CELEX: 31976R1630
Language: en
Date: 1976-06-29 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1630/76 of 29 June 1976 increasing the Community tariff quota opened for 1976 by Regulation (EEC) No 126/76 for unwrought magnesium falling within subheading 77.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff

No L 181 /4                            Official Journal of the European Communities                               7. 7. 76
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                                     COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1630/76
                                                       of 29 June 1976
              increasing the Community tariff quota opened for 1976 by Regulation (EEC) No
              126/76 for unwrought magnesium falling within subheading 77.01 A of the
                                                  Common Customs Tariff
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                       supplementary volumes allocated to extra-pure magne­
COMMUNITIES,                                                      sium and unwrought magnesium in alloy and also a
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             relatively small part of the supplementary volume allo­
Economic Community, and in particular Article 113
                                                                  cated to unwrought magnesium not in alloy, the
thereof,
                                                                  balance of this last volume being divided among the
                                                                  Member States in accordance with the percentages
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                originally used,
Whereas, for unwrought magnesium falling within
subheading 77.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff, a                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Community tariff quota for 1976 totalling 5 500
metric tons has been opened by the Council and allo­
cated among the Member States by Regulation (EEC)                                          Article 1
No 126/76 0 );
                                                                  The volume of the Community tariff quota opened by
Whereas the economic data at present available with               Regulation (EEC) No 126/76 for unwrought magne­
regard to the consumption and production of                       sium falling within subheading 77.01 A of the
unwrought magnesium do not yet permit Community                   Common Customs Tariff is hereby increased from
requirements of imports from non-member countries                 5 500 to 9 350 metric tons.
to be evaluated with sufficient precision ; whereas it
appears that certain Member States have considerable              This increase of 3 850 metric tons shall be allocated as
magnesium requirements which cannot be met by                     follows :
Community production ; whereas the quota                          (a) 350 metric tons of unwrought magnesium
concerned should therefore be increased by an appro­
                                                                       containing 99-95 % or more by weight of pure
 priate amount, approximately 3 850 metric tons ;
                                                                       magnesium (extra-pure magnesium), intended for
whereas the fixing at this level of this supplementary
                                                                       the nuclear industry and under customs supervi­
quota does not preclude further adjustments during                     sion or equivalent administrative supervision ;
 the quota period ; whereas, in view, moreover, on the
 one hand of the present requirements in unwrought                (b) 600 metric tons of unwrought magnesium
 magnesium not in alloy with a pure magnesium                          containing not less than 99-8 % but less than
 content of not less than 99-95 % , and on the other                   99-95 % by weight of pure magnesium
 hand of the quantities available in the Community                     (unwrought magnesium not in alloy) ;
 and of the possible increase in production by Commu­             (c) 2 900 metric tons of unwrought magnesium
 nity industries based principally on unwrought magne­                 containing less than 99-8 % by weight of pure
 sium not in alloy, and also the possibility of duty-free              magnesium (unwrought magnesium in alloy).
 imports under agreements concluded by the Commu­
 nity with certain non-acceding EFTA countries, it can                                     Article 2
 be estimated that short-term requirements for imports
 of unwrought magnesium may, within the limit of the               The volumes of 350 metric tons and 2 900 metric
 proposed increase, reach 350 metric tons of                       tons referred to in Article 1 (a) and (c) allocated to
 unwrought magnesium containing 99-95 % or more                    extra-pure unwrought magnesium intended for the
 by weight of pure magnesium (extra-pure magnesium),               nuclear industry and to unwrought magnesium in
 600 metric tons of unwrought magnesium containing                 alloy shall be allocated to the Community reserves set
 99-8 % or more by weight and not exceeding                        up under Articles 2 ( 1 ) und 3 (2) of Regulation (EEC)
 99-95 % of pure magnesium (unwrought magnesium                    No 126/ 76, which shall thus be increased from 600 to
 not in alloy), and 2 900 metric tons of unwrought                 950 metric tons and from 425 to 3 325 metric tons
  magnesium containing not more than 99-8 % by                     respectively.
 weight of pure magnesium (unwrought magnesium in
 alloy) ;
                                                                                           Article 3
 Whereas as far as the distribution of the above quota
 volumes between Member .States is concerned, it is                 1.   A first tranche of the amount referred to in
 necessary to allot to the Community reserves all the              Article 1 (b), of 540 metric tons of unwrought magne­
                                                                   sium not in alloy, shall be allocated among the
 (•) OJ No L 14, 23 . 1 . 1976, p. 1 .                             Member States as follows :
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                                 (in metric tons)            The amount of the reserve for this type of unwrought
       Benelux                         90-4                  magnesium, provided for in Article 3 (2) of Regulation
       Denmark                          0-2                  (EEC) No 126/76, is thus increased from 130 to 190
       Germany                       366-2                   metric tons .
       France                          18
       Ireland                          0-2
       Italy                             1-7                                        Article 4
       United Kingdom                  63-3
                                                             This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh
2.    The second tranche of 60 metric tons shall             day following that of its publication in the Official
constitute the reserve .                                     Journal of the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Luxembourg, 29 June 1976.
                                                                        For the Council
                                                                           The President
                                                                            G. THORN