CELEX: 31976D0354
Language: en
Date: 1976-02-13 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 13 February 1976 extending for six months Decision 71/314/ECSC of 27 July 1971 authorizing specialization agreements covering the manufacture of rolled steel products and agreements for the setting up of an agency to allocate orders for merchant steel bars and wire rod between Eisenwerk-Gesellschaft Maximilianshütte mbH, Klöckner-Werke AG and Stahlwerke Peine-Salzgitter AG

9 . 4. 76                                Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 95 /21
                                                     COMMISSION DECISION
                                                          of 13 February 1976
              extending for six months Decision 71 /314/ECSC of 27 July 1971 authorizing
              specialization agreements covering the manufacture of rolled steel products and
              agreements for the setting up of an agency to allocate orders for merchant steel
              bars and wire rod between Eisenwerk-Gesellschaft Maximilianshütte mbH, Klöckner-
                                         Werke AG and Stahlwerke Peine-Salzgitter AG
                                                  ( Only the German text is authentic)
                                                             (76/354/ECSC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        is their intention to submit to the Commission as
 COMMUNITIES,                                                          soon as possible the results of their negotiations,
                                                                       assuming that these end in new agreements. Since the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                           negotiations cannot be completed before the end of
European Coal and Steel Community, and in                              1975 , the undertakings concerned have therefore
particular Article 65 thereof,                                         requested that the Decision of 27 July 1971 be
                                                                       extended for six months .
Having regard to Decision 71 /314/ECSC of 27 July
1971 authorizing specialization agreements covering
the manufacture of rolled steel products and                           4. The information supplied to the Commission
agreements for the setting up of an agency to                          pursuant to Article 3 of Decision 71 /314/ECSC
 allocate orders for merchant steel bars and wire                      shows that the specialization agreements covering the
 rod between Eisenwerk-Gesellschaft Maximilians­                       manufacture of rolled steel products have enabled
hütte mbH, Klöckner-Werke AG and Stahlwerke                            production thereof to be rationalized to some extent.
 Peine-Salzgitter AG H ,                                               The agreements for the setting up of an agency to
                                                                       allocate orders for merchant steel bars and wire rod
                                                                       have not been applied in practice since common
Having regard to the application dated 18 November                     market prices for these products have been greatly at
 1975 from the undertakings concerned,                                 variance. Financial compensation was paid to only
                                                                       one of the firms involved and then only in 1972.
Whereas :
                                                                       5.    The undertakings concerned have made no
1.     By Decision 71 /314/ECSC of 27 July 1971 , the                  changes or additions to the agreements as
Commission gave an authorization under Article 65
of the Treaty to the following steel undertakings :                    authorized. Apart from the agreements for the setting
                                                                       up of an agency to allocate orders for merchant steel
— Eisenwerk-Gesellschaft Maximilianshütte mbH,                         bars and wire rod, the agreements are still operating
     Sulzbach-Rosenberg;                                               in the form in which they were considered for
                                                                       authorization in the light of conditions of
— Klöckner-Werke AG, Duisburg;                                         competition .
— Stahlwerke Peine-Salzgitter AG, Peine ;
                                                                       6.    Decision 71 /314/ECSC may         therefore   be
for specialization agreements covering the                             extended for a period of six months ,
manufacture of rolled steel products and agreements
for the setting up of an agency to allocate orders for
merchant steel bars and wire rod .
                                                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
2.     This Decision expired on 31 December 1975 .
3.     The undertakings concerned have begun
                                                                                              Article 1
negotiations to consolidate what they have achieved
under the authorized specialization agreements and
to adjust the agreements to changed circumstances. It                 Decision 71 /314/ECSC of 27 July 1971 authorizing
                                                                      specialization agreements covering the manufacture
(!) OJ No L 201 , 5 . 9 . 1971 , p. 19 .                               of rolled steel products and agreements for the
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setting up of an agency to allocate orders for               — Klöckner-Werke AG, Duisburg;
merchant   steel   bars   and     wire   rod   between
Eisenwerk-Gesellschaft      Maximilianshütte      mbH,       — Stahlwerke Peine-Salzgitter AG, Peine.
Klöckner-Werke AG and Stahlwerke Peine-Salzgitter
AG is extended until 30 June 1976.
                                                             Done at Brussels, 13 February 1976 .
                        Article 2
This Decision is addressed to :                                                      For the Commission
— Eisenwerk-Gesellschaft Maximilianshütte mbH,                                         A. BORSCHETTE
    Sulzbach-Rosenberg ;                                                          Member of the Commission