CELEX: 31973R2455
Language: en
Date: 1973-09-07 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2455/73 of the Commission of 7 September 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 of the Common Customs Tariff originating in developing countries to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972 apply

No L 252/ 16                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                     8 . 9 . 73
                          REGULATION (EEC No 2455/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                 of 17 September 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 of the Common Customs Tariff origi­
               nating in developing countries 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                                  question, originating in countries and territories
COMMUNITIES,                                                    covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached
                                                                that ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           of Regulation 2762/72, which provides that the ceiling
Economic Community ;                                            should not be exceeded, Common Customs Tariff
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    duties should be re-established in respect of the
2762/72 0 of 19 December 1972 establishing prefer­              products in question ;
ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating
in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2)        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
thereof ;
Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that                                     Article 1
the Common Customs Tariff duties may, for each cate­            As from 11 September 1973, Common Customs Tariff
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will              (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972, shall be
usually be equal to the sum arrived at by adding                re-established in respect of the following products,
together the value of the products in question                  imported into the Community :
imported cif into the Community in 1968 and
coming from countries and territories covered by                     CCT
those arrangements, but not including products                     heading
                                                                     No
                                                                                                Description of goods
coming from countries and territories already covered
covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­      44.27             Standard lamps, table lamps and other
blished by the Community, and 5 % of the value of                                 lighting fittings, of wood ; articles of fur­
 1970 cif imports coming from other countries and                                 niture, of wood, not falling within Chap­
from countries and territories already covered by such                            ter 94 ; caskets, cigarette boxes, trays,
                                                                                  fruit bowls, ornaments and other fancy
arrangements ;                                                                    articles, of wood ; cases for cutlery, for
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation provides that                          drawing instruments or for violins, and
                                                                                 similar receptacles, of wood ; articles
Common Customs Tariff duties may be re-established                                of wood for personal use or adornment,
at any time once the Community ceiling has been                                   of a kind normally carried in the pocket,
reached ;                                                                         in the handbag or on the person ; parts
                                                                                  of the foregoing articles, of wood
Whereeas, in respect of standard lamps, table lamps
and other lighting fittings, of wood, articles of wood                                     Article 2
for personal use or adornment, etc the ceiling, calcu­
lated as indicated above, should be 1 534 000 units of          This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
account ; whereas on 4 September 1972 the amounts               following its publication in the Official Journal of
of imports into the Community of the products in                the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 7 September 1973 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                              The President
                                                                         Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(!) OJ No L 296, 30 . 12. 1972, p . 15.