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COMMISSION DECISION No 572/84/ECSC

of 29 February 1984

fixing the amended rates of abatement for the second quarter of 1984 in accordance with Decision No 234/84/ECSC on the extension of the system of monitoring and production quotas for certain products of undertakings in the steel industry

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN

COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community,

Having regard to Commission Decision No 234/84/ECSC of 31 January 1984 on the extension of the system of monitoring and production quotas for certain products of undertakings in the steel industry (1),

Whereas rates of abatment in respect of certain products were fixed for the second quarter of 1984 by Commission Decision No 391/84/ECSC of 14 February 1984 (2);

Whereas Article 9 (1) of Decision No 234/84/ECSC provides that such rates of abatement may be modified, not later than the first week of the second month of the quarter in question, in the light of the development of the market situation;

Whereas the market situation requires that the rates of abatement for the second quarter of 1984 be so modified on the basis of studies carried out with undertakings and associations of undertakings,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

1. The rate of abatement for the establishment of the production quota for the second quarter of 1984 established in Commission Decision No 391/84/ECSC for the following category of product shall be modified as follows:

'category IV: 28'

2. The rate of abatement for the establishment of the part of the production quota which may be delivered in the common market established in Commission Decision No 391/84/ECSC for the following category of product shall be modified as follows:

'category IV: 30'

3. These rates of abatement replace the corresponding rates fixed in Commission Decision No 391/84/ECSC.

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 29 February 1984.

For the Commission

Étienne DAVIGNON

Vice-President

(1) OJ No L 29, 1. 2. 1984, p. 1.

(2) OJ No L 47, 17. 2. 1984, p. 8.