CELEX: 51981PC0821
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Date: 1981-12-22
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 3306/80 as regards the definitive antidumping duty on mechanical alarm clocks (other than travel alarms) originating in the German Democratic Republic (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                Proposal for a
                            COUNCIL REGULATION         ( EEC )
      amending Regulation ( EEC ) No 3306 / 80 as regards the definitive anti
      dumping duty on mechanical alarm clocks ( other than travel alarms )
      originating in the German Democratic Republic
                ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
 C0M(81 ) 821 final
 ---pagebreak---                          EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
  1.   In December last year a definitive anti-dumping duty was imposed
  on mechanical alarm clocks ( other than travel alarms ) originating in the
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  German Democratic Republic and the USSR .      For the GDR , the amounts were :
  - for large twin bell alarms : 0.53 EUA per clock
  - for all other alarms :         0.30 EUA per clock .
  2.   Two days before the Council adopted the regulation , the GDR exporter
  offered an undertaking to increase his prices from 1 January 1981 to a
  level which would eliminate the margins of dumping or , where lower , the
  extent of injury , thereby achieving the same effect as the above amounts
  of duty .
  3.   The Commission has now had the opportunity to consider this undertaking
  and to consult the advisory committee on anti-dumping questions , Vwhich was     j
' in favour of                 the acceptance of this undertaking and of a
  parallel repeal of the definitive duty against the GDR .
  4.   The Commission has consequently decided to accept the undertaking offered ,
  and to propose to the Council the repeal of the definitive anti-dumping
  duty against the GDR .
  5.   The attached draft Council Regulation would have the effect that
  shipments of GDR alarm clocks declared for consumption in the Community
  from the date of entry into force would not be liable to anti-dumping duty .
  To prevent a hiatus between application of the duty and application of the
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  undertaking , however , alarm clocks which have previously been in customs
  bond in the Community would continue to be liable to anti-dumping duty .
    Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 3306 /80 of 18 December 1980, 0J No L 344 ,
    19.12.1980 , p. 34
 ---pagebreak---                           Proposal for a
                         COUNCIL REGULATION
   amending Regulation ( EEC ) No 3306 / 80 as regards the definitive anti-dumping
duty on mechanical alarm clocks ( other than travel alarms ) originating in
the German Democratic Republic
    THE COUNCIL     OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
    Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community/
    Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 3017 /79 of 20 December 1979
    on protection against dumped or subsidized imports from countries not mem­
    bers of the European Economic Community ,        and in particular Article 14
    thereof ,
 '. Having regard to the proposal submitted by the Commission after consultatic
 • within the Advisory Committee set up under Article 6 of the aforesaid -
    Regulation ;                                                         "
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   Whereas the Commission , by Regulation ( EEC) No 1579 /80 , imposed a
   provisional anti-dumping duty on mechanical alarm clocks ( other than
   travel alarms ) originating in the German Democratic Republic and the USSR ;
    Whereas the exporter in the German Democratic Republic subsequently
    undertook voluntarily to increase its prices from 1 January 1981 to a
    level which would eliminate the injury caused by dumping in respect of
   alarms with external bells falling within NIMEXE Code 91*04-56 , and which
    would eliminate the margins of dumping established for other types ;
    whereas the form of this undertaking was not one which the Commission
   considered acceptable ; whereas immediately prior to the expiry of the
   provisional duty the exporter offered a revised undertaking;
     0J No L 339 / 31*12*1979 / p * 1
   20J No L 158/ 25*06*1980/ p* 3
 ---pagebreak---                                - 2 -
  Whereas there was then insufficient time before the expiry of the provisional
  anti-dumping duty for the Commission to consult within the          Advisory
  Committee and to take a decision on the acceptability of this undertaking ;
  Whereas consequently, since the facts as finally established showed
  that there was dumping , and injury caused thereby - the Council , by
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  Regulation ( EEC ) No 3306 /80 , imposed a definitive anti-dumping duty on
  mechanical alarm clocks ( other than travel alarms ) originating in the
  German Democratic Republic and the USSR ;
Whereas , since the Commission , after consultation within the Advisory
Committee ,   has considered the said undertaking and accepted     it ;
Whereas^ in   these circumstances , and after consultation with­
in the Advisory Committee , Regulation ( EEC ) No 3306 /80 has been reviewed;
Whereas this review shows that , in view of the price undertaking offered by
the German; Democratic Republic , it is no longer necessary to take protective
action in respect of the products in question originating in the German
Democratic Republic other than those which have previously been introduced into
the customs territory of the Community , but have not been released into free
 circulation in the Community ,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                              Article 1
Regulation ( EEC ) No 3306 / 80 is hereby amended as follows :
1 . The reference to the German Democratic Republic in Article 1(1 ) is deleted .
 2.   Article 1(2)(a )  is deleted .
  0J No L 344 , 19.12.1980 , p. 34
 ---pagebreak---                         Article   2
  This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its
  publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
  It shall not apply in respect of gpods originating in the G.erman Democratic
  Republic which have previously been introduced into the customs territory of the
  Community , but have not been released into free circulation in the
  Community , to which Regulation ( EEC ) No 3306 / 80 in its unamended
  form shall continue to apply .
'This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
  applicable in all   Member States .
 Done at Brussels                               For the Council