CELEX: 51973PC0766
Language: en
Date: 1973-05-21
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL increasing the Community tariff quota for unwrought magnesium falling within subheading No 77.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff (Submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                 PROPOSAL TOR A
                         REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL
          increasing the Community tariff quota for unwrought magnesium
          falling within subheading No 77.01 A of the Common Customs
          Tariff
                 ( Submitted to the Council by the Commission)
   COM(73) 766 final
 ---pagebreak---                             EXPLANATORY I®?0RA1-IDIJI1
1 , B7 exoharge of letters r-ith the Nordic Delegatio n ( document NCG(67 )
    44 Rev , of 13.10.1967 - Annexes Nord 2 and 5) ^ he European Economic
    Community undertook to open an annual duty–free tariff quota to the
    extent that Community requirements were not covered "by Community
    production , as soon as the 196? Geneva Protocol entered into force#
2 . Accordingly , the Council decided in Regulation (EEC ) No 2737/72 of
                       1
    19 December 1972     to open for 1973 a tariff quota the volume of
    which has been fixed at 7 000 metric tons , based on conservative
    estimates and subject to subsequent adjustments .
3 . The proposal for a Regulation annexed hereto follows a review of
    the market situation in unwrought magnesium within the Community ,
    which was carried out at a meeting of the "Tariff Economy " ad hoc
    group held on 4 April 1973 *
    Based on provisional economic data and estimates collated at the
    meeting , the Community 's evaluation of the situation is as follows :
    Consumption                                        75 . 820 metric tons
    Production                                         21 600 metric tons
    Exports to third countries                          1 770 metric tons
    Forward processing traffic                         10150 metric tons
    Stocks ( 31.12.1972 )                               1 800 metric tons .
    Taking into account the fact that a tariff quota of 7 000 metric
    tons has alreacly been opened at the beginning of the year , the
    Community 's evaluation indicates that the additional requirements
    in imports from third countries under the tariff quota will amount
    to more than 30 000 metric tons . However , pending a further Community
     OJ lio L 291 , 28 December 1972 , page 129»
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eve.lv.at ion to "be made during next September on the "basis of more
precise data on the consumption and real production of the Community ,
this increase should "be limited to a volume of possibly 6 000 metric
tons , taking into consideration the quotas opened in previous years .
Furthermore , the quantities at present available within the Community ,
due to stocks built up either at the end of 1972 or in the first
months of 1973 and to the increase in Community production of
unwrought magnesium , especially unalloyed , seem to indicate that
at least until the next review of the situation in September 1973
the import requirements of the Community for unwrought magnesium
not in alloy may be entirely covered by Community production . That
is why in the proposal for a regulation annexed hereto , the projected
increase of the quota in question relates only to imports of unwrought
magnesium in alloy from third countries .
As the Commission has often proposed in similar cases , it is intended
to place the whole of the proposed increase in the Community reserve
constituted under Regulation (EEC ) Ho 2737/72 .
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                           • Proposal for
                     REGULATION ( EEC ) OF THE COUNCIL
             increasing the Community tariff quota for
             unwrought magnesium falling within subheading
             No 77.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff
THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic
Community , and in particular Article 113 thereof ;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
Whereas , as regards unwrought magnesium falling within subheading
77.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff , a Community tariff quota
totalling 7.000 metric tons has been opened for 1973 and allocated
among the Member States by Regulation (EEC) No 2737/72^;
Wherea^ based on provisional economic data, for 1973 as regards
consumption, production, exports to third countries , imports
falling under inward processing traffic and abnormal stocks in
oertain Member States , it is estimated that the Community 's
requirements for imports from third countries may , in 1973 | reach
a much higher level than the quota volume of ^ 000 metric tons
opened by the Council Regulation referred to above ; whereas ,
pending a further Community evaluation to be made on the basis       -
of more precise economic data , the increase should be limited in
amount to 6 000 metric tons , fixed on conservative estimates and
subject to later adjustments ; whereas , in view , moreover , of the
^ OJ No L 291 » 28 December 1972 , page 129.
 ---pagebreak--- stocks held in one Member State on 31 December 1972 , and. of the
substantial quantities available within the Community , the additional
requirements for imports from third countries would seem to relate
to unwrought magnesium containing less than 99. 8/0 try weight of pure
magnesium (unwrought magnesium not in alloy) ; whereas the tariff
quota under consideration should be increased as proposed , but only
in respect of that grade of unwrought magnesium ;
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                              Article 1
1 . The amount of the Community tariff quota of 6,580 metric tonnes for
    unwrought magnesium ( ex subheading 17,01 A of the Common Customs
    Tariff) provided for in Article 1 of Regulation (EEG) N° 2737/72
    shall be increased to 12,580 metric tonnes »
2 . The Community reserve relating to unwrought magnesium containing
    less than 99.8$ by . weight of pure magnesium , constituted under
    Article 2 (2 ) of Regulation (EEC) Ho 2737/72f shall be increased from
    880 metric tons to 6 880 metric tons .
                              Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following
its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety
                  and directly applicable in all Member States .
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Done At Brussels,'                                 For the Council
                                                   The President