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COMMISSION OFTHEEUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
COM(73)290final
Brussels,27February1973
Proposalfora
REGULATION (EEC)OFTHECOUNCIL
fixingcertainbasicduties
(submittedtotheCouncilbytheCommission)
COM(73)290final

Proposal fora
I- ■REGULATION (EEC )OFTHECOPECIL
fixing certain basic duties
THECOUNCIL OFTHEEUROPEAN -COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard totheTreaty concerning theAccession ofnewhember
States totheEuropean Economic Community and theEuropean Atomic
Energy Community (■*•), signed atBrussels on22January 1972 ,andin
particular Article 33oftheAct (2)annexed thereto ,hereinafter
called the "Act";
Whereas ,under Article 31 (1)oftheAct ,thesuccessive reductions
provided forbyArticle 32ofthe Act inrespect ofcustoms duties
onimports into theCommunity asoriginally constituted ofproducts
infree circulation inthenewMember States are tobeapplied to
basic duties which are theduties actually applied on1January 1972 ;
whereas these provisions apply inter alia toproducts falling within
Chapter 91ofthe Common Customs Tariff ;
Vihereab !forthese' products and from 1January 1973 theCommunity has
implemented the third instalment ofthereductions induties arising
out ofthetariff agreements concluded following theGeneva Trade
Conference (1964-67 );
Whereas forthepurpose ofmaintaining Community preference asprovided
inthe second subparagraph ofArticle 33ofthe Act the duties actually
applied on1January 1972 should bereplaced ,asbasic duties forthe
products aforesaid ,bytheduties asreduced on1January 1$73 »
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
(1)O.J. NoL73,27March 1972 ,p.5.
(2)O.J. NoL73,27March 1972 ,p.l4.
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1
Article 1
The basic duties towhich ,the successive reductions
provided forinArticle 32ofthe Act are tobeapplied shall ,for
imports ofproducts falling within Chapter 91oftheCommon Customs
Tariff into theCommunity asoriginally constituted ,bethe Common
Customs Tariff duties applicable on1January 1973 »
•f '> " ' *
Article 2
V " ' •" f'• .\
This Regulation shall enter into force on1April 1S73
This Regulation shall bebinding initsentirety and
directly applicable inallMember States .;
Done at ..Brussels ,. > • .' . FortheCouncil r
■ The President ''