CELEX: 31978S1483
Language: en
Date: 1978-06-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision No 1483/78/ECSC of 14 June 1978 adjusting the minimum prices for hot-rolled wide strips, merchant bars and concrete reinforcing bars

No L 176/44                           Official Journal of the European Communities                             30 . 6 . 78
                                     COMMISSION DECISION No 1483/78 / ECSC
                                                      of 14 June 1978
               adjusting the minimum prices for hot-rolled wide strips, merchant bars and
                                                 concrete reinforcing bars
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                            685 Dutch guilders,
COMMUNITIES,                                                           10 000 Belgian and Luxembourg francs,
                                                                        1 775 Danish kroner :
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Coal and Steel Community,                                       (b) for merchant bars in ordinary mild steel :
                                                                          625 German marks,
Having regard to Commission Decision No 3000/77/
ECSC of 28 December 1977 fixing minimum prices                            163.50 pounds sterling and Irish pounds,
                                                                        1 415 French francs,
for hot-rolled wide strips, merchant bars and concrete
                                                                     262 000 Italian lire,
reinforcing bars (}), as amended by Commission Deci­
sion No 656/78 /ECSC (2), and in particular Articles 1                    670 Dutch guilders,
(3) and 7 (2) thereof,                                                  9 750 Belgian and Luxembourg francs,
                                                                        1 715 Danish kroner ;
Whereas the minimum prices fixed by these Deci­                  (c) for smooth concrete reinforcing bars in ordinary
sions must be adjusted to take account of the changes                mild steel :
in exchange rates which have occurred since 1 April
 1978 ,                                                                   505 German marks ,
                                                                          132-50 pounds sterling and Irish pounds,
Whereas, further, it is indispensable to adjust the                     1 150 French francs,
minimum prices, for hot-rolled wide strips, only, in                 211 000 Italian lire,
order to improve the financial situation of the under­                    540 Dutch guilders,
takings producing them, and to enable these undertak­                   7 900 Belgian and Luxembourg francs,
ings to cope with their necessary restructuring,                        1 385 Danish kroner ;
                                                                 (d) for improved adhesion concrete reinforcing bars
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                          with a minimum elastic limit of 40 kilograms per
                                                                     square millimetre and a tensile strength of 50 kilo­
                         Article 1                                   grams per square millimetre :
                                                                          525 German marks,
The minimum prices fixed by Article 1 (2) of Deci­
sion No 3000/77/ECSC, for sales of hot-rolled wide                        137-50 pounds sterling and Irish pounds,
                                                                        1 190 French francs,
strips, merchant bars and concrete reinforcing bars                  219 000 Italian lire,
shall be replaced by the following minimum prices
                                                                          560 Dutch guilders,
per tonne :
                                                                        8 200 Belgian and Luxembourg francs,
(a) for hot-rolled wide strips of commercial quality :                  1 435 Danish kroner.
          640 German marks,
          167.50 pounds sterling and Irish pounds,                                       Article 2
        1 450 French francs,
     268 500 Italian lire,                                       This Decision shall enter into force on 1 July 1978 .
               This Decision shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
               Done at Brussels, 14 June 1978 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                       Member of the Commission
(•) OJ No L 352, 31 . 12. 1977, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 87, 1 . 4. 1978 , p. 1 .