CELEX: 31975D0021
Language: en
Date: 1974-12-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 17 December 1974 derogating from High Authority recommendation No 1/64 concerning an increase in the protective duty on iron and steel products at the external frontiers of the Community (sixty-fifth derogation)

9 . 1 . 75                            Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 5/ 19
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                                          (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                  COMMISSION
                                                 COMMISSION DECISION
                                                    of 17 December 1974
              derogating from High Authority recommendation No 1 /64 concerning an
              increase in the protective duty on iron and steel products at the external fron­
                                                  tiers of the Community
                                                     (sixty-fifth derogation)
                                                          (75/21 /ECSC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       States are based, also allow, given present conditions
COMMUNITIES ,                                                        on the common market in steel, of their application
                                                                     within the framework of recommendation No 1 / 64 of
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Coal and Steel Community, and in particular Articles                  15 January 1964 ; whereas neither this suspension of
2 to 5, 8 , 71 and 74 thereof ;                                      duties nor these tariff quotas are likely to jeopardize
                                                                     the objectives of recommendation No 1 /64
 Having regard to High Authority recommendation                      concerning an increase in the protective duty at the
No 1 /64 (') of 15 January 1964 to the Governments of                external frontiers of the Community and whereas,
the Member States concerning an increase in the                      furthermore, such tariff measures help to maintain
protective duty on iron and steel products at the                    existing trade flows between the Member States and
external frontiers of the Community, and in particular               third countries ;
Article 3 thereof ;
Having regard to the agreement reached on 2                          Whereas there are special cases in the commercial
December 1974 by the representatives of the Member                   policy field justifying the authorization of derogations
States meeting within the Council on tariff measures                 pursuant to Article 3 of recommendation No 1 /64 ;
to be taken for the first six months of 1975 ;
                                                                     Whereas provision should be made to ensure that the
Whereas, for years past, the representatives of the                  quotas granted will be used solely to supply the needs
Governments of the Member States meeting within                      of industries in the importing countries and that re-ex­
the Council have unanimously agreed on six-monthly                   portation in the unaltered state to other Member
derogations from the harmonized Community                            States of imported iron and steel products will be
customs duties for steel ;                                           prevented ;
Whereas these derogations take the form either of a
reduction or temporary suspension of certain customs ,               Whereas the Governments of the Member States have
duties or of the granting of tariff quotas at reduced or             been consulted on the tariff quotas set out below,
suspended rates of duty ; whereas the last tariff
measures of this kind were taken by the representa­
tives of the Governments of the Member States on 2
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
December 1974 in respect of the first six months of
1975 ;
Whereas such measures are justified by the fact that                                          Article 1
the products in question are not manufactured, or are
manufactured in insufficient quantities, in the                      The Governments of the Member States are hereby
Community and that their importation on preferential                 authorized to derogate from the obligations arising
terms is not injurious to iron and steel undertakings                under Article 1 of High Authority recommendation
in the Community which produce directly competing                    No 1 /64 of 15 January 1964 to the extent necessary to
products ;                                                           introduce, in respect of imports from third countries
Whereas these reasons and circumstances, on which                    of the iron and steel products set out below, suspen­
the six-monthly tariff measures taken by the Member                  sion of duties or tariff quotas up to the quantities and
                                                                     at the levels indicated in respect of each of those
(') OJ No 8 , 22. 1 . 1964, p. 99/ 64.                               products :
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                                                                                                  Quota      Customs
   CCT heading No                      Description of goods                     Member States ( metric tons)  '( % )
ex 73.15 A V b) 1   Special wire rod (wire rod of high carbon steel,       Germany ( FR)          1900           0
                    not further worked than hot-rolled, between           Benelux                9 000           0
                    4.5 and 6 mm in diameter and of a carbon              France                  4 000          0
                    content in weight of between 0.62 and 0.74 °/o)        Italy                  7 400          0
                     for the tyre industry                                 Ireland                3 000          0
ex 73.15 A V b) 1   Special wire rod (wire rod of high carbon steel,      Benelux                 1 800          0
                    not further worked than hot-rolled, between
                    4.5 and 6 mm in diameter and of a carbon
                    content in weight of between 0.62 and 0.85 %>)
                    for the tyre industry
ex 73.15 A V b) 1    Special wire rod (of high carbon steel, not fur­     Germany (FR)            8 500          0
                    ther worked than hot-rolled, between 4.5 and          Benelux                 1350           0
                     13 mm in diameter) for manufacture of springs        France                  1200           0
                     and 'piano wire' containing in weight :
                    — 0.60 to 1.05 % of carbon
                    — not more than 0.05 %> of sulphur and
                         phosphorus taken together
                    — 0.15 to 0.30 °/o silicon
                    — not more than (0.10 %> of all other elements
                         (with the exception of manganese and
                         chromium) taken togehter
                    (Germany and Benelux are authorized to im­
                    port — within their quotas — special wire rod
                    of alloy steels, between 4.5 and 13 mm in
                    diameter, for valve springs, with the following
                    characteristics :
                    (a) chrome-vanadium products a
                          0.40 to 0.65 °/o C ; 0.15 to 0.30 °/o Si ; 0.60
                          to 0.90 % Mn ; 0.15 to 1.10 °/o Cr ; 0.15
                          to 0.30 °/o Va ; not more than 0.30 °/o Mo ;
                          P and S content of less than 0-035 %> each ;
                    (b) chrome-silicon products :
                          0.50 to 0.60 % C ; 1.35 to 1.60 °/o Si ; 0.60
                          to 0.80 %> Mn ; 0.55 to 0.80 Cr ;
                          P and S content of less than 0.035 °/o each)
ex 73.15 B VII a) 1 'Electrical' sheets and plates of alloy steel,        Germany (FR)              750          0
                    grain-oriented, highly permeable, with a watt­
                    loss of 1-23 watt or less per kg for a thickness
                    of 0.30 mm, or of 1.26 watt or less per kg for
                    a thickness of 0.35 mm, measured at 17 000
                    gauss and 50 Hz
ex 73.16 A II b)    Used rails for re-rolling                             France                33 000           0
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                                                    Article 2
           1 . Member States accorded quotas under Article 1 of this Decision shall ensure, in
           liaison with the Commission , that such quotas are apportioned among third countries on
           a non-discriminatory basis.
           2. They shall take all necessary steps to preclude the possibility of iron and steel
           products imported under the said tariff quotas being re-exported to other Member States
           in the same state as that in which they were imported.
                                                    Article 3
           1.    This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
           2.    It shall remain in force until 30 June 1975.
           Done at Brussels , 17 December 1974.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                       The President
                                                                  Françis-Xavier ORTOLI