CELEX: 51987PC0215
Language: en
Date: 1987-05-15
Title: Draft COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) increasing the volume of the Community tariff quota, opened for 1987, for ferro-chromium containing not less than 6% by weight of carbon, falling within subheading ex 73.02 e i of the Common Customs Tariff (presented by the Commission)

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                                               COM(87 ) 215 final
                                               Brussels , 15 May 1987
                                        Draft
                              COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
           increasing the volume of the Community tariff quota , opened
           for 1987 , for ferro-chromium containing not less than 6% by
           weight of carbon , falling within subheading ex 73.02 e i of
                              the Common Customs Tariff
                           ( presented by the Commission )
                                             W du Secrél
                                                Général
  C0M(87 )  215 final
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                              EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1.  Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 476 /87 of 16 February 1987 ( 1 ) has opened
    for the year 1987 a duty free community tariff quota for the ferro-
    chromium containing not less than 6 % by weight of carbon , its volume
    being fixed at the provisional level of 120 000 tonnes .
2.  The case of increasing the volume of this tariff quota has been
    examined particularly at a meeting between procuders and user industries
    on 16 March 1987 .  From these discussions it results that :
    a ) the undertaking agreed upon at the beginning of the year to ensure
        a market for part of the Italian production of ferro-chromium -
        an undertaking which anyhow allowed the opening of this tariff quota -
        could not be complied with due to the fairly recent publication of
        the aforesaid Regulation in the Official Journal , this in turn has
        caused delay in the signing of contracts ;
    b ) the user industries undertake to ensure a satisfactory market for the
        community production until 31 December 1987 ;
    c ) in accordance with the agreements concluded previously nothing
        precludes therefore the covering by a duty free tariff quota the
        additional needs foreseen until the end of the current year .
3.   In considering hte previously undertaken commitments , the necessity not
     to disturb the equilibrium of the market and the future extension of the
     agreements concluded and implemented, the Commission proposes to increase
     the volume of the quota by such a quantity which when based on the
     imports that came from third countries during the early months of 1987
     can ensure the coverage of the additional needs foreseen until 31
     December 1987 .
     A further revision is planned for the autumn with the aim of adapting
     the global volume of the tariff quota to the real needs of the user
     industries .
     It is understood that this draft Regulation would have to be amended or
     even withdrawn if it appeared at the Council meeting that , in the light
     of the way the situation has developed, the undertakings entered into
     will not be complied with in 1987 .
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 ---pagebreak--- As is the practice in similar cases the proposed incrase has been
subdivided into two parts , the first being divided among certain
Member States in proportion to their forecast of imports coming from
non-preferential third countries , and the second corresponding to the
balance of this colume held as a Community reserve . The constitution
of such a reserve is all the more justified in the present case since
the quota shares could not be determined with the desired accuracy , and
since a quota share is not provided for those Member States which
traditionally do not make use of these products .
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                                                           Draf t
                                           COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
                       increasing the volume of the Community tariff quota , opened for 1987 , for
                      ferro-chromium containg not Less than 6 % by weight of carbon ,
                      falling within subheading ex 73.02 E I of the Common Customs Tariff
    THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           taining    not
    Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              less than 6 % by weight of carbon, falling within subhea¬
    Economic Community, and in particular Article 28                   ding ex 73.02 E I of the Common Customs Tariff, shall
                                                                       be raised     from 120 000 to 320 000 tonnes .
    thereof,
    Having regard to the draft Regulation
    submitted by the Commission ,
 Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 476/87 (' ), the
 Council opened, for 1987 and allocated among the                                             Article 2
 Member States,a duty-free Community tariff quota             for
 ferro-chromium containing not            less than 6 %             1.     A first instalment of         the additional volume
  by weight of carbon ,                                             referred to in Article 1 and amounting to
 falling within subheading ex 73.02 E I of the Common              180 000 tonnes                   shall be allocated among
 Customs Tariff, the volume of which was fixed at                  certain Member States as follows :
120 000           tonnes
 Whereas it can be estimated, from the economic data now
 available on consumption, production and imports bene¬
 fiting from other preferential tariff arrangements, that
 immediate Community requirements of imports from
 third countries for this product              could, during the
 current year, reacha level higher than the volune laid
 down by Regulation (EEC) No 476/87 ; whereas, in order
 not to disturb the equilibrium of the market for this
 product and to ensure parallel development in sales of
 Community production and satisfactory security of
                                                                                                                        (tonnes)
 supplies to the user industries, it is appropriate to
provide for the increase of the said volune by a                         Benelux                                        6 714
quantity corresponding to the needs of user                              Germany                                        2 892
                                                                                                                       62
industries inti l the end of the year ; that is to                       Spain                                          9 566
                                                                                                                       19
say, by 200 000 tonnes ; whereas in determining                          France
                                                                                                                        1 922
                                                                                                                       L1
the increase at that level does not exclude,                                                                            0 744
                                                                                                                       30
however, a further adjustment in autumn ;                                Italy
                                                                         United Kingdom                                 8 162
                                                                                                                       18
                          lAiliw-eKS it is appropriate to divide
  into two instalments the volume of the increase        the first  2.     The second instalment , being 20 000
  instalment being allocated among certain Member States            tonnes                  shall constitute the reserve     The
  in proportion to their foreseeable needs, and the second          reserve provided for in Article 2 (5 ) of Regulation (EEC)
  held as a Community reserve to cover possible additional          No 476/87 shall thus be raised from        11 870 to
  requirements,                                                     31 870 tonnes .
  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                                Artide 3
                               Artide 1                             This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
  The volume of the Community tariff quota opened by                following its publication in the Official Journal of the
  Regulation (EEC) No 476/87 for ferro-chromium con-                 European Communities.
                     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                     States .
                     Done at
                                                                                  For the Coundl
                                                                                    The President
             ( 1 ) 0J No L 49 , 18.2.1987 , p. 3
 ---pagebreak---                   FICHE D' IMPACT SUR LA COMPETITIVITE ET L' EMPLOI
  I. Quelle est la justification principale de la mesure?
       Volonté des Etats membres d' assurer , à des conditions favorables la
       couverture des besoins des industries utilisatrices .
 II . Caractéristiques des entreprises concernées : non recherchées .
       En particulier :
       - Y a-t-il un grand nombre de IME ?
       - note t' cn des concentrations dans des régions :
          - éligibles aux aides régionales des E.M. ?
          - éligibles au Feder ?
III . Quelles sent les obligations imposées directement aux entreprises ?
        Aucune
  IV. Quelles sont les obligations susceptibles d' être imposées
        indirectement aux entreprises via les autorités locales ?
         Néant
   V. Y a-t-il des mesures spéciales pour les PME ? NON
        - Lesquelles ?
  VI . Quel est l' effet prévisible ?
        - sur la compétitivité des entreprises ? Effet bénéfique pour les entreprises
           d' aciers spéciaux qui peuvent ainsi concurrencer les ent repr i ses des pays t i ers
        - sur 1 ' enploi ?
           Maintien ou amélioration de l' emploi
VII . Les partenaires sociaux ont-ils été consultés ? Non
        - avis des partenaires sociaux .