CELEX: 31975R1259
Language: en
Date: 1975-05-14 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1259/75 of the Commission of 14 May 1975 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on illuminating glassware, signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, falling within subheading 70.14 B, originating in Hong Kong, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3054/74 of 2 December 1974 apply

No L 126/ 14                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                     17 . 5 . 75
                            REGULATION ( EEC) No 1259/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 14 May 1975
               re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on illuminating glassware ,
               signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, falling within subheading
               70.14 B, originating in Hong Kong , to which the preferential tariff arrangements
                 set out in Council Regulation ( EEC) No 3054/ 74 of 2 December 1974 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   falling within subheading ^j).14 B, the ceiling, calcu­
COMMUNITIES,                                                     lated as indicated above , should be 520 000 units of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            account, and therefore the maximum amount 156 000
Economic Community ;                                             units of account ; whereas on 5 May 1975, the
                                                                 amounts of imports into the Community of illumi­
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No
                                                                 nating glassware, signalling glassware and optical
3054/74 (') of 2 December 1974 establishing preferen­            elements of glass, falling within subheading 70.14 B,
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in
                                                                 originating in Hong Kong, a country covered by pref­
developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2)            erential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum
thereof ;
                                                                 amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                 Regulation (EEC) No 3054/74 which provides that
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­             maximum amounts should not be exceeded , customs
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                 duties should be re-established in respect of the
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be            products in question in relation to Hong Kong,
equal to the sum arrived at by adding together the
value of the products in question imported cif into
the Community in 1971 and coming from countries                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
and territories covered by those arrangements, but not
including products coming from countries and territo­                                        Article 1
ries already covered by various preferential tariff arran­
gements established by the Community, and 5 % of                 As from 19 May 1975, the levying of customs duties,
the value of 1972 cif imports coming from other coun­            suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation ( EEC)
tries and from countries and territories already covered         No     3054/ 74     of    2   December         1974,   shall    be
by such arrangements ;                                           re-established in respect of the following products,
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts              imported into the Community and originating in
for products originating in any one of the countries or          Hong Kong :
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                            CCT
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                   heading
                                                                        No
                                                                                                 Description of goods
certain products for which the maximum amount is to
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this              70.14               Illuminating glassware , signalling glassware
reduced percentage will be 30 % ;                                                    and optical elements of glass, neither opti­
                                                                                     cally worked nor of optical glass :
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that
                                                                                     B. Other
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­
tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­                                    Article 2
ries once the relevant Community maximum amount
has been reached ;                                               This Regulation shall enter into force on the second
Whereas, in respect of illuminating glassware,                   day following its publication in the Official Journal
signalling glassware and optical elements of glass,               of the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 14 May 1975 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                 The President
                                                                            François-Xavier ORTOLI
(') OJ No L 329 , 9 . 12 . 1974, p. 70 .