31976R2929

3 . 12. 76 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 334/ 1

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 2929/ 76 of 29 November 1976 increasing the Community tariff quota opened for 1976 for unwrought magne­ sium falling within subheading 77.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN unwrought magnesium may, within the limit of the COMMUNITIES , proposed increase, reach 50 metric tons of unwrought magnesium containing 99-95 % or more by weight of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European pure magnesium (extra-pure magnesium), 1 000 Economic Community, and in particular Article 113 metric tons of unwrought magnesium containing thereof, 99-8 % or more by weight and not exceeding 99-95 % of pure magnesium (unwrought magnesium not in alloy), and 2 700 metric tons of unwrought Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, magnesium containing less than 99-8 % by weight of pure magnesium (unwrought magnesium in alloy) ; Whereas, for unwrought magnesium falling within subheading 77.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff, a Whereas as far as the distribution of the above quota Community tariff quota for 1976 totalling 9 350 volume between Member States is concerned, it is metric tons was opened by the Council and allocated necessary to allot to the Community reserves all the among the Member States by Regulations (EEC) No supplementary volumes allocated to extra-pure magne­ 126/76 0 and ( EEC) No 1 630/76 (2) ; sium and unwrought magnesium in alloy and also a relatively small part of the supplementary volume allo­ Whereas the economic data at present available with cated to unwrought magnesium not in alloy, the regard to the consumption , production, exports to balance of this volume being divided among the non-member countries, imports under the inward Member States in accordance with the percentages processing or other preferential tariff arrangements originally used, and to the abnormal stocks existing in one Member State on 31 December 1975 enable it to be estimated that Community requirements for imports from non­ member countries could reach , in the course of 1976, a level of 25 000 metric tons ; whereas in view of the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : quota volume already opened by the abovementioned Regulations, of the uncertainty as to the levels which Community production and consumption might Article 1 reach and of the quantities available within the Community either from stocks accumulated in 1975 or from production in 1976, the increase should be The volume of the Community tariff quota opened by limited to 3 750 metric tons ; Regulations ( EEC) No 126/76 and ( EEC) No 1630/76 for unwrought magnesium falling within subheading 77.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff is hereby Whereas in view, moreover, on the one hand of the increased from 9 350 to 13 100 metric tons . present requirements in unwrought magnesium with a pure content of not less than 99-95 % and on the other hand of the quantities available in. the Commu­ This increase of 3 750 metric tons shall be allocated as follows : nity and also the possibility of duty-free imports under agreements concluded by the Community with certain non-acceding EFTA countries, it can be esti­ (a) 50 metric tons of unwrought magnesium mated that short-term requirements for imports of containing 99-95 % or more by weight of pure magnesium (extra-pure magnesium), intended for (') OJ No L 14, 23 . 1 . 1976, p . I. the nuclear industry and under customs supervi­ O OJ No L 181 , 7 . 7. 1976, p . 4. sion or equivalent administrative supervision ;

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(b) 1 000 metric tons of unwrought magnesium sium not in alloy, shall be allocated among the containing not less than 99-8 % but less than Member States as follows : 99-95 % by weight of pure magnesium (in metric tons) (unwrought magnesium not in alloy) ; Benelux 150.7 (c) 2 700 metric tons of unwrought magnesium Denmark 0.35 containing less than 99-8 % by weight of pure 610.2 Germany magnesium (unwrought magnesium in alloy). France 30 Ireland 0.35 Article 2 Italy 3 United Kingdom 105.4 The volumes of 50 metric tons and 2 700 metric tons 2 . The second tranche of 100 metric tons shall referred to in Article 1 (a) and (c) allocated to extra­ constitute the reserve . pure unwrought magnesium intended for the nuclear industry and to unwrought magnesium in alloy shall The amount of the reserve for unwrought magnesium be allotted to the Community reserves set up under not in alloy, provided for in Article 3 (2) of Regulation Articles 2 ( 1 ) and 3 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 126/76 (EEC) No 126/76, as amended by Regulation (EEC) as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1630/76, which No 1630/76, shall be increased from 190 to 290 shall thus be increased from 950 to 1 000 metric tons metric tons . and from 3 325 to 6 025 metric tons respectively. Article 4 Article 3 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day 1 . A first tranche of the amount referred to in following its publication in the Official Journal of Article 1 (b), of 900 metric tons of unwrought magne­ the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 29 November 1976 .

For the Council

The President

J. A. van KEMENADE