CELEX: 31976D0611
Language: en
Date: 1976-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 1 July 1976 derogating from High Authority Recommendation 1/64 concerning an increase in the protective duty on iron and steel products at the external frontiers of the Community (seventy-ninth derogation)

No L 196/ 14                       Official Journal of the European Communities                               22. 7. 76
                                               COMMISSION DECISION
                                                     of 1 July 1976
               derogating from High Authority Recommendation 1 /64 concerning an increase
               in the protective duty on iron and steel products at the external frontiers of the
                                                       Community
                                               (Seventy-ninth derogation)
                                                      (76/61 1 /ECSC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  Whereas these reasons and circumstances, on which
 COMMUNITIES,                                                    the six-monthly tariff measures taken by the Member
                                                                 States are based, also allow, given present conditions
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           on the common market in steel, of their application
 Coal and Steel Community, and in particular Articles            within the framework of Recommendation 1 /64 of 15
 2 to 5, 8, 71 and 74 thereof,
                                                                 January 1964 ; whereas neither this suspension of
 Having regard to High Authority Recommendation                  duties nor these tariff quotas are likely to jeopardize
  1 /64 of 15 January 1964 to the Governments of the             the objectives of the said recommendation and
 Member States concerning an increase in the protec­             whereas, furthermore, such tariff measures help to
 tive duty on iron and steel products at the external            maintain existing trade flows between the Member
 frontiers of the Community ('), and in particular               States and third countries ;
 Article 3 thereof,                                              Whereas these are special cases in the commercial
 Having regard to the agreement reached on 17 June               policy field justifying the authorization of derogations
  1976 by the representatives of the Member States               pursuant to Article 3 of Recommendation 1 /64 ;
 meeting within the Council on tariff measures to be             Whereas provision should be made to ensure that the
 taken for the second six months of 1976,                        quotas granted will be used solely to supply the needs
 Whereas, for years past, the representatives of the             of industries in the importing countries and that re-ex­
 Governments of the Member States meeting within                 portation in the unaltered state to other Member
 the Council have unanimously agreed on six-monthly              States of imported iron and steel products will be
 derogations from the harmonized Community                       prevented ;
 customs duties for steel ; whereas these derogations            Whereas the Governments of the Member States have
 take the form either of a reduction or temporary                been consulted on the tariff quotas set out below,
 suspension of certain customs duties or of the
 granting of tariff quotas at reduced or suspended rates
 of duty ; whereas the last tariff measures of this kind         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
 were taken by representatives of the Governments of
 the Member States on 17 June 1976 in respect of the                                     Article 1
 second six months of 1976 ;
                                                                 The Governments of the Member States are hereby
Whereas such measures are justified by the fact that             authorized to derogate from the obligations arising
 the products in question are not manufactured, or are           under Article 1 of High Authority Recommendation
 manufactured in insufficient quantities, in the                 1 /64 of 15 January 1964 to the extent necessary to
 Community and that their importation on preferential            suspend, in respect of imports from third countries of
 terms is not injurious to iron and steel undertakings           the iron and steel products set out below, duties or
 in the Community which produce directly competing               tariff quotas in respect of the quantities and at the
 products ;                                                      levels hereinbelow indicated :
(!) OJ No 8, 22. 1 . 1964, p. 99/64.
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                                                                                                  Quota
                                                                                                             Duty
     CCT heading No                      Description of goods                      Member States (metric      %
                                                                                                   tons)
ex 73.15 A V b) 1   Special wire rod (wire rod of high carbon steel, not       Germany ( FR)       1 400      0
                    further worked than hot-rolled, between 4-5 and 6          Benelux            9  000       0
                    mm in diameter and of a carbon content in weight of        France             4  000       0
                    between 0-62 and 0-74 % ) for the tyre industry            Italy              6  500       0
                                                                               Ireland            3  000       0
ex 73.15 A V b) 1   Special wire rod (wire rod of high carbon steel, not       Benelux             1 800      0
                    further worked than hot-rolled between 4-5 and 6
                    mm in diameter and of a carbon content in weight of
                    between 0-62 and 0-85 % ) for the tyre industry
ex 73.15 A V b) 1   Special wire rod (of high carbon steel, not further        Germany ( FR)      8 500        0
                    worked than hot-rolled, between 4-5 and 13 mm in           Benelux            1 350       0
                    diameter) for the manufacture of springs and 'piano        France             1 200        0
                    wire' containing in weight
                    — 0-60 to 1 05 % of carbon
                    — not more than 0-05 % of sulphur and phosphorus
                         taken together
                    — 015 to 0-30 silicon
                    — not more than 0-10 % of all other elements (with
                         the exception of manganese and chromium) taken
                         together
                    (Germany and Benelux are authorized to import —
                    within their quotas — special wire rod of alloy steels,
                    between 4-5 and 13 mm in diameter, for valve
                    springs, with the following characteristics :
                    (a) Chrome-vanadium products :
                         0.40 — 0.65 % C ;
                         0-15 — 0-30 % Si ;                   '   ■
                         0.60 — 0.90 % Mn ;
                         0-15 — M0 % Cr ;
                         0.15 — 0.30 % Va ;
                         not more than 0-30 % Mo P and S content of less
                         than 0-035 % each ;                                                           •
                    (b) Chrome-silicon products :
                         0.50  —   0.60 %  C;
                         1.35  —   1.60 %  Si ;
                         0.60  —   0.80 %  Mn ;
                         0.55  —   0.80 %  Cr ;
                         P and S content of less than 0-035 % each)
ex 73.15 B VII a) 1 ' Electrical' sheets and plates of allied steel, grain-ori Germany ( FR)      1 300        0
                    ented, highly permeable, with a wattless of 1-23 watt
                    or less per kg for a thickness of 0-30 mm , or of 1 *26
                    watt or less per kg for a thickness of 0-35 mm ,
                    measured at 1-7 tesla and 50 Hz
ex 73.1 6 A lib)    Used rails for re-rolling                                  France            21 000        0
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                                                   Article 2
           1 . Member States accorded quotas under Article 1 of this Decision shall ensure, in
           liaison with the Commission, that such quotas are apportioned among third countries on
           a non-discriminatory basis.
           2. They shall take all necessary steps to preclude the possibility of iron and steel
           products imported under the said tariff quotas being re-exported to other Member States
           in the same state as that in which they were imported.
                                                   Article 3
           This Decision shall remain in force until 31 December 1976.
                                                   Article 4
           This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
           Done at Brussels, 1 July 1976.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Christopher SOAMES
                                                                       Vice-President