CELEX: 31974R2859
Language: en
Date: 1974-11-14 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2859/74 of the Commission of 14 November 1974 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on other kinds of leather, falling within subheading 41.05 B II, originating in Colombia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3501/73 of 18 December 1973 apply

No L 305/28                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                       15 . 11 . 74
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 2859/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                  of 14 November 1974
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on other kinds of leather, falling
               within subheading 41.05 B II, originating in Colombia, 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                                  as indicated above, should be 8 209 000 units of
COMMUNITIES,                                                    account, and therefore the maximum amount
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           1 641 800 units of account ; whereas on 13 November
Economic Community ;                                            1974, the amounts of imports into the Community of
                                                                other kinds of leather, falling within subheading 41.05
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    B II, originating in Colombia a country covered by
3501 /73 (^ of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­            preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating
                                                                maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2)        objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3501 /73, 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 the customs duties may, for each cate­            respect of the products in question in relation to
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                Colombia,
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                                        Article 1
including products coming from countries and territo­
ries already covered by various preferential tariff arran­      As from 18 November 1974, the levying of customs
gements established by the Community, and 5 % of                duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
the value of 1971 cif imports coming from other coun­           (EEC) No 3501 /73 of 18 December 1973, shall be
tries and from countries and territories already covered        re-established in respect of the following products,
by such arrangements ;                                          imported into the Community and originating in
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts             Colombia :
for products originating in any one of the countries or
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should               CCT
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                          heading
                                                                       No
                                                                                                   Description of goods
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of
certain products for which the maximum amount is to             41.05              Other kinds of leather, except leather
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                               falling within heading No 41.06, 41.07 or
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this                                41.08 :
reduced percentage will be 20 % ;                                                   B. Other :
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that                                  II . 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 third day
Whereas, in respect of other kinds of leather, falling          following its publication in the Official Journal of
within subheading 41.05 B II, the ceiling, calculated            the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 14 November 1974 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                The President
                                                                           Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(») OJ No L 358 , 28 . 12. 1973 , p. 15 .