COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1144/94 of 18 May 1994 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on certain industrial products originating in Estonia and China, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3831/90 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3831/90 of 20 December 1990 applying generalized tariff preferences for 1991 in respect of certain industrial products originating in developing countries (1), extended for 1994 by Regulation (EC) No 3668/93 (2), and in particular Article 9 thereof,

Whereas, pursuant to Articles 1 and 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 3831/90, suspension of customs duties shall be accorded from 1 January to 30 June 1994 to each of the countries or territories listed in Annex III other than those listed in column 4 of Annex I, within the framework of the preferential tariff ceilings fixed in column 6 of Annex I;

Whereas, as provided for in Article 7 of that Regulation, as soon as the individual ceilings in question are reached at Community level, the levying of customs duties on imports of the products in question originating in each of the countries and territories concerned may at any time be re-established;

Whereas, in the case of the products of the order Nos and origins indicated in the table below, the individual ceiling is fixed at the levels indicated in that table; whereas that ceiling was reached, on the date indicated below, by charges of imports into the Community of the products in question:

"" ID="1">10.0400> ID="2">Estonia> ID="3">209 500> ID="4">22. 4. 1994"> ID="1">10.1160> ID="2">China> ID="3">5 788 000> ID="4">17. 3. 1994"> ID="1">10.1170> ID="2">China> ID="3">275 000> ID="4">2. 3. 1994"> ID="1">10.1180> ID="2">China> ID="3">551 000> ID="4">2. 3. 1994">

Whereas, it is appropriate to re-establish the levying of customs duties for the products in question,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

As from 23 May 1994, the levying of customs duties, suspended from 1 January to 30 June 1994, pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 3831/90, shall be re-established on imports into the Community of the products indicated in the table below:

"" ID="1">10.0400> ID="2">3102 10 10> ID="3">Urea containing more than 45 % by weight of nitrogen on the dry anhydrous product> ID="4">Estonia"> ID="1">10.1160> ID="2">ex 9101 11 00> ID="3">Wrist-watches, pocket-watches and other watches, including stop-watches, with case of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal> ID="4">China"> ID="2">ex 9101 12 00> ID="3"> Wrist-watches, battery or accumulator powered, whether or not incorporting a stop-watch facility"> ID="2">ex 9101 19 00> ID="3"> Quartz watches"> ID="2">ex 9101 91 00> ID="3"> Other"> ID="3"> Battery or accumulator powered"> ID="3"> Quartz watches"> ID="2">ex 9102 11 00> ID="3">Wrist-watches, pocket-watches and other watches, including stop-watches, other than those of heading No 9101:"> ID="2">ex 9102 12 00> ID="3"> Wrist-watches, battery or accumulator powered, whether or not incorporating a stop-watch facility"> ID="2">ex 9102 19 00> ID="3"> Quartz watches"> ID="2">ex 9102 91 00> ID="3"> Other"> ID="3"> Battery or accumulator powered"> ID="3"> Quartz watches"> ID="1">10.1170> ID="2">9103 > ID="3">Clocks with watch movements, excluding clocks of heading No 9104> ID="4">China"> ID="1">10.1180> ID="2">9105 > ID="3">Other clocks> ID="4">China">

Article 2

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

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

Done at Brussels, 18 May 1994.

For the Commission

Christiane SCRIVENER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ No L 370, 31. 12. 1990, p. 1.

(2) OJ No L 338, 31. 12. 1993, p. 22.