CELEX: 51983PC0198
Language: en
Date: 1983-04-15
Title: Draft of COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) temporarily and totally suspending the Common Customs Tariff duties on certain niobium alloy products falling within subheadings ex 81.04 H I and H II (Submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                      Brussels, 15 April       1983
                                              Draft of
                                      COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
          temporarily and t o t a l l y suspending the Common Customs Tariff duties
                        on certain niobium alloy products f a l l i n g within
                                subheadings ex 81.04 H I and H II
                          (Submitted to the Council by the Commission)
COM(83) 198 f i n a l .
 ---pagebreak---                                   EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
The     C o u n c i l adopted on 22 November 1982 R e g u l a t i o n (EEC) No 3165/82
g r a n t i n g a temporary suspension of duty i n respect of c e r t a i n niobium
a l l o y products f a l l i n g w i t h i n subheadings ex 81.04 H I and H I I .                  This
suspension was agreed u n t i l 30 June 1983 and i s based on the f a c t                          that
the p r o d u c t i o n of niobium a l l o y i s i n s u f f i c i e n t i n the Community and
the producers are thus not able to s a t i s f y the needs of the                          user
i n d u s t r y i n the Community.
It     concerns the s p e c i a l case of a product which i s used f o r the
c o n s t r u c t i o n of c o i l s necessary for an apparatus intended f o r advanced
studies          i n f u s i o n m a t e r i a l c o n t r o l l e d by magnetic confinement, i n
the context of a programme which has obtained the s t a t u s of " p r i o r i t y
programme" i n the European Community and for which Euratom and the CEA
are p a r t i c i p a t i n g i n the f i n a n c i a l           undertaking.
Having taken account t h a t , on the one hand niobium a l l o y which i s a
 c o n t i n u i n g q u e s t i o n showing a d e f i c i t i n the Community p r o d u c t i o n
and t h a t on the other hand the common CEA-Euratom p r o j e c t should be terminated
d u r i n g the summer of 1983, the Commission proposes a renewal of the
 above suspension measure u n t i l 31 August 1983.                            The loss of Community
 r e c e i p t s i s estimated to the 15,000 ECU.
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                                 C O U N C I L R E G U L A T I O N (EEC)
             temporarily and totai'y suspending the C o m m o n Customs Tariff duties on
              certain niohiit: i aho" products falling within subheadings ex 81.04 H I and H II
THE COUNCIL OF T H E EUROPEAN                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
COMMUNITIES,
                                                                                         Article 1
Having regard to the Treaty establishing tjie European
Economic Community, and in particular Article 28
thereof,                                                                                     The, autonomous C o m m o n
                                                                 Customs Tariff duties on the following products shall
Whereas current Community production of the                      be totally suspended from 1 July to 31 August           1983.
products referred to in this Regulation is inadequate            (a) ex 81.04 H 1 : unwrought niobium alloy containing
and producers cannot therefore satisfy the needs of the               by weight not less than 52 % and not more than
Community's user industries ;                                         55 % of niobium and not less than 45 % and not
                                                                      more than 48 % of titanium ;
Whereas it is in the Community's interest that it                 (b) ex 81.04 H I I : niobium alloy bars and rods or
should totally suspend the autonomous Common                          billets containing by weight not less than 52 %
Customs Tariff duties on these p.•.'ducts;                            and not more than 55 % of niobium and not less
                                                                      than 45 % and not more than 48 % titanium.
Whereas, in view of the difficulties involved in making
a rigorous assessment in the near future of develop­                                     Article 2
ments in the economic situation of the sector in ques­
tion, this suspension measure should be taken only                This Regulation shall enter into force on
temporarily by fixing its term of validity on the basis            I.J.uly.     1983.
of the interests of Community production,
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, •
                                                                               For the Council
                                                                                The President