CELEX: 31973R1296
Language: en
Date: 1973-05-15 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1296/73 of the Commission of 15 May 1973 re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on other kinds of leather falling within subheading No 41.05 B II, originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972 apply

18 . 5 . 73                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                    No L 131 /31
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 1296/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                            of 15 May 1973
                re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on other kinds of leather falling within
                subheading No 41.05 B II, originating in Yugoslavia, 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 other kinds of leather falling
COMMUNITIES ,                                                           within subheading No 41.05 B II the ceiling, calcu­
                                                                        lated as indicated above, should be 3 425 000 units
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                      of account, and therefore the maximum amount
pean Economic Community ;                                               1 027 500 units of account ; whereas on 20 April
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No                          1973 the amounts of imports into the Community
2762/72 (*) of 19 December 1972 establishing prefer­                    of other kinds of leather falling within subheading
ential tariffs in respect of certain products origi­                    No 41.05 B II, originating in Yugoslavia, a country
nating in developing countries, and in particular                       covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached
Article 4 ( 2 ) thereof ;                                               that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind
                                                                        the objectives of Regulation ( EEC) No 2762/72,
Whereas Article 1 ( 3 ) and (4) of that Regulation                      which provides that maximum amounts should not
provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties                          be    exceeded,    Common          Customs       Tariff   duties
may, for each category of products, be suspended                        should be re-established in respect of the products
up to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of                        in question in relation to Yugoslavia ;
account, which will usually be equal to the sum
arrived at by adding together the vailue of the
products in question imported cif into the Commu­                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
nity in 1968 and coming from countries and
territories covered by those arrangements, but not                                                  Article 1
including products coming from countries and terri­
tories already covered by various preferential tariff                   As from 21 May 1973 , Common Customs Tariff
arrangements established by the Community, and                          duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regula­
5 °/o of the value of 1970 cif imports coming from                      tion (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972, shall
other countries and from countries and territories                      be re-established in           respect of the following
already covered by such arrangements ;                                  products , imported into the Community and origi­
                                                                        nating in Yugoslavia :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
for products originating in any of the countries or                           CCT
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation                            heading                    Description of goods
                                                                               No
should be within a maximum Community amount
representing 50 % of that ceiling, with the excep­                      41.05             Other kinds of leather, except leather
tion of certain products for which the maximum                                            falling within heading No 41.06, 41.07
                                                                                          or 41.08 :
amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated
in Annex A to that Regulation ; whereas, for those                                        B. Other :
products, this reduced percentage will be 30 °/o ;                                             II . Other
Whereas Article 2 ( 2 ) of that Regulation provides
that the Common Customs Tariff duties may be                                                        Article 2
re-established at any time in respect of imports of
the products in question originating in any of the                      This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
said     countries   or   territories     once     the  relevant        day following its publication in the Official Journal
Community maximum amount has been reached ;                             of the European Communities .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels , 15 May 1973 .
                                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                                      The President
                                                                                François-Xavier ORTOLI
(*) OJ No L 296 , 30 . 12 . 1972 , n . 15 .