CELEX: 31973R0880
Language: en
Date: 1973-03-26 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 880/73 of the Council of 26 March 1973 fixing certain basic duties

31.3.73                               Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 86/29
                                   REGULATION (EEC) No 880/73 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                      of 26 March 1973
                                                  fixing certain basic duties
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                         Whereas, for the purpose of maintaining Community
                                                                   preference as provided in the second subparagraph of
Having regard to the Treaty concerning the Accession               Article 33 of the Act the duties actually applied on
of new Member States to the European Economic                      1 January 1972 should be replaced, as basic duties
Community and the European Atomic Energy                           for the products aforesaid, by the duties as reduced
Community ( 1 ), signed on 22 January 1972, and in                 on 1 January 1973 ;
particular Article 33 of the Act annexed thereto ;
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas, under Article 31 ( 1 ) of the Act, the
successive reductions provided for in Article 32 of
the Act in respect of customs duties on imports into                                      Article 1
the Community as originally constituted of products
in free circulation in the new Member States are to                The basic duties to which the successive reductions
be applied to basic duties which are the duties                    provided for in Article 32 of the Act are to be applied
actually applied on 1 January 1972 ; whereas these                 shall, for imports of products falling within Chapter
provisions apply inter alia to products falling within             91 of the Common Customs Tariff into the Com­
Chapter 91 of the Common Customs Tariff ;                          munity as originally constituted, be the Common
                                                                   Customs Tariff duties applicable on 1 January 1973 .
Whereas, for these products and from 1 January
1973 , the Community has implemented the third                                            Article 2
instalment of the reductions in duties arising out of
the tariff agreements concluded following the Geneva               This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April
Trade Conference ( 1964-67);                                        1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 26 March 1973 .
                                                                                        For the Council
                                                                                          The President
                                                                                           A. LAVENS
(!) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 .