CELEX: 31987R3706
Language: en
Date: 1987-12-08 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 3706/87 of 8 December 1987 increasing the volume of the Community tariff quota opened for the second half of 1987 for certain ferrophosphorus falling within subheading ex 28.55 A of the Common Customs Tariff

12. 12. 87                              Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 349/ 1
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                                             (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                      COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3706/87
                                                     of 8 December 1987
                 increasing the volume of the Community tariff quota opened for the second half
                 of 1987 for certain ferrophosphorus falling within subheading ex 28.55 A of the
                                                   Common Customs Tariff
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           cated among certain Member States in proportion to their
                                                                   foreseeable needs, and the second held as a Community
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              reserve to cover possible additional requirements,
Economic Community and in particular Article 28
thereof,                                                           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                                            Article 1
Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 1449/87 ('), the                   The volume of the Community tariff quota opened by
Council opened, for the second half of 1987, and allo­             Regulation (EEC) No 1449/87 for ferrophosphorus, falling
cated among the Member States, a duty-free Community               within subheading ex 28.55 A of the Common Customs
tariff quota for certain ferrophosphorus falling within            Tariff, containing 15 % or more by weight of phosphorus,
subheading ex 28.55 A of the Common Customs Tariff                 intended for the manufacture of refined phosphoric iron
and the volume of which was initially fixed at 1 3 000             or steel, shall be increased from 1 3 000 to 37 000 tonnes.
tonnes ;
                                                                                              Article 2
Whereas it can be estimated, from the economic data now
available on consumption, production and imports ben­              1 . A first tranche of the supplementary amount
efiting from other preferential tariff arrangements, that          provided by Article 1 , amounting to 19 200 tonnes shall
                                                                   be divided between certain Member States as follows :
immediate Community requirements of imports from
third countries for products of this kind could, during the                                                 (in tonnes)
quota period, reach levels higher than the volume laid                        Benelux                           19 035
down by Regulation (EEC) No 1449/87 ; whereas, in order                       Spain                                165
not to disturb the equilibrium of the market for this              2.    The second tranche of 4 800 tonnes shall constitute
product and to ensure parallel development in sales of             the reserve. The reserve provided by Article 2 (2) of Regu­
Community production and satisfactory security of                  lation (EEC) No 1449/87 is therefore raised from 2 570 to
supplies to the user industries, it is appropriate to provide      7 370 tonnes.
for an increase in volume by a quantity corresponding to
the needs of user industries until the end of the current                                     Article 3
year, that is to say, to 24 000 tonnes ;
                                                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on the day follo­
Whereas it is appropriate to divide into two instalments           wing its publication in the Official Journal of the Euro­
the volume of the increase, the first instalment being allo­       pean Communities.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly 'applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 8 December 1987.
                                                                                For the Council
                                                                                  The President
                                                                                 N. WILHJELM
(') OJ No L 138, 28 . 5. 1987, p. 4.