CELEX: 31976R2929
Language: en
Date: 1976-11-29
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 2929/76 of 29 November 1976 increasing the Community tariff quota opened for 1976 for unwrought magnesium falling within subheading 77.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff

3 . 12. 76                             Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 334/ 1
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                                      COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 2929/76
                                                    of 29 November 1976
             increasing the Community tariff quota opened for 1976 for unwrought magne­
                 sium falling within subheading 77.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                       unwrought magnesium may, within the limit of the
COMMUNITIES,                                                      proposed increase, reach 50 metric tons of unwrought
                                                                  magnesium containing 99-95 % or more by weight of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             pure magnesium (extra-pure magnesium), 1 000
Economic Community, and in particular Article 113                 metric tons of unwrought magnesium containing
thereof,                                                          99-8 % or more by weight and not exceeding
                                                                  99-95 % of pure magnesium (unwrought magnesium
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                not in alloy), and 2 700 metric tons of unwrought
                                                                  magnesium containing less than 99-8 % by weight of
                                                                  pure magnesium (unwrought magnesium in alloy) ;
Whereas, for unwrought magnesium falling within
subheading 77.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff, a
Community tariff quota for 1976 totalling 9 350                   Whereas as far as the distribution of the above quota
                                                                  volume between Member States is concerned, it is
metric tons was opened by the Council and allocated
                                                                  necessary to allot to the Community reserves all the
among the Member States by Regulations (EEC) No
126/76 0 and (EEC) No 1 630/76 (2) ;                              supplementary volumes allocated to extra-pure magne­
                                                                  sium and unwrought magnesium in alloy and also a
                                                                  relatively small part of the supplementary volume allo­
Whereas the economic data at present available with               cated to unwrought magnesium not in alloy, the
regard to the consumption , production, exports to                balance of this volume being divided among the
non-member countries, imports under the inward                    Member States in accordance with the percentages
processing or other preferential tariff arrangements              originally used,
and to the abnormal stocks existing in one Member
State on 31 December 1975 enable it to be estimated
that Community requirements for imports from non­
member countries could reach , in the course of 1976,
a level of 25 000 metric tons ; whereas in view of the            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
quota volume already opened by the abovementioned
Regulations, of the uncertainty as to the levels which
Community production and consumption might                                                 Article 1
reach and of the quantities available within the
Community either from stocks accumulated in 1975
or from production in 1976, the increase should be                The volume of the Community tariff quota opened by
limited to 3 750 metric tons ;                                    Regulations ( EEC) No 126/76 and ( EEC) No 1630/76
                                                                  for unwrought magnesium falling within subheading
Whereas in view, moreover, on the one hand of the                 77.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff is hereby
                                                                  increased from 9 350 to 13 100 metric tons .
present requirements in unwrought magnesium with a
pure content of not less than 99-95 % and on the
other hand of the quantities available in. the Commu­             This increase of 3 750 metric tons shall be allocated as
nity and also the possibility of duty-free imports                follows :
under agreements concluded by the Community with
certain non-acceding EFTA countries, it can be esti­              (a) 50 metric tons of unwrought magnesium
mated that short-term requirements for imports of                     containing 99-95 % or more by weight of pure
                                                                      magnesium (extra-pure magnesium), intended for
(') OJ No L 14, 23 . 1 . 1976, p . I.                                 the nuclear industry and under customs supervi­
O OJ No L 181 , 7 . 7. 1976, p . 4.                                   sion or equivalent administrative supervision ;
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(b) 1 000 metric tons of unwrought magnesium                   sium not in alloy, shall be allocated among the
    containing not less than 99-8 % but less than              Member States as follows :
    99-95 % by weight of pure magnesium                                                              (in metric tons)
    (unwrought magnesium not in alloy) ;                             Benelux                                  150.7
(c) 2 700 metric tons of unwrought magnesium                         Denmark                                    0.35
    containing less than 99-8 % by weight of pure                    Germany                                  610.2
    magnesium (unwrought magnesium in alloy).                        France                                    30
                                                                     Ireland                                    0.35
                           Article 2                                 Italy                                      3
                                                                     United Kingdom                           105.4
The volumes of 50 metric tons and 2 700 metric tons
referred to in Article 1 (a) and (c) allocated to extra­        2.   The second tranche of 100 metric tons shall
pure unwrought magnesium intended for the nuclear              constitute the reserve .
industry and to unwrought magnesium in alloy shall             The amount of the reserve for unwrought magnesium
be allotted to the Community reserves set up under              not in alloy, provided for in Article 3 (2) of Regulation
Articles 2 ( 1 ) and 3 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 126/76       (EEC) No 126/76, as amended by Regulation (EEC)
as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1630/76, which                No 1630/76, shall be increased from 190 to 290
shall thus be increased from 950 to 1 000 metric tons           metric tons.
and from 3 325 to 6 025 metric tons respectively.
                                                                                        Article 4
                           Article 3
                                                               This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
 1.   A first tranche of the amount referred to in              following its publication in the Official Journal of
Article 1 (b), of 900 metric tons of unwrought magne­           the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 29 November 1976 .
                                                                             For the Council
                                                                               The President
                                                                          J. A. van KEMENADE