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Date: 1988-11-04
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for ferro-phosphorus (1989) (presented by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                 COM(88 ) 609 final
                                                 Brussels / 4 November 1988
                                   Proposal for a
                              COUNCIL REGULATION  ( EEC )
           opening, allocating and providing for the administration
           of a Community tariff quota for ferro-phosphorus ( 1989 )
                           ( presented by the Commission )
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1 . For some time now the Council has on various occasions opened a Community
    tariff quota at zero duty for ferro-phosphorus containing 15X or more by
    weight of phosphorus , intended for the manufacture of refined phosphoric
    iron or steel , in order to make supplies available on favourable terms to
    Community user industries . The last such quota was opened by Regulation
    ( EEC ) No 4099 / 87 ( 1 ).
2 . Following a request from the German authorities , the Economic Tariff
    Problems Group again examined the situation at its meeting on
    15 Septsnber 1988-    It found that Community production of these products is
    still insufficient to cover needs and that the opening of a tariff quota at
    zero duty could be approved by all Member States . Statistics supplied by
    the Member States suggest a Community shortfall of 52 000 tonnes in 1989.
3 . The Commission therefore proposes the opening of a tariff quota at zero
    duty for a volume corresponding to the import needs indicated, to be
    allocated among the user Member States in proportion to their needs after
    constitution of a Community reserve, which in 198P should contain 46% of
    the quota volume in the context of the " Communitiz-ing" process .
Annex : 1 proposai for a Régulation
   0J No L 383,31 . 12.1987, p. 17
 ---pagebreak---                                                          Proposai for a
                                            COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No
                                                         of
                opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for
                        ferro-phosphorus
  THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         Whereas, to allow for possible changes in imports of the said
                                                                   product , the quota volume should be divided into two parts ,
                                                                   the first being allocated among certain Member States and
                                                                   the second held as a reserve to cover any subsequent
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            requirements of those Member States which have used up
  Economic Community and in particular Article 28                  their initial shares and any requirements which might arise in
  thereof,                                                         the other Member States; whereas, to afford importers in
                                                                   each Member State some degree of certainty , the first part of
                                                                   the Community tariff quota should be set at a relatively high
                                                                   level , which in this case could be 28041 tonnes;
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                  Whereas the initial shares of the Member States may be”used
 Whereas Community production of                ferro-phosphorus   up at different rates; whereas , in order to avoid any break in
 containing by weight 15% or more             of phosphorus is    the continuity of supplies on this account , it should be
 currently insufficient to meet the            requirements of    provided that any Member State which has almost used up its
 Community user industries; whereas,          consequently, the   initial share should draw an additional share from the
 Community currently depends to a considerable extent on           reserve; whereas each time one of its additional shares is
 imports from third countries for its supplies of that product;    almost used up a Member State should draw a further share
 whereas it is in the Communitv’s interest to suspend totally      and so on as many times as the reserve allows ; whereas the
 the           CUStans               duty on the products in      initial and additional shares must be valid until the end of the
 question within the limits of a Community tariff quota of an     quota period ; whereas this form of administration requires
 appropriate volume ; whereas , in order not to harm the          close cooperation between the Member States and the
 prospects for increasing production of such goods within the     Commission and the latter must be able to monitor the extent
 Community while at the same time making adequate supplies        to which the quota volume has been used up and to inform
 available to user industries, the tariff quota should be limited the Member States accordingly ;
 to 5 2 000 tonnes of products intended for the manufacture of
 refined phosphoric iron or steel and opened for the period 1
January to 31 December 1989at zero duty;                          Whereas since the Kingdom of Belgium , the Kingdom of the
                                                                  Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are united
                                                                  within and jointly represented by the Benelux Economic
                                                                  Union , any operation concerning the administration of the
Whereas equal and continuous access to the quota should be        quota shares allocated to that economic union may be carried
ensured for all Community importers and the rates laid down
                                                                  out by any one of its members ,
for the quota should be applied consistently to all imports of
the products in question into all Member States until the
quota is exhausted ; whereas, in the light of these principles,
allocation of the tariff quotas among the Member States
would seem to preserve the Community nature of the quotas;
whereas in order to correspond as closely as possible to the
real trend of the market for the product in question the          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
allocation should reflect the requirements of the Member
States based on statistics of imports of the said product from
third countries during a representative reference period and
on the economic outlook for the quota period in question ;
                                                                                              Article 1
Whereas since this is an autonomous Community tariff quota
intended to cover import needs arising in the Community, the
quota volume may be allocated on the basis of each Member         1.      From 1 January to 31 December 1 98 9the customs duty
State’s estimated provisional import needs from third             applicable to imports of the following product shall be
countries ; whereas these allocation arrangements will ensure     suspended at the level indicated and within the limits of a
the uniform application of the Common Customs Tariff;             Community tariff quota as shown below :
 ---pagebreak---       Order No             CN code                              Description                            Volume of quota     Race of duty
                                                                                                           (tonnes )           (% )
 09.2718              ex 7202 99 19        Ferro-phosphorus containing by weight 15 % or more
                                           of phosphorus , intended for the manufacture of
                                           refined phosphoric iron or steel                                52000                0
2.      Within the limits of this tariff quota , the Kingdom of           3.     If, after its second share has been used up, a Member
Spain and the Portuguese Republic shall apply customs duties              State has used 90% or more of its third share , it shall
calculated in accordance with the relevant provisions of the              forthwith , using the same procedure, draw a fourth share
 1985 Act of Accession .                                                  equal to the third .
3.      Use of the products for the particular purpose laid               This process shall continue until the reserve is used up .
down shall be monitored in accordance with the relevant
Community provisions .
                                                                          4.     By way of derogation from paragraphs 1 , 2 and 3 ,
                                                                          Member States may draw smaller shares than those specified
                                                                          in the said paragraphs if there is reason to believe that they
                             Article 2                                    might not be used in full . They shall inform the Commission
                                                                          of their reasons for applying this paragraph .
1.      The first part of this Community tariff quota,
amounting to 28 080 tonnes , shall be allocated among
certain Member States; the quota shares shall be valid until
31 December 198 9 and shall be as follows:
                                                                                                       Article 4
                                                   (tonnes}
        Benelux                                    16  45U                The additional shares drawn pursuant to Article 3 shall be
        Germany                                      & 230                valid until 31 December 198 9
        Spain                                        1 645
        France                                       1 645
        Portugal                                       110
                                                                                                       Article 5
2.     The second part of the quota , amounting to 23 920
tonnes , shall constitute the reserve .                                   By 1 October 1989 at the latest , Member States must return
                                                                          to the reserve the unused portion of their initial share which ,
3.     If an importer gives notification of imminent imports              on 15 September 1989, is in excess of 20% of the initial
of the product in question into a Member State which has not              volume . They may return a greater portion if there is reason
been allocated an initial share and applies to take advantage             to believe that it might not be used .
of the quota , the Member State concerned shall inform the
Commission and draw an amount corresponding to its                        By 1 October 1989 at the latest, Member States must notify
requirements to the extent that the available balance of the              the Commission of the total quantities of the product
reserve so permits .                                                      concerned imported on or before 15 September 1989 and
                                                                          charged against the Community quota and of any portion of
                                                                          their initial share that they are returning to the reserve.
                             Article 3
1.     If a Member State has used 90 % or more of its initial
share as specified in Article 2(1 ), it shall forthwith, by                                            Article 6
notifying the Commission and to the extent that the reserve
so permits , draw a second share equal to 10% of its initial              The Commission shall keep account of the shares drawn by
share , rounded up where necessary to the next whole                      Member States pursuant to Articles 2 and 3 and shall inform
number .
                                                                          each Member State of the extent to which the reserve has
                                                                          been used up as soon as it has been notified.
2.     If, after its initial quota share has been used up , a
Member State has used 90 % or more of its second share as
well , it shall , using the procedure provided for in                     It shall inform the Member States not later than 5 October
paragraph 1 , draw a third share equal to 5 % of its initial              198 9of the state of the reserve following any return of quota
share .                                                                   shares pursuant to Article 5 .
 ---pagebreak--- It shall ensure that the drawing which exhausts the reserve      4.    The extent tc which a Member State has used ur. its
does not exceed the balance available , and to this end shall    share shall be determined on the basis of the imports charged
notify the amount of that balance to the Member State            in accordance with paragraph 3 .
making the final drawing.
                                                                                           Article 8
                           Article 7
                                                                 At the request of the Commission, Member States shall
1.     Member States shall take all appropriate measures to      inform it of imports actually charged against their quota
                                                                 shares.
ensure that additional drawings of shares pursuant to
Article 3 enable imports to be charged without interruption
against their accumulated shares of the Community tariff
quota .                                                                                    Article 9
2.    Member States shall ensure that importers of the           The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
product concerned have free access to the quota shares           closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied with .
allocated to them .
3.    Member States shall charge imports of the product                                    Article 10
concerned against their shares as and when the goods are
entered with the customs authorities for free circulation .      This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1989-
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States .
                 Done at Brussels , .
                                                                                        For the Courtcil
                                                                                       The Commission
 ---pagebreak---              FICHE D' IMPACT SUR LA COMPETITIVITE CT L' EIPDOI
1. Qjelle est la justification principale de la mesure ?
   Assurer l' approvisionnement    des industries utilisatrices ,   à des
   conditions favorables
2. Caractéristiques des entreprises concernées : Non recherchées
   Eh particulier :
   - Y a-t-il un grand nombre de FME ?
   - Note t-on des concentrations dans des régions :
     - éligibles aux aides régionales des E.M. ?
     - éligibles au Feder ?
3. Quelles sont les obligations imposées directement aux entreprises ?
   Néant
4. Quelles sont les obligations susceptibles d' être              imposées
   indirectement aux entreprises via les autorités locales ?
   Néant
5. Y a-t- il des mesures spéciales pour les EME ?    Non
   - Lesquelles ?
6. Quel est l' effet prévisible ?
   - sur la compétitivité des entreprises ?
     Augmenter la compétitivité des entreprises ooranmautaires face à la
     concurrence des pays tiers .
   - sur l' emploi ?
     Maintien ou amélioration de l' emploi
7. Les partenaires sociaux ont- ils été consultés ?     Non
   - avis des partenaires sociaux
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 ---pagebreak--- 1. Ligne budgétaire cc^iceraèe s Chap. 12 art , 120
2. Base juridique : ait.. 113 Ai Traité
3. Intitulé de la mesure tarifaire : Proposition de règlement ( CEE ) du
   Cbnseil portant ouverture , répartition et mode de gestion d' un
   contingent tarifaire      canrnunautaire  autonome   pour   certains
   ferrophosphores
4. Objectif : Assurer , à des conditions favorables , la couverture des
   besoins oorrmunautaires
5. ttode de calcul :
   Cbde de la Nomenclature Cbmbinée : 7202 99 19
   Volume du contingent : 52 000 tonnes
   Droit à appliquer     : 0 %
   Droit normal          : 5 %
6. Perte de recettes :
   Valeur d' une tonne :       167, X écus
   Valeur totale       : 8 699 600 écus
   Perte               s   434 980 écus
   Par rapport à l' année 1988 : augmentation des pertes de
   434 980 écus - 426 176 écus = 8 804 écus