CELEX: 51987PC0674
Language: en
Date: 1987-12-18
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for certain laser-irradiated, grain-oriented electrical sheet and plate (submitted by the Commission)

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                                             COM(87 ) 674 final
                                             Brussels , 18 December 1987
                                  Proposal for a
                            COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
   opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota
    for certain laser-irradiated , grain-oriented electrical sheet and plate
                         ( submitted by the Commission )
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 ---pagebreak---                                 EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1 . Following a request from the Belgian authorities the Commission examined ,
    together with government experts , whether a Community tariff quota at zero
    duty should be opened on 1 January 1988 for certain laser-irradiated ,
    grain-oriented electrical sheet and plate of a thickness of more than
    0.20 mm but less than 0.60 mm and a nominal magnetic-reversal loss of
    0.35 W / kg ,     falling within subheading 7226 10 91 of the Combined
    Nomenclature .
2 . A solution     involving the opening of a tariff quota for 65 tonnes for the
    first half      of 1988 could be approved by all the Member States without
    disturbing    the Community market for the products concerned . That is the
    purpose of    the attached proposal for a Regulation .
 ---pagebreak---                                    Proposai for
                       COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) No
                                   of
 opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for
      certain laser-i rradiated , grain-oriented electrical sheet and plate
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,    and
in particular Article 28 thereof ,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
Whereas the Community currently depends to a large extent on imports from
third countries for its supplies of laser-irradiated ,             grain-oriented
electrical sheet and plate of a thickness of more than 0.20 mm but less than
0.60 mm and a nominal magnetic-reversal loss of 0.35 W / kg , falling within
subheading 7226 10 91 of the Combined Nomenclature ; whereas it is in the
Community 's interest to suspend totally the duty normally applied to the
products in question within the limit of a Community tariff quota of an
appropriate volume ; whereas in order not to harm the prospects for increasing
production within the Community while at the same time making adequate
supplies available to user industries , the tariff quota should be limited to
65 tonnes and opened for the period 1 January to 30 June 1988 ;
Whereas equal and continuous access to the quota should be ensured for all
Community importers and the rates laid down for the quota should be applied
consistently to all imports of the products in question into all Member States
until the quota is exhausted ; whereas , however , the quota should not in this
case be allocated among the Member States , without prejudice to the drawing
against the quota volume of such quantities as they may need , under the
conditions and according to the procedure laid down in Article 1(2 ); whereas
this method of administration requires close cooperation between the Member
States and the Commission and the latter must in particular be able to monitor
the rate at which the quota is used and inform the Member States accordingly ;
Whereas since the Kingdom of Belgium , the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are united within and jointly represented by the
Benelux Economic Union , any operation concerning the administration of the
quota share allocated to that economic union may be carried out by any one of
its members ,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
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                                      Artide 1
1 . From 1 January to 30 June 1988 the customs duty applicable to imports of
    the following products shall be suspended at the level indicated and within
    the limits of a Community tariff quota as shown below :
   Serial   I   Combined               Description          I Volume of | Rate of I
     No     I Nomenclature                                  I   tariff I   duty   I
            I     code                                      I   quota I
            I                                               I           I
   09.2781  I 7226          Flat-rolled products of other   !           I
            I               alloy steel , of a width of     I           I
            I               less than 600 mm :
            I 7226 10       - Of silicon-electrical steel : I           I
           I                – Other :                       I           I
           I                -Of a width not exceeding       I           I
           !                    600 mm :                    I           I
            | ex 7226 10 91 -Grain oriented :               I           I
            I                    -Laser-irradiated , grain- I           I
            I                     oriented electrical sheet I           I
            I                     and plate of a thickness I            I
           I                      of more than 0.20 mm but  I           I
                                  less than 0.60 mm and a   I           I
           I                      nominal magnetic-reversal I    65     I
           I                      loss of 0.35 W / kg       I tonnes    |    0%   I
           I                                                I           I
Within the limits of this tariff quota Spain and Portugal shall apply duties
calculated in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Act of Accession .
2 . If an importer gives notification of imminent imports of the product in
    question into a Member State and applies to take advantage of the quota ,
    the Member State concerned shall inform the Commission and draw an amount
    corresponding to its requirements to the extent that the available balance
    of the quota so permits .
3 . The shares drawn pursuant to paragraph 1 shall be valid until the end of
    the quota period .
                                      Artide 2
1 . Member States shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that their
    drawings pursuant to Article 2(1 ) enable imports to be charged without
    interruption against their accumulated shares of the Community quota .
2 . Member States shall ensure that importers of the product concerned have
    free access to the quota for such time as the residual balance of the quota
    volume so permits .
3 . Member States shall charge imports of the product concerned against their
    drawings as and when the goods are entered with the customs authorities for
    free circulation .
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4 . The extent to which the quota has been used up shall be determined on the
    basis of the imports charged in accordance with paragraph 3 .
                                    Article 3
At the request of the Commission ,  Member States shall inform it of imports of
the product concerned actually charged against the quota .
                                    Article 4
The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate closely to ensure that
this Regulation is complied with .
                                    Article 5
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1988 .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in
all Member States .
Done at Brussels ,
                                                       For the Council
                                                       The President