CELEX: 51976PC0574
Language: en
Date: 1976-11-03
Title: Draft Council Regulation increasing the Community tariff quota opened in 1976 for ferro-chromium containing not less than 4 % by weight of carbon, falling within sub-heading ex 73.02 E I of the Common Customs Tariff (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                           COM(76)574 final.
                                           Brussels , 3 November 1976 .
                          Draft Council Régulation  .
            increasing the Community tariff quota opened in
            1976 for ferro-chromium containing not less than
           4 % by weight of carbon , falling within sub-heading
           ex 73.02 E I of the Common Customs Tariff
                 (submitted to the Council by the Commission)
 COM(76) 574 final .
 ---pagebreak---                            EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
                                                  1
1 . Regulation ( EEC ) No 1629/ 76 of 29 June 1976 opened for 1976 a Community
    tariff quota for ferro-chromium containing not Less than 4 % by weight
    of carbon , the volume of which , fixed at a level of 52 000 t , was to be
    reviewed during the quota year in accordance with requirements .
2 . This revision was carried out at a meeting of the Working Party on
    Economic Tariff Problems on 24 September 1976 on the basis of the
    routine estimates forwarded by the Member States which led to the
    following levels being established in respect of the various itemd
    affecting the Community situation :
                                                               1Q tonnes
    Consumption                                                 347.510
    Actual production capacities                                192.000
    Inward processing traffic                                          500
    Duty free imports from third countries                        18.255
    ( associated countries , EFTA )
    Exports to third countries                                    10.000
    According to this information , the Community requirements for
    imports from third countries amount to 135 755 t for the entire
    year 1976, but the duty free quota already opened reduces this
    figure to 83 755 t .
3 . In this regard , it should be pointed out that , where autonomous
    tariff quotas are concerned , it does not suffice merely to open
    systematically a quota equal to the estimated requirements
    for imports from third countries . This method of calculation is
    likely to cause disadvantages to the Community production sector
    or to discourage any expansion in this sector . This consideration
    is all the more, apposite in the present case , since , according
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  0J No L 181 , 7 July 1976, p. 1 .
 ---pagebreak---  to the experts of a producing Member State , their production has been
 reduced to 50 % actual capacity so as not to increase existing .
 stocks .
In the annexed draft Regulation , account has been taken of these
consideration , as well as of the fact that for the products falling
under subheading 73.02 E I of the CCT , the rates applicable in
respect of third countries have " been reinstated with regard to
Sweden with effect from 9 October 1976 , by Regulation ( EEC )
No 2421 / 76 ( 0J L 273 of 6 October 1976 ).
For this reason the Commission is proposing a 15 000 t increase in
the amount of the tariff quota opened by the afore-mentioned Council
Regulation to meet requirements in the latter part of 1976 .
As usual , this increase is divided into two instalments , the first
to be allocated among the Member States in proportion to their
respective requirements , and the second forming a Community reserve .
 ---pagebreak---                                  DRAFT
                ÇQyNÇIL_REGULATI0N_iEEÇ)_No_ i .../ 76
                          of
         increasing the Community tariff quota opened for
         1976 by Regulation ( EEC ) No 1629 / 76 for ferro­
         chromium containing not less 4 % by weight of
         carbon , falling within subheading ex 73.02 E I
         of the Common Customs Tariff
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES /
Havin regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ,
and in particular Article 28 thereof ,
Having regard to the draft Regulation submitted by the Commission ,
                                                  1
Whereas by its Regulation ( EEC ) No 1629 / 76      the Council opened for
1976 and allocated among the Member States a duty free autonomous
Community tariff quota of a provisional amount of 52 000 "tonnes for
f erro-chromium containing not less than 4 % by weight of carbon ;
whereas by the same Regulation the Member States were authorized ,
within certain limits , to charge against this quota imports of
f erro-chromium containing a quantity of between 3 and 4 % by weight
of carbon ;
Whereas on the basis of the most recent economic data available for
1976 on consumption , actual production capacities , imports under
the inward processing system or another preferential tariff scheme
and exports to third countries , it can be estimated that the additional
Community requirements for imports from third countries during 1976 may reach
83 755     tonnes ;     whereas to avoid jeopardizing the prospects for
the development of Community production , it is appropiate to fix the
additional quota volume for the latter part of the current year at
15 000    tonnes :  -                           .
                                               '                      I
                                                                    • • •/ • ■•
  OJ No L 181 / 7 ♦ 7 « 1976 . p. 1 .
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Whereas with regard to the distribution of the quota volume it is necessary
to allot part of the additional amount to the Community reserve , the
remainder being allocated among the Member States ; whereas since this is
an autonomous tariff quota intended to cover additional import      needs
arising in the Community , it may be allocated on the basis of the actual
requirements , expressed by the Member States , which could not be met by the
tariff quota of 52 000 tonnes already opened for 197       whereas the extent
to which the shares assigned to Denmark , France , Ireland and Italy have
been used and the most recent statistical and economic data available
do not at present justify the participation of these Member States in the
allocation of the additional amount ; whereas , should the need arise ,
these Member States will be able to draw upon the Community reserve ,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                 Article 1
From the date of entry into force of this Regulation , the volume of the .
Community tariff quota opened by Regulation ( EEC ) No 1629 / 76 for ferro­
chromium containing not less than 4 % by weight of carbon , falling
within sub-heading ex 73.02 E I of the Common Customs Tariff , shall be
increased from 52 000 to 67 000 tonnes .
                                Article 2
1 . An first instalment of the additional amount , comprising 13 500 tonnes
    shall be allocated among certain Member States as follows :
    Bénélux                       1 316 tonnes
    Germany                       8 455 tonnes
    United Kingdom                3 729 tonnes
2 . The second instalment of 1 500 tonnes shall constitute the reserve .
The amount of the reserve laid down in Article 2(2 ) of Regulation
( EEC ) No 1629 / 76 shall thus be increased from 5 000 to 6 500 tonnes .
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                             - Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following that of
its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable
in all Member States .
Done at Brussels /                            For the Council /
                                              The President /