CELEX: 31973R2057
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-27 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2057/73 of the Commission of 27 July 1973 re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on sheep- and lamb-skin leather falling within subheading No 41.03 B II, originating in Lebanon, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972 apply

28 . 7. 73                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                  No L 208 / 67
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 2057/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 27 July 1973
               re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on sheep- and lamb-skin leather falling
               within subheading No 41.03 B II, originating in Lebanon, to which the preferential tariff
               arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972
                                                             apply
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas, in respect of sheep- and lamb-skin leather
 COMMUNITIES ,                                                     of subheading 41.03 B II, the ceiling, calculated as '
                                                                   indicated above, should be 1 123 000 units of
                                                                   account, and therefore the maximum amount 561 500
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              units of account ; whereas on 24 July 1973 the
Economic Community ;                                               amounts of imports into the Community of sheep­
                                                                   and lamb-skin leather of subheading 41.03 B II
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC ) No                     originating in Lebanon, a country covered by
2762/72 (*) of 19 December 1972 establishing                       preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
preferential tariffs in respect of certain products                maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
 originating in developing countries, and in particular            objectives of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72,
Article 4 (2) thereof;                                             which provides that maximum amounts should not
                                                                   be exceeded, Common Customs Tariff duties should
                                                                   be re-established in respect of the products in
Whereas Article 1 (3 ) and (4) of that Regulation                  question in relation to Lebanon ;
provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties
may, for each category of products, be suspended up
to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
account, which will usually be equal to the sum
arrived at by adding together the value of the
products in question imported cif into the                                                  Article 1
Community in 1968 and coming from countries and
territories covered by those arrangements, but not                 As from 31 July 1973 , Common Customs Tariff
including products coming from countries and                       duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
territories already covered by various preferential tariff         (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972, shall be
arrangements established by the Community, and                     re-established in respect of the following products
5 % of the value of 1970 cif imports coming from                   imported into the Community and originating in
other countries and from countries and territories                 Lebanon :
already covered by such arrangements ;
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                      CCT
                                                                       heading                  Description of goods
for products originating in any one of the countries                      No
or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation
should be within a maximum Community amount
representing 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception
of certain products for which the maximum amount
                                                                        41.03       Sheep- and lamb-skin leather, except
                                                                                    leather falling within heading Nos 41.06,
is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex                               41.07 or 41.08 :
A to that Regulation ;
                                                                                     B. Other :
                                                                                        II. Other
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides
that the Common Customs Tariff duties may be
re-established at any time in respect of imports of the
products in question originating in any of the said
countries or territories once the relevant Community                                        Article 2
maximum amount has been reached ;
                                                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
                                                                   day following its publication in the Official journal
 (!) OJ No L 296 , 30. 12. 1972, p . 15 .                          of the European Communities.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 27 July 1973 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                 The President
                                                                           Francois-Xavier ORTOLI