CELEX: 31973R2310
Language: en
Date: 1973-08-24 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2310/73 of the Commission of 24 August 1973 re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on standard lamps, table lamps and other lighting fittings, of wood, articles of wood for personal use or adornment, etc, falling within heading No 44.27, originating in the Philippines, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972 apply

No L 237/24                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                 25 . 8 . 73
                          REGULATION (EEC) No 2310/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                  of 24 August 1973
               re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on standard lamps, table lamps
               and other lighting fittings, of wood, articles of wood for personal use or adorn­
               ment, etc, falling within heading No 44.27 , originating in the Philippines, 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                                 therefore the maximum amount 767 000 units of
COMMUNITIES,                                                  account ; whereas on 22 August 1973 the amounts of
                                                               imports into the Community of standard lamps, table
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          lamps and other lighting fittings, of wood, articles of
Economic Community ;                                          wood for personal use or adornment etc, originating
                                                               in the Philippines, a country covered by preferential
                                                               tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                  whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation
2762/72 (J) of 19 December 1972 establishing prefer­          (EEC) No 2762/72, which provides that maximum
ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating      amounts should not be exceeded, Common Customs
in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2)      Tariff duties should be re-established in respect of the
thereof ;
                                                               products in question in relation to the Philippines ;
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation
provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties
may, for each category of products, be suspended up
to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
account, which will usually be equal to the sum
arrived at by adding together the value of the products
in question imported cif into the Community in 1968
and coming from countries and territories covered by                                   Article 1
those arrangements, but not including products
coming from countries and territories already covered          As from 28 August 1973, Common Customs Tariff
by various preferential tariff arrangements established        duties suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1970 cif             (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972, shall be
imports coming from other countries and from coun­             re-established in respect of the following products,
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­         imported into the Community and originating in the
ments ;
                                                               Philippines :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
for products originating in any one of the countries or              CCT
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should             heading                 Description of goods
                                                                      No
be within a maximum Community amount repre­
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of
certain products for which the maximum amount is to           44.27            Standard lamps, table lamps and other
                                                                               lighting fittings, of wood ; articles of
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                           furniture, of wood, not falling within
that Regulation ;                                                              Chapter 94 ; caskets, cigarette -boxes,
                                                                               trays, fruit bowls, ornaments and other
                                                                               fancy articles, of wood ; cases for cut­
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that                         lery, for drawing instruments or for vio­
the Common Customs Tariff duties may be                                        lins, and similar receptacles, of wood ;
re-established at any time in respect of imports of the                        articles of wood for personal use or
                                                                               adornment, of a kind normally carried
products in question originating in any of the said                            in the pocket, in the handbag or on the
countries or territories once the relevant Community                           person ; parts of the foregoing articles,
maximum amount has been reached ;                                              of wood
Whereas, in respect of standard lamps, table lamps                                     Article 2
and other lighting fittings, of wood, articles of wood
for personal use or adornment etc, the ceiling, calcu­
lated above, should be 1 534 000 units of account, and         This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                following its publication in the Official Journal of
(i) OJ No L 296, 30. 12. 1972, p. 15.                           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, 24 August 1973 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                      The President
                                                                 François-Xavier ORTOLI