Council Regulation (EC) No 2404/94 of 29 September 1994 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural and industrial products (fourth series 1994), and amending Council Regulations (EC) No 3466/93 and (EC) No 3672/93 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural and industrial products

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 2404/94 of 29 September 1994 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural and industrial products (fourth series 1994), and amending Council Regulations (EC) No 3466/93  and (EC) No 3672/93 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain agricultural and industrial products
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 28 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas production in the Community of certain agricultural and industrial products will remain, in the course of the second half of 1994, unable to met the specific requirements of the user industries in the Community; whereas, consequently, Community  supplies of products of this type will depend to a considerable extent on imports from third countries; whereas the most urgent Community requirements for the products in question should be met immediately on the most favourable terms; whereas Community  tariff quotas at zero duty should therefore be opened within the limits of appropriate columns for the period from 1 June or 1 July 1994 respectively until 31 December 1994, taking account of the need not to disturb the markets for such products nor the  starting out or development of Community production;
Whereas by Regulation (EC) No 3466/93 (1) and (EC) No 3672/93 (2) the Council opened, for 1994, Community tariff quotas for certain industrial products, and in particular ferro-chromium containing by weight more than 6 % of carbon (order No 09.2711),  ferro-phosphorus (order No 09.2717), magnesium (order No 09.2741), diisopropylnaphtalene (order No 09.2857);
Whereas current economic data suggests that Community demand for non-Community imports of the products in question could in the course of the year exceed the volumes laid down in the above Regulations; whereas the volume of the quota in question should  therefore be increased;
Whereas by Regulation (EC) No 3466/93, the Council opened, for 1994, a Community tariff quota for ferro-chromium containing by weight more than 1,5 mm but not more than 2 % of carbon and not more than 55 % of chromium;
Whereas the benefit of this quota should be extended to other import needs and the description of this quota should consequently be amended and its amount increased;
Whereas the decision for the opening of autonomous tariff quotas should be taken by the Community; whereas, to ensure the efficiency of a common administration of these quotas, there is no reasonable obstacle to authorizing the Member States to draw  from the quota-volumes the necessary quantities corresponding to actual imports; whereas this method of administration requires close cooperation between the Member States and the Commission and the latter must in particular be able to monitor the rate  at which the quotas are used up and inform the Member States accordingly;
Whereas it is necessary, in particular, to ensure for all Community importers equal and uninterrupted access to the said quotas and to ensure the uninterrupted application of the rates laid down for the quotas to all imports of the products concerned  into all Member States until the quotas have been used up,