CELEX: 51988PC0638
Language: en
Date: 1988-11-17
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for flat products of silicon-electrical steel (presented by the Commission)

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                                       COM(88 ) 638 final
                                       Brussels , 17 November 1988
                           Proposal for a
                     COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
   opening and providing for the administration of a Community
   tariff quota for flat products of silicon-electrical steel
                  ( presented by the Commission )
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 ---pagebreak---                              EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1.       Following a request from the German authorities the Ccnmission
        examined , together with government experts , whether the Community
         tariff quota opened for the first half of 1988 by Ffegulation
         ( EEC ) N° 4102 /87 of 22 December 1987 ( 1 ), should be prolongated
         in 1989 for similar products described as follows :
       " Flat- rolled     products   of    laser-irradiated    grain-oriented
       siliconr-electrical steel , having a width not exceeding 500 rrm, a
       thickness of more than 0 , 20 mm but less than 0 . 3 mm and a nominal
       magnetic-reversal loss of 1.0 W/kg as determined by the Epstein
       method with a current of 50 cycles and an induction of 1.7 Tbs la ,
       of CN 7226 10 91 ".
2.      A solution involving the opening of a tariff quota for 600 tonnes
         could be approved by all the Member States without disturbing the
         Community market for the products concerned . That is the purpose
         of the attached proposal for a Itegulaticn .
(1 ) O.J. N° L 383 of 31.12.1987 , p. 24.
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 ---pagebreak---                                                   Proposai for a
                                              COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) No
                                                            of
                   opening and providing for : he 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 dose
    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-roiled 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 600 tonnes and opened for the period 1 January to
    31 December 1989 ;
    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       1.      From 1 January      to
    the products in question into all Member States until the                         31 December 1989                 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                                                                                                          Rate of duty
                             CN code                               Description                            tanfi quota          (% )
                                                                                                            ( 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 rnn but less
                                               than 0.3 mm and a nominal magnetic-reversal
                                                loss of 1.0 W/ kg as determined by the
                                               Epstei n method with a current of 50 cycles
                                               and an induction of 1.7 Tesla                                    600              0
   Within the limits of this tariff quota the Kingdom of Spain                                        Artide 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
                                                                            ensure that their drawings pursuant to Article 1 ( 2 ) enable
   2.     If an importer gives notification of imminent imports             imports to be charged without interruption agamst their
   of the product in question into a Member State and applies to            accumulated shares of the Community quota .
   take advantage of the quota , the Member State concerned
   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    1989 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels ,
                                                                                       For the Council
                                                                                         The President
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Base juridique : arc . 23 du traité
Intitulé de la mesure tarifaire : Proposition de règlement du
Conseil portant ouverture , répartition et mode de gestion d' un
contingent tarifaire autonome pour certains produits plats          en
acier au silicium
Objectif : Couvrir , à des conditions plus favorables , les oesoins
d 1 importations des industries connmunautaires
Mode de calcul :
Gode de la N.C.              ex 7226 10 91
Volume du contingent         600 tonnes
Droit à appliquer            0 %
Droit normal                 6%
Perte de recettes :
Valeur d ' une tonne             :    1 600 écus
Valeur des 600 tonnes            : 960 000 écus
Perte de recettes                :   57 600 écus
Par    rapport   à   1 ' année    1983   :  augmentation des pertes de