CELEX: 31978R2781
Language: en
Date: 1978-11-27 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 2781/78 of 27 November 1978 increasing the Community tariff quota opened for 1978 for unwrought magnesium falling within subheading 77.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff

No L 333/ 10                         Official Journal of the European Communities                             30 . 11 . 78
                                   COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 2781/78
                                                  of 27 November 1978
              increasing the Community tariff quota opened for 1978 for unwrought magne­
                 sium falling within subheading 77.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                    necessary to allot to the Community reserves all the
 COMMUNITIES,                                                  supplementary volumes allocated to extra-pure magne­
                                                               sium and unwrought magnesium in alloy and also a
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         relatively small part of the supplementary volume allo­
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 113             cated to unwrought magnesium not in alloy, the
 thereof,                                                      balance of this volume being divided among the
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,            Member States in accordance with the percentages
                                                               originally used,
Whereas, for unwrought magnesium falling within
 subheading 77.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff, a
 Community tariff quota for 1978 totalling 8 900                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 tonnes was opened by the Council and allocated
 among the Member States by Regulations (EEC) No
 2747/77(1) and (EEC) No 1785/78 (2) ;                                                  Article 1
^Whereas the economic data at present available with            The volume of the Community tariff quota opened by
 regard to the consumption, production, exports to              Regulations (EEC) No 2747/77 and (EEC) No
 non-member countries, imports under the inward                 1785/78 for unwrought magnesium falling within
 processing or other preferential tariff arrangements           subheading 77.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff is
 and to the abnormal stocks existing in one Member
 State on 31 December 1977 enable it to be estimated            hereby increased from 8 900 to 10 200 tonnes.
 that Community requirements for imports from non­              This increase of 1 300 tonnes shall be allocated as
 member countries could reach, in the course of 1978,           follows :
 a level of 15 825 tonnes ; whereas, in view of the
 quota volume already opened by the abovementioned              (a) 100 tonnes of unwrought magnesium containing
 Regulations, of the uncertainty as to the levels which             99-95 % or more by weight of pure magnesium
 Community production and consumption might                         (extra-pure magnesium), intended for the nuclear
 reach and of the quantities available within the                   industry and under customs supervision or equiva­
 Community either from stocks accumulated in 1977                   lent administrative supervision ;
 or from production in 1978, the increase should be             (b) 200 tonnes of unwrought magnesium containing
 limited to 1 300 tonnes ;                                          not less than 99.8 % but less than 99.95 % by
 Whereas, in view, moreover, on the one hand of the                 weight of pure magnesium (unwrought magne­
 present requirements in unwrought magnesium with a                 sium not in alloy) ;
 pure content of not less than 99-95 % and on the               (c) 1 000 tonnes of unwrought magnesium containing
 other of the quantities available in the Community                 less than 99-8 % by weight of pure magnesium
 and also the possibility of duty-free imports under                (unwrought magnesium in alloy).
 Agreements concluded by the Community with
 certain non-acceding EFTA countries, it can be esti­
                                                                                         Article 2
 mated that short-term requirements for imports of
 unwrought magnesium may, within the limit of the
                                                                The volumes of 100 and 1 000 tonnes referred to in
 proposed increase, reach 100 tonnes of unwrought
 magnesium containing 99-95 % or more by weight of              Article 1 (a) and (c) allocated to extra-pure unwrought
 pure magnesium (extra-pure magnesium), 200 tonnes              magnesium intended for the nuclear industry and to
 of unwrought magnesium containing 99-8 % or more               unwrought magnesium in alloy shall be allotted to the
 by weight and not exceeding 99-95 % of pure magne­             Community reserves set up under Articles 2 ( 1 ) and 3
 sium (unwrought magnesium not in alloy), and 1 000             (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2747/77, as amended by
 tonnes of unwrought magnesium containing less than             Regulation (EEC) No 1785/78 , which shall thus be
                                                                increased from 900 to 1 000 tonnes and from 2 925 to
 99-8 % by weight of pure magnesium (unwrought
 magnesium in alloy) ;                                          3 925 tonnes respectively.
 Whereas, as far as the distribution of the above quota
 volume between Member States is concerned, it is                                        Article 3
 (») OJ No L 318, 13 . 12. 1977, p. 7.                           1.   A first instament of the amount referred to in
 (A OJ No L 205, 29. 7. 1978, p. 1 .                            Article 1 (b), of 180tonnes of unwrought magnesium
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not in alloy, shall be allocated among the Member            The amount of the reserve for unwrought magnesium
States as follows :                                          not in alloy, provided for in Article 3 (2) of Regulation
                                           (tonnes)          (EEC) No 2747/77, as amended by Regulation (EEC)
                                                             No 1785/78 , shall be increased from 170 to 190
    Benelux                                   30.1
                                                             tonnes .
    Denmark                                    01
    Germany                                 1 22.0
    France                                     6.0
    Ireland                                    0.1                                   Article 4
    Italy                                      0.6
    United Kingdom                            21 1
                                                             This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
2.    The second instalemnt of 20 tonnes shall consti­       following its publication in the Official Journal of
tute the reserve.                                             the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 27 November 1978.
                                                                         For the Council
                                                                           The President
                                                                         H. EHRENBERG