CELEX: 31975D0427
Language: en
Date: 1975-07-04 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 4 July 1975 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 (sixty-ninth derogation)

17. 7. 75                              Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 186/31
                                                 COMMISSION DECISION
                                                        of 4 July 1975
               derogating from High Authority recommendation No 1 /64 concerning an
               increase in the protective duty on iron and steel products at the external fron­
                                                  tiers of the Community
                                                    (sixty-ninth derogation)
                                                         (75/427/ ECSC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Customs Tariff, for which minimum duties were esta­
COMMUNITIES,                                                        blished by High Authority recommendation No 1 /64
                                                                    and by the instruments amending it ; whereas,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               however, in respect of special cases, such as where
Coal and Steel Community ;                                          commercial policy or customs procedure so requires,
Having regard to High Authority recommendation                      Article 3 of the recommendation makes provision for
No 1 /64 (') of 15 January 1964 to the Governments of               derogations from the minimum rates, such deroga­
the Member States concerning an increase in the                     tions to be made by Commission Decision ; whereas
protective duty on iron and steel products at the                   such a special commercial policy situation arises from
external frontiers of the Community, and in particular              the conclusion of trade agreements or from the adop­
Article 3 thereof ;                                                 tion of autonomous decisions implementing on the
                                                                    prescribed date the provisions thereof relating to
Whereas by Decision of 24 June 1975 the representa­                 tariffs,
tives of the Governments of the Member States of the
European Coal and Steel Community meeting within
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
the Council acting in agreement with the Commis­
sion decided to suspend autonomously, for a period
starting on 1 July 1975 and continuing until 29                                            Article 1
February 1976 at the latest, the import duties or the               The Member States are authorized to derogate from
levying thereof on products covered by the Treaty orig­             the obligations arising under High Authority recom­
inating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States or
in the overseas countries and territories associated
                                                                    mendation No 1 /64 to the extent necessary for the
                                                                    application of the suspension pursuant to the Deci­
with the Community, respectively designated herein­                 sion of 24 June 1975 of the representatives of the
after as 'ACP States' and 'OCT' ;
                                                                    Governments of the Member States of the European
Whereas the purpose of that Decision was to imple­                  Coal and Steel Community meeting within the
ment, with effect from the date originally envisaged,               Council, of duties or of the levying thereof, on
the suspension of tariffs pursuant to the Agreement                 imported iron and steel products originating in the
signed on 28 February 1975 between the ACP States                   ACP States or in the OCT.
of the one part and the Member States of the Commu­
nity of the other part ; whereas notificatioh of comple­                                   Article 2
tion of the procedures required to bring that Agree­
 ment into force has in fact not yet been made ;                    This Decision shall apply until the Agreement comes
                                                                    in force, but in any event not beyond 29 February
Whereas it was at the same time necessary to provide                 1976 .
 for the supervision of duties on imports into the Euro­            This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
 pean Coal and Steel Community of ECSC products
originating in the OCT, since the interim arrange­
 ments between those countries and territories and the               Done at Brussels, 4 July 1975.
 Community did not include the products covered by
 the Treaty ;                                                                                For the Commission
 Whereas the products affected include pig-iron, high                                            The President
 carbon ferro-manganese and the iron and steel
 products falling within Chapter 73 of the Common                                           Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
 (') OJ No 8 , 22 . 1 . 1964 p. 99/64.