CELEX: 31973R3587
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-28 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3587/73 of the Council of 28 December 1973 on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for ferro-silicon falling within subheading No 73.02 C of the Common Customs Tariff

31 . 12. 73                          Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 365/29
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 3587/73 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                  of 28 December 1973
              on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for ferro­
                    silicon falling within subheading No 73.02 C of the Common Customs Tariff
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        goods ; whereas for the year 1973, on the basis of the
                                                                most recent forecasts by the Member States, which
                                                                have been confirmed by the imports statistics for the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                    first few months, these percentages are as follows :
European Economic Community, and in particular
Article 113 thereof:                                                                               1972      1973
                                                                        Benelux                   15-69     16-53
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission;
                                                                        Denmark                     2-02      1-10
                                                                         Germany                  49-74     47-40
Whereas, as regards ferro-silicon falling within tariff
subheading No 73.02 C, the European Economic                            France                      0-31      0-35
 Community has undertaken to open an annual
 duty-free Community tariff quota of 20 000 metric                       Ireland                    0-65      0-61
tons ;
                                                                         Italy                      8-81      7-68
 Whereas, under Article 39 of the Act of Accession the                   United Kingdom           22-78     26-33
new Member States must on 1 January 1974 make
 the first move towards alignment of their national              whereas, in view of these factors and of market fore­
tariffs on the Common Customs Tariff as regards the             casts for ferro-silicon for 1974, the percentage shares
 said goods; whereas, therefore, the needs of those             in the quota volume can be expressed roughly as
Member States for imports from third countries                   follows :
 should from that date onwards be covered by the
tariff quota in question during the period thereof;
 whereas the duties to be applied by those Member                              Benelux                64-75
 States under the said tariff quota must be in                                 Denmark                 0-75
 conformity with the relevant provisions of the Act of
 Accession ;                                                                   Germany                15-00
                                                                               France                  0-25
 Whereas a Community tariff arrangement based on
 an allocation amongst the Member States would                                 Ireland                 1-25
 seem to preserve the Community nature of the quota ;
 whereas to represent as closely as possible the actual                        Italy                   4-25
 development of the market in the said goods the                               United Kingdom         13-75
 allocation should follow proportionately the
 requirements of the Member States calculated both
 from statistics of imports from third countries during          Whereas, since this tariff quota is for a relatively
 a representative reference period and from the                  small quantity, it seems possible to provide for a
 economic outlook for the tariff year in question ;              system of use based on only one allocation and at the
                                                                 same time preserve the Community nature of the
                                                                 quota ; whereas such an allocation may therefore be
 Whereas, however, the available statistics of imports           based on the percentage figures shown in the table
 from third countries into the new Member States to              above;
 which no equivalent tariff preferences were applied
 under any other preferential arrangements only cover
 the year 1972 and the first few months of 1973 ;               Whereas since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom
 whereas during the year 1972 such imports by each               of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of
 of the Member States represented the following                  Luxembourg are jointly represented by the Benelux
 percentages of total Community imports of the said              Economic Union any measure concerning the
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  administration     of  the   shares  allocated  to   that              Benelux              12 950 metric  tons
  economic union may be carried out by one of its                        Denmark                  150 metric tons
  members,
                                                                         Germany                3 000 metric tons
                                                                         France                    50 metric tons
  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                          Ireland                  250 metric tons
                                                                         Italy                    850 metric tons
                                                                         United Kingdom         2 750 metric tons
                           Article 1
  1 . During the1 period from 1 January to 31                                            Article 3
 December 1974 a Community tariff quota of 20 000
  metric tons shall be opened in the Community for               1 . Member States shall ensure that importers of
  ferro-silicon falling within subheading No 73.02 C of          the ?aid gopds established in their territory have free
  the Common Customs Tariff.                                     access to the shares allocated to them.
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                                                                 2.    The extent to which a Member State has used
 2. Imports of the said goods may not de counted
  under this tariff quota if they are already free of            up its share shall be determined on the basis of
  customs duties under other preferential tariff                 imports of the said goods entered for home use.
 treatment applied by certain Member States in
  particular under free trade agreements.                                                Article 4
  3 . Within this tariff quota the Common Customs                Member States shall inform the Commission at
  Tariff duties shall be totally suspended.                      regular intervals of imports actually charged against
                                                                 their shares .
 4.     Within this tariff quota the new Member States                                   Article 5
 shall apply duties calculated in accordance with the
  relevant provisions of the Act of Accession.
                                                                 Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
                                                                 closely to ensure that this Regulation is observed.
                          Article 2
                                                                                         Article 6
 The Community tariff quota referred to in Article 1
 shall be allocated amongst the Member States as                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
follows :                                                        1974.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 28 December 1973 .
                                                                                    For the Council
                                                                                     The President
                                                                                   Ove GULDBERG