31978R2781

No L 333 / 10 30 . 11 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 2781/78

of 27 November 1978

increasing the Community tariff quota opened for 1978 for unwrought magne­ sium falling within subheading 77.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN necessary to allot to the Community reserves all the COMMUNITIES, supplementary volumes allocated to extra-pure magne­ 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 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 Community tariff quota for 1978 totalling 8 900 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : tonnes was opened by the Council and allocated among the Member States by Regulations (EEC) No 2747/77(1) and (EEC) No 1785/78 (2) ; Article 1

^Whereas the economic data at present available with The volume of the Community tariff quota opened by regard to the consumption, production, exports to Regulations (EEC) No 2747/77 and (EEC) No non-member countries, imports under the inward 1785/78 for unwrought magnesium falling within processing or other preferential tariff arrangements subheading 77.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff is and to the abnormal stocks existing in one Member hereby increased from 8 900 to 10 200 tonnes. State on 31 December 1977 enable it to be estimated that Community requirements for imports from non­ This increase of 1 300 tonnes shall be allocated as member countries could reach, in the course of 1978 , follows : a level of 15 825 tonnes ; whereas, in view of the quota volume already opened by the abovementioned (a) 100 tonnes of unwrought magnesium containing Regulations, of the uncertainty as to the levels which 99-95 % or more by weight of pure magnesium Community production and consumption might (extra-pure magnesium), intended for the nuclear reach and of the quantities available within the industry and under customs supervision or equiva­ Community either from stocks accumulated in 1977 lent administrative supervision ; or from production in 1978, the increase should be (b) 200 tonnes of unwrought magnesium containing limited to 1 300 tonnes ; not less than 99.8 % but less than 99.95 % by Whereas, in view, moreover, on the one hand of the weight of pure magnesium (unwrought magne­ sium not in alloy) ; present requirements in unwrought magnesium with a pure content of not less than 99-95 % and on the (c) 1 000 tonnes of unwrought magnesium containing other of the quantities available in the Community less than 99-8 % by weight of pure magnesium and also the possibility of duty-free imports under (unwrought magnesium in alloy). Agreements concluded by the Community with certain non-acceding EFTA countries, it can be esti­ Article 2 mated that short-term requirements for imports of unwrought magnesium may, within the limit of the The volumes of 100 and 1 000 tonnes referred to in proposed increase, reach 100 tonnes of unwrought Article 1 (a) and (c) allocated to extra-pure unwrought magnesium containing 99-95 % or more by weight of magnesium intended for the nuclear industry and to pure magnesium (extra-pure magnesium), 200 tonnes unwrought magnesium in alloy shall be allotted to the of unwrought magnesium containing 99-8 % or more Community reserves set up under Articles 2 ( 1 ) and 3 by weight and not exceeding 99-95 % of pure magne­ (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2747/77, as amended by sium (unwrought magnesium not in alloy), and 1 000 Regulation (EEC) No 1785/78 , which shall thus be tonnes of unwrought magnesium containing less than increased from 900 to 1 000 tonnes and from 2 925 to 99-8 % by weight of pure magnesium (unwrought 3 925 tonnes respectively. magnesium in alloy) ;

Whereas, as far as the distribution of the above quota Article 3 volume between Member States is concerned, it is

1 . A first instament of the amount referred to in (») OJ No L 318, 13 . 12. 1977, p. 7. (A OJ No L 205, 29. 7. 1978, p. 1 . Article 1 (b), of 180tonnes of unwrought magnesium

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not in alloy, shall be allocated among the Member The amount of the reserve for unwrought magnesium States as follows : not in alloy, provided for in Article 3 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2747/77, as amended by Regulation (EEC) (tonnes) No 1785/78 , shall be increased from 170 to 190 Benelux 30.1 tonnes . Denmark 01 Germany 1 22.0 France 6.0 Ireland 0.1 Article 4 Italy 0.6 United Kingdom 21 1 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day 2. The second instalemnt of 20 tonnes shall consti­ following its publication in the Official Journal of tute the reserve . the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 27 November 1978 .

For the Council

The President

H. EHRENBERG