Council Regulation (EC) No 1386/2004 of 26 July 2004 amending Commission Decision 2002/602/ECSC on administering certain restrictions on imports of certain steel products from the Russian Federation
Date: 2004-07-26
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Russia, import restriction, iron and steel product, originating product, quantitative restriction

31.7.2004

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1386/2004

of 26 July 2004

amending Commission Decision 2002/602/ECSC on administering certain restrictions on imports of
certain steel products from the Russian Federation

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community, and in particular Article 133 thereof,

establishing the European

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

The Partnership and Cooperation Agreement establishing
a partnership between the European Communities and
their Member States, of the one part, and the Russian
Federation, of the other part (1), entered into force on 1
December 1997.

that

Article 21 of the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement
in European Coal
trade
and Steel
provides
referred to as
(hereinafter
the ECSC)
Community
products
that
III of
to be governed by Title
is
Agreement, save for Article 15 thereof, and by the
provisions of an agreement on quantitative arrangements
concerning exchanges of ECSC steel products.

(5)

(6)

(7)

the
The Parties agreed pursuant
Agreement
it should be continued and that all
that
rights and obligations of the Parties should be maintained
after such expiry.

to Article 10(2) of

the enlargement of

The Parties entered into consultations as provided for in
Article 2(4) of the Agreement and agreed to increase the
quantitative limits set out in Annex II thereto to take
account of
the European Union.
Moreover, the Parties agreed to increase the quantitative
limits with regard to Declaration No 1 of the Agreement
on the setting up by Russian operators of service centres
in the European Union. Those increases have been the
subject of a new agreement that entered into force on the
day of its signature (4).

Furthermore, the Government of the Russian Federation
has requested,
in accordance with Article 3(3) of the
Agreement, to carry over, within the authorised limits
for each product group, certain amounts of the quanti-
tative limits not used during the year 2003.

(8)

Commission Decision 2002/602/ECSC (5)
amended accordingly,

should be

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

On 9 July 2002 the ECSC and the Government of the
Russian Federation concluded such an Agreement on
trade in certain steel products (2) (hereinafter referred to
as the Agreement), approved on behalf of the ECSC by
Commission Decision 2002/603/ECSC (3).

Article 1

In Annex IV to Decision 2002/602/ECSC, the quantitative limits
set out for the year 2004 shall be replaced by the quantitative
limits appearing in the Annex to this Regulation.

The ECSC Treaty expired on 23 July 2002 and the
European Community took over all rights and obli-
gations contracted by the ECSC.

(1) OJ L 327, 28.11.1997, p. 3. Agreement as last amended by
Agreement between the EC and the Government of the Russian
Federation (OJ L 9, 15.1.2004, p. 22).

(2) OJ L 195, 24.7.2002, p. 55.
(3) OJ L 195, 24.7.2002, p. 54.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following
that of
the European
Union.

its publication in the Official

Journal of

(4) See page 33 of this Official Journal.
(5) OJ L 195, 24.7.2002, p. 38. Decision as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 886/2004 (OJ L 168, 1.5.2004, p. 14).

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

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

Done at Brussels, 26 July 2004.

For the Council
The President

B. BOT

ANNEX

QUANTITATIVE LIMITS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 1

Unit: tonnes

Products

SA. Flat products

SA1. Coils

SA1.a. Hot-rolled coils for re-rolling

SA2. Heavy plate

SA3. Other flat products

SA4. Alloyed products

SA5. Alloyed quarto plates

SA6. Alloyed cold rolled and coated sheets

SB. Long products

SB1. Beams

SB2. Wire rod

SB3. Other long products

Note:SA and SB are product categories.

SA1 to SA6 and SB1 to SB3 are product groups.

2004

‘310 767

558 839

143 654

250 148

101 120

22 208

97 561

31 440

121 783
232 102’