CELEX: 31977R1645
Language: en
Date: 1977-07-20 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1645/77 of 20 July 1977 increasing the Community tariff quota opened for 1977 by Regulation (EEC) No 2930/76 for unwrought magnesium falling within subheading 77.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff

23 . 7. 77                             Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 184/ 1
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                                            (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                    COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1645/77
                                                       of 20 July 1977
              increasing the Community tariff quota opened for 1977 by Regulation (EEC) No
              2930/76 for unwrought magnesium falling within subheading 77.01 A of the
                                                  Common Customs Tariff
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                       pure magnesium (extra-pure magnesium), 1 000
COMMUNITIES,                                                      tonnes of unwrought magnesium containing 99-8 %
                                                                  or more by weight and not exceeding 99-95 % of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             pure magnesium (unwrought magnesium not in alloy),
Economic Community, and in particular Article 113                 and 2 800 tonnes of unwrought magnesium
thereof,                                                          containing not more than 99-8 % by weight of pure
                                                                  magnesium (unwrought magnesium in alloy) ;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                  Whereas, as far as the distribution of the above quota
Whereas, for unwrought magnesium falling within                   volumes between Member States is concerned, it is
subheading 77.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff, a                necessary to allot to the Community reserves of all the
Community tariff quota for 1977 totalling 5 500                   supplementary volumes allocated to extra-pure magne­
tonnes has been opened by the Council and allocated               sium and unwrought magnesium in alloy and also a
among the Member States by Regulation (EEC) No                    relatively small part of the supplementary volume allo­
2930/76 (') ;                                                     cated to unwrought magnesium not in alloy, the
                                                                  balance of this last volume being divided among the
Whereas the economic data at present available with               Member States in accordance with the percentages
regard to the consumption and production of                       originally used,
unwrought magnesium do not yet permit Community
requirements of imports from non-member countries
to be evaluated with sufficient precision ; whereas it
appears that certain Member States have considerable              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
magnesium requirements which cannot be met by
Community production ; whereas the quota
concerned should therefore be increased by an appro­                                       Article 1
priate amount, approximately 4 300 tonnes ; whereas
the fixing at this level of this supplementary quota              The volume of the Community tariff quota opened by
does not preclude further adjustments during the                  Regulation (EEC) No 2930/76 for unwrought magne­
quota period ; whereas, in view, moreover, on the one             sium falling within subheading 77.01 A of the
hand of the present requirements in unwrought                     Common Customs Tariff is hereby increased from
magnesium not in alloy with a pure magnesium                      5 500 to 9 800 tonnes .
content of not less than 99-95 % , and on the other
hand of the quantities available in the Community                 This increase of 4 300 tonnes shall be allocated as
and of the possible increase in production by Commu­              follows :
nity industries based principally on unwrought magne­
sium not in alloy, and also the possibility of duty-free          (a) 500 tonnes of unwrought magnesium containing
imports under agreements concluded by the Commu­                      99-95 % or more by weight of pure magnesium
nity with certain non-acceding EFTA countries, it can                 (extra-pure magnesium), intended for the nuclear
be estimated that short-term requirements for imports                 industry and under customs supervision or equiva­
of unwrought magnesium may, within the limit of the                   lent administrative supervision ;
proposed increase, reach 500 tonnes of unwrought                  (b) 1 000 tonnes of unwrought magnesium containing
magnesium containing 99-95 % or more by weight of                     not less than 99-8 % but less than 99-95 % by
                                                                      weight of pure magnesium (unwrought magne­
(') OJ No L 334, 3 . 12. 1976, p . 1 .                                sium not in alloy) ;
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(c) 2 800 tonnes of unwrought magnesium containing                                                     (in tonnes)
    less than 99-8 % by weight of pure magnesium                       Benelux                            191
    (unwrought magnesium in alloy).                                    Denmark                               0-5
                                                                       Germany                            600
                         Article 2                                     France                               20
                                                                       Ireland                               0-5
The volumes of 500 and 2 800 tonnes referred to in
                                                                       Italy                                 3
Article 1 (a) and (c) allocated to extra-pure unwrought                United Kingdom                     105
magnesium intended for the nuclear industry and to
unwrought magnesium in alloy shall be allocated to            2.   The second tranche of 80 tonnes shall constitute
the Community reserves set up under Articles 2 ( 1 )          the reserve .
and 3 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2930/76, which              The amount of the reserve for this type of unwrought
shall thus be increased from 600 to 1 100 tonnes and
                                                              magnesium, provided for in Article 3 (2) of Regulation
from 425 to 3 225 tonnes respectively.                       (EEC) No 2930/76, is thus increased from 130 to 210
                                                              tonnes .
                         Article 3
                                                                                      Article 4
1.    A first tranche of the amount referred to in
Article 1 (b), of 920 tonnes of unwrought magnesium          This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh
not in alloy, shall be allocated among the Member             day following its publication in the Official Journal
States as follows :                                           of the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 20 July 1977.
                                                                            For the Council
                                                                             The President
                                                                             M. EYSKENS