CELEX: 31978R1785
Language: en
Date: 1978-07-25 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/78 of 25 July 1978 increasing the Community tariff quota opened for 1978 by Regulation (EEC) No 2747/77 for unwrought magnesium falling within subheading 77.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff

29 . 7. 78                         Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 205/ 1
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                                         (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                  COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1785/78
                                                    of 25 July 1978
                increasing the Community tariff quota opened for 1978 by Regulation ( EEC) No
                2747/77 for unwrought magnesium falling within subheading 77.01 A of the
                                               Common Customs Tariff
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                    by weight and not exceeding 99.95 % of pure magne­
 COMMUNITIES,                                                   sium (unwrought magnesium not in alloy), and 2 500
                                                                tonnes of unwrought magnesium containing not more
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          than 99.8 % by weight of pure magnesium
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 113              (unwrought magnesium in alloy) ;
 thereof,
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,             Whereas as far as the distribution of the above quota
                                                                volumes between Member States is concerned, it is
 Whereas, for unwrought magnesium falling within                necessary to allot to the Community reserves all the
 subheading 77.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff, a             supplementary volumes allocated to extra-pure magne­
 Community tariff quota for 1978 totalling 5 500                sium and unwrought magnesium in alloy and also a
 tonnes has been opened by the Council and allocated            relatively small part of the supplementary volume allo­
 among the Member States by Regulation (EEC) No                 cated to unwrought magnesium not in alloy, the
 2747/77 ( i) ;                                                 balance of this last volume being divided among the
 Whereas the economic data at present available with            Member States in accordance with the percentages
 regard to the consumption and production of                    originally used,
 unwrought magnesium do not yet permit Community
 requirements of imports from non-member countries
 to be evaluated with sufficient precision ; whereas it         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 appears that certain Member States have considerable
 magnesium requirements which cannot be met by
 Community production ; whereas the quota                                                Article 1
 concerned should therefore be increased by an appro­
 priate amount, approximately 3 400 tonnes ; whereas           The volume of the Community tariff quota opened by
 the fixing at this level of this supplementary quota          Regulation (EEC) No 2747/77 for unwrought magne­
 does not preclude further adjustments during the              sium falling within subheading 77.01 A of the
quota period ; whereas, in view, moreover, on the one          Common Customs Tariff is hereby increased from
                                                               5 500 to 8 900 tonnes.
 hand of the present requirements in unwrought
 magnesium, not in alloy, with a pure magnesium
                                                               This increase of 3 400 tonnes shall be allocated as
content of not less than 99.95 % and, on the other, of
                                                               follows :
the quantities available in the Community and of the
possible increase in production by Community indus­            (a) 300 tonnes of unwrought magnesium containing
tries based principally on unwrought magnesium, not                 99-95 % or more by weight of pure magnesium
in alloy, and also the possibility of duty-free imports             (extra-pure magnesium), intended for the nuclear
under Agreements concluded by the Community with                    industry and under customs supervision or equiva-
certain non-acceding EFTA countries, it can be esti­                lent administrative supervision ;
mated that short-term requirements for imports of
unwrought magnesium may, within the limit of the               (b) 600 tonnes of unwrought magnesium containing
proposed increase, reach 300 tonnes of unwrought                    not less than 99-8 % but less than 99-95 % by
magnesium containing 99-95 % or more by weight of                   weight of pure magnesium (unwrought magne­
pure magnesium (extra-pure magnesium), 600 tonnes                   sium not in alloy) ;
of unwrought magnesium containing 99-8 % or more               (c) 2 500 tonnes of unwrought magnesium containing
                                                                    less than 99-8 % by weight of pure magnesium
(») OJ No L 318, 13. 12. 1977, p. 7.                                (unwrought magnesium in alloy).
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                         Article 2                                                                  (tonnes)
                                                                    Benelux                          116.5
                                                                    Denmark                             0.2
The volumes of 300 and 2 500 tonnes referred to in
                                                                    Germany                          365.5
Article 1 (a) and (c) allocated to extra-pure unwrought             France                             12
magnesium intended for the nuclear industry and to                  Ireland                             0.2
unwrought magnesium in alloy shall be allocated to                  Italy                               1-6
the Community reserves set up under Articles 2 ( 1 )
                                                                    United Kingdom                     64
and 3 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2747/77, which
shall thus be increased from 600 to 900 tonnes and
from 425 to 2 925 tonnes respectively.                        2.   The second tranche of 40 tonnes shall constitute
                                                             the reserve .
                                                             The amount of the reserve for this type of unwrought
                                                              magnesium, provided for in Article 3 (2) of Regulation
                         Article 3                           (EEC) No 2747/77, is thus increased from 130 to 170
                                                             tonnes .
1.    A first tranche of the amount referred to in                                  Article 4
Article 1 (b), of 560 tonnes of unwrought magnesium          This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh
not in alloy, shall be allocated among the Member            day following its publication in the Official Journal
States as follows :                                           of the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 25 July 1978 .
                                                                          For the Council
                                                                           The President
                                                                        K. von DOHNANYI