CELEX: 31987R4102
Language: en
Date: 1987-12-22 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 4102/87 of 22 December 1987 opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for certain flat-rolled products falling within code ex 7226 10 91 of the combined nomenclature

No L 383 / 24                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                         31 . U.
                                             COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 4102 / 87
                                                              of 22 December 1987
                opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for certain flat-rolled
                            products falling within code ex 7226 10 91 of the combined nomenclature
  THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                                      quantities as they may need , under the conditions and
                                                                                 according to the procedure laid down in Article 1 ( 2 );
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                          whereas this method of administration requires close
  Economic Community , and in particular Article 28                              cooperation between the Member States and the
  thereof,                                                                       Commission and the latter must in particular be able to
                                                                                 monitor the rate at which the quota is used and inform the
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,                             Member States accordingly;
 Whereas the Community currently depends to a large extent                       Whereas since the Kingdom of Belgium , the Kingdom of the
 on imports from third countries for its supplies of certain                     Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are united
 flat-rolled products falling within code 7226 10 91 of the                      within and jointly represented by the Benelux Economic
 combined nomenclature ; whereas it is in the Community's                        Union , any operation concerning the administration of the
 interest to suspend totally the duty normally applied to the                    quota share allocated to that economic union may be carried
 products in question within the limit of a Community tariff                     out by any one of its members ,
 quota of an appropriate volume ; whereas in order not to
 harm the prospects for increasing production within the
 Community while at the same time making adequate supplies
 available to user industries , the tariff quota should be limited               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 to 65 tonnes and opened for the period 1 January to 30 June
 1988 ;
 Whereas equal and continuous access to the quota should be                                                Article 1
 ensured for all Community importers and the rates laid down
 for the quota should be applied consistently to all imports of
 the products in question into all Member States until the                       1.    From 1 January to 30 June 1988 the customs duty
 quota is exhausted ; whereas, however, the quota should not                     applicable to imports of the following products shall be
 in this case be allocated among the Member States , without                     suspended at the level indicated and within the limits of a
 prejudice to the drawing against the quota volume of such                       Community tariff quota as shown below:
                                                                                                              Volume of
      Order No            CN code                                     Description                            tariff quota     Rate of duty
                                                                                                               ( tonnes )         (% )
09.2781               ex 7226 10 91          Flat-rolled products of laser-irradiated grain-oriented
                                             silicon electrical steel , having a width not exceeding
                                             500 mm , a thickness of more than 0,20 mm but less
                                             than 0,60 mm and a nominal magnetic-reversal loss of
                                             0,35 W / kg                                                           65              0
Within the limits of this tariff quota the Kingdom of Spain                                                Article 2
and the Portuguese Republic shall, apply duties calculated in
accordance with the relevant provisions of the 1985 Act of
Accession .
                                                                                1.     Member States shall take all appropriate measures to
2.     If an importer gives notification of imminent imports                    ensure that their drawings pursuant to Article 1 ( 2 ) enable
of the product in question into a Member State and applies to                   imports to be charged without interruption against their
take advantage of the quota , the Member State concerned                        accumulated shares of the Community quota.
shall inform the Commission and draw an amount
corresponding to its requirements to the extent that the
available balance of the quota so permits.                                      2.     Member States shall ensure that importers of the
                                                                               products concerned have free access to the quota for such
3 . The shares drawn pursuant to paragraph 2 shall be                          time as the residual balance of the quota volume so
valid until the end of the quota period .                                      permits .
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3.     Member States shall charge imports of the products           inform it of imports of the products concerned actually
concerned against their drawings as and when the goods are          charged against the quota .
entered with the customs authorities for free circulation .
4.     The extent to which the quota has been used up shall be                                Article 4
determined on the basis of the imports charged in accordance
with paragraph 3 .                                                  The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate
                                                                    closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied with .
                          Article 3                                                           Article 5
At the request of the Commission , Member States shall              This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1988 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels , 22 December 1987 .
                                                                                          For the Council
                                                                                            The President
                                                                                           N. WILHJELM