31987R3706

12. 12 . 87 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 349 / 1

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3706/87 of 8 December 1987 increasing the volume of the Community tariff quota opened for the second half of 1987 for certain ferrophosphorus falling within subheading ex 28.55 A of the Common Customs Tariff

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, cated among certain Member States in proportion to their foreseeable needs, and the second held as a Community Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European reserve to cover possible additional requirements, Economic Community and in particular Article 28 thereof, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Article 1

Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 1449/87 ('), the The volume of the Community tariff quota opened by Council opened, for the second half of 1987, and allo­ Regulation (EEC) No 1449/87 for ferrophosphorus, falling cated among the Member States, a duty-free Community within subheading ex 28.55 A of the Common Customs tariff quota for certain ferrophosphorus falling within Tariff, containing 15 % or more by weight of phosphorus, subheading ex 28.55 A of the Common Customs Tariff intended for the manufacture of refined phosphoric iron and the volume of which was initially fixed at 1 3 000 or steel, shall be increased from 1 3 000 to 37 000 tonnes. tonnes ; Article 2 Whereas it can be estimated, from the economic data now 1 . A first tranche of the supplementary amount available on consumption, production and imports ben­ provided by Article 1 , amounting to 19 200 tonnes shall efiting from other preferential tariff arrangements, that be divided between certain Member States as follows : immediate Community requirements of imports from third countries for products of this kind could, during the (in tonnes) quota period, reach levels higher than the volume laid Benelux 19 035 down by Regulation (EEC) No 1449/87 ; whereas, in order Spain 165 not to disturb the equilibrium of the market for this 2 . The second tranche of 4 800 tonnes shall constitute product and to ensure parallel development in sales of the reserve. The reserve provided by Article 2 (2) of Regu­ Community production and satisfactory security of lation (EEC) No 1449/87 is therefore raised from 2 570 to supplies to the user industries, it is appropriate to provide 7 370 tonnes . for an increase in volume by a quantity corresponding to the needs of user industries until the end of the current Article 3 year, that is to say, to 24 000 tonnes ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the day follo­ Whereas it is appropriate to divide into two instalments wing its publication in the Official Journal of the Euro­ the volume of the increase, the first instalment being allo­ pean Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 8 December 1987. For the Council The President N. WILHJELM

(') OJ No L 138 , 28 . 5. 1987, p. 4.