CELEX: 31975R3120
Language: en
Date: 1975-11-28 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3120/75 of the Commission of 28 November 1975 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on woodscrews, falling within subheading 73.32 B ex II, 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 309/70                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                    29 . 11 . 75
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 3120/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                 of 28 November 1975
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on woodscrews, falling within
               subheading 73.32 B ex II, 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                                 Whereas, in respect of woodscrews, the ceiling, calcu­
COMMUNITIES,                                                   lated as indicated above, should be 2 603 000 units of
                                                               account, and therefore the maximum amount
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                               1 301 500 units of account ; whereas on 25 November
Economic Community ;
                                                               1975 the amounts of imports into the Community of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   woodscrews, originating in Hong Kong, a country
3054/74 (') of 2 December 1974 establishing preferen­          covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2)          objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3054/74, which
thereof ;                                                      provides that maximum amounts should not be
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in
provides that customs duties may, for each category of         respect of the products in question in relation to
products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,              Hong Kong,
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 the Commu­              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
nity in 1971 and coming from countries and territo­
ries covered by those arrangements, but not including
                                                                                          Article 1
products coming from countries and territories already
covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­
blished by the Community, and 5 % of the value of              As from 2 December 1975, the levying of customs
 1972 cif imports coming from other countries and              duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
 from countries and territories already covered by such        (EEC) No 3054/74 of 2 December 1974, shall be
arrangements ;
                                                               re-established in respect of the following products,
                                                                imported into the Community and originating in
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts             Hong Kong :
 for products originating in any one of the countries or
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should               Cat­
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                          heading                   Description of goods
 senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                   No
 certain products for which the maximum amount is to
 be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to           73.32 B ex II       Woodscrews
 that Regulation ;
 Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that
 the levying of customs duties may be re-established at                                   Article 2
 any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­
 tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­      This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
 ries once the relevant Community maximum amount                following its publication in the Official Journal of
 has been reached ;                                              the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 28 November 1975.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                              Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                       Member of the Commission
 (•) OJ No L 329, 9. 12. 1974, p. 70.