CELEX: 31974R2180
Language: en
Date: 1974-08-20 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2180/74 of the Commission of 20 August 1974 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on illuminating glassware, signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, not optically worked nor of optical glass, falling within subheading 70.14 A II, originating in Romania, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3501/73 of 18 December 1973 apply

No L 230 / 16                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                    21 . 8 . 74
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 2180/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 20 August 1974
                re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on illuminating glassware,
                signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, not optically worked nor of
                optical glass, falling within subheading 70.14 A II , originating in Romania, 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                                   subheading 70.14 A II, the ceiling calculated as indi­
COMMUNITIES,                                                     cated above, should be 2 399 000 units of account, and
                                                                 therefore    the maximum        amount 479 800 units of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            account ; whereas on 14 August 1974, the amounts of
Economic Community ;                                             imports into the Community of illuminating glass­
                                                                 ware, signalling glassware and optical elements of
                                                                 glass, not optically worked nor of optical glass falling
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     within subheading 70.14 A II originating in Romania,
3501 /73 ( l ) of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­          a country covered by preferential tariff arrangements,
ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating        reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in
in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2)         mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3501 /73,
thereof ;                                                        which provides that maximum amounts should not be
                                                                 exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                 respect of the products in question in relation to
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­             Romania,
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be
equal to the sum arrived at by adding together the
value of the products in question imported cif into              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
the Community in 1971 and coming from countries
and territories covered by those arrangements, but not
including products coming from countries and territo­
                                                                                            Article 1
ries already covered by various preferential tariff
arrangements established by the Community, and
5 % of the value of 1971 cif imports coming from                 As from 24 August 1974, the levying of customs
other countries and from countries and territories               duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
already covered by such arrangements ;                           (EEC) 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
                                                                 Romania :
for products originating in any one of the countries or
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                    CCT
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                   heading                    Description of goods
                                                                        No
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to
that Regulation ; whereas, for those products, this              70.14            Illuminating glassware , signalling glassware
reduced percentage will be 20 % ;                                                 and optical elements of glass, not optically
                                                                                  worked nor of optical glass :
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that                            A. Articles for electrical lighting fittings :
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at                                II . Other (for example, diffusers, ceil­
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­                                    ings lights, bowls, cups, lampshades,
tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­                                  globes, tulip-shaped pieces)
ries once the relevant Community maximum amount
has been reached ;
                                                                                            Article 2
Whereas, in respect of illuminating glassware,
signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, not
optically worked nor of optical glass falling within             This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                 following its publication in the Officiai Journal of
(') OJ No L 358 , 28 . 12 . 1973 , 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, 20 August 1974.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                       The President
                                                                  Francois-Xavier ORTOLI