CELEX: 31974R0471
Language: en
Date: 1974-02-26 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 471/74 of the Commission of 26 February 1974 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on glazed setts, flags and paving, hearth and wall tiles falling within heading No 69.08, originating in South Korea, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3501/73 of 18 December 1973 apply

27. 2. 74                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                   No L 56/ 19
                                   REGULATION (EEC) No 471 /74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 26 February 1974
                re-establishing the levying of customs duties on glazed setts, flags and paving, hearth
               and wall tiles falling within heading No 69.08, originating in South Korea, to which the
               preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3501 /73
                                                      of 18 December 1973 apply
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Whereas, in respect of glazed setts, flags and paving,
  COMMUNITIES ,                                                        hearth and wall tiles falling within heading 69.08 ,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                    the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be
 pean Economic Community ;                                             1 607 000 units of account, and therefore the maxi­
                                                                       mum amount 321 400 units of account ; whereas on
 Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No                         15 February 1974, the amounts of imports into the
3501 /73 (*) of 18 December 1973 establishing pre­                     Community of glazed setts, flags and paving, hearth
 ferential tariffs in respect of certain products origi­               and wall tiles falling within heading 69.08 , originating
nating in developing countries, and in particular                      in South Korea, a country covered by preferential
 Article 4 (2) thereof ;                                               tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ;
Whereas Article 1 (3 ) and (4) of that Regulation                      whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation
provides that the customs duties may, for each                         (EEC) No 3501 /73 , which provides that maximum
category of products, be suspended up to a Com­                        amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties
munity ceiling, expressed in units of account, which                   should be re-established in respect of the products
will be equal to the sum arrived at by adding to­                      in question in relation to South Korea,
gether the value of the products in question imported
cif into the Community in 1971 and coming from                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
countries and territories covered by those arrange­
ments, but not including products coming from
countries and territories already covered by various                                            Article 1
preferential tariff arrangements established by the
Community, and 5 °/o of the value of 1971 cif imports                  As from 2 March 1974, the levying of customs duties,
coming from other countries and from countries                        suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
and territories already covered by such arrangements ;                No 3501 /73 of 18 December 1973 , shall be 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                  South Korea :
or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation
should be within a maximum Community amount                                  CCT
representing 50 °/o of that ceiling, with the exception                    heading                    Description of goods
                                                                             No
of certain products for which the maximum amount
is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex                  69.08             Glazed setts, flags and paving, hearth
A to that Regulation ; whereas, for those products,                                      and wall tiles
this reduced percentage will be 20 % ;
Whereas Article 2 (2 ) of that Regulation provides
that the levying of customs duties may be re-esta­                                              Article 2
blished any time in respect of imports of the products
in question originating in any of the said countries or               This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
territories once the relevant Community maximum                       day following its publication in the Official Journal
amount has been reached ;                                              of the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 26 February 1974 .
                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                     The President
                                                                                Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
( l ) OJ No L 358 , 28 . 1 2 . 1973 , p . 15 .