3.9.93 Official Journal of the European Communities " No L 224/31 COMMISSION DECISION of 28 July 1993 derogating from High Authority recommendation No 1/64 concerning an increase in the protective duty on iron and steel products at the external frontiers of the Community (158th derogation) (93/477/ECSC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, and in particular the third paragraph of Article 71 thereof, Having regard to High Authority recommendation No 1/64 of 15 January 1964 to the Governments of the Member States concerning an increase in the protective duty on iron and steel products at the external frontiers of the Community (), as last amended by recommendation 88/27/ECSC (?), and in particular Article 3 thereof, Whereas certain iron and steel products indispensable to the manufacture of certain goods and having very special physical and chemical characteristics are not produced in the Community, or are produced in insufficient quanti- ties ; whereas for a number of years insufficiency has been overcome by duty-free tariff quotas ; whereas Community producers are still not in a position to comply with the present quality requirements put forward by the users; whereas a duty-free quota at a level securing the supply of users is consequently required ; Whereas import of these products on preferential terms is not injurious to iron and steel undertakings in the Community which produce directly competing products ; Whereas neither this suspension of duties nor these tariff quotas are likely to jeopardize the objectives of recom- CN code Description ex 72251091 mendation No 1/64, but will help to maintain existing trade flows between Member States and non-member countries ; Whereas these are special cases in the commercial policy field justifying the authorization of derogations pursuant to Article 3 of recommendation No 1/64; Whereas it is necessary to make sure that the tariff quota granted will have no other function than meeting the specific needs of certain transforming industries — the applicant ones in the Member State concerned — exclu- ding any other firms in any other Member State ; Whereas the Governments of the Member States have been consulted on the tariff quota set out below, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION : Article 1 Member States are hereby authorized to derogate from the obligations arising pursuant to Article 1 of High Autho- rity recommendation No 1/64 to the extent necessary to suspend at the levels indicated the customs duties on the products set out below, within the tariff quota of the - amounts indicated for the Member States concerned : Member’ Quota Duty State (tonnes) (%) Benelux 600 0 ex 722610 30 Cold-rolled, grain-oriented, flat-rolled products of silicon-electrical steel, of a width of more than 500 mm and of 600 mm or more respectively, of a thickness 0,23 mm or less and a nominal magne- tic-reversal loss of 0,8 W/kg or less, determined in accordance with the Epstein method with a current at 50 Hz and an induction of 1,7 T () OJ No 8, 22. 1. 1964, p. 99/64. () OJ No L 15, 20. 1. 1988, p. 13.