CELEX: 51991PC0202
Language: en
Date: 1991-06-03
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) OPENING AND PROVIDING FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF A COMMUNITY TARIFF QUOTA FOR A CERTAIN FORM OF MANGANESE ( 1991 )

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                                                    C0M(91) 202 final
                                                    Brussels, 3   June 1991
                                        Proposal for a
                                   COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
                      opening and providing for the administration of a
                    Community tariff quota for a certain form of manganese
                                             (1991)
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 ---pagebreak---                        EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1. As a result of requests submitted by various Member States, the Commission
   departments in collaboration with the Government experts concerned, found
   it necessary to examine the possibility of opening either a suspension or
   a quota for a form of manganese, for the second half of 1991.
2. After consulting the profession, the Commission is of the opinion that
   the solution which would be acceptable to the Member States, would be to
   open a tariff quota for this product, as indicated below, without
   detriment to the market:
   -Electrolytic manganese: 1 750 tonnes at 0% for 6 months
   This is the subject of the present proposal.
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                        opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for
                                              a certain form of manganese (v1)
       THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
       Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
       Economic Community, and in particular Article 28
       thereof,                                                          tariff quota while offering the Member States the opportu-
                                                                         nity to draw from the quota volumes the necessary quan-
       Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                tities corresponding to actual imports ; whereas this
                                                                         method of administration requires close cooperation
                                                                         between the Member States and the Commission and the
      Whereas production in the Community of certain                     latter must in particular be able to monitor the rate at
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form of manganese             ' " remain in the course of 1991           which the quota is used up and inform the Member States
      unable to meet the specific requirements of the user               accordingly ;
      industries in the Community ; whereas, consequently.
      Community supplies of products of this type will depend            Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of
      to a considerable extent on imports from third countries ;         the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
                                                          whereas        are united within and jointly represented by the Benelux
      the most urgent Community requirements for the                     Economic Union, all transactions concerning the admi-
      product in question should be met immediately on the               nidstration of the quantities drawn by that economic
      most favourable terms ; whereas a zero duty Community              union may be carried out by any one of its members,
      tariff quota should therefore be, opened within the limits
      of an appropriate volume for j^pèTriod|up to 71 December
       1991, taking account of the need not to disturb the
      market for such products nor the starting out of Commu-
                                                                         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
      nity production ;
      Whereas it is necessary, in particular, to ensure for all
      Community importers equal and uninterrupted access to                                        Article 1
      the said quota and to ensure the uninterrupted applica-
      tion of the rate laid down for the quota to all imports of         l. From                   1 July up to 31 December 1991,
      the product concerned into all Member States until the
                                                                         the customs duty      applicable to import into the
      quota has been used up ;
                                                                         Community of the      product listed below shall be
      Whereas, it is appropriate to take the necessary measures          suspended at the      level and within the limit of the
      to ensure efficient Community administration of this               Conmunity tariff      quota shown below:
            Order                                                                                  Amount of           Quote
                          CN code                            Description                               quota            duty
             No               0                                                                      (tonnes)           (•/.)
         09.2821     ex 3111 uù 11
                                          weignt of 99.7? or more, f o r t n e martifactilire
                                          of norrferrous alloys (1)                                    1 750
      OTARIC code: 0111 00 11*20
      (DControl of tho ur»e for this special purpose shall be carried out pursuant to the
           relevant Community provisions.
      2.     Within the limits of this tariff quota, the Kingdom
      of Spain and the Portuguese Republic shall apply a
      customs duty calculated in accordance with the relevant
      provisions of the 1985 Act of Accession.
                                 Article 2
      The tariff quota referred to in Article 1 shall be managed
      by the Commission, which may take any appropriate
      administrative measures to ensure that it is managed effi-
      ciently.
                                 Article 3
     Where an importer submits a product covered by this
      Regulation for release for free circulation in a Member
     State, applying to take advantage of the preferential arran-
     gements, and the entry is accepted by the customs autho-
      rities, the Member State concerned shall, by notifying the
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  Commission, draw an amount corresponding to its requi-
  rements from the quota volume.
 Requests for drawings, indicating the date on which the
 entries were accepted, must be sent to the Commission
 without delay.
 Drawings shall be granted by the Commission in chrono-
 logical order of the dates on which the customs authori-
 ties of the Member States concerned accepted the entries
for release for free circulation, to the extent that the avai-
lable balance so permits.
If a Member State does not use a drawing in full, it shall
return any unused portion to the quota volume as soon as
possible.
If the quantities requested are greater than the available
balance of the quota volume, the balance shall be allo-
cated among applicants pro rata. The Commission shall
inform the Member States of the drawings made.
                          Article 4
Each Member State shall ensure that importers of the
product in question have equal and continuous access to
the quota for as long as the balance of the quota volume
so permits.
                          Article 5
Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied with.
                           Article 6
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1991.
 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
 States.
 Done at Brussels,
                                                                 For the Council
                                                                  The President
                                                                                        L,
 ---pagebreak--- FICHE FINANCIERE
1.    Ligne budgétaire concernée : Chap. 12 art. 12U
2.    Base juridique : art. 28 du traité
3.    Intitulé de la mesure tarifaire : Proposition de règlement
      du Conseil portant ouverture et mode de gestion d'un
      contingent tarifaire pour une certaine variété de
      manganèse.
4.    Objectif : Assurer la couverture À des conditions
      favorables, des besoins communautaires.
5.    Mode de calcul :
      - Volume du contingent : 1 750 tonnes
      - droit a appliquer : 0 %
      - droit applicable : 4,5 %
6.    Perte de recettes :
      - valeur d'une tonne : 1 370 écus
      - valeur totale : 2 397 500 écus
      - perte de recettes (4,5 %) : 107 000 éous
Nouvelle mesure tarifaire.
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