CELEX: 41975D0694
Language: en
Date: 1975-11-17 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community, meeting in Council of 17 November 1975 opening, allocating and providing for the administration of tariff quotas for certain steel products originating in developing countries

164                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                             29 . 11.75
                                                           II
                                       (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                 COUNCIL
                                                       DECISION
             OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE MEMBER
             STATES OF THE EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY, MEETING IN
                                                       COUNCIL
                                                 of 17 November 1975
             opening, allocating and providing for the administration of tariff quotas for certain
                                   steel products originating in developing countries
                                                     (75/694/ECSC)
 THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS                         Council Regulation (EEC) No 802/68 (*) of 27 June
 OF THE MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN                           1968 on the common definition of the concept of
 COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY, MEETING IN                           the origin of goods.
 COUNCIL,
                                                                3. The amount to be charged in respect of each
 In agreement with the Commission,                              country or territory referred to in paragraph 2 against
                                                                each of the tariff quota amounts indicated in column
                                                                5 of Annex A shall be limited to the maximum
 HAVE DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :                                      amount given as a percentage in column 4 of Annex
                                                                A against each category of products.
                         Article 1                              4. Any amendment to Annex B, in particular by the
                                                                addition of new countries or territories enjoying tariff
 1 . From 1 January to 31 December 1976 the duties              preferences, may entail a corresponding adjustment
 applicable in all customs areas of the Community               to the maximum amounts expressed as percentages
 to the products listed in Annex A shall be com­                laid down in column 4 of Annex A and to the tariff
 pletely suspended within the framework of Com­                 ceilings and quotas laid down respectively in columns
 munity tariff ceilings of amounts which shall be               3 and 5 of Annex A.
 expressed in units of account and which shall be
 indicated against each product in column 3 of that
 Annex.                                                                                    Article 2
                                                                 1 . The Member States shall administer their tariff
 2. These tariff ceilings shall be enjoyed solely by            quotas in accordance with their own provisions in
 products originating in the countries and territories           this respect.
 listed in Annex B. However, those imports which
 already enjoy exemption from customs duties under              2. The extent to which a Member State has used up
 other preferential tariff arrangements granted by the           its share shall be determined on the basis of imports
 nine Member States of the Community may not be                  of the said goods which have been entered for home
 charged against these tariff quotas. For the purposes           use, on the basis of the customs value of the said
 of the application of this Decision, the concept of
 originating products shall be determined in accord­
 ance with the procedure laid down in Article 14 of              (*) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 1 .
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goods, and which are accompanied by a certificate            aggregate appearing in column 3 of Annex A) shall
of origin in accordance with the rules referred to           be jointly examined immediately.
in Article 1 (2).
                                                                                   Article 4
3 . Goods may be imported under the tariff quota
only if the certificate of origin mentioned in para­         Member States shall     inform   the   Commission    at
graph 2 is presented before the date on which cus­           regular intervals of imports of the products in
toms duties are re-introduced .                              question actually charged against their quotas.
                                                                                    Article 5
                       Article 3
                                                             Member States, in close cooperation with the Com­
Each Member State shall re-introduce the levying of          mission, shall take all necessary measures to ensure
 duties which have been suspended in respect of a            that the above provisions are applied.
 country or territory mentioned in Annex B as soon
 as it records that the charges against its national
 quota of the products concerned originating in such                                Article 6
country or territory have reached the maximum
amount laid down in column 4 of Annex A.                     The Member States shall take all measures necessary
                                                             for the implementation of this Decision.
 Such re-introduction shall be notified immediately          Done at Brussels, 17 November 1975.
 to the Commission, which shall inform the other
 Member States forthwith. At the request of a Member                                               The President
State or of the Commission, the possible conse­
 quences of such a situation (with regard to the                                                  E. COLOMBO
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                                                            ANNEX A
            List of products subject to zero-duty tariff ceilings under the generalized tariff preferences
                                         granted to developing countries and territories
                                                                                         Maximum
                                                                                           amount
     CCT                                                                    Aggregate                  Volume of shares allocated to
    heading                             Description                        of column 5   per country
                                                                                             and           Member States in u.a .
      No                                                                      in u.a .
                                                                                          territory
                                                                                             (% )
       1)                                   (2)                                  3            4)                   (5
    73.08        Iron or steel coils for re-rolling                        12 091 800         40     Germany              3  325  245
                                                                                                     Benelux              1  269  640
                                                                                                     France               2  297  440
                                                                                                     Italy                1  813  770
                                                                                                     Denmark                 604  590
                                                                                                     Ireland                 120  920
                                                                                                     United Kingdom 2 660 195
     73.10       Bars and rods (including wire rod), of iron or              7 493 900        50      Germany             2 060 810
                 steel, hot-rolled, forged, extruded, cold-formed                                    Benelux                 786 860
                 or cold-finished (including precision-made);                                        France               1 423 840
                 hollow mining drill steel :                                                         Italy                1 124 090
                                                                                                     Denmark                 374 700
                 A. Not further worked than hot-rolled or                                            Ireland                  74 940
                     extruded                                                                         United Kingdom 1 648 660
                 D. Clad or surface-worked (for example, pol­
                     ished, coated) :
                     I.   Not further worked than clad :
                          a) Hot-rolled or extruded
     73.13       Sheets and plates, of iron or steel, hot-rolled or        23 440 200         30      Germany              6 446 055
                 cold-rolled :                                                                        Benelux              2 461 220
                                                                                                      France               4 453 640
                 A. 'Electrical' sheets and plates                                                    Italy                3 516 030
                                                                                                      Denmark              1 172 010
                 B. Other sheets and plates :                                                         Ireland                234 400
                        I. Not further worked than hot-rolled                                         United Kingdom 5 156 845
                       II. Not further worked than cold-rolled, of
                           a thickness of :
                           b) More than 1 mm but less than 3 mm
                           c) 1 mm or less
                     III. Not further worked than burnished,
                           polished or glazed
                      IV. Clad,      coated     or otherwise surface­
                           treated :
                           b) Tinned
                            c) Zinc-coated or lead-coated
                            d) Other (for example, copper-plated
                               artificially oxidized, lacquered, nickel­
                               plated, varnished, clad, parkerized,
                               printed)
                       V. Otherwise shaped or worked :
                            a) Cut into shapes other than rectangu­
                               lar shapes, but not further worked :
                               2. Other
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                                                          ANNEX B
                     List of developing countries and territories enjoying generalized tariff preferences
                                               INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES
Afghanistan                                Haiti                                        Qatar
Algeria                                    Honduras                                    Rwanda
Argentina                                  India                                       Saudi Arabia
Bahamas                                    Indonesia                                   Senegal
Bahrain                                    Iran                                        Sierra Leone
Bangladesh                                 Iraq                                        Singapore
Barbados                                   Ivory Coast                                 Somalia
Bhutan                                     Jamaica                                      Sri Lanka
Bolivia                                    Jordan                                      Surinam
Botswana                                   Kenya                                       Sudan
Brazil                                     Khmer Republic                              Swaziland
Burma                                      Korea (South )                              Syria
Burundi                                    Kuwait                                      Tanzania
Cameroon                                   Laos                                        Thailand
Cape Verde Islands                         Lebanon                                     Togo
Central African Republic                   Lesotho                                     Tonga
Chad                                       Liberia                                     Trinidad and Tobago
Chile                                                                                  Tunisia
                                           Libya
Colombia                                   Malagasy Republic                           Uganda
Congo, People's Republic of                Malawi                                      United Arab Emirates :
Costa Rica                                 Malaysia                                          Abu Dhabi
Cuba                                       Maldive Islands                                   Dubai
Cyprus                                     Mali                                              Ras al Khaimah
Dahomey                                    Mauritania                                        Fujairah
Dominican Republic                         Mauritius                                         Ajman
Ecuador                                   Mexico                                             Sharjah
Egypt, Arab Republic of                    Morocco                                           Ummal Qaiwain
El Salvador                               Nauru                                        Upper Volta
Equatorial Guinea                         Nepal                                        Uruguay
Ethiopia                                  Nicaragua                                    Venezuela
Fiji                                      Niger                                        Vietnam, Republic of
Gabon                                                                                  Western Samoa
                                          Nigeria
Gambia                                    Oman                                         Yemen, People's Democratic
Ghana                                     Pakistan
                                                                                       Republic of
Grenada                                   Panama                                       Yemen Arab Republic
Guatemala                                 Papua New Guinea                             Yugoslavia
Guinea                                                                                 Zaire
                                          Paraguay
Guinea Bissau                                                                          Zambia
                                          Peru
Guyana                                     Philippines
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                                           COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES
    dependent or administered, or for whose external relations Member States of the Community
                                  or third countries are wholly or partly responsible
    Afars and Issas (Territory of the)
    Angola (including Cabinda)
    Australian Antarctic Territory
    Belize
    Bermuda
    British Antarctic Territory
    British Indian Ocean Territory (Aldabra, Farquhar, Chagos Archipelago, Desroches)
    British Pacific Ocean (*)
    Brunei
    Cayman Islands and Dependencies
    Christmas Island
    Cocos (Keeling) Islands
    Comoro Archipelago
    Corn Islands and Swan Islands
    Falkland Islands and Dependencies
    French Polynesia
    French Southern and Antarctic Territories
    Gibraltar
    Heard Island and McDonald Islands
    Hong Kong
    Leeward Islands (2)
    Macao.
    Mozambique
    Netherlands Antilles
    New Caledonia and Dependencies
    Norfolk Island
    Pacific Islands administered by the United States of America or under United States trusteeship (3)
    Portuguese Timor                                                                                                „
    St Helena (including Ascension, Gough Island, and Tristan da Cunha)
    Saint Pierre and Miquelon
    Sâo Tome and Principe
    Seychelles (including Amirantes)
    Sikkim
    Spanish territories in Africa
    Territories for which New Zealand is responsible (Cook Islands, Niue Island, Tokelau Islands
         and Ross Dependency)
    Turks and Caicos Islands
    Virgin Islands of the United States (St Croix, St Thomas, St John, etc.)
    Wallis and Futuna Islands
    Windward Islands (4)
    Note: The above lists may be amended subsequently to take account of changes in the inter­
             national status of countries or territories.
    I1) Gilbert Islands, Tuvalu, British Solomon Islands, New Hebrides Condominium, and Pitcairn Islands.
    {*) Antigua, Montserrat, St Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, British Virgin Islands.
    (') The Pacific Islands administered by the United States of America include: Guam, American Samoa (including
        Swain's Island), Midway Islands, Johnston and Sand Islands, Wake Island and the Trust Territory of the Pacific
        Islands (the Caroline, Marianas and Marshall Islands).
    (4) Dominica, St Lucia, St Vincent.