Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) modifying Regulation (EC) 2878/94 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quota for certain agricultural and industrial products
Date: 1995-11-13
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural product, chemical product, free circulation, industrial product, supply, tariff quota

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN  COMMUNITIES 

Brussels,  13  11  1995 
COM(95)  544  final 

Proposal for a 

COUNCIL REGULATION  (EQ 

modifying Regulation (EC) 2878/94 opening and providing for the administration of Community 
tariff quota for certain agricultural and industrial products. 

(presented  by  the  Commission) 

EXPLANATORY  MEMORANDUM 

Subsequent to requests made by various Member States, the Services of the Commission 
have examined, in conjunction  with the Government experts concerned, the question of 
increasing in 1995 tariff quotas for various products. 

Following this examination, which took place during the "Economic Tariff Questions" group 
meetings, it has been determined that the increasing of tariff quotas for the following  products 
could have the agreement of the Member States without disturbing the markets for such products: 

Ferro-Chromium 
containing by weight 
more than 6 % of carbon 

Ferro-Chromium 
containing  more than 1,5 % 
but no more than 4 % by weight 
of carbon and not more than 70 % of chromium 

150 000 T 

at  0% 

9 000T 

at  0% 

This is the aim of this proposal. 

Proposal for a 

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) 

modifying  Regulation (EC) 2878/94  opening and providing for the administration of Community 
tariff quota for certain agricultural and industrial products 

Whereas the decision for the opening of autonomous  tariff 
quotas should be taken by the Community, whereas, to ensure 
the efficiency  of a common administration of these quotas, 
there is no reasonable obstacle to authorising Member States 
to draw from the quota-volumes the necessary quantities 
corresponding to actual imports, 

Whereas, however, this method of administration  requires 
close cooperation between the Member States and the 
Commission and the latter must in particular be able to 
monitor the rate at which the quotas are used up and  inform 
the Member States accordingly, 

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, 

I laving regard to the Treaty establishing the European 
Community, and in particular Article 28 thereof, 

1 laving regard to the proposal from  the Commission, 

Whereas production in the community of certain industrial 
products will remain in the course of 1995 unable to meet the 
spec ilk  requirements of the user industries in the Community; 
whereas, consequently, Community supplies of products of 
this type will depend to a considerable extent on imports  from 
third countries; whereas the most urgent Community 
requirements for the products in question should be met 
immediately on the most favourable terms; 

Whereas by Regulation ( EC )n°2 878/94 '  the Council opened, 
for  1995 Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural and 
industrial products, and in particular  fcrro-chromium 
containing by weight more than 6% of carbon (order N° 
09.2711 ),  and ferro-chromium containing  more than  1,5 % 
but no more than 4 % by weight of carbon and not more than 
70 % of chromium (order N° 09.2799); 

Whereas by Regulation (EC) n°  1404/95 2, the Council 
increased for  1995 Community tariff quotas for ferro-
chromium containing by weight more than 6% of carbon 
(order N° 09.2711); 

Whereas current economic data suggests that the Community 
demand non-Community  imports of the products in question 
could in the course of the year exceed the volumes laid down 
in the above Regulation, whereas the volume of the quota in 
question should therefore be increased; 

Whereas it is necessary, in particular, to ensure for all 
Community importers equal uninterrupted access to the said 
quotas and to ensure the uninterrupted application of the rates 
laid down for the quotas to all imports of the products 
concerned into all Member States until the quotas have been 
used up; 

1  O.J  n° L 304. 29.11.1994,  p  1 
2  O.J.  n °L  140, 23.06.1995, p. 1 

In the Regulation (EC) n° 2878/94  the table shown in Article  1  is replaced, for the order n° 09.2711 and 09.2799 by the  following 
table 

Article I 

Order 
number 

CN Code 

TARIC 
Code 

Description 

09.2711 

7202  41  91 

-

72024199 

Ferro-chromium containing by weight 
more than 6% of carbon 

Amount of 
quota 

Quota 
duty 
(%) 

End of 
quota  period 

850 000  T 

0 

31.12.1995 

09.2799 

ex7202  49  90 

*10 

Ferro-chromium containing  more than 1,5 
% but no more than 4 % by weight of 
carbon and not more than 70 % of 
chromium 

24 000  T 

0 

31.12.1995 

Hiis regulation shall enter into force on the 3rd day following its publication in the Official  Journal of the European Communities. 

Article 2 

It shall l>e apply from  1  January  1995. 

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

Done at Brussels, 

For the Council 
The President 

FINANCIAL RECORD 

1. 

Budget line concerned  : Chap.  12 Art. 120 

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3 

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5. 

Legal basis : Art. 28 of the Treaty 

Title of the tariff measure concerned  :  Proposal for a Council Regulation modifying Regulation 
(EC) 2878/94 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quota for 
certain agricultural and industrial products. 

Objective  : To ensure an adequate supply for Community user-industries. 

Method of calculation : 

Description 

additional 
Quantities 

Price 
Ecus/unit 

Normal  rate 
(%) 

Quota  duty 
(%) 

Duty loss 
(Ecus) 

Ferro-chromium 
containing by weight more than 

Ferro-chromium 
containing  more than  1,5 % but 
than 70 % of chromium 

150 000 T 

1478 

7,2 

9000T 

1416 

7,8 

0 

0 

15 962 400 

994 032 

Total duty loss:  16 956 432 Ecus. 

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