CELEX: 51987PC0455
Language: en
Date: 1987-10-02
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 60/85 on the restriction on exports of steel pipes and tubes to the United States of America (presented by the Commission)

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                                                    COM(87 ) 455 final
                                                    Brussels , 2 October 1987
                                Proposal for a
                         COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
    amending Regulation ( EEC ) No 60 / 85 on the restriction on exports
         of steel pipes and tubes to the United States of America
C0M(87 ) 455 final
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                     ExpLanatory Mémorandum
In 1985 the Council approved the conclusion of an Arrangement with the
United States of America designed to restrict Community exports of steel
pipes and tubes to that country .    The texts relating to this Arrangement
were published in the Official Journal No L 9 of 10 January 1985 .
When the system for allocating the Community quota for tubes and pipes
that could be exported to the USA was set up , account was taken of the
economic links established between Community undertakings and their sub­
sidiaries in the USA where the latter are supplied with semi-finished tubes
for tube production by the Community undertakings .
      I
It is necessary that the criteria for allocating licences laid down in
Article 5 of Regulation No 60 / 85 ( 0J No L 9 , 10 January 1985 ) also take
account of these economic links .
This is the object of the proposal for supplementing Regulation No 60 / 85 .
 ---pagebreak---                                    Proposal for a
                             COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC )
         amending Regulation ( EEC ) No 60 / 85 on the restriction on
     exports    of  steel pipes and tubes to the United States of America
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community , and
in particular Article 113 thereof ,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
                                               1
Whereas Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 60 / 85 ,     as  Last , amended
                                   2
by Regulation ( EEC ) No 3711 / 85 , established restrictions on exports to the
United States of America of certain steel pipes and tubes originating in the
Community;
Whereas economic links have been established between Community undertakings and
thei r subsidiaries in the United States , the latter being supplied by Community under­
takings with semi-finished tubes for tube production ; whereas the allocation
of the Community quota among Member States , as set out in Annex III to
Regulation ( EEC ) No 60 / 85 , takes account of the special situation of these under­
takings with a subsidiary in the United States ;
Whereas the criteria for the allocation of       licences should take account of this
special situation ; whereas it is therefore necessary to add to the list of
criteria laid down for the issue of licences by the Member States the
situation of Community undertakings which have a subsidiary in the United
States   when    their  subsidiaries are supplied      by  their   parent company
with semi-finished tubes for the production of finished tubes ,
  0J No L     9 , 10.01.1985 , p .   13
2 0J No L 355 , 31.12.1985, p . 100
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Article 1
In Article 5 of Regulation ( EEC ) No 60 / 85 , the second indent of paragraph 2
is hereby replaced by the following :
   compliance with the traditional export patterns of undertakings taking
   account of the reduction principles established by this Regulation and
   possibly the situation of new producers of pipes and tubes and of under­
   takings   having   a subsidiary in the United States       which
   they supply with semi-finished tubes for tube production ."
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication
in the Official Journal .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all
Member States .
Done at Brussels , 2 October 1987                                For the Council