UNION MAY BE CARRIED OUT BY ANY ONE OF ITS MEMBERS ,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
ARTICLE 1
1 . FROM 1 JULY TO 31 DECEMBER 1981 A TARIFF QUOTA OF 60 000 TONNES SHALL BE OPENED WITHIN THE COMMUNITY IN RESPECT OF FERRO-CHROMIUM CONTAINING NOT LESS THAN 4 % BY WEIGHT OF CARBON FALLING WITHIN SUBHEADING EX 73.02 E I OF THE COMMON CUSTOMS TARIFF .
2 . DURING THIS PERIOD THE MEMBER STATES SHALL BE AUTHORIZED , WITHIN THE 20 % LIMIT OF THE QUOTAS ALLOCATED TO THEM OR WHICH THEY LEVY ON THE RESERVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLES 2 AND 3 , TO CHARGE AGAINST THE SAID TARIFF QUOTA , IMPORTS OF FERRO-CHROMIUM CONTAINING A QUANTITY OF BETWEEN 3 AND 4 % BY WEIGHT OF CARBON .
3 . IMPORTS OF THE PRODUCTS IN QUESTION , WHICH ALREADY BENEFIT FROM EXEMPTION FROM CUSTOMS DUTIES UNDER ANOTHER PREFERENTIAL TARIFF SYSTEM , ARE NOT TO BE CHARGED AGAINST THIS TARIFF QUOTA .
4 . WITHIN THIS QUOTA , THE CUSTOMS TARIFF DUTY SHALL BE TOTALLY SUSPENDED . WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THIS QUOTA GREECE SHALL APPLY CUSTOMS DUTIES CALCULATED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RELEVANT PROVISIONS LAID DOWN IN THE 1979 ACT OF ACCESSION .
ARTICLE 2
1 . A FIRST INSTALMENT OF 54 000 TONNES OF THIS COMMUNITY TARIFF QUOTA SHALL BE ALLOCATED AMONG THE MEMBER STATES ; THE SHARES , WHICH SUBJECT TO ARTICLE 5 , SHALL BE VALID UNTIL 31 DECEMBER 1981 , SHALL BE AS FOLLOWS :
BENELUX3 430 TONNES DENMARK10 TONNES GERMANY21 487 TONNES GREECE5 TONNES FRANCE13 138 TONNES IRELAND5 TONNES ITALY9 121 TONNES UNITED KINGDOM6 804 TONNES . 2 . THE SECOND INSTALMENT OF 6 000 TONNES SHALL CONSTITUTE THE RESERVE .
ARTICLE 3
1 . AS SOON AS ONE OF THE MEMBER STATES REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 2 HAS USED 90 % OR MORE OF ITS INITIAL SHARE AS FIXED IN ARTICLE 2 ( 1 ), OR OF THAT SHARE MINUS ANY PORTION RETURNED TO THE RESERVE PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 5 , IT SHALL FORTHWITH , BY NOTIFYING THE COMMISSION , DRAW A SECOND SHARE , TO THE EXTENT THAT THE RESERVE SO PERMITS , EQUAL TO 10 % OF ITS INITIAL SHARE ROUNDED UP AS NECESSARY TO THE NEXT WHOLE NUMBER .
2 . AS SOON AS ONE OF THE MEMBER STATES , AFTER EXHAUSTING ITS INITIAL SHARE , HAS USED 90 % OR MORE OF THE SECOND SHARE DRAWN BY IT , THAT MEMBER STATE SHALL FORTHWITH , IN THE MANNER AND TO THE EXTENT PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1 , DRAW A THIRD SHARE EQUAL TO 5 % OF ITS INITIAL SHARE .
3 . AS SOON AS ONE OF THE MEMBER STATES , AFTER EXHAUSTING ITS SECOND SHARE , HAS USED 90 % OR MORE OF THE THIRD SHARE DRAWN BY IT , THAT MEMBER STATE SHALL FORTHWITH AND ON THE SAME CONDITIONS DRAW A FOURTH SHARE EQUAL TO THE THIRD .
THIS PROCESS SHALL CONTINUE UNTIL THE RESERVE