CELEX: 41978D0351
Language: en
Date: 1978-03-20 00:00:00
Title: 78/351/ECSC: Decision of the representatives of the Governments of the Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community, meeting within the Council, of 20 March 1978 establishing supervision for imports of certain products originating in Austria (1978)

14 . 4 . 78                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 102/35
                                                                     II
                                              (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                           COUNCIL
                                                               DECISION
                  OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE MEMBER STATES
                  OF THE EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY, MEETING WITHIN THE
                                                               COUNCIL,
                                                           of 20 March 1978
                      establishing supervision for imports of certain products originating in Austria ( 1978 )
                                                             (78 /35 1 /ECSC)
 THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF                                2 . Amounts shall be set off against the indicative ceil­
 THE MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN COAL AND                               ings as and when the goods are entered with customs
 STEEL COMMUNITY, MEETING WITHIN THE COUN­                                authorities for home use and are accompanied by a
 CIL,                                                                     movement certificate conforming to the rules contained
                                                                          in the Agreement referred to in paragraph 1 .
 In agreement with the Commission,
                                                                         Goods shall be set off against the indicative ceiling only
 HAVE DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :                                               if the movement certificate has been submitted before
                                                                         the date on which customs duties are reimposed.
                              Article 1
                                                                         The reaching of a ceiling shall be determined at Com­
 1 . Imports of certain products originating in Austria                  munity level on the basis of imports set off against it in
and indicated in Articles 1 and 2 of Protocol 1 to the                   the manner defined in the preceding subparagraph.
Agreement between the Member States of the European
 Coal and Steel Community and the European Coal and                      The Member States shall periodically inform the Com­
Steel Community, of the one part, and the Republic of                    mission of imports effected in accordance with the
Austria, of the other part, shall be subject to annual                   above rules; such information shall be supplied under
indicative ceilings and to Community supervision from                    the conditions laid down in paragraph 4 .
 1 January to 31 December 1978 .
The description of the products referred to in the pre­
ceding subparagraph , their tariff headings and statistical              3 . As soon as the ceilings have been reached, the
numbers and the levels of the indicative ceilings are                    Member States may, at the request of one of them or of
given in Council Regulation (EEC) No 698 /78 of 20                       the Commission, reimpose, until the end of the calendar
March 1978 establishing indicative ceilings and Com­                     year, each in respect of its own territory, the customs
munity supervision for imports of certain products                       duties applicable to third countries, adjusted, where
originating in Austria (*).                                              appropriate, by the percentages laid down in Article 2
                                                                         (e) of Protocol 1 to the Agreement referred to in para­
                                                                         graph 1 .
                                                                         Within the framework of the provisions of the first
 ( l ) See page 1 of this Official Journal .                             subparagraph the Commission shall coordinate the
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procedures for reintroducing customs duties applicable         imports of the products in question effected during the
to third countries, in particular, by notifying the date       preceding month ; only products submitted to the cus­
common to the whole of the Community and directly              toms authorities under cover of an entry for home use
applicable in each Member State. This notification shall       and accompanied by a movement certificate conforming
be published in the Official Journal of the European           to the rules contained in Protocol 3 to the Agreement
Communities.                                                   shall be taken into consideration for this purpose.
4. Member States shall forward to the Commission, not                                   Article 3
later than the 15th day of each month, statements of the
amounts set off during the preceding month. They shall,
if the Commission so requests, make up such statements         For the implementation of this Decision the Member
for periods of 10 days and forward them within five            States shall take all necessary measures in close cooper­
                                                               ation with the Commission.
clear days of expiry of the preceding 10-day period.
                                                                                        Article 4
                        Article 2
                                                               The Member States shall take all measures required to
1 . Imports of products originating in Austria which are       implement this Decision.
mentioned in Articles 1 and 2 of Protocol 1 to the
Agreement and indicated in Annex II to Regulation
(EEC) No 698 /78 , shall be subject to Community
supervision.                                                    Done at Brussels, 20 March 1978 .
                                                                                                  The President
2 . Member States shall forward to the Commission, not
later than the 15th day of each month, statements of                                              K. HEINESEN