CELEX: 31974R2425
Language: en
Date: 1974-09-23 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2425/74 of the Council of 23 September 1974 on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for ferro-chromium, containing not more than 10 % by weight of carbon and more than 30 % but not more than 90 % by weight of chromium (super-refined ferro-chromium), falling within subheading ex 73.02 E I of the Common Customs Tariff

27. 9 . 74                             Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 261 /21
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 2425 /74 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                     of 23 September 1974
                on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for
                ferro-chromium , containing not more than 10 % by weight of carbon and more
                than 30 % but not more than 90 % by weight of chromium (super-refined ferro­
                chromium), falling within subheading ex 73.02 E I of the Common Customs
                                                              Tariff
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                         Whereas, in view of these factors and of market fore­
 COMMUNITIES,                                                        casts for ferro-chromium for 1975, the percentage
                                                                     shares in the quota volume can be expressed roughly
                                                                     as follows :
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 113
 thereof ;                                                                Benelux                                     5-66
                                                                          Denmark                                     0-34
                                                                          Germany                                     6-17
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;                      France                                      0-34
                                                                          Ireland                                     001
 Whereas, as regards ferro-chromium, containing not                       Italy                                      84-14
 more than 10 % by weight of carbon and more than                         United Kingdom                              3-34
 30 % but not more than 90 % of chromium (super­
 refined ferro-chromium), falling within subheading ex
 73.02 E I, the European Economic Community has                      Whereas, since this tariff quota is for a relatively small
 undertaken to open an annual duty-free tariff quota of              quantity, it seems possible to provide for a system of
 3 000 metric tons-; whereas the tariff quota concerned              use based on only one allocation and at the same time
 should therefore be opened on 1 January 1975 and                    preserve the Community nature of the quota ; whereas
 allocated among the Member States ; whereas the                     such an allocation may therefore be based on the
 duties to be applied by the new Member States within                percentage figures shown in the table above ;
 the quota must comply with the relevant provisions of
 the Act of Accession ;
                                                                     Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the
                                                                     Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of
Whereas arrangements for the utilization of the                      Luxembourg are united within and jointly represented
 Community tariff quota based on an allocation among                 by the Benelux Economic Union, any measure
 Member States would seem to be consistent with the                  concerning the administration of the shares allocated
 Community nature of the quota ; whereas, in order                   to that Economic Union may be carried out by any
 that it may correspond as closely as possible to the                one of its members,
 actual trend of the market in the product in question ,
 allocation of the quota should be in proportion to the
 requirements of the Member States as calculated by
 reference to statistiscs of imports from third countries
 during a representative reference period and to the                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
economic outlook for the quota period in question ;
Whereas, during the past three years for which statis­
 tiscs are fully available, the corresponding imports                                       Article 1
 into each of the Member States represented the
 following percentages of the total imports of the
 product in question :                                               1.    During the period from 1 January to 31
                                                                     December 1975 a Community tariff quota of 3 000
                                1971         1972      1973          metric tons shall be opened in the Community for
 Benelux                       1-46         1-55       1-38
                                                                     ferro-chromium, containing not more than 10 % by
 Denmark                       1 -43        1-33       0-08
                                                                     weight of carbon and more than 30 % but not more
                                                                     than 90 % of chromium (super-refined ferro-chro­
Germany                       65-85 ( 1 )  77-62 (!)  78-80 0        mium), falling within subheading ex 73.02 E I of the
France                         2-21         2-08       1-05
                                                                     Common Customs Tariff.
Ireland                        0            0-01       0
 Italy                        21-51         9-67       9-20
United Kingdom                 7-54         7-74       9-49          2.    Imports of the product in question shall not be
                                                                     counted under this tariff quota if they are already free
(,1 ) Based on general imports of ferro-chromium .                  of customs duties under other preferential tariff
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treatment applied by certain Member States, in parti­                                 Article 3
cular under free trade agreements.                           1 . Member States shall ensure that importers of the
3. Within this tariff quota the Common Customs               product in question established in their territory have
                                                             free access to the shares allocated to them .
Tariff duty shall be totally suspended.
                                                             2.    The extent to which a Member State has used up
4. Within this tariff quota the new Member States            its share shall be determined on the basis of the
shall apply duties calculated in accordance with the         imports of the products in question entered with the
relevant provisions of the Act of Accession .                customs authorities for home use .
                                                                                      Article 4
                       Article 2
                                                             Member     States  shall  inform   the Commission     at
The Community tariff quota referred to in Article 1          regular intervals of the imports actually charged
shall be divided between Member States as follows :          against their shares.
     Benelux                      170 metric tons                                     Article 5
     Denmark                       10 metric tons
                                                             Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
     Germany                      185 metric tons
                                                             closely to ensure that this Regulation is observed.
     France                        10 metric tons
     Ireland                        1 metric ton                                      Article 6
     Italy                      2 524 metric tons            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
     United Kingdom               100 metric tons            1975 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 23 September 1974.
                                                                         For the Council
                                                                           The President
                                                                          Ch . PONCELET