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COMMISSION  OF  THE  EUROPEAN  COMMUNITIES 
COM(83) (83) 419 final 
Brussels,  5 July  1983 
Draft of a 
DECISION OF THE  REPRESENTATIVES  OF THE  GOVERNMENTS  OF THE MEMBER 
STATES OF THE  EUROPEAN  COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY,  MEETING  WITHIN 
THE COUNCIL 
establishing ceilings  and Community  supervision  for imports of 
certain goods  originating  in Yugoslavia  (1984) 
COM(83)  419 final 

EXPLANATORY  MEMORANDUM 
1. The Agreement between the Member  States  of the European  Coal  and Steel 
Community  and the European  Coal  and Steel Community on the one hand 
and the Socialist Federal Republic of  Yugoslavia  on the other hand provides 
for dutyfree import into the Community of certain steel products  falling 
under Chapters  26, 27  and  73 of the Common Customs  Tariff  and 
originating  in Yugoslavia.  As an exception to this provision  Article  3 
stipulates  that  the imports of some of  these  goods shall be subject to 
ceilings  above  which  the customs duties applicable to third countries may 
be introduced  until  the end of the calendar year  (1). 
2. The draft  Decision  joined  hereto  has as its objective  : 
to establish the ceilings to be applied in  1984  for imports of certain 
steel products originating in  Yugoslavia; 
to establish the rules under  which  customs duties may be 
reintroduced under certain conditions and 
to establish a system of surveillance relating to imports of the 
product subject to ceilings and to certain other products. 
3. Implementation of  these  two measures  : 
(a) annual ceilings, and 
(b) reintroduction  of customs duties, 
implies  the adoption of precise common rules to be applied uniformly by all 
Member  States. These requirements may be met by the establishment of a 
Community  system of surveillance of actual imports from the partner 
country. To this end, the Member  States  should take appropriate  measures 
to permit the rapid collection of statistical  returns  at Community  level.  In 
this connection it is necessary to take into account only imports of the 
products in question as and when they are entered  with  Customs authorities 
for free circulation and accompanied by a movement certificate 
conforming  to the rules contained in the Agreement referred to under  1 
above. 
(-0 The amounts of certain of  these  ceilings have been increased autonomously 
by DECISION  OF THE  REPRESENTATIVES  OF THE  GOVERNMENTS  OF 
THE  MEMBER  STATES  OF THE  EUROPEAN  COAL  AND  STEEL 
COMMUNITY  MEETING  WITHIN  THE  COUNCIL  of 18.4.1983  laying  down 
the arrangements  applicable to  trade  between Greece and  Yugoslavia  in 
products covered by  that  Community (OJ No L 126, 13.5.1983, p. 18). 

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These returns should be drawn up by each Member  States  at the end of 
every month and forwarded by the fifteenth day of the following month to 
the Commission so as to enable the latter to communicate to all the 
Member  States  the overall, product-by-product returns for the imports in 
question in the preceding month. The  system  of surveillance will require 
diligent and  close  co-operation  between  the responsible departments of the 
Member  States  and the Commission. 
k. The following  system  would be adopted for setting in train machinery to 
reintroduce duties  : if one of the overall monthly returns drawn up by the 
Commission  revealed that  75 % of the ceiling fixed for a given product had 
been reached, consultations could be held, for example in the working 
Party  on Economic  Tariff  Problems, either at the request of a Member 
State  or upon the Commission's initiative. The aim of  these  consultations 
would  be to examine,  case  by case,  the reintroduction  or not of the leveying 
of customs duties applicable to  third  countries  once  the ceiling is actually 
reached. 
Monthly  returns would still be made in respect of imports of the product in 
question or, if requested by the Commission, by  telex  at intervals of ten 
days. The maximum delay for the transmission of this  last  mentioned 
information  is five days. 
5. As far as application of the rule on ceilings and  reintroduction  of duties is 
concerned, the drafts makes provisions for conferring powers of the 
Council  upon the Commission. 
In these  conditions the Commission would be able, within the  shortest 
possible time, either to take measures leading to the  reintroduction  of 
customs duties in respect of the partner country until the end of the 
calendar year, or to coordinate the necessary procedures in the  case  of the 
initiative being taken by a Member State. 
The draft Decision  does  no more than outline in broad terms how  these 
powers are to be exercised so that, the machinery to be established may be 
adopted flexibly and rapidly, in  close  collaboration with the Member 
States. 
ANNEX  : 1 Draft  Decision 

Draft  of a 
DECISION  OF THE  REPRESENTATIVES  OF THE  GOVERNMENTS  OF THE 
MEMBER  STATES  OF THE  EUROPEAN COAL  AND  STEEL COMMUNITY, 
MEETING  WITHIN  THE COUNCIL 
of 
establishing ceilings and Community supervision for imports of certain  goods  originating in 
Yugoslavia  (1984) 
THE  REPRESENTATIVES  OF  THE GOVERNMENTS  OF 
THE  MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN COAL  AND 
STEEL  COMMUNITY, MEETING  WITHIN  THE 
COUNCIL, 
In agreement with the Commission, 
HAVE  DECIDED  AS  FOLLOWS: 
Article  1 
1. Imports of certain products originating in 
Yugoslavia  and indicated in Article 3 of the Agreement 
between  the Member  States  of the European  Coal  and 
Steel Community and the European  Coal  and Steel 
Community,  of the one part, and the Socialist Federal 
Republic  of Yugoslavia, of the other part('), shall be 
subject to annual ceilings and to Community supervision 
froml  January to 31 December 1984. 
The description of the  goods  referred to in the preceding 
subparagraph,  their tariff headings and statistical 
numbers and the  levels  of the indicative ceilings are given 
in the Annex to  this  Decision. 
2. Amounts shall be set off against the ceilings as and 
when the  goods  are entered with  customs  authorities for 
free circulation and accompanied by a movement 
certificate conforming to the rules contained in Protocol 3 
to the Cooperation Agreement  between  the European 
Economic  Community and the Socialist Federal Republic 
of Yugoslavia (2). 
Goods shall be set off against the ceiling only if the 
movement certificate has  been  submitted before the  date 
on which  customs  duties  are reimposed. 
The reaching of a ceiling shall be determined at 
Community  level on the  basis  of imports set off against it 
in the manner defined in the preceding subparagraphs. 
The Member  States  shall periodically inform the 
Commission  of imports  effected  in accordance with the above rules; such information shall be supplied under the 
conditions laid down in paragraph  4. 
3. As soon  as the ceilings are reached at Community 
level, Member  States  may at any time, at the request of 
any one of them or of the Commission, and in  respect  of 
the whole  of the Community, reintroduce the levying of 
the customs  duties  applicable to  third  countries. 
In the  case  of such  a reimposition,  Greece shall 
reintroduce the levying of the  customs  duties  which it 
applies to  third  countries at the  date  in question. 
Within  the framework of the foregoing provisions, the 
Commission  shall coordinate the procedures for 
reintroducing  the  customs  duties  applicable to  third 
countries, in particular by notifying the  date  common ro 
the whole  of the O nmunity and directly applicable in 
each Member  State.  This notification shall be published 
in the Official  journal  of the European  Communities. 
4. Member  States  shall forward to the Commission, 
not later than the 15th day of each month,  statements  of 
the amounts set off during the preceding month. They 
shall,  if the Commission  su requests,  make up such 
statements  for periods of  10  days and forward them 
within five clear days of expiry of the preceding 10-day 
period. 
CT'Ó]  No L  41, 14. 2. 1') X.J, p.  1 13. 
(*) OJ  No L  41, 14. 2. 1983,  p. 2. 

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Article 2 
Member  States and the  Commission  shall  cooperate 
closely to ensure that this Decision is complied with. Article 3 
Member  States  shall  take all measures necessary to 
implement  this Decision. 
Done  at Luxembourg, 
The President 

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ANNEX 
Order 
No CCT 
heading 
No Description 
1 2 1 
1 73.01 Pig iron,  cast  iron  and  spiegeleisen,  in pigs, blocks, lumps and similar 
forms: 
A. Spiegeleisen 
B. Haematite pig  iron  and  cast  iron 
C. Phosphoric pig  iron  and  cast  iron 
D. Other pig  iron  and  cast  iron: 
II. Other N1MEXE  code 
4 
73.01-10 
73.01-21,  23, 
25, 27 
73.01-31,  35 
73.01-49 Level  of 
ceiling 
(tonnes) 
5 
^ 14 983 
2 73.08 Iron  or steel  coils for re-rolling 73.08-all Nos 21 751 
3 73.10 Bars  and rods (including wire rod), of  iron  or steel,  hot-rolled, forped. 
extruded, cold-formed or cold-finished (including precision-made); 
hollow mining  drill  steel: 
Not further worked than hot-rolled or extruded 73.10-11,  13, 
16, 18 
D. Clad  or surface-worked (for example, polished,  coated): > 14 332 
I. Not further worked than clad: 
a) Hot-rolled or extruded 73.10-42 

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Order 
No CCI' 
heading 
No Description NIMEXE  code Level  of 
ceiling 
(tonnes) 
1 2 3 4 5 
4 '3.11 Angles,  shapes  and  sections,  of iron or  steel,  hot-rolled, forged, 
extruded, cold-formed or cold-finished;  sheet  piling of iron or  steel, 
whether  or not drilled, punched or made from  assembled 
elements: 
A. Angles,  shapes  and  sections: 
I. Not further worked than hot-rolled or extruded 
IV. Clad  or surface-worked (for example, polished,  coated): 
a) not further worked than clad: 
1. Hot-rolled or extruded 
B. Sheet  piling 73.11-U,  12, 
14,16,19 2 046 
73.11-41 
73.11-50 
5 73.12 Hoop  and strip, of iron or  steel,  hot-rolled or cold-rolled: 
A. Not further worked than hot-rolled 
B. Not further worked than cold-rolled: 
I. In  coils  for the manufacture of tinplate 
C. Clad,  coated or  otherwise  surface-treated: 
III. Tinned: 
a) Tinplate 
V. Other (for example, copper-plated, artificially oxidized, 
lacquered, nickel-plated, varnished, clad, parkerized, 
printed): 
a) Not further worked than clad: 
1. Hot-rolled 73.12-11,  19 
73.12-21 
73.12-51 
73.12-71 4 228 
6 73.13 Sheets  and  plates,  of iron or  steel,  hot-rolled or cold-rolled: 
A. 'Electrical'  sheets  and  plates 
B. Other  sheets  and  plates: 
I. Not further worked than hot-rolled 
II. Nor further worked than cold-rolled, of a  thickness  of: 
b) Mote than 1 mm but  less  than 3 mm 
c) 1 mm or  less 
III. Not further worked than burnished, polished or glazed 
IV. Clad,  coated or  otherwise  surface-treated: 
b) Tinned 
c) Zinc-coated or lead-coated 73.13-11,  16 
73.13-17,  19, 
21, 23, 26, 32, 
34, 36 
73.13-43,  45 
73.13-47,  49 
73.13-50 
73.13-64,  65 
73.13-67,  68, 
72,74 
d) Other (for example, copper-plated, artificially oxidized, j  73.13-76,  78, 
lacquered, nickel-plated, varnished, clad, parkerized, I 79, 82, 84, 86, 
printed) 
V. Otherwise shaped or worked: 
a) Cut into  shapes  other than rectangular  shapes,  but not 
further  worked: 
2. Other 87, 88, 89 
73.13-92 26 214 

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Order 
No CCT 
heading Description NIMEXE  code Level  of 
ceiling 
(tonnes) 
1 2 3 4 5 
7 73.15 Alloy  steel  and high carbon  steel  in the forms mentioned in heading 
Nos 73.06  to 73.14: 
A. High  carbon  steel: 
I. Ingots,  blooms, billets,  slabs  and  sheet  bars: 
b) Other 
III. Coils for re-rolling 
IV. Universal  plates 
V. Bars and rods (including wire rod) and  hollow  mining  drill 
steel;  angles,  shapes  and  sections: 
b) Not further worked than hot-rolled or  i-\trudol 
d) Clad  or surface-worked (for  c\.im|>h-.  polished, 
coated): 
1. Not further worked than clad: 
aa) Hot-rolled or extruded 
VI. Hoop and strip: 
a) Not further worked than hot-rolled 
c) Clad,  coated or  otherwise  surface-treated: 
1. Not further worked than clad: 
aa) Hot-rolled 
VII. Sheets  and  plates: 
a) Not further worked than hot-rolled 
b) Not further worked than cold-rolled, of a thickness of: 
2. Less than 3 mm 
c) Polished, clad, coated or  otherwise  surface-treated 
d) Otherwise shaped or worked: 
1. Cut into  shapes  other than rectangular  shapes,  but not 
further  worked 
B. Alloy  steel: 
I. Ingots,  blooms, billets,  slabs  and  sheet  bars: 
b) Other: 
1. Ingots: 
bb) Other 
2. Blooms, billets,  slabs  and  sheet  bars 
III. Coils for re-rolling 
IV. Universal  plates 
V. Bars and rods (including wire rod) and hollow mining  drill 
steel;  angles,  shapes  and  sections: 
b) Not further worked than hot-rolled or extruded 
d) Clad  or surface-worked (for example, polished,  coated): 
1. Not further worked than clad: 
aa) Hot-rolled or extruded 73.61-  20, 50 
73.62-  10 
73.62-  30 
73.63-  21, 29 
73.63-72 
73.64-20 
73.64-72 
73.65-21,  23, 
25 
73.65-55 
73.65-70 
73.65-81 
73.71-23,  24, 
29 
73.71-  53, 54, 
55, 56, 59 
73.72-  11, 13, 
19 
73.72-33,  39 
73.73-23,24, 
25, 26, 29, 33, 
34, 35, 36, 39 14 280 
73.73-72 

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Order 
No CCT 
holding 
No Description NIMEXE  code 
1 2 3 4 
7 
(cont'd) 73.15 
(cont'd) B. VI. Hoop and strip: 
a) Not further worked than hot-rolled 
c) Clad,  coated or  otherwise  surface-treated: 
1. Not further worked than clad: 
aa) Hot-rolled 
VII. Sheets  and  plates: 
a) 'Electrical'  sheets  and  plates 
b) Other  sheets  and  plates: 
1. Not further worked than hot-rolled 
2. Not further worked than cold-rolled, of a  thickness 
of: 
bb) less  than 3 mm 
3. Polished, clad, coated or  otherwise  surface-treated 
4. Otherwise shaped or worked: 
aa) Cut into  shapes  other than rectangular  shapes,  but 
not further worked 73.74-21,23, 
29 
73.74-  72 
73.75-  11, 19 
73.75-23,24, 
29, 33, 34, 39, 
43, 44, 49 
73.75-63,  64, 
69 
73.75-73,79 
73.75-83,  84, 
89 Level  of 
ceiling 
(tonnes) 
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