CELEX: 41976D0074
Language: en
Date: 1976-01-20 00:00:00
Title: Decision of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community, meeting within the Council of 20 January 1976 establishing supervision for imports of certain products originating in Austria (1976)

24. 1 . 76                       Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 16/35
                                                         II
                                     (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                               COUNCIL
                                                    DECISION
             OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE MEMBER
             STATES OF THE EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY, MEETING
                                            WITHIN THE COUNCIL
                                               of 20 January 1976
             establishing supervision for imports of certain products originating in Austria ( 1976)
                                                    (76/74/ECSC)
THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS                      ceilings and Community supervision for imports of
OF THE MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN                        certain products originating in Austria (x ).
COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY, MEETING WITHIN
THE COUNCIL,
                                                            2. Amounts shall be set off against the indicative
                                                            ceilings as and when products are submitted to the
                                                            customs authorities under cover of a declaration that
In agreement with the Commission,                           they have been made available for consumption and
                                                            are accompanied by a movement certificate conform­
                                                            ing to the rules contained in the Agreement referred
HAVE DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
                                                            to in paragraph 1 .
                                                            Goods shall be set off against the indicative ceiling
                       Article 1                            only if the movement certificate has been submitted
                                                            before    the  date    on   which    customs  duties  are
1 . Imports of certain products originating in Austria      reimposed.
and indicated in Articles 1 and 2 of Protocol 1 to the
Agreement between the Member States of the
European Coal and Steel Community and the                   The reaching of a ceiling shall be determined at
European Coal and Steel Community, of the one               Community level on the basis of imports set off
part, and the Republic of Austria, of the other part,       against it in the manner defined in the preceding
shall be subject to annual indicative ceilings and to       subparagraph.
Community supervision from 1 January to
31 December 1976.
                                                            The Member States shall periodically inform the
                                                            Commission of imports effected in accordance with
                                                            the above rules ; such information shall be supplied
The description of the products referred to in the
                                                            under the conditions laid down in paragraph 4.
preceding subparagraph, their tariff headings and
statistic numbers and the levels of the indicative
ceilings are given in Council Regulation (EEC)
No 87/76 of 20 January 1976 establishing indicative         (*) See page 1 of this Official Journal.
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3 . As soon as the ceilings have been reached, the          2. Member States shall forward to the Commission
Member States may, at the request of one of them            not later than the 15th day of each month statements
or of the Commission, reimpose, until the end of the        of imports of the products in question effected during
calendar year, each in respect of its own territory,        the preceding month ; only products submitted to the
the customs duties applicable to third countries,           customs authorities under cover of a declaration that
adjusted, where appropriate, by the percentages laid       they are to be made available for consumption and
down in Article 2 (e) of Protocol 1 to the Agreement        accompanied by a movement certificate conforming
referred to in paragraph 1 .                                to the rules contained in Protocol 3 to the Agreement
                                                            shall be taken into consideration for this purpose.
4. Member States shall forward to the Commission
not later than the 15th day of each month statements                               Article 3
of the amounts set off during the preceding month.
They shall, if the Commission so requests, make up          For the implementation of this Decision the Member
such statements for periods of 10 days and forward         States shall take all necessary measures in close
them within five clear days of expiry of the preceding      cooperation with the Commission.
10-day period.
                                                                                   Article 4
                                                           The Member States shall take all measures required
                       Article 2                           to implement this Decision.
1 . Imports of products originating in Austria which
are mentioned in Articles 1 and 2 of Protocol 1 to the      Done at Brussels, 20 January 1976.
Agreement and indicated in Annex II to Regulation
(EEC) No 87/76, shall be subject to Community                                                   The President
supervision.                                                                                     G. THORN