CELEX: 51983PC0411
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Date: 1983-07-04
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for ferro-silicon falling within subheading 73.02 C of the Common Customs Tariff (1984)#Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for a ferro-silico-manganese falling within subheading 73.02 D of the Common Customs Tariff (1984)#Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for ferro-chromium containing not more than 0.10 % by weight of carbon and more than 30 % but not more than 90 % by weight of chromium (super-refined ferro-chromium) falling within subheading ex 73.02 E I of the Common Customs Tariff (1984) (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                                          COM(83)                    final
                                                                          Brussels, b July 1983
                                         Proposal fo r a
                                 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
    o p e n i n g , a l l o c a t i n g and p r o v i d i n g f o r t h e a d m i n i s t r a t i o n o f a
    Community t a r i f f q u o t a f o r f e r r o - s i l i c o n f a l l i n g w i t h i n su b h e ad in g
   73.02 C of t h e Common Customs T a r i f f (1984)
                                        Proposal for a
                                COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
   o p e n i n g , a l l o c a t i n g and p r o v i d i n g f o r t h e a d m i n i s t r a t i o n of
   a Community t a r i f f q u o t a f o r a f e r r o - s i l i c o - m a n g a n e s e f a l l i n g w i t h i n
   su b h e a d i n g 73. 0 2 D o f t h e Common Customs T a r i f f (1984)
                                        Proposal fo r a
                               COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
  o p e n i n g , a l l o c a t i n g and p r o v i d i n g f o r t h e a d m i n i s t r a t i o n o f a
  Community t a r i f f q u o t a f o r fe r r o -c h r o m i u m c o n t a i n i n g not more t h a n
  0 . 1 0 % by w e ig h t o f c a rb o n . and more t h a n 30 % but not more t h a n
 90 % by w e ig h t o f chromium ( s u p e r - r e f i n e d fer r o -c h r o m i u m ) f a l l i n g
  w i t h i n s u b h e a d i n g ex 73 .0 2 E I o f t h e Common Customs T a r i f f (1984)
                   (submitted
 ---pagebreak---                                                   EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1. As p a r t of t h e m u L t i n a t i o n a l n e g o t i a t i o n s w i t h i n GATT t h e Community
    u nd e rto o k t o open t h e Community d u t y - f r e e t a r i f f q u o t a s each year f o r
    the th re e following f e r r o - a l l o y s ;
                   73.02 C                                  ferro-silicon                              20,000 to nn es
                   73.02 D                                  ferro-silico-m anganese                    50,000 to n n es
            ex     73.02 E I                                  su p e r- te f in e d
                                                                    f e r r o - c h r o m i urn          3,0 0 0 tonr     s
     However, s i n c e 1 J u l y 1977, t h e s e f e r r o - a l l o y s have been imported
     from P o r t u g a l d u t y f r e e i n p u r s u a n c e o f t h e agreement concluded with
     t h i s c o u n t r y . As from 1 J a nu ar y 1980 t h i s a l s o a p p l i e d t o p r o d u c t s
     from t h e o t h e r EFTA c o u n t r i e s . These q u o t a s must t h e r e f o r e be reduced
     by q u a n t i t i e s r e p r e s e n t i n g t h e s h a r e of t h e s e c o u n t r i e s ' Community
      i m p o r t s . The volumes of t h e s e q u o t a s have t h u s been reduced to
     12,600 t o n n e s f o r f e r r o - s i l i c o n , 18 ,550 t o n n e s f o r f e r r o - s i l i c o - m a n g a n e s e
      and 2,95 0 t o n n e s f o r supei—r e f i n e d fe r r o -c h r o m i u m .
 2.     The Commission's p r o p o s a l s r e g a r d i n g t h e f i r s t two f e r r o - a l l o y s draw
       e x t e n s i v e l y upon t h o s e put forward f o r t h e same p r o d u c t s in p r ev i o u s
       y e a r s , i n t h a t t h e a l l o c a t i o n o f t h e qu ota s h a r e s c o n t i n u e s t o be in
        l i n e with t h e u s u a l r u l e s        ( c a l c u l a t i o n ba sed on p a s t f i g u r e s and on
       forecasts for               1 9 8 4 .)
         For t h e t h i r d p r o d u c t , i n t h e absen ce of r e p r e s e n t a t i v e p r e v i o u s f i g u r e s ,
        t h e a l l o c a t i o n of t h e qu ota s h a r e s between Member S t a t e s i s t h a t adopted
        by t h e Council f o r t h e              1983 q u o t a .
  3 . The d r a f t r e g u l a t i o n s annexed h e r e t o t h e r e f o r e r e l a t e t o t h e o p en ing ,
         a l l o c a t i o n and a d m i n i s t r a t i o n of t h e f o l l o w i n g Community t a r i f f
         quotas for            1984 :
                            D escription of             Quota              Quota            Volume o f          Volume of
                                product                 volume             d ut y              reserve            initial
          ____________________________________________________________                                             s h a re
          Annex           A    ferro-silicon             1 2, 600 t              0%              600 t          12 ,0 00 t
           Annex          B   ferro-silico-              18,550 t                0%              900 t           17,650 t
                             manganese
           Annex          C    supei—r e f i n e d         2,950 t               0%              150 t            2, 800 t
                               f err o -ch ro mi u m                  ____             _____________
 ---pagebreak---                                                     Proposal for a
                                           COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
                  opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for
                     ferro-silicon falling within subheading 73.02 C of the Common Customs Tariff (1 9 8 4 )
  THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                                            1 9 8 0 i w r ~ .....T 9 8 T
                                                                     Benelux                          8 .9 3     9 .9 4    7 .7 5
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                               0          0         0
                                                                     Denmark
  Economic Community, and in particular Article 113
  thereof,                                                           Germany                        5 1 .8 8 5 9 .5 0    7 2 .2 6
                                                                     Greece                           0 .0 7     0 .0 6    0 .0 1
                                                                     France                           3 .2 4     2 .9 6    1 .3 1
   Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                     Ireland                          0          0         0 .0 1
                                                                     Italy                          1 4 .6 2   1 4 .4 8  1 3 .6 2
  Whereas, as regards ferro-silicon, falling within                                                 2 1 .2 6   1 3 .0 1    5 .0 4
                                                                     United Kingdom ■
  subheading 73.02 C, the European Economic
  Community has undertaken to open an annual duty-free
  tariff quota of 2 0 0 0 0 tonnes; whereas this should
  however be reduced to 1 2 6 0 0 tonnes to take account of         Whereas, in view of these factors and of market forecasts
  the traditional imports from EFTA countries which have            for ferro-silicon for 1984, the initial percentage shares in
  been free' of customs duty under the Agreements                   the quota volume can be expressed approximately as
  concluded with those countries           a s Wg|_[ a s o b l i ­  follows:
  g a tio n s e n te re d in to in r e l a t i o n to a
  t h i r d c o u n t r y which has t h e r i g h t o f                     Benelux                            8 ..5 2
  t h e p r e v i o u s n e g o c i a t o r f o r t h i s qu o ta                                              0 ,.01
                                                                            Denmark
  volume ; whereas t h e t a r i f f q u o t a                              Germany                          6 0 ,.8 4
concerned should therefore be opened on 1 January 198 4                     Greece                             0 ,.0 4
and allocated among the Member States;                                      France                             4 ,.2 6
                                                                            Ireland                            0 ..01
                                                                            Italy                            11 ,. 9 0
Whereas equal and continuous access to the quota should
                                                                            United Kingdom                   14,.4 2
be ensured for all importers and the rate of duty for the
 tariff quota should be applied consistently to all imports
until the quota is exhausted; whereas arrangements for             Whereas, to take account of future import trends for the
 the utilization of the Community tariff quota based on an         products concerned, the quota should be divided into two
 allocation among Member States would seem to be                   instalments, the first being allocated and the second held
consistent with the Community nature of the quota;                 as a reserve to cover subsequently the requirements of
whereas, to correspond as closely as possible to the actual        Member States which have used up their initial share;
trend of the market in the product in question, allocation,        whereas, to give importers some degree of certainty, the
of the quota should be in proportion to the requirements           first instalment of the tariff quota should be fixed at a high
of the Member States as calculated by reference to                 level, which in this case should be approximately 95 % of
statistics of imports from third countries during a                the volume of the quota;
representative reference period and to the economic
outlook for the quota period in question;
                                                                   Whereas initial shares may be used up at different rates;
                                                                   whereas to avoid disruption of supplies on this account it
Whereas, during the last three years for which complete
statistics are available, the corresponding imports into
each of the Member States represented the following
percentages of the total imports of the product in
question:
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    should be provided that any Member State which has             2.      A first instalment of 1 2 0 0 0 tonnes shall be
    almost used up its initial share should draw an additional     allocated among the Member States; the shares, which
    share from the reserve; whereas each time its additional       subject to Article 5 shall be valid from 1 January to 31
    share is almost used up a Member State should draw a           December 1984, shall be as follows:
    further share, and so on as many times as the reserve
    allows; whereas the initial and additional shares should                                                        (tonnes)
    be valid until the end of the quota period; whereas this                Benelux                                    1 022
    form of administration requires close collaboration
                                                                            Denmark                                          1
    between the Member States and the Commission, which
    latter must be in a position to keep account of the extent              Germany                                   7 301
    to which the quotas have been used up and to inform the                 Greece                                           5
    Member States accordingly;                                              France                                       511
                                                                            Ireland                                          ^
    Whereas if at a given date in the quota period a                        Italy                                      1 428
    considerable quantity of a Member State’s initial share                 United Kingdom                             1 731
    remains unused, it is essential that that Member State
    should return a significant proportion to the reserve, in
    order to prevent a part of the Community quota                 3.      The second instalment of 6 0 0 tonnes 'shall
    remaining unused in one Member State while it could be         constitute the reserve.
    used in others;
    Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of
                                                                                              Article 3
    the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
    are united within and jointly represented by the Benelux
                                                                    1.     If a Member State has used 90% or more of its
    Economic Union, any measure concerning the
                                                                   initial share as fixed in Article 2 (2), or of that share minus
    administration of the shares allocated to that economic
                                                                   any portion returned to the reserve pursuant to Article 5,
     union may be carried out by any one of its members,
                                                                   it shall forthwith, by notifying the Commission, draw a
                                                                   second share, to the extent that the reserve so permits,
                                                                   equal to 5 % of its initial share rounded up as necessary to
                                                                   the next whole number.
     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                                                    2.     If a Member State, after exhausting its initial share,
                                                                    has used 90% or more of the second share drawn by it,
                               Article 1                            that Member State shall forthwith, in the manner and to
                                                                    the extent provided in paragraph 1, draw a third share
     1.     From 1 January to 31 December 1984, a                   equal to 2-5 % of its initial share rounded up as necessary
600  Community tariff quota of f" t o n n e s shall be opened       to the next whole number.
     in the Community for ferro-silicon falling within
     subheading 73.02 C of the Common Customs Tariff.
                                                                     3.     If a Member State, after exhausting its second
                                                                     share, has used 90 % of more of the third share drawn by
     2.     Imports of the product in question may not be            it, that Member State shall, in the manner and to the
     charged against this tariff quota if they are already free of   extent provided in paragraph 1, draw a fourth share equal
     customs duties under other preferential tariff                  to the third.
     arrangements.
                                                                     This process shall apply until the reserve is used up.
     3.     Within this quota the Common Customs Tariff
     duty shall be totally suspended.                                4.     By way of derogation from paragraphs 1 to 3, a
                                                                     Member State may draw shares lower than those specified
     4.     Within the limits of this tariff quota, Greece shall     in those paragraphs if there are grounds for believing that
     apply duties calculated in accordance with the relevant         those specified may not be used in full. Any Member State
     provisions in the Act of Accession of 1979.                     applying this paragraph shall inform the Commission of
                                                                     its grounds for so doing.
                                Article 2                                                       Article 4
      1.     The Community tariff quota referred to in Article 1     Additional shares drawn pursuant to Article 3 shall be
      shall be divided into two instalments.                         valid until 31 December 1984 .
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                             A rtii le 5
                                                                  shall notify the amount of that balance to the Member
                                                                  State making the last drawing.
Member States shall, not later than 1 October 1984,
return to the reserve the u.. iscd portion of their initial
share which, on 15 Septemb t 1984, is in excess of 20%                                      Article 8
of the initial volume. They may return a greater portion if
there are grounds for believing that it may not be used in         1.     Member States shall take all appropriate measures
 full.                                                             to ensure that additional shares drawn pursuant to Article
                                                                   3 are opened in such a way that imports may be charged
 Member States shall, not larcr than 1 October 1984,               without interruption against their aggregate shares of the
  notify the Commission of the total quantities of the             Community quota.
  product in question imported up to and including 15
  September 198 4 and charged against the Community                 2.     Member States shall ensure that importers of the
  quota and of any portion of their initial shares returned to      product in question,                                 have
  the reserve.                                                      free access to the shares allocated to them.
                                                                    3.      The extent to which the Member States have used
                               A r '; le 6
                                                                    up their shares shall be determined on the basis of the
                                                                     imports of the products in question entered with the
   Member States may testrict the charging of imports                customs authorities for free circulation.
   against their shares to products for certain intended uses.
   In that case the Community provisions on the matter shall
   be applied for checking that the product has been used for
   the stipulated purpose.                                                                     Article 9
                                                                      At the Commission’s request, Member States shall inform
                                Article 7                             it of imports actually charged against their shares.
    The Commission shall keep an account of the shares
    opened by the Member States pursuant to Articles 2 and 3
                                                                                               Article 10
    and shall, as soon as the i -formation reaches it, inform
    each State of the extent to a hich the reserve has been used
                                                                       The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
    up.
                                                                       closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied with.
     It shall, not later than 5 October 198 4, inform the
     Member States of the amount still in reserve, following
     any return of shares pursuant to Article 5.                                                Article 11
      It shall ensure that the drawing which exhausts the reserve      This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
      does not exceed the balance available, and to this end            198 4 .
                     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                      States.
                      Done at Brussels,
                                                                                        For the Council
                                                                                          The President
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                                                  Proposal for a
                                      COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
               opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for
               ferro-silico-manganese falling within subheading 73.02 D of the Common Customs Tariff
                                                            (1 9 8 4 )
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            Whereas, in view of these factors and of market forecasts
                                                                    for ferro-silico-manganese for 198 V, the initial
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               percentage shares in the quota volume can be expressed
Economic Community, and in particular Article 113                   approximately as follows:
thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                            Benelux                                  5.13
Whereas, as regards ferro-silico-manganese, falling                         Denmark                                  0 ..01
within subheading 73.02 D, the European Economic                            Germany                                57.63
Community has undertaken to open an annual duty-free                        Greece                                   0.62
Community tariff quota of 50 000 tonnes; whereas this                       France                                   6.80
should however be reduced to 18 550 tonnes to take                                                                   0.01
                                                                            Ireland
 account of the traditional imports from EFTA countries                                                            14.73
which have been free of customs duty under the                              Italy
Agreements concluded with those countries; whereas the                      United Kingdom                         15.07
tariff quota concerned should therefore be opened on 1
January 1984* and allocated among the Member States;
Whereas equal and continuous access to the quota should             Whereas, to take account of future trends in imports of
be ensured for all importers and the rate of duty for the           the product in question, the quota should be divided into
tariff quota should be applied consistently to all imports          two instalments, the first being allocated and the second
until the quota is used up; whereas, in the light of the            forming a reserve intended to cover any subsequent
principles outlined above, arrangements for the                     requirements to M . nber States which have used up their
 utilization of the Community tariff quota based on an              initial share; whereas, in order to give importers some
 allocation among Member States would seem to be                    degree of certainty, the first instalment of the tariff quota
 consistent with the Community nature of the quota;                 should be fixed at a high level, which in this case should be
 whereas, in order that it may correspond as closely as              approximately 95% of the volume of the quota;
 possible to the actual market trends in the product in
 question, allocation of the quota should be in proportion
 to the requirements of the Member States as calculated by
 reference to statistical data on imports from third                 Whereas initial shares may be used up at different rates;
 countries during a representative reference period and to           whereas, to avoid disruption of supplies on this account,
 the economic prospects for the quota period in                      it should be provided that any Member State which has
 question;                                                           almost used up its initial share should draw an additional
                                                                     share from the reserve; whereas each time its additional
 Whereas, during the last three years for \yhich complete            share is almost used up a Member State should draw a
 statistics are available, the corresponding imports into            further share, and so on as many times as the reserve
 each of the Member States represented the following                 allows; whereas the initial and additional shares should
 percentages of the total imports of the product in                  be valid until the end of the quota period; whereas this
 question:                                                           form of administration requires close collaboration
                                                                     between the Member States and the Commission, which
                                                                     latter must be in a position to keep account of the extent
                               1980      1981        1982
                                                                     to which the quotas have been used up and to inform the
 Benelux                         6.4^      3 .3 3     3.21           Member States accordingly;
 Denmark                         0         0          0
 Germany                       5 8 .8 3  6 4 .1 7   49.14
 Greece                          5 .8 6    1.13       0.14           Whereas, if at a given date in the quota period a
                                                                     considerable quantity of a Member State’s initial Share
 France                          4 .4 7    2.25      11 . 8 0        remains unused, it is essential that that Member State
 Ireland                         0         0          0              should return a significant proportion to the reserve, in
 Italy                         1 3 .7 7  20.23       19.98           order to avoid a part of the Community quota remaining
 United Kingdom                1 0 .6 3    8.88      15.73           unused in one Member State when it could be used in
                                                                     others;
 ---pagebreak---                                              P r o p o s t a di
                                   REGOLAMENTO (CEE)                                DEL CONSIGLIO
                relativo all’apertura, alla ripartizione ed alle modalità di gestione del contingente tariffario
                comunitario di ferro-silico-manganese della sottovoce 73.02 D della tariffa doganale comune
                                                                  (1 9 8 4 )
IL CONSIGLIO DELLE COMUNITÀ EUROPEE,                                      considerando che, tenuto conto di questi elementi e della
                                                                          prevedibile evoluzione del mercato del ferro-silico-man­
visto il trattato che istituisce la Comunità economica                    ganese durante il 198 4> la percentuale di partecipazione
europea, in particolare l’articolo 113,                                   iniziale al volume del contingente può approssimativa­
                                                                          mente determinarsi come segue:
vista la proposta della Commissione,
considerando che per il ferro-silico-manganese della                               Benelux                                  5 ,1 3
sottovoce 73.02 D la Comunità economica europea si è                               Danimarca                                0 ,0 1
impegnata ad aprire un contingente tariffario comunita­                            Germania                               5 7 ,6 3
rio annuale di 50 000 tonnellate in esenzione da dazio                             Grecia                                   0 ,6 2
doganale; che questo volume deve essere tuttavia ridotto
                                                                                   Francia                                  6 ,8 0
a 18 550 tonnellate per tener conto delle importazioni
tradizionali dai paesi dell’AELE che possono effettuarsi in                        Irlanda                                  0 ,0 1
esenzione dai dazi in virtù degli accordi conclusi con                             Italia                                 1 4 ,7 3
questi paesi; che è pertanto opportuno aprire, il 1° gen­                          Regno Unito                            15,07
naio 1984, il contingente tariffario in questione riparten­
dolo tra gli Stati membri;
                                                                          considerando che, per tener conto dell’eventuale evolu­
considerando che occorre garantire in particolare l’ugua­
                                                                          zione delle importazioni del suddetto prodotto, occorre
glianza e la continuità d’accesso di tutti gli importatori a
                                                                           suddividere in due parti il volume contingentale, ripar­
detto contingente nonché l’applicazione, senza interru­
                                                                          tendo la prima parte e costituendo con la seconda una
zione, dell’aliquota di dazi prevista per detto contingente
                                                                          riserva per coprire l’ulteriore fabbisogno degli Stati
a tutte le importazioni fino ad esaurimento di quest’ulti­
                                                                          membri che avessero esaurito la loro aliquota iniziale; che
mo; che un sistema di utilizzazione del contingente
                                                                          per garantire una certa sicurezza agli importatori è
tariffario comunitario basato su una ripartizione tra gli
                                                                          opportuno fissare la prima parte del contingente tariffario
 Stati membri consente di rispettare la natura comunitaria
                                                                          comunitario ad un livello elevato che, nella fattispecie,
 di detto contingente tenendo conto dei principi sopra
                                                                           potrebbe corrispondere al 95 % circa del volume contin­
 enunciati; che, per rispecchiare il più possibile la reale
                                                                           gentale;
 evoluzione del mercato del prodotto in questione, tale
 ripartizione dovrebbe essere effettuata proporzionalmen­
 te ai fabbisogni calcolati, da una parte, secondo i dati                 considerando che le aliquote iniziali possono esaurirsi più
 statistici relativi alle importazioni in provenienza dai                  o meno rapidamente; che, per tener conto di ciò ed evitare
 paesi terzi durante un periodo di riferimento rappresen­                  ogni discontinuità, è necessario che ogni Stato membro
 tativo e, dall’altra, secondo le prospettive economiche per               che abbia utilizzato quasi totalmente la sua aliquota
 l’anno contingentale considerato;                                         iniziale effettui il prelievo di un’aliquota supplementare
                                                                           dalla riserva; che tale prelievo deve essere effettuato da
considerando che negli ultimi tre anni, per i quali sono                   ogni Stato membro quando ciascuna delle sue aliquote
disponibili esaurienti dati statistici, le importazioni di                 supplementari sia quasi totalmente utilizzata e ciò finché
ciascuno Stato membro corrispondono, rispetto alle                         la consistenza della riserva lo permetta; che le aliquote
 importazioni complessive del prodotto in questione, alle                  iniziali e supplementari devono essere valide fino al
seguenti percentuali:                                                      tèrmine del periodo contingentale; che tale metodo di
                                                                           gestione richiede una stretta collaborazione tra gli Stati
                                   1980      1981       1982               membri e la Commissione e che quest’ultima deve, in
Benelux                                                                    particolare, poter seguire il grado di esaurimento del
                                   6,44     3 , 33        5 ,21
                                                                           volume del contingente ed informarne gli Stati mem­
Danimarca                           0       o , 01        0                bri;
Germania                         58,83    6 4 , 17      49 ,1 4
Grecia                             5,86      1 , 13        0 ,1 4
                                                                            considerando che, se ad una data determinata del periodo
Francia                            4,47      2 , 25     11 ,8 0             contingentale in uno Stato membro si rende disponibile
                                             0             0                una forte rimanenza dell’aliquota, tale Stato deve river­
Irlanda                            0                                        sarne una percentuale considerevole nella riserva, per
Italia                           13,77     2 0 , 23     19 ,9 8             evitare che una parte del contingente tariffario comuni­
Regno Unito                       10,63      8 , 88     15 ,7 3             tario rimanga inutilizzata in uno Stato membro mentre
                                                                            potrebbe essere utilizzata in altri;
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      considerando che, poiché il Regno del Belgio, il Regno dei          aliquota diminuita della parte trasferita alla riserva, in
      Paesi Bassi e il Granducato del Lussemburgo sono riuniti e          caso di applicazione dell’articolo 5, è utilizzata in ragione
      rappresentati dall’unione economica Benelux, tutte le               del 90% o più, lo Stato membro in questione procede
      operazioni relative alla gestione delle aliquote attribuite a       immediatamente, mediante notifica alla Commissione, al
      detta unione economica possono essere effettuate da uno            prelievo di una seconda aliquota pari al 10% della
      dei suoi membri,                                                   propria aliquota iniziale, eventualmente arrotondata
                                                                         all’unità superiore, sempreché l’entità della riserva lo
                                                                         permetta.
                                                                         2.     Se, dopo aver esaurito l’aliquota iniziale, uno Stato
     HA ADOTTATO IL PRESENTE REGOLAMENTO:                                membro ha utilizzato in ragione del 90 % o più anche la
                                                                         seconda aliquota, esso procede immediatamente, alle
                                Articolo 1                               condizioni di cui al paragrafo 1, al prelievo di una terza
                                                                         aliquota pari al 5 % della propria aliquota iniziale,
     1.      Dal 1° gennaio al 31 dicembre 198ì è aperto nella          eventualmente arrontondata all’unità superiore.
     Comunità un contingente tariffario comunitario di
     18 550 tonnellate di ferro-silico-manganese della sotto­           3.      Se, dopo aver esaurito la seconda aliquota, uno
     voce 73.02 D della tariffa doganale comune.                        Stato membro ha utilizzato in ragione del 90% o più
                                                                        anche la terza aliquota, esso procede immediatamente,
     2.      Non sono imputabili sul contingente tariffario             alle stesse condizioni, al prelievo di una quarta aliquota
     suddetto le importazioni del prodotto in questione che già         pari alla terza.
    beneficiano dell’esenzione dai dazi doganali in forza di un
    altro regime tariffario preferenziale.                              Questo procedimento si applica fino ad esaurimento della
                                                                        riserva.
    3.      Nei limiti del contingente tariffario in questione,
    il dazio della tariffa doganale comune è totalmente                 4.     In deroga ai paragrafi 1, 2 e 3, ciascuno Stato
    sospeso.                                                            membro può procedere al prelievo di aliquote inferiori a
                                                                        quelle stabilite da detti paragrafi se vi è ragione di ritenere
    4.      Nei limiti di questo contingente tariffario, la Grecia     che esse rischierebbero di non essere esaurite. Esso
    applica dazi calcolati in conformità delle disposizioni            informa la Commissione dei motivi che lo hanno indotto
    stabilite in materia dall’atto di adesione del 1979.               ad applicare il presente paragrafo.
                              Articolo 2                                                          Articolo 4
   1.        Una prima parte di 17 650 tonnellate di tale              Le aliquote supplementari prelevate ai sensi dell’articolo 3
   contingente tariffario comunitario viene suddivisa tra gli          sono valide fino al 31 dicembre 198 4 .
   Stati membri; le aliquote che, salvo l’articolo 5, sono
   valide dal 1° gennaio al 31 dicembre 198 4 ammontano
                                                                                                  Articolo 5
  per gli Stati membri a:
                                             (in tonnellate)          Gli Stati membri trasferiscono alla riserva, al più tardi il
                                                                      1° ottobre 198^, la frazione non utilizzata della loro
           Benelux                                   906              aliquota iniziale che, al 15 settembre 1984, ecceda il 20 %
           Danimarca                                     2            del volume iniziale. Essi possono trasferire una quantità
           Germania                             10   171              superiore se vi è ragione di ritenere che essa rischi di non
          Grecia                                     110              essere utilizzata.
          Francia                                 1 200
                                                                     Gli Stati membri comunicano alla Commissione, entro e
          Irlanda                                       2
                                                                      non oltre il 1° ottobre 1984, il totale delle importazioni del
          Italia                                 2 600
                                                                     prodotto in questione effettuate al 15 settembre 198+
          Regno Unito                            2 6 59              incluso e imputate al contingente comunitario nonché, se
                                                                     del caso, la frazione della loro aliquota iniziale che essi
                                                                    trasferiscono alla riserva.
 2.      La seconda parte, di 900 tonnellate, costituisce la
 riserva.
                                                                                                Articolo 6
                                                                    Gli Stati membri possono limitare a determinate destina­
                            Articolo 3                              zioni la possibilità di imputazione alle loro aliquote. In tal
                                                                    caso il controllo dell’utilizzazione per le particolari
1.      Se l’aliquota iniziale di uno Stato membro - quale è        destinazioni prescritte s’effettua applicando le disposizio­
fissata dall’articolo 2, paragrafo 1 - ovvero la stessa             ni comunitarie in materia.
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                                              Proposal      for    a
                                     COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
              opening, allocating and providing for the adminstration of a Community tariff quota for
              ferro-chromiu! · · ontaining not more than 0-10% by weight of carbon and more than 30%
              but not more thau 90 % by weight of chromium (super-refined ferro-chromium), falling within
                            subheading ex 73.02 E I of the Common Customs Tariff 11 9 8 4 )
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        in the quota volume can be expressed approximately as
                                                                follows:
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                                          tonnes)
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 113                      Benelux                                  15-93
 thereof,                                                               Denmark                                   0-03
                                                                        Germany                                  27-71
                                                                        Greece                                    0-17
 Having regard to the proposa) from the Commission,
                                                                        France                                   29-10
                                                                        Ireland                                   0-03
Whereas, as regards ferro-chromium containing by                        Italy                                     8*66
weight not more than 0-10 7U of carbon and more than                    United Kingdom                           18-37
30 % but not more than 90 % of chromium (super-refined
ferro-chromium), falling v.itbin subheading 73.02 E I,
the European Economic Community has undertaken to               Whereas, to take account of future import trends for the
open an annual duty-free tariff quota of 3 000 tonnes;          products concerned, the quota should be divided into two
whereas this should, howev r, be reduced to 2 950 tonnes        instalments, the first being allocated and the second held
to take account of the tra-'-’^onal imports from EFTA           as a reserve to cover subsequently the requirements of
countries which have been free of customs duty under the        Member States which have exhausted their initial share;
Agreements concluded with '■hose countries; whereas the         whereas, to give importers some degree of certainty, the
tariff quota concerned should therefore be opened on 1          first instalment of the tariff quota should be fixed at a high
January 198^ and allocated "mong the Member States;             level, which in this case should be approximately 95 % of
                                                                the volume of the quota;
Whereas equal and continuous access to the quota should         Whereas initial shares may be used up at different rates;
be ensured for all importers and the rate of duty for the       whereas to avoid disruption of supplies on this account it
tariff quota should be applied consistently to all imports      should be provided that any Member State which has
until the quota is used up; whereas arrangements for the        almost used up its initial share should draw an additional
utilization of the Community tariff quota based on an           share from the reserve; whereas each time its additional
allocation among Member States would seem to be                 share is almost used up a Member State should draw a
consistent with the Community nature of the quota;              further share, and so on as many times as the reserve
whereas, to correspond as c: --Hy as possible to the actual      allows; whereas the initial and additional shares should
trend of the market in the or d.ict in question, allocation     be valid until the end of the quota period; whereas this
of the quota should be in proportion to the requirements        form of administration requires close collaboration
of the Member States as calculated by reference to               between the Member States and the Commission, which
statistics of imports iron: third countries during a             latter must be in a position to keep account of the extent
representative reference . . 1 and to the economic              to which the quotas have been used up and to inform the
outlook for the quota period m question;                        Member States accordingly;
                                                                 Whereas, if at a given date in the quota period a
Whereas ferro-chromium • r Ms quite specific quality is          considerable quantity of a Member State’s initial share
not singled out in the Member States statistical                 remains unused, it is essential that that Member State
nomenclatures; whereas            corresponding imports          should return a significant proportion to the reserve, in
from third countries, not already benefiting from an             order to prevent a part of the Community quota
equivalent preferential arrangement, could not be                remaining unused in one Member State while it could be
detailed in their entirety for the nbovementioned                used in others;
reference period; where:-s, taking into account the
foreseeable evolution of the market in such
ferro-chromium for 198 4. — ‘ in particular the forecasts       Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of
made by tl.c Member State he initial percentage shares          the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
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      are united within and   jointly represented by the Benelux          any portion returned to the reserve pursuant to Article 5,
      Economic Union,         any measure concerning the                  it shall forthwith, by notifying the Commission, draw a
      administration of the   shares allocated to that economic           second share, to the extent that the reserve so permits,
      union may be carried    out by any one of its members,              equal to 10% of its initial share rounded up as necessary
                                                                          to the next whole number.
     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:                                        2.     If a Member State, after exhausting its initial share,
                                                                         has used 90 % or more of the second share drawn by it,
                               Article 1                                 that Member State shall forthwith, in the manner and to
                                                                         the extent provided in paragraph 1, draw a third share
     1.      From 1 January to 31 December 198 4 a                       equal to 5 % of its initial share rounded up as necessary to
     Community tariff quota of 2 950 tonnes shall be opened              the next whole number.
    in the Community for ferro-chromium containing by
    weight not more than 0-10% of carbon and more than                  3.      If a Member State, after exhausting its second
    30 % but not more than 90 % of chromium (super-refined              share, has used 90 % or more of the third share drawn by
    ferro-chromium), falling within subheading 73.02 E 1 of             it, that Member State shall, in the manner and to the
    the Common Customs Tariff.                                          extent provided in paragraph 1, draw a fourth share equal
                                                                        to the third.
    2.      Imports of the product in question may not be
    charged against this tariff quota if they are already free of       This process shall apply until the reserve is used up.
    customs duties under other preferential tariff
    arrangements.
                                                                       4.      By way of derogation from paragraphs 1 to 3, a
                                                                       Member State may draw shares lower than those specified
   3.      Within this quota, Common Customs Tariff duty               in those paragraphs if there are grounds for believing that
   shall be totally suspended.                                         those specified may not be used in full. Any Member State
                                                                       applying this paragraph shall inform the Commission of
   4.      Within the limits of this tariff quota, Greece shall        its grounds for so doing.
   apply duties calculated in accordance with the relevant
   provisions in the Act of Accession of 1979.
                                                                                                  Article 4
                             Article 2                                Additional shares drawn pursuant to Article 3 shall be
                                                                      valid until 31 December 1984.
  1.      A first instalment of 2 800 tonnes of this
  Community tariff quota shall be allocated among the
  Member States; the shares, which subject to Article 5
  shall be valid from 1 January to 31 December 198 A, shall                                       Article 5
  be as follows:
                                                                      Member States shall, not later than 1 October 1984,
                                                   (tonnes)           return to the reserve the unused portion of their initial
           Benelux                                     446            share which, on 15 September 1984, is in excess of 20 %
                                                                     of the initial volume. They may return a greater portion if
          Denmark                                         1
                                                                     there are grounds for believing that it may not be used in
          Germany                                      776           full.
          Greece                                         5
          France                                       815           Member States shall, not later than 1 October 198 4,
          Ireland                                        1           notify the Commission of the total quantities of the
          Italy                                       242            product in question imported up to and including 15
          United Kingdom                              514            September 198 ^ and charged against the Community
                                                                     quota and of any portion of their initial shares returned to
                                                                    the reserve.
 2.      The second instalment of 150 tonnes shall
 constitute the reserve.
                                                                                                 Article 6
                           Article 3
                                                                    Member States may restrict the charging of imports
1.      If a Member State has used 90 % or more of its              against their shares to products for certain intended uses.
initial share as fixed in Article 2 (1), or of that share minus     In that case the Community provisions on the matter shall
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  je applied for check iiip h.«· i he product has been used for    without interruption against their aggregate share of the
 the stipulated purpose.                                           Community quota.
                                                                   2.     Member States shall ensure that importers of the
                            Article 7                              product in question,                                  have
                                                                   free access to the shares allocated to them.
The Commission shall keen an account of the shares
opened by the Member St ales pursuant to Articles 2 and 3          3.     The extent to which the Member States have used
 and shall, as soon as il»e information reaches it, inform         up their shares shall be determined on the basis of imports
 each State of the extent to which the reserve has been used       of the products in question entered with the customs
 up.                                                               authorities for free circulation.
 It shall, not later than 5 October 19 8 ^ inform the
                                                                                             Article 9
 Member States of the amount still in reserve, following
 any return of shares pursuant to Article 5.
                                                                   At the Commission’s request, Member States shall inform
                                                                   it of the imports actually charged against their shares.
 it shall ensure that the dm ·.·. ing which exhausts the reserve
 does not exceed the balance available, and to this end
 shall notify the amount of that balance to the Member                                      Article 10
 State making the last drawing.
                                                                   The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
                                                                   closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied with.
                            Article 8
                                                                                            Article 11
1.     Member States shall take all appropriate measures
to ensure that additional shares drawn pursuant to Article         This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
3 are opened in such a way that imports may be charged             198 4 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
                Done at Brussels,                                     ·.
                                                                                   For the Council
                                                                                     The President