CELEX: 31973D0100
Language: en
Date: 1973-04-02 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 2 April 1973 derogating from High Authority Recommendation No 1/64 concerning an increase in the protective duty on iron and steel products at the external frontiers of the Community (fifty-third derogation)

No L 120/ 28                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                    7 . 5 . 73
                                                COMMISSION DECISION
                                                       of 2 April 1973
              derogating from High Authority Recommendation No 1 /64 concerning an increase
              in the protective duty on iron and steel products at the external frontiers of the
                                                           Community                       i
                                                   ( fifty-third derogation)
                                                        ( 73 / 100 / ECSC )
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         Tariff for which minimum duties were created by
COMMUNITIES ,                                                          High Authority Recommendation No 1 /64 and by
                                                                       the instruments amending it ; whereas, however, in
Having regard to the Treaty establishing                   the         respect of special cases, such as where commercial
European Coal and Steel Community ;                                    policy or customs procedure so requires, Article 3
                                                                       of the Recommendation makes provision for
Having regard to High Authority Recommendation                         derogations from the minimum rates, such dero­
No 1 /64 of the 15 January 1964 (') to the Govern­                      gations to be made by Commission Decision ;
ments of the Member States concerning an increase                      whereas such a special commercial policy situation
in the protective duty on iron and steel products at                   arises from the conclusion of trade Agreements or
the external frontiers of the Community, and in                        from the adoption of autonomous Decisions
particular Article 3 thereof;                                          implementing the provisions thereof relating to
                                                                       tariffs on the date provided for in the Agreements ;
Whereas by Decision of 22 March 1973 the
Representatives of the Governments of the Member
States of the European Coal and Steel Community                        HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
meeting within the Council acting in agreement with
the Commission decided to reduce autonomously ,
for the period from 1 April 1973 to 31 December 1973                                             Article I
at the latest, the import duties on products covered
by the Treaty originating in the Republic of Austria,                  The Member States are authorized to derogate from
the Republic of Portugal , the Kingdom of Sweden                       the    obligations    arising   under High Authority
and the Swiss Confederation ;                                          Recommendation No 1 /64 to the extent necessary
                                                                       for the application of the reduced duties , provided
Whereas the purposes of that Decision was to                           for by the Decision of 22 March 1973 of rhe
implement, on the date originally envisaged, the                       Representatives of the Governments of the Member
first tranche of tariff reductions resulting from the                  States of the European Coal and Steel Community
Agreements signed on 22 July 1972 between the                          meeting within the Council , to imported iron and
third countries specified above of the one part and                    steel products originating in the Republic of
the Member States of the Community , and in certain                    Austria, the Republic of Portugal , the Kingdom of
cases the Community itself, of the other part ;                        Sweden and the Swiss Confederation .
whereas notification of completion of the procedures
required to bring those agreements into force has in
fact not yet been made;                                                                          Article 2
Whereas the products affected include pig-iron, high                   1.  This Decision is addressed to all Member States .
carbon ferromanganese and the iron and steel
products falling within Chapter 73 of the Customs                      2. This Decision shall apply until 31 December 1973 .
              Done at Brussels, 2 April 1973 .
                                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                                           The President
                                                                                      François-Xavier ORTOLI
H OJ No 8, 22. 1 . 1964, p . 99/64 .