Council Regulation (EC) No 2059/2004 of 4 October 2004 amending Commission Decision No 1469/2002/ECSC on administering certain restrictions on imports of certain steel products from Kazakhstan
Date: 2004-10-04
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Kazakhstan, flat product, import restriction, quantitative restriction

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 2059/2004

of 4 October 2004

amending Commission Decision No 1469/2002/ECSC on administering certain restrictions on
imports of certain steel products from Kazakhstan

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:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

The Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the
European Communities and their Member States and the
Republic of Kazakhstan (1) entered into force on 1 July
1999.

Article 17(1) of
the Partnership and Cooperation
Agreement provides for trade in European Coal and
Steel Community (hereinafter referred to as the ECSC)
products to be governed by Title III of that Agreement,
save for Article 11 thereof, and by the provisions of an
agreement on quantitative
concerning
exchanges of ECSC steel products.

arrangements

On 22 July 2002 the ECSC and the Government of the
Republic of Kazakhstan 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 2002/654/ECSC (3).

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

(5)

(6)

(7)

The Parties agreed pursuant
the
Agreement that the latter was to be continued and that
all rights and obligations of the Parties under it were to
be maintained after such expiry.

to Article 11(2) of

The Parties entered into consultations as provided for in
Article 2(6) of the Agreement and agreed to increase the
quantitative limits set out therein to take into account
the enlargement of the European Union. The increases
have been the subject of a new agreement that entered
into force on the day of its signature (4).

Commission Decision No 1469/2002/ECSC of 8 July
2002 on administering certain restrictions on imports
of certain steel products from Kazakhstan (5) should be
amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

In Annex IV to Decision No 1469/2002/ECSC, the quantitative
limits set out for the year 2004 are replaced by the quantitative
limits appearing in the Annex to this Regulation.

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

its publication in the Official

Journal of

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

Done at Luxembourg, 4 October 2004.

For the Council
The President

A. J. DE GEUS

(1) OJ L 196, 28.7.1999, p. 3.
(2) OJ L 222, 19.8.2002, p. 20.
(3) OJ L 222, 19.8.2002, p. 19.

(4) See page 23 of this Official Journal.
(5) OJ L 222, 19.8.2002, p. 1.

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ANNEX

QUANTITATIVE LIMITS

Products

SA (flat products)

SA1 (coils)

SA1a (coils for re-rolling)

SA2 (heavy plate)

SA3 (other flat products)

(tonnes)

2004

55 228

5 500

852

80 082