations shall be accompanied by the pro forma invoice.

3. The importer shall state whether his application is a repeat of a previous application concerning the same delivery.

4. Without prejudice to Article 1 (3), paragraph 1 shall not prevent release for free circulation in cases where the unit price for the transaction exceeds that indicated in the import document. However, paragraph 1 shall prevent release for free circulation where the quantity of products presented on import exceeds that stipulated in the import document by more than 5 % on aggregate.

Article 3

1. Within the first ten days of each month, the Member States shall notify the Commission of the tonnage and values (calculated on the basis of the cif prices) for which import documents were issued during the preceding month, giving the particulars entered in the importers' applications under Article 2 (1) (b) to (h).

2. The Member States shall give notification of any anomalies or cases of fraud which they discover.

Article 4

This recommendation shall be applicable from 1 January 1993. It shall apply until 31 December 1993.

Done at Brussels, 22 December 1992. For the Commission

Frans ANDRIESSEN

Vice-President

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