CELEX: 31975R2882
Language: en
Date: 1975-10-29 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2882/75 of the Council of 29 October 1975 on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for ferro-chromium containing not more than 0.10 % by weight of carbon and more than 30 % but not more than 90 % by weight of chromium (super-refined ferro-chromium), falling within subheading ex 73.02 E I of the Common Customs Tariff

12.11.75                         Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 292/17
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 2882/75 OF THE COUNCIL
                                               of 29 October 1975
             on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for ferro­
             chromium containing not more than 0.10% by weight of carbon and more than 30 %
             but not more than 90% by weight of chromium (super-refined ferro-chromium), falling
                        within subheading ex 73.02 EI of the Common Customs Tariff
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                                             1972     1973      1974
                                                            Benelux                   1-55      1-42     6-84
                                                            Denmark                   1-33     0-08       0-07
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                Germany                 77-62 J1) 80-92 H 42-92
European Economic Community, and in particular
Article 113 thereof;                                        France                   2-08      1-08    15-55
                                                            Ireland                  0-01      0         0-06
                                                            Italy                    9-67      6-75     17-57
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
                                                           United Kingdom            7-74      9-75    17;
Whereas, as regards ferro-chromium containing not           Whereas, in view of these factors and of market
more than 0-10% by weight of carbon and more                forecasts for ferro-chromium for 1976, the percentage
than 30 % but not more than 90% of chromium                 shares in the quota volume may be expressed roughly
(super-refined ferro-chromium), falling within               as follows :
subheading ex 73.02 E I, the European Economic
Community has undertaken to open an annual duty-                     Benelux                          5-66
free Community tariff quota of 3 000 metric tons ;
whereas the tariff quota in question should therefore                Denmark                          0-34
be opened on 1 January 1976 and allocated among                      Germany                          6-17
the Member States; whereas the duties to be applied
                                                                     France                           0-34
by the new Member States within this tariff quota
must comply with the relevant provisions of the Act                  Ireland                          0-01
of Accession;                                                        Italy                           84-14
                                                                     United Kingdom                   3-34;
Whereas arrangements for the utilization of the
Community tariff quota based on an allocation               Whereas, since this tariff quota is for a relatively
among Member States would seem to be consistent             small quantity, it seems possible to provide for a
with the Community nature of the quota; whereas,            system of use based on a single allocation and at
in order that it may correspond as closely as               the same time preserve the Community nature of the
possible to the actual market trends in the product         quota; whereas such an allocation may therefore be
in question, allocation of the quota should be in           based on the percentage figures shown in the table
proportion to the requirements of the Member                 above;
States as calculated by reference to statistical data
on imports from third countries during a represen­          Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the
tative reference period and to the economic                 Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy
prospects for the quota period in question ;                of Luxembourg are united within and jointly
                                                            represented by the Benelux Economic Union, any
                                                            measure concerning the administration of the shares
Whereas, during the last three years for which               allocated to that Economic Union may be carried
statistics are fully available, the corresponding           out by any one of its members,
imports into each of the Member States represented
the following percentages of the total imports of the
product in question:                                        O Based on imports in ferro-chromium in general.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                        France                                 10
                                                                     Ireland                                 1
                       Article 1                                     Italy                              2 524
                                                                     United Kingdom                        100 .
1 . During the period 1 January to 31 December
1976, a Community tariff quota of 3 000 metric tons
shall be opened in the Community for ferro­                                          Article 3
chromium containing not more than 0-10% by weight
of carbon and more than 30% but not more than
                                                             1 . Member States shall ensure that importers of the
90% of chromium (super-refined ferro-chromium)               product in question established in their territory have
falling within subheading ex 73.02 E I of the Common         free access to the shares allocated to them .
Customs Tariff.
                                                             2 . The extent to which a Member State has used
2. Imports of the product in question may not be             up its share shall be determined on the basis of the
charged against this tariff quota if they are already        imports of the product in question entered with the
free of customs duties under other preferential tariff       customs authorities for home use.
arrangements .
3 . Within this tariff quota, the Common Customs                                     Article 4
Tariff duty shall be totally suspended.
                                                             At the Commission's request, Member States shall
4. Within this tariff quota, the new Member States           inform it of the imports actually charged against
shall apply duties calculated in accordance with the         their shares.
relevant provisions of the Act of Accession.
                                                                                     Article 5
                       Article 2
                                                             Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
The Community tariff quota referred to in Article 1          closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied
shall be allocated among Member States as follows :          with.
                                     m metric tons
        Benelux                              170                                     Article 6
        Denmark                               10
                                                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
        Germany                              185             1976.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Luxembourg, 29 October 1975.
                                                                                For the Council
                                                                                  The President
                                                                                  G. MARCORA