CELEX: 31975R2880
Language: en
Date: 1975-10-29 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2880/75 of the Council of 29 October 1975 on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for ferro-silicon, falling within subheading 73.02 C of the Common Customs Tariff

No L 292/12                         Official Journal of the European Communities                           12. 11.75
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 2880/75 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                   of 29 October 1975
              on the opening, allocation and administration of a Community tariff quota for ferro­
                   silicon, falling within subheading 73.02 C of the Common Customs Tariff
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       Whereas, in view of these factors and of market
                                                               forecasts for ferro-silicon for 1976, the percentage
                                                               shares in the quota volume can be expressed roughly
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                   as follows :
European Economic Community, and in particular
Article 113 thereof ;                                                  Benelux                          64-75
                                                                       Denmark                           0-75
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
                                                                       Germany                          15-00
                                                                       France                            0-25
Whereas, as regards ferro-silicon, falling within
subheading 73.02 C, the European Economic Com­                         Ireland                           1-25
munity has undertaken to open an annual duty-free                      Italy                             4-25
Community tariff quota of 20 000 metric tons ;
whereas the tariff quota in question should therefore                  United Kingdom                    13-75 ;
be opened on 1 January 1976 and allocated among
the Member States ; whereas the duties to be applied           Whereas, since this tariff quota is for a relatively
by the new Member States within this tariff quota              small quantity, it seems possible to provide for a
must comply with the relevant provisions of the                system of use based on a single allocation and at
Act of Accession ;                                             the same time preserve the Community nature of
                                                               the quota ; whereas such an allocation may therefore
Whereas arrangements for the utilization of the Com­           be based on the percentage figures shown in the
munity tariff quota based on an allocation among               table above;
Member States would seem to be consistent with
the Community nature of the quota ; whereas, in                Whereas, since the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom
order that it may correspond as closely as possible            of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of
to the actual market trends in the product in                   Luxembourg are united within and jointly represented
question, allocation of the quota should be in                 by the Benelux Economic Union, any measure
proportion to the requirements of the Member                   concerning the administration of the shares allocated
States as calculated by reference to statistical data          to that Economic Union may be carried out by any
on imports from third countries during a represen­             one of its members,
tative reference period and to the economic prospects
for the quota period in question ;
                                                               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas, during the last three years for which
statistics are fully available, the corresponding
imports into each of the Member States represented
the following percentages of the total imports of the
product in question :                                                                  Article 1
                              1972     1973      1974          1 . During the period 1 January to 31 December
                                                               1976 a Community tariff quota of 20 000 metric tons
Benelux                      15-69    20-28     15-14          shall be opened in the Community for ferro-silicon
Denmark                        2-02     0-64      0-36         falling within subheading 73.02 C of the Common
                                                               Customs Tariff.
Germany                      49-74    61-47     56-31
France                         0-31     0-37      0-52
Ireland                        0-65     0         0-24
                                                               2. Imports of the product in question may not be
                                                               charged against this tariff quota if they are already
Italy                          8-81   10-87     13-97          free of customs duties under other preferential tariff
United Kingdom               22-78      6-42    13-46          arrangements.
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3 . Within this tariff quota the Common Customs                                     Article 3
Tariff duty shall be totally suspended.
                                                             1 . Member States shall ensure that importers of the
4. Within this tariff quota, the new Member States           product in question established in their territory
                                                             have free access to the shares allocated to them.
shall apply duties calculated in accordance with the
relevant provisions of the Act of Accession.                 2. The extent to which a Member State has used
                                                             up its share shall be determined on the basis of the
                                                             imports of the product in question entered with the
                                                             customs authorities for home use.
                        Article 2
                                                                                    Article 4
The Community tariff quota referred to in Article 1
shall be allocated among Member States as follows :          At the Commission's request, Member States shall
                                                             inform it of the imports actually charged against
                                     in metric tons          their shares .
        Benelux                           12 950
                                                                                    Article 5
        Denmark                              150
                                                             Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
        Germany                            3 000
                                                             closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied
        France                                50             with.
        Ireland                              250
                                                                                     Article 6
        Italy                                850
                                                             This Regulation       shall    enter  into    force  on
        United Kingdom                     2 750 .           1 January 1976.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Luxembourg, 29 October 1975.
                                                                                For the Council
                                                                                 The President
                                                                                 G. MARCORA