CELEX: 51992PC0269
Language: en
Date: 1992-06-23
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 3905/91 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain industrial products (first series 1992)

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMV1UNITIES
                                          C0M(92) 269 fina I
                                          Brussels, 23 June 1992
                           Proposal for a
                     COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
           amending Regulation (EEC) No 3905/91 opening
     and providing for the administration of Community tariff
    quotas for certain ihdustrial products (first series 1992)
                   (presented by the Commission)
 ---pagebreak---                               EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1.      Council Regulation (EEC) No 3905/91 of 19 December 1991 opened a series
        of tariff quotas for this year, including one for ferro-chromium
        containing by weight more than 6% of carbon (order No 09.2711), which
        was provisionaIIy fixed at 300 000 tonnes, and another for synthetic
        poly-aIpha-olefin (order No 09.2727), the volume of which was fixed at
        2 000 tonnes and the date of expiry at 30 June 1992.1
2.      The grounds for increasing the volume of both quotas and extending the
        duration of the second to 31 December were considered by the Ad Hoc
        Group on Economic Tariff Problems on 6 May.
It emerges that
        a)  Ferro-chromium consumption is expected to remain at a level similar
            to last year and, since there has been no change in the structure
            or volume of Community supply, the demand for non-preferentia I
             imports from non-member countries should therefore remain at a
            similar level to last year, namely 550 000 tonnes.
        b)  Consumption of synthetic poly-aIpha-olefin is expected to remain at
            a level similar to last year, namely 4 000 tonnes, and, since there
             is no Community industry, the volume of the quota opened for the
            first six months of this year should be increased and the quota
            period extended untiI 31 December.
The Commission proposes that the quotas be increased by 250 000 tonnes and
2 000 tonnes respectively and that the quota period for synthetic poly-alpha-
olefin be extended to 31 December 1992.
Such is the purpose of this proposaI.
        OJ No L 370, 31.12.91, p.10
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                       Council Regutation (EEC) No ... /92
                                   of ... 1992
                  amending Regulation (EEC) No 3905/91 opening
            and providing for the administration of Community tariff
           quotas for certain industrial products (first series 1992)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUflOPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and
in particular Article 28 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal frc« the Commission,
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3905/91 opened, for 1992, Community tariff
quotas for certain industrial products, and in particular ferro-chromium
containing by weight more than 6% of carbon (order No 09.2711) and synthetic
poly-alpha-olefin (order No 09.2727); 1
Whereas the above Regulation provides that the volume of the quota for ferro-
chromium containing by weight more than 6% of carbon may be adjusted in the
course of the year on the basis of reaI demand;
Whereas current economic data suggests that Community demand for non-Community
imports of the product in question could in the course of the year exceed the
volume laid down in the above Regulation; whereas the same is true of synthetic
poly-aIpha-olefin; whereas the volume of the quotas in question should
therefore be increased by the amounts indicated in Article 1 below; whereas the
period of validity of the second of the two quotas should be extended unti l
31 December 1992,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
    1    OJ No L 370, 31.12.91, p.10
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                                       Article 1
For order Nos 09.2711 and 09.2727, the table in Article 1(1) of Counci
Regulation (EEC) No 3905/91 is hereby replaced by the following table-.
Order No     CN code           Descr ipt ion              Ouota  Ouota  Ouota
                                                          voIume duty   per iod
                                                           (T)   (%)
09.2711   7202 41 90    Ferro-chromium containing        550 000       from 1.1 to
                        by weight more than 6% of                      31 .12.1992
                        carbon
09.2727   ex3902 90 00  Synthetic poly-alpha-              4 000       from 1.1 to
                        olefin having a kinetic                        31.12.1992
                        viscosity of not less than
                        38x10 _6 m 2 s- 1 (38 centi-
                        stokes) at 100*C, measured
                        using the ASTM D 445 method
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                                        Art icle 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following 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 CounciI
                                                 The President
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FINANCIAL RECORD
        Budget line concerned : Chap. 12 Art. 120
2.      Legal basis : Art. 28 of the Treaty
        Title of the tariff measure concerned : Proposal for a Council
        Regulation (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 3905/91 opening and
        providing for the administation of Community tariff quotas for certain
         industrial products (first series 1992)
4.      0bject ive : To ensure an adequate supply for Community user-industries
5.      Method of calculation
        CCT heading :                       7202 41 90       ex 3902 90 00
         In i t i a I voIume :              300 000 T        2 000 T
        Volume increase :                   250 000 T        2 000 T
        Duty to be applied                  0 %              0 %
        Normal CCT duty:                    8 %              12,5 %
        Duty-loss
        Average price per tonne :             1 278 ECU        3 255 ECU
        Total value :                       319 500 000 ECU  6 510 000 ECU
        Duty-loss :                          25 560 000 ECU    813 750 ECU
Compared with the two initial quotas : increased duty-loss of 26 373 750 ECU
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