CELEX: 31972R0610
Language: en
Date: 1972-03-23 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 610/72 of the Council of 23 March 1972 on the application of the provisions adopted within the framework of the Association established between the European Economic Community and Greece relating to the movement of goods in the manufacture of which are used products which come from third countries and are not in free circulation either in the Community or in Greece

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                                   REGULATION (EEC) No 610/72 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                        of 23 March 1972
              on the application of the provisions adopted within the framework of the Association es­
              tablished between the European Economic Community and Greece relating to the movement
              of goods in the manufacture of which are used products which come from third countries and
                               are not in free circulation either in the Community or in Greece
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                              effect, subject to the following provisions being com­
                                                                      plied with.
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular Article 113                                              Article 2
thereof;
                                                                      The exporting Member State shall charge a levy on
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission;                    goods obtained or produced as provided in Article 1 , the
                                                                      rate of which shall be equal to a percentage of the duties
Whereas Article 8 of the Agreement establishing an                    in the Common Customs Tariff which are applicable to
Association between the European Economic Commu­                      the products used in their manufacture.
nity and Greece laid down the conditions under which
the provisions relating to free circulation may apply to              As regards goods in the manufacture of which are used
goods in the manufacture of which are used products                   products within the province of the European Coal and
which originate in third countries and are not in free cir­           Steel Community, this percentage shall apply to the
culation either in the Community or in Greece, whereas                customs duty in force in the exporting Member State in
these conditions entail, in particular, the charging of a             respect of products within the province of the European
levy by the State where the goods are manufactured;                   Coal and Steel Community which are used in the manu­
whereas the procedure for the charging of such levy is                facture of these goods.
laid down in the Council of Association Decision No 1/
 62;                                                                                           Article 3
                                                                      The levy charged on goods obtained or produced under
Whereas as regards goods obtained in the Community
                                                                      the conditions specified in Article 1 shall be calculated
the rate of the levy is to be determined in accordance
                                                                      by reference to the type and value - or where appropriate
with Council of Association Decision Nos 5/65 , 2/67,                 on some other basis of assessment - of the products
 3/68, 1/70 and 1/72;                                                 imported from countries outside the Association and
                                                                      used in their manufacture, as determined by Customs
Whereas it is necessary to adopt the measures for imple­
                                                                      when those goods were admitted to the customs proce­
menting the Decisions referred to above,
                                                                      dure under which that manufacture took place.
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                                               Article 4
                           TITLE I
                                                                      The relevant date for determining the rate of the levy
                                                                      shall be the date on which the goods referred to above
                          Article 1
                                                                      were exported. However, when these goods are placed in
For the purposes of the Agreement establishing an Asso­               customs warehouses in the Community before being
ciation between the European Economic Community                       exported to Greece, the relevant date for determining the
and Greece, goods obtained or produced in the Commu­                  rate of the levy shall be the date when these goods were
nity in the manufacture of which are used products im­                placed in customs warehouses.
ported from a country outside the Association and which
were not, within the meaning of that Agreement, in free
circulation either in- the Community or in Greece, shall                                        TITLE II
be considered as fulfilling the conditions for implementa­
                                                                                               Articles
tion of the Athens Agreement relating to the progressive
elimination in Greece of customs duties, quantitative                 As regards goods subject to the provisions of Article 14
restrictions and all other measures having equivalent                 of the Athens Agreement, the percentage of the duties to
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be applied when determining the rate of the levy referred                                     Article 7
to in Article 2 shall be as follows :
                                                                    Notwithstanding Article 2, no levy shall be charged if
                                                                    the goods obtained or produced in Member States of the
- from 1 February 1966 to 14 September 1967 .           30%         Community are listed in Annex I to the Association
- from 15 September 1967 to 31 December 1968            40%         Agreement, as amended in accordance with Article 15
                                                                    (2), Article 16 and Article 20 (3), or are listed in Annex
- from 1 January 1969 to 30 June 1970                   50%
                                                                    II to the Association Agreement but are not listed in
- from 1 July 1970 to 31 March 1972                     60%         Annex III thereto, even if they are included in the list
                                                                    annexed to Protocol No 13 .
- from 1 April 1972                                     70%
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                                                                                              TITLE III
Notwithstanding Article 2, no levy shall be charged if
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the relevant date falls between 1 November 1962 and 31
January 1966 .                                                      This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April 1972.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
               Done at Brussels , 23 March 1972.
                                                                                                   For the Council
                                                                                                     The President
                                                                                                  J. P. BUECHLER