Commission Regulation (EC) No 184/2004 of 2 February 2004 terminating the system of retrospective surveillance in relation to certain steel products established by Regulation (EC) No 1695/2002
Date: 2004-02-02
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: customs drawback, import, import policy, iron and steel product, originating product, protective clause, third country

3.2.2004

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 29/3

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 184/2004

of 2 February 2004

terminating the system of retrospective surveillance in relation to certain steel products estab-
lished by Regulation (EC) No 1695/2002

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3285/94 of 22
December 1994 on common rules for imports and repealing
Regulation (EC) No 518/94 (1), as last amended by Council
Regulation (EC) No 2474/2000 (2), and in particular Article 21
thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 519/94 of 7
March 1994 on common rules for imports from certain third
countries and repealing Regulations (EEC) No 1765/82, (EEC)
No 1766/82 and (EEC) No 3420/83 (3), as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 427/2003 (4), and in particular Article 18
thereof,

After consultations within the Advisory Committee established
under Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 3285/94 and of Regu-
lation (EC) No 519/94 respectively,

Whereas:

PROCEDURE

(1)

On 27 September 2002, following a full investigation in
relation to twenty one steel products, the Commission
found that the trends in imports of certain steel products
threatened to cause injury to the Community producers,
and that it was in the interests of the Community to
establish a system of retrospective surveillance. A system
of retrospective surveillance was therefore established by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1695/2002 (5)
in

(2)

relation to 14 steel products, namely electrical sheets
(other
than GOES), metallic coated sheets, organic
coated sheet, tin mill products, quarto plates, wide flats,
non alloy merchant bars and light
sections, alloy
merchant bars and light sections, rebars, stainless bars
and light shapes, stainless wire rod, stainless steel wire,
gas pipes and hollow sections (all as more particularly
described in Annex 1 to the aforementioned regulation).

the Commission recalled that

In recital 64 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1695/
2002,
the surveillance
measures should be in place for the same duration as the
definitive safeguard measures on certain steel products
imposed by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1694/
2002 (6). Those definitive
safeguard measures were
from 8 December 2003 by
terminated with effect
Commission Regulation (EC) No 2142/2003 (7).
In
consequence, the surveillance measures should now be
terminated,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1695/2002 is
hereby repealed.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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

Done at Brussels, 2 February 2004.

For the Commission

Pascal LAMY

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 349, 31.12.1994, p. 53.
(2) OJ L 286, 11.11.2000, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 67, 10.3.1994, p. 89.
(4) OJ L 65, 8.3.2003, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 261, 28.9.2002, p. 124.

(6) OJ L 261, 28.9.2002, p. 1.
(7) OJ L 321, 6.12.2003, p. 11.