CELEX: 51987PC0434
Language: en
Date: 1987-09-22
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) increasing the volume of the Community tariff quota, opened for 1987, for ferro-chromium containing not less than 6% by weight of carbon, falling within subheading ex 73.02 e i of the Common Customs Tariff (presented by the Commission)

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                                           Proposal for a
                                      COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
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                                       EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1 . Council Regulations ( EEC ) No 476 /87 of 16 February 1987 ( 1 ) and No 1624 / 87
      of 9 June 1987 ( 2 ) have opened                                                •     -
        for the year 1987 a duty free community tariff quota for the ferro-
        chromium containing not less than 6 % by weight of carbon, its volume
       being fixed at the provisional level of 220 000 tonnes .
2 . The case of increasing the volume of this tariff quota has been
       examined particularly at a meeting between procuders and             user industries
       on 20 July      1987 ..
                       1987                                   result * that
                                 From these discussions it results     tha :
       a ) on the one hand owing to the reduction in the exports of alloy scrap
             from the USA , the partial stoppage in the production of FeCr in Japan ,
             the good economic activity in the steel sector of IN0X , the increase
             in the consumption of FeCr linked to a rise in prices in FeCr since the
             month of June 1987, the user industries foresee already a bottleneck
             in the supply , and
       b ) on the other hand the undertaking agreed upon at the beginning of the
             year to ensure a market for part of the Italian production of ferro -
             chromium - an undertaking which anyhow allowed the opening of this
             tariff quota - could not be complied with due to the fairly recent
             publication of the aforesaid Regulation in the Official Journal ,
             this in turn has caused delay in the signing of contracts with the
              Community producers ;
        c ) the producers have stated with satisfaction that they concluded
              contract for 2 / 3 of their production in the current year ;
       d ) the user industries undertake to ensure a satisfactory market for the
             community production until 31 December 1987 ;
       e ) in accordance with the agreements concluded previously nothing pre ¬
             cludes therefore the covering by a duty free tariff quota the
             additional needs foreseen until the end of the current year .
  3.       In consideri ng the previously undertaken commitments , the necessity not
           to  disturb the
           to disturb   the equilibrium of the market and the future extension of the
           aareements
           agreements concluded
                        concluded andand implemented
                                          impiemeriieu ,, the
                                                          me Commission
                                                                  as iw proposes to~~ increase
           the volume of the quota by such a quantity which when based on the
           imports that came from       third countries during the early months of 1987
           can ensure the      coverage of the additional needs foreseen until 31
           December 1987 .
            It is understood that this proposal would have to be amended or
           even withdrawn if it appeared at the Council meeting that , in the light
           of a negative development of the situation , the undertakings entered into
           will not be complied with in 1987 .
   ( 1 ) 0J N° L 49, 18.2.1987, p. 3 .
   ( 2 ) 0J N° L 152, 12.6.1987, p. 4 .
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4_ As is rhe practice in similar cases the proposed incrase has been
   subdivided into two narts , the first being divided acong certain
   Member States in proportion to their forecast of impoi i.s coining from
   non-preferential third countries , and the second corresponding to the
   balance of this colume held as a Community reserve -  The constitution
   of such a reserve is all the more justified in the present case since
   the quota shares could not be determined with the desired accuracy , and
   since a quota share is not provided for those Member States which
   traditionally do not make use of these products-
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                                      COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No _ / 87
                                                        of
                  increasing the volume of the Community tariff quota, opened for 1987, for
                  ferro-chromium containing not less than 6 % by weight of carbon falling within
                                 subheading ex 73.02 E I of the Common Customs Tariff
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular Article 28
thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
Whereas , by Regulations ( EEC ) No 476 / 87 ( 1 ) and No 1624 / 87 ( 2 ), the Council
 opened, for 1987, and allocated among the Member
 States, a duty-free Community tariff quota for ferro-
 chromium containing not less that 6 % by weight of
 carbon, falling within subheading ex 73.02 E I of the
 Common Customs Tariff, and the volume of which was
 provisionally fixed at 220 000 tonnes ;
 Whereas it can be estimated, from the economic data now
 available on consumption, production and imports benefi¬
 ting from other preferential tariff arrangements, that
 immediate Community requirements of imports from
 third countries for products of this kind could, during the
 current year, reach levels higher than the volume laid
 down by Regulationy(EEC) No 476/87 and No 1624 / 87 ; whereas , in order
  not to disturb the equilibrium of the market for this
  product and to ensure parallel development in sales of
  Community production and satisfactory security of
  supplies to the user industries, it is appropriate to provide
  for an increase in volume by a quantity corresponding to
  the needs of user industries until the end of the current
  year, that is to say, to 1 fc> O ooo t on nc j
 ( 1 ) 0J No L 49, 18.2.1987 , p. 1 .
 ( 2 ) OJ No L 152 , 12.6.1987, p. 4 .
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 Whereas, it is appropriate to divide into two instalments
 the volume of the increase, the first instalment being allo¬
 cated among certain Member States in proportion to their
foreseeable needs, and the second held as a Community
reserve to cover possible additional requirements,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                          Article 1
The volume of the Community tariff quota opened by
Regulations(EEC) No 476/87 and No 1624 / # ? for ferro-chromium contai-
ning not less than 6 % by weight of carbon, falling within
subheading ex 73.02 E 1 of the Common Customs Tariff ,
shall be raised from 220 000 to 400 000 tonnes.
                          Article 2
 1.    A first instalment of the additional volume referred
to in Article 1 and amounting to 162 000 tonnes shall be
allocated among certain Member States as follows :
                                           (tonnes)
           Benelux                         10   500
           Germany                         56   600
           Spain                           14   000
           France                          38   700
           Italy                           24 500
           United Kingdom                  17 700
 2.    The second instalment, being 18 000 tonnes, shall
constitute the reserve . The reserve provided for in Article
 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 476/87 , as amended b> Regulation N° 1624 /87, shall
         thus be raised from 21 770 tonnes to 39 770 tonnes .
                          Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day follo¬
 wing its publication in the Official Journal of the Euro¬
pean Communities.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.
Done at
                                                              For the Council
                                                               The President