CELEX: 51980PC0872
Language: en
Date: 1980-12-12
Title: Draft COMMISSION DECISION ECSC concerning certain obligations of Community undertaking using high grade special steels and stockholders of these products

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 COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                              COM(80)872 final
                                              Brussels - 12 December 1980
                                Draft
                        COMMISSION DECISION    ECSC
         concerning certain obligations of Community undertaking using
         high grade special steels and stockholders of these products
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       concerning certain obligations of Community undertaking using high-grade
              special steels and stockholders of these products       " '
   The Commission of the European Communities ,
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  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European' Coal and Steel Community,
  and in particular the first and second paragraph of Article 95 thereof .
  Whereas :
  By Decision      2794/8O/ECSC ( l ), the Commission established a system of production
- quotas for the Community iron and steel industry ;          As regards to high-
  grade and special steels , special provisions are in force in respect of alloy
  steels of a certain quality and price level under which quotas may be exceeded
  under Commission supervision .
  These special provisions require supervision of the products in question and
  of invoiced prices . For this supervision to be effective , it must be applied
  not only to producers but also to users, and stockholders of high-grade and
  special steels .   Users and stockholders as such of these products , do not consti­
  tute undertakings within the meaning of the Treaty . In order to facilitate
  supervision , the provisions of Article 47 of the Treaty should be made appli­
  cable to undertakings using high-grade and special steels and stockholders of
  these products .
  The Treaty does not confer on the Commission powers to impose these obligations on
  undertakings using high-grade and special steels and on stockholders of these products
  It' is therefore necessary , in order to attain the objectives of the              .
  Community in the operation of the common market as defined in Articles 2 , 3
  and 4 of the'Treaty, to extend the application of the provisions of Article 47
  of the Treaty to undertakings using high-grade and special steels and stockholders
  of those products for the duration of the production quota system .
   U ) 0 JF L 291/       31.10.1980, p.1 .
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the Council,                                                                            J
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
                                     Article 1
Undertakings using high-grade and special steels and stockholders as defined in
Annex I ( hereinafter referred to as " consuming undertakings and stockholders ") shall
be obliged to keep a record containing the information specified in Annex II concerning
receipts , as from 1 November 1980, of alloy steels , as defined in Annex III , covered
by the special provisions of Article 2A of Decision No 2794 / 80/ ECSC ,
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                                    Article 2
The Commission , in exercising the powers conferred on it by Article 47 of the            ,
Treaty, shall verify the accuracy of the information recorded. Consuming undertakings '
and stockholders shall be required to facilitate these verifications without the need
for any separate decision .     The instruction given to the verifying official shall    '
refer to this provision and indicate the information he is required to verify . Con-     ,
sunning undertakings and stockholders which evade the obligations resulting from this    ,
Decision or who knowingly furnish false information shall be liable to the sanctions
provided for in Article 47 of the Treaty . The maximum amount of fines shall be one
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per cent ( 1% ) of the value of annual purchases by consuming undertakings on stock-    j
holders of the products defined in Annex III , and the maximum amount of penalty pay­
ments shall be 5 per cent ( 5% ) of the value of daily purchases of these products .
                                    Article 3
This' Decision shall enter into force on the day     of its publication in the
Official Journal of the European Communities .      Its effect shall cease .
simultaneously with that of the system of production quotas established by
Decision No 2794 / 80/ ECSC , but not later than 30 June 1981 .
This Decision shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all
Member States .
Done at Brussels ,
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                       DEFINITION OF UNDERTAKINGS USING
                        HIGH-GRADE AND SPECIAL STEELS
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 Undertakings using high-grade and special steels within the meaning
 of this Decision shall be all those Community undertakings which use
 high-grade and special steels for the manufacture of industrial product
                    DEFINITION OF STOCKHOLDERS
                      OF HIGH-GRADE AND , SPECIAL STEELS   \
Stockholders within the meaning of this Decision shall be those
steel merchants whi ch sell from stock in their own name and on their own
■accoun - h -'gh -grade and special steels .
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           INFORMATION TO BE RECORDED IN UNDERTAKINGS
            USING HIGH-GRADE AND SPECIAL STEELS AND
            STOCKHOLDING MERCHANTS OF THESE PRODUCTS
                 PRODUCTS DEFINED IN ANNEX III
 (a )   Vendor (name and address )
 (b)    Producer ( if different from the vendor )
 (c)    Number and date of invoice
              «
Commercial designation of product and specification ( qualities ,
dimensions )
Tonnage
(a)     Ordered
(b )    Delivered
Pri ce
(a)     Effective price invoiced per tonne
           with indication as to whether : -   free destination
                                           -   free frontier
                                           -  ex-works / basing point
(b) .   Transport cost included in the price ( if applicable )
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DEFINITION OF ALLOY - STEEL PRODUCTS COVERED BY THE SPECIAL PROVISIONS
              OF ARTICLE 2A(2a ) OF DECISION NO 2794 / 80 / ECSC
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Alio / steels with an alloy content of not less than 5% ( except for
steels containing less than 1% carbon and more than ^ ZX chromium ),
where actual invoiced price is not less than 30% higher than the
list price of the corresponding ordinary steel products .