CELEX: 31969R1545
Language: en
Date: 1969-07-23 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1545/69 of the Council of 23 July 1969 on the tariff applicable to tobacco products sent in small quantities to private individuals

362                                  Official Journal of the European Communities
5.8.69                               Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 191 /3
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 1545/69 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                      of 23 July 1969
                                on the tariff applicable to tobacco products sent in small
                                              quantities to private individuals
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                                              Article 1
European Economic Community, and in particular
Article 28 thereof;                                               The following paragraph shall be substituted for
                                                                  paragraph 1 , Title II B, of Part I of the Annex to
                                                                  Regulation (EEC) No 950/68 :
Having regard to the draft Regulation submitted by
the Commission ;                                                      ' 1 . A standard ad valorem customs duty of
                                                                      10% shall apply to small quantities of goods sent
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 950/68 1 of 28                    to private individuals if such goods are not
June 1968 on the Common Customs Tariff provides                       imports of a commercial nature.
for a standard ad valorem duty of 10% to apply,                       That standard rate of customs duty shall not
under certain conditions, to goods sent in small                       apply to the goods falling within Chapter 24'.
quantities to private individuals ; whereas, when this
standard rate of duty is applied to goods falling
within Chapter 24 of the Common Customs Tariff,                                           Article 2
such goods qualify for excessive tariff advantages ;
whereas therefore this standard rate of duty should               This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
not apply to those goods ;                                        1969 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 23 July 1969.
                                                                                         For the Council
                                                                                          The President
                                                                                       J. M. A. H. LUNS
 1 OJ No L 172, 22.7.1968, p . 1 .