CELEX: 31977R1272
Language: en
Date: 1977-06-13 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1272/77 of 13 June 1977 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on illuminating glassware, signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, other, falling within subheading 70.14 B, originating in Hong Kong to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply

15. 6. 77                           Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 147/23
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1272/77
                                                    of 13 June 1977
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on illuminating glassware,
               signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, other, falling within
               subheading 70.14 B, originating in Hong Kong to which the preferential tariff
                     arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                ries — with the exception of those listed in Annex C
COMMUNITIES,                                                  to the same Regulation — once the relevant Commu­
                                                              nity amount has been reached ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                           Whereas, in respect of illuminating glassware,
                                                              signalling glassware and optical elements of glass,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                  other, falling within subheading 70.14 B, the ceiling,
                                                              calculated as indicated above, should be 897 000 units
3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­           of account, and therefore the maximum amount is
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)      269 100 units of account ; whereas on 6 June 1977,
thereof,                                                       the amounts of imports into the Community of illumi­
                                                               nating glassware, signalling glassware and optical
                                                              elements of glass, other, falling within subheading
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               70.14 B, originating in Hong Kong, a country covered
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­          by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community               maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be          objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which
equal — with the exception of certain products the             provides that maximum amounts should not be
value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to         exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in
the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by          respect of the products in question in relation to
adding together the value of the products in question          Hong Kong,
imported cif into the Community in 1974 and
coming from countries and territories covered by
those arrangements, but not including products
coming from countries and territories already covered          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
by various preferential tariff arrangements established
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif
imports coming from other countries and from coun­
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­                                Article 1
ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from
the sum of this addition may in no case exceed                 As from 18 June 1977, the levying of customs duties,
 172-5 % of that resulting from the substitution of the        suspended in pursuance, of Council Regulation (EEC)
year 1971 for the year 1974 in the first term of the           No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect of the
addition and of the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the         following products, imported into the Community
second term of the addition ;                                  and originating in Hong Kong :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                  CCT
for products originating in any one of the countries or             heading
                                                                      No
                                                                                           Description of goods
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should
be within a maximum Community amount repre­
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of            70.14           Illuminating glassware, signalling glassware
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                            and optical elements of glass, not optically
                                                                               worked or of optical glass :
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to
 that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this                            B. Other
 reduced percentage will be 30 % ;
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that
 the levying of customs duties may be re-established at                               Article 2
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­
 tion originating in any of the said countries or territo      This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                               following its publication in the Official Journal of
(') OJ No L 349, 20. 12. 1976, p. 23.                           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, 13 June 1977.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                 Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                             Member of the Commission