CELEX: 31973R3564
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-21 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3564/73 of the Commission of 21 December 1973 amending Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2198/69 of 30 October 1969 concerning the periods of grace referred to in Article 10 (2) and (3) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 803/68 on the valuation of goods for customs purposes

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                               REGULATION (EEC) No 3564/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 21 December 1973
              amending Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 2198 /69 of 30 October 1969
              concerning the periods of grace referred to in Article 10 (2) and (3) of Council
               Regulation (EEC) No 803/68 on the valuation of goods for customs purposes
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        Whereas the amendments to the Common Customs
COMMUNITIES,                                                          Tariff of the European Communities made in the
                                                                      meantime call for corresponding amendments in
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 respect of certain items in the abovementioned tables ;
Economic Community ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          Whereas the provisions provided for in this Regula­
803/68 (') of 27 June 1968 on the valuation of goods                  tion are in accordance with the Opinion of the
                                                                      Customs Valuation Committee,
for customs purposes, and in particular Article 10 (4)
thereof ;
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC) No'                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
2198/69 (2) concerning the periods of grace referred to
in Article 10 (2) and (3) of Council Regulation (EEC)
No 803/68 on the valuation of goods for customs                                                Article 1
purposes, amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 1038/71 (3) of 24 May 1971 and completed by                          The Annex to Commission Regulation (EEC) No
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3105/73 (4) of 15                      2198/69 of 30 October 1969 on the periods of grace
November 1973 ;                                                       referred to in Article 10 (2) and (3) of Council Regula­
                                                                      tion (EEC) No 803/68 , as last amended by Commis­
Whereas it has been possible to establish that certain                sion Regulation (EEC) No 3105/73 of 15 November
goods not included in the tables annexed to the above­                 1973, shall be substituted by the table annexed to this
mentioned Commission Regulations are usually sold                     Regulation .
with delivery periods exceeding six and twelve months
respectively ; whereas it is appropriate to provide in
respect of those goods for a period of grace of twelve                                         Article 2
months or more as the case may be ; whereas,
however, pursuant to Article 10 (3) of the abovemen­                  This Regulation shall enter into force one month after
tioned Council Regulation that period of grace may                    its publication in the Official Journal of the Euro­
not exceed twenty-four months ;                                        bean Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 21 December 1973 .
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                    The President
                                                                               Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(') OJ No   L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p . 6 .
(2) OJ No   L 279 , 6. 11 . 1969 , p . 9 .
(3) OJ No   L 113 , 2.5 . 5 . 1971 , p . 7.
(4) OJ No   L 315,  16 . 11 . 1973 , p . 36.
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                                                          ANNEX
                          CCT                                                                   Period
                       heading No                            Description of goods            (in months)
             ex 02.01 A III a)             Meat, frozen, of domestic swine                        12
             ex 02.01 B II c)              Edible offals, frozen, of domestic swine               12
             ex 02.01 B II d )             Brains of lambs, frozen                                12
             ex 02.04 A                    Meat and edible meat offals, frozen, of
                                           domestic rabbits                                       12
             ex 02.04 C II                 Turtle meait                                           12
             ex 03.01 A I b )              Frozen salmon                                          12
                03.01 A III                Carp                                                   12
             ex 03.02 A                    Herrings, whole, headless, in pieces or fillets        15
                04.06                      Natural honey                                          15
             ex 05.15 A I                  Shrimps and prawns, dried                              12
             ex 06.01                      Flower bulbs                                           12
                07.01 A 1                  Seed potatoes                                          12
             ex 07.01 H                    Onions and shallots for planting                       15
                07.03 B                    Capers                                                 12
             ex 07.03 E                    T omatoes                                              12
                 07.04                     Dried, dehydrated or evaporated vegetables
                                           whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder but
                                            not further prepaired :
                                           — Parsnips                                              15
                                           — Other                                                 12
                 07.05                      Dried leguminous vegetables, shelled, whether
                                            or not skinned or split                                12
             ex 07.06 A                     Manioc roots, whether or not cut in chips or
                                           sliced                                                  18
             ex 07.06 B                     Sweet potatoes                          t              18
             ex 08.01                       Dates, coconuts, Brazil nuts, dried, shelled or
                                            not, pineapples, avocados, mangoes, guavas
                                            and mangosteens                                        12
                 08.01 F                    Cashew nuts                                            15
             ex 08.02                       Citrus fruit, dried                                    12
                 08.03 B                    Figs\ dried                                            12
                 08.04 B                    Grapes, dried                                  1       12
             ex 08.05                       Nuts other than those falling within heading
                                            No 08.01 , dried , shelled or not                      12
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                         CCT                                                                  Period
                     heading No                          Description of goods              (in months)
               08.05 A II               Almonds, other than bitter                              15
               08,11                    Fruit provisionally preserved (for example, by
                                        sulphur dioxide gas, in brine, ¿n sulphur water
                                         or in other preservative solutions), but unsuit­
                                         able in that state for immediate consumption           12
               08.12                    Fruit, dried, other than thait falling within
                                        heading No 08.01 , 08.02, 08.03, 08.04 or 08.05         12
               09.01 A I                Coffee, unroasted                                       12
            ex 09.04                    Pepper of the genus 'Piper'                             24
            ex 09.04                    Pimento of the genus 'Gaip sicum' or the genus
                                        ' Pimenta'                                              12
               09.05                    Vanilla                                                 12
               09.06                    Cinnamon and cinnamon-tree flowers                      12
               09.07                    Cloves (whole fruit, cloves and stems·)                 12
               09.08                    Nutmeg, mace and cardamoms                              12
            ex 09.09                    Seeds of anise, baidian, fennel, coriander and
                                        juniper                                                 12
               09.10                    Thyme, siaffron and bay leaves ; other spices           12
               12.03                    Seed®, fruit and spores, of a kind used for
                                        sowing                                                  12
               12.06                    Hop cones and Tupulin                                   24
               12.07                    Plants and parts (including steeds and fruit) of
                                        trees, bushes, shrubs, or other plants being
                                        goods of a kind used primarily in perfumery,
                                        in pharmacy, or for insecticiidall1, fungicidal or
                                        similar purposes, fresh or dried, whole, cut,
                                         crushed, ground or powdered                             12
            ex 12.08 C                  Apricot kernels                                         12
               13.03                    Vegetable siaps and extraots ; pectic substances,
                                        pectinates and pectaites ; agar-agar and other
                                        mucilages and thickeners, derived from vege­
                                        table products                                           12
               14.01 A II               Osier                                                    12
               15.04 A I                Fish-liver oil, of a vitamin A content not ex­
                                        ceeding 2 500 internaitional units per gramme            12
           ex 15.07                     Fixed vegetable oils, fluid or solid, crude,
                                        refined or purified, other than olive oil :
                                        — Saffltawer oil                                         18
                                        — Other                                                  12
               15.11 A                  Crude glycerol and glycerol lyes                         12
               16.04 A I                 Caviar (sturgeon roe )                                  12
           ex 16.04 B                   Salmon                                                  12
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                          CCT                                                                Period
                       heading No                          Description of goods           (in months)
                 16.04 D                   Sardines                                            12
                 16.04 E                   Tunny                                               12
            ex 16.04 G II                  Pilchards and haddock liver                         12
            ex 16.05                       Lobster and crab meat                               12
            ex 18.01                       Cocoa beans, whole, raw                             18
            ex 18.01                       Cocoa beans, whole or broken roasted                12
            ex . 18.04                     Cocoa butter                                        18
                 18.05                     Cocoa powder, unsweetened                           12
                 20.01 B                   Vegetables and ¡fruit, prepared or preserved
                                           by vinegar or acetic acid, with or without
                                           sugar, whether or not containing salt, spices
                                           or mustard, other than mango chutney                12
                 20.02                     Vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise
                                           than by vinegar or acetic acid                      12
                 20.06                     Fruiit otherwise prepared or preserved whether
                                           or not containing added sugar or spirit             12
                 20.07                     Fruit juices (including grape must) and vege­
                                           table juices, whether or not containing added
                                           sugar, but unfenmented and not containing
                                           spirit                                              12
            ex 23.01 B                     Flours and mieals of fish                           18
                 23.07 A                   Fish or marine mammal sodiubles                     18
            ex 24.01                       Unmanufactured tobacco                              12
            ex 27.07 G II                  Creosote oil (coal tar oil, for impregnation)       12
                 28.01 B                   Chlorine                                            12
                 28.17 A                   Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda)                     12
                 28-28 G                   Tungsten oxides and hydroxides                      12
                 28.28 H I                 Vanadic pentoxide                                   12
            ex 28.38 A I                   Sodiuim sulphate                                    12
            ex 28.47 F                     Ammonium paratungstate                              12
            ex 28.56 D                     Tungsten carbide                                    12
                 29.05 A II                Menthol                                              12
                 29.13 B I                 Camphor                                              12
            ex 29.35 A                     Furfuraldehyide (furfural, furfuröl)                12
            ex 29.36                       Sulphonamides for veterinary purposes               12
            ex 29.38                       Vitamins                                            12
            ex 30.03 A II b)               Combined oestrogens                                 12
                 31.03 A I                 Super phosphates                                    12
                 31.05 A II a)             Ammonium phosphates                                  12
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                         CCT                                                                  Period
                     heading No                           Description of goods             (in months)
               33.01                     Essential oils (terpemeless or not) ; concretes
                                         and absolutes ; resinoide                              12
               35.01 A                    Gasiein                                               18
               35.05 A                    Dextrins ; soluble or roasted starches                12
               38.191 J                  Non-agglomerated mixtures of metallic car­
                                         hides                                                  12
               41.02                     Bovine cattle leather (including buffalo leather)
                                         and equine leather, except leather falling
                                         within heading No 41.06, 41.07 or 41.08                12
            ex 44.02                     Wood charcoal                                          12
               44.05 B                   Coniferous wood of a length of 125 cm ox
                                         less and of a thickness of less than 12-5 mm           12
               44.07                     Railway or tramway sleepers of wood                    12
            ex 44.15                     Blockboard                                             12
               47.01 A II                Wood pulp, other than for the manufacture of
                                          regenerated textile fibre :
                                         — Mechanical and semi-chemioal wood pulp               12
                                         — Chemical wood pulp : sulphate, soda or
                                              sulphite pulp                                     18
            ex 48.09                      Building board of vegetable fibre                     18
            ex Section XI                 Yarn coming under Chapters 50, 51 and 53
                                          to 56, not put up for retail sale :
                                         — Yarn of flax                                         18
                                         — Other                                                12
            ex Section XI                 Fashion collection fabrics (being seasonal fab­
                                          rics) for outer garments, the fashionableness
                                         of which is determined by the weave, the
                                         printing pattern, the use of yarns of different
                                          colours, the finish (tinged, moiré, embossed,
                                         etc.) or the arrangement of the materials used ;
                                         single shade fabrics, in fashionable shades            12
            ex 50.09                     Far Eastern fabrics of silk                            18
            ex 53.05                     Wool, carded or combed                                 12
            ex 55.09                     Woven fabrics of cotton, unbleached                    12
            ex 56.07                     Unfinished woven fabrics of man-made fibres
                                         ( discontinuous or waste)                              12
               57.05 A                   Yarn of true hemp not put up for retail sale          18
            ex 57.06                     Yarn of juite or of other textile bast fibres of
                                         heading No 57.03                                      12
            ex 57.07 B                   Sisal yarn                                            12
               57,10                     Woven fabrics of jute or of other textile bast
                                         fibres of heading No 57.03                            12
            ex 58.02 A I                 Coconut matting                                       12
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                         CCT                                                                  Period
                      heading No                          Description of goods            ( in months)
             ex 59.04                     Twine of hemp ( cannabis sativa) or Manilla
                                          hemp ('abaca' or 'musa texcilis')                     12
                62.03 A II                Sacks and bags of a kind used for the packing
                                          of goods of jute or of other textile bast fibre
                                          of heading No 57.03                                   12
                81.01                     Tungsten ( wolfram), unwrought or wrought,
                                          and articles thereof                                   12 .
                81.04 All                 Bismuth , wrought                                      12
                81.041 J                  Antimony                                              12