S.I. No. 378/1986 - European Communities (Surveillance of Iron and Steel Products) Regulations, 1986

S.I. No. 378 of 1986.

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (SURVEILLANCE OF IRON AND STEEL PRODUCTS) REGULATIONS, 1986

WHEREAS the State has been authorised under the Decision of the Commission of the European Communities dated the 10th day of July, 1986 (No. 86/400/ECSC ¹), to take the surveillance measures hereinafter specified:

¹O.J No. L233 of 20.8.1986, p. 7.

NOW, I, MICHAEL NOONAN, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by Section 3 of the European Communities Act, 1972 (No. 27 of 1972), hereby make the following Regulations:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Surveillance of Iron and Steel Products) Regulations, 1986.

2. (1) In these Regulations "the Minister" means the Minister for Industry and Commerce.

(2) A reference in these Regulations to a tariff heading shall be taken to be a reference to that tariff heading in the Annex to Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1445/72², as amended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 3631/85³ and by any subsequent Regulations of an institution of the European Communities.

²O.J No. L161 of 17.7.1972, p. 1.

³O.J No. L353 of 30.12.1985, p. 1.

3. (1) These Regulations apply to goods which originate in countries as described in the Annex to Decision No. 86/400/ECSC ¹ are in free circulation in other Member States of the European Communities and are specified at the tariff headings mentioned in column (1) of the Schedule to these Regulations.

¹O.J No. L233 of 20.8.1986, p. 7.

(2) The particulars stated in column (2) of the Schedule to these Regulations are inserted solely to facilitate identification of the goods referred to at the tariff headings mentioned in column (1) of that Schedule opposite the insertion in column (2) and, accordingly, nothing contained in column (2) shall affect the construction or limit or control the operation of any provision of these Regulations (including reference to the tariff headings in column (1)).

4. The importation into the State of any goods to which these Regulations apply shall be subject to the production by the importer of an import document issued by the Minister. The Minister may refuse an import document when such refusal is authorised under the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community.

5. The applicant for an import document under these Regulations shall supply to the Minister all relevant information concerning description of the goods including relevant tariff heading, the country of origin and the Member State from which the goods are being imported, the quantity in tonnes, the characteristics of any seconds or substandard products, the reference data of any previous application for an import document is respect of the same products and such further information as the Minister may require concerning the free circulation of the product in another Member State of the European Communities.

SCHEDULE

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 21st day of November, 1986.

MICHAEL NOONAN,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The effect of the Regulations is to enable the Minister for Industry and Commerce to operate a system of surveillance on imports into the State from other Member countries of the European Economic Communities of certain iron and steel products originating in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and U.S.S.R. The aim of the E.E.C. Commission Decision on which the Regulations are based is to ensure adherence to traditional trade flows between the Community and named third countries and to eliminate the risk of deflections of trade in the case of the products in question.