31987R4102

No L 383 / 24 Official Journal of the European Communities 31 . U.

COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 4102 / 87 of 22 December 1987 opening and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for certain flat-rolled products falling within code ex 7226 10 91 of the combined nomenclature

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES , quantities as they may need , under the conditions and according to the procedure laid down in Article 1 ( 2 ); Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European whereas this method of administration requires close Economic Community , and in particular Article 28 cooperation between the Member States and the thereof, Commission and the latter must in particular be able to monitor the rate at which the quota is used and inform the Having regard to the proposal from the Commission , Member States accordingly;

Whereas the Community currently depends to a large extent Whereas since the Kingdom of Belgium , the Kingdom of the on imports from third countries for its supplies of certain Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are united flat-rolled products falling within code 7226 10 91 of the within and jointly represented by the Benelux Economic combined nomenclature ; whereas it is in the Community's Union , any operation concerning the administration of the interest to suspend totally the duty normally applied to the quota share allocated to that economic union may be carried products in question within the limit of a Community tariff out by any one of its members , quota of an appropriate volume ; whereas in order not to harm the prospects for increasing production within the Community while at the same time making adequate supplies available to user industries , the tariff quota should be limited HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : to 65 tonnes and opened for the period 1 January to 30 June 1988 ;

Whereas equal and continuous access to the quota should be Article 1 ensured for all Community importers and the rates laid down for the quota should be applied consistently to all imports of the products in question into all Member States until the 1 . From 1 January to 30 June 1988 the customs duty quota is exhausted ; whereas, however, the quota should not applicable to imports of the following products shall be in this case be allocated among the Member States , without suspended at the level indicated and within the limits of a prejudice to the drawing against the quota volume of such Community tariff quota as shown below:

Volume of Order No CN code Description Rate of duty tariff quota ( tonnes ) ( % )

09.2781 ex 7226 10 91 Flat-rolled products of laser-irradiated grain-oriented silicon electrical steel , having a width not exceeding 500 mm , a thickness of more than 0,20 mm but less than 0,60 mm and a nominal magnetic-reversal loss of 0,35 W / kg 65 0

Within the limits of this tariff quota the Kingdom of Spain Article 2 and the Portuguese Republic shall, apply duties calculated in accordance with the relevant provisions of the 1985 Act of Accession . 1 . Member States shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that their drawings pursuant to Article 1 ( 2 ) enable 2. If an importer gives notification of imminent imports imports to be charged without interruption against their of the product in question into a Member State and applies to accumulated shares of the Community quota. take advantage of the quota , the Member State concerned shall inform the Commission and draw an amount corresponding to its requirements to the extent that the available balance of the quota so permits. 2 . Member States shall ensure that importers of the products concerned have free access to the quota for such 3 . The shares drawn pursuant to paragraph 2 shall be time as the residual balance of the quota volume so valid until the end of the quota period . permits .

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3 . Member States shall charge imports of the products inform it of imports of the products concerned actually concerned against their drawings as and when the goods are charged against the quota . entered with the customs authorities for free circulation .

Article 4 4 . The extent to which the quota has been used up shall be determined on the basis of the imports charged in accordance The Member States and the Commission shall cooperate with paragraph 3 . closely to ensure that this Regulation is complied with .

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At the request of the Commission , Member States shall This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1988 .

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

Done at Brussels , 22 December 1987 .

For the Council The President N. WILHJELM