CELEX: 51973PC1752
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Date: 1973-10-19
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL increasing the size of the Community tariff quota of unwrought magnesium coming under heading 77.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                            COM(73 ) 1752 final
                                                            Brussels , 19 October 1973
                                  PROPOSAL FOR A     ■
                         REGULATION ( ESC ) OF TEE COUNCIL
                    increasing the size of the Community tariff
          quota of unwrought magnesium coming under heading 77.01 A
                          of the Common Customs Tariff
                            .                                                 /
                  ( submitted to the Council "by the Commission)
  C0M(73) 1752 final
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                          EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
 1.    In an exchange of letters with the ITordic delegation
 (Doc. NCG(67)44 Rev. of 13 October 1967 » Annexes NORD 2 and 5 )>
the European Economic Community undertook to open an annual
 tariff quota for unwrought magnesium , the size of which is
 calculated so that the part of Community consumption not covered
"by Community production may "be imported at zero duty from the
date of entry into force of the Geneva Protocol ( 19^7 )»
 2.    This "being so , the Council , by virtue of (EEC ) Regulations
Uos 2737/72 of 19 December 19721 and 1654/73 of 18 June 19732,
decided to open a Community tariff quota for 1973 whose total
 size was fixed , on the basis of cautious estimates , at 13,000
metric tons , not excluding any later adjustments .
 3 . The proposed regulation annexed hereto is the outcome of the
re-examination , carried out during September 197 3 1 of the position
within the Community of the market for unwrought magnesium. On
the basis of the most recent data and economic forecasts gathered
 for the purpose , it appears that the importation requirements of
 the Community as originally constituted to be met from non-member
 countries might reach a level of 20,180 metric tons during 1973 *
Having regard to the fact that a quota of 13»000 metric tons was
 already opened at the beginning of the year , the additional
 importation requirements to be met from non-member countries would
 therefore amount to 7 J 180 metric tons .
 On the other hand, present balances held within the Community ,
 which result firstly from stocks built up either at the end of
 1972 or during the early months of 1973 and secondly from the
 increase in Community unwrought magnesium output , mainly centred
 on unalloyed unwrought magnesium , suggest that the Community 's
   OJ No L291 of 28 December 1972 , page 129 .
 20J Ho L166 of 23 June 1973 , page 5.
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importation requirements of unwrought magnesium up to 31 December
1973 will be only 180 metric tons .   It . is for this reason that
in the proposed regulation annexed hereto t the increase contemplated
for the quota in question is fixed at :
      - 180 metric tons for unalloyed magnesium ; and
      - 7,000 metric tons for alloyed magne&itsii.' .       1
4 * In default of more precise data on each Member State 's
requirements , .the apportionment between them of the quotas
allocated to the two grades of magnesium remains the same as
that adopted for 1973 in the above-mentioned (SEC ) Regulation
No 2737 .      •                          ...
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                      PROPOSAL    POR  A
             REGULATION (EEC ) 03? THE COCETCIL
             increasing the size of the Community tariff
             quota of unwrought magnesium coming under
             heading 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 its Article 113 in particular ;
Having regard to the Commission 's proposal :
                                                            1
Whereas , "by virtue of its (EEC ) Regulations ITos 2737/ 72 and
1654/73 t a Community tariff quota for unwrought magnesium
coming under heading 77*01 A of the Common Customs Tariff was
opened for 1973 and apportioned "between the Member States ;
Whereas , 011 the basis of the most recent economic data , for 197.3
on consumption , production , exports to non-member countries , imports
under the inwards processing procedure and the abnormal stocks held
by a number of Member States , there is reason to assume that
Community importation requirements to be met from non-member
countries might reach the level of 20,180 metric tons during
1973 ; whereas a total quota size of 13»000 metric tons has already
been opened by the Council ;     whereas in consequence the tariff
quota in question should be raised by 7»130 metric tons ;      whereas
moreover , having regard to the stocks held on 31 December 1972
in one Member State and also the large quantities available within
the Community , it is reasonable to assume that the additional
importation requirements of unwrought magnesium amount to 180 metric
tons of unwrought magnesium containing not less than 99»8'S pure
magnesium by Ttfeight (unalloyed unwrought magnesium ) and 7 > 000
metric tons of unwrought magnesium containing less than 99.8'/>
pure magnesium by weight ( alloyed unwrought magnesium ),
-OJ No L291 of 28 Decamber 1972 , page 129
 GJ No L1 65 of 23 June 1973 » page 5
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                              Article 1
The size of the Community tariff quota of 13»000 metric tons
for unwrought magnesium coming tinder heading 77*01 of the
Common Customs Tariff, which was opened "by virtue of (EEC )
Regulations Nos 2737/72 and 1 654/7 3 * shall be increased "by
7,180 metric tons 'and therefore raised to 20,180 metric tons .
This increase of 7»180 metric tons shall consist of:
     ( a) 180 metric tons of unwrought magnesium containing
           not less than 99.8^ pure magnesium by weight ; and
     (b ) 7»000 metric tons of unwrought magnesium containing
           less than 99.8^ pure magnesium by weight ( alloyed
           unwrought magnesium).
                             Article 2
1 « The first instalment of the quotas stated at Article 1 ,
amounting respectively to 150 metric tons of unalloyed unwrou.ght
magnesium and 6,000 metric tons of alloyed unwrought magnesium ,
shall be apportioned between Member States as follows :
( a) Unalloyed unwrought magnesium :
       Benelux                               55 metric tons        .
       Stance                    '             1 metric ton
       Germany .                             93 metric tons
       Italy                                   1 metric ton
(b ) Alloyed unwrought magnesium :
       Benelux     ' .                   "   124 metric tons
       EVance                                , 13 metric tons
       Germany             -               5»850 metric tons
       Italy     .                             13 metric tons
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2.   The sizes of the Community quota reserves of these two grades
of unwrought magnesium laid down in Article 2(2 ) of (EEC )
Regulation No 2737/72 , one of which was increased "by virtue of
(EEC ) Regulation Fo 1354/7 3 » shall be raised respectively froms
      ( a) 50 metric tons to 80 metric tons for unalloyed
           unwrought magnesium ; and
      (t>) 6,880 metric tons to 7f880 metric tons for alloyed
           unwrought magnesium .
                                Article 3
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 .
Done at Brussels ,     1973
                                      Por the Council
                                      The President