CELEX: 31976D0775
Language: en
Date: 1976-07-28 00:00:00
Title: 76/775/ECSC: Commission Decision of 28 July 1976 extending for six months Decision 71/314/ECSC of 27 July 1971 authorizing specialization Agreements covering the manufacture of rolled-steel products and Agreements for the setting up of an agency to allocate orders for merchant steel bars and wire rod between Eisenwerk-Gesellschaft Maximilianshütte mbH, Klóckner-Werke AG and Stahlwerke Peine-Salzgitter AG

2. 10 . 76                              Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 270 /31
                                                      COMMISSION
                                                    COMMISSION DECISION
                                                          of 28 July 1976
              extending for six months Decision 71 /314/ECSC of 27 July 1971 authorizing
              specialization Agreements covering the manufacture of rolled-steel products
              and Agreements for the setting up of an agency to allocate orders for merchant
              steel bars and wire rod between Eisenwerk-Gesellschaft Maximilianshutte mbH ,
                              Klockner-Werke AG and Stahlwerke Peine-Salzgitter AG
                                                 (Only the German text is authentic)
                                                           (76/775/ECSC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     2. By its Decision 76/354/ECSC of 13 February
 COMMUNITIES,                                                        1976 the Commission extended the application of the
                                                                    first Decision until 30 June 1976 to enable the under­
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              takings concerned to complete their negotiations with
 Coal and Steel Community, and in particular Article                the object of consolidating through new Agreements
 65 thereof,                                                        the results achieved with the specialization Agree­
                                                                    ments which had been authorized .
 Having regard to Decision 71 /314/ ECSC of 27 July
 1971 authorizing specialization Agreements covering                3.     Those concerned submitted to the Commission
 the manufacture of rolled-steel products and Agree­                on 29 June 1976 a contract for cooperation and
 ments for the setting up of an agency to allocate                  specialization Agreements and asked for an extension
 orders for merchant steel bars and wire rod between
 Eisenwerk-Gesellschaft          Maximilianshutte         mbH,
                                                                    of the existing Agreements for the period necessary to
                                                                    enable the new Agreements to be examined under
 Klockner-Werke AG and Stahlwerke Peine-Salzgitter                  Article 65 of the Treaty.
 AGO ),
 Having regard to Decision 76/354/ECSC of 13                        4. The grounds for the extension Decision of 13
 February 1976 extending Decision 71 /314/ECSC until                February 1976 remain valid and are accordingly appli­
 30 June 1976 (2),                                                  cable to the present Decision .
 Having regard to the application from the undertak­                5.     In the circumstances an extension for a period of
 ings concerned dated 29 June 1976,                                 six months of Decision 71 / 314/ ECSC can be autho­
                                                                    rized.
 Whereas :
 1 . By Decision 71 /314/ ECSC of 27 July 1971 , the
 Commission gave an authorization under Article 65 of               HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
 the Treaty to the following steel undertakings :
 Eisenwerk-Gesellschaft Maximilianshütte mbH , Sulz­                                        Article 1
 bach-Rosenberg ;
 Klöckner-Werke AG, Duisburg ;                                      Decision 71 /314/ ECSC of 27 July 1971 authorizing
 Stahlwerke Peine-Salzgitter AG, Peine,                             specialization Agreements covering the manufacture
                                                                    of rolled-steel products and Agreements for the
for specialization Agreements covering the manufac­                 setting up of an agency to allocate orders for
ture of rolled-steel products and Agreements for the                merchant steel bars and wire rod between Eisenwerk­
setting up of an agency to allocate orders for                      Gesellschaft Maximilianshutte mbH , Klockner-Werke
merchant steel     bars and wire          rod . This   Decision     AG and Stahlwerke Peine-Salzgitter AG is extended
expired on 31 December 1975.                                        until 31 December 1976.
(') OJ No L 201 , 5 . 9 . 1971 , p . 19 .
(2) OJ No L 95, 9 . 4. 1976, p. 21 .
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                                                  Article 2
           This Decision is addressed to :
           Eisenwerk-Gesellschaft Maximilianshütte mbH, Sulzbach-Rosenberg ;
           Klöckner-Werke AG, Duisburg ;
           Stahlwerke Peine-Salzgitter AG, Peine.
           Done at Brussels, 28 July 1976.
                                                                For the Commission
                                                                     R. VOUEL
                                                             Member of the Commission