CELEX: 31973R3499
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-21 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3499/73 of the Commission of 21 December 1973 authorizing the United Kingdom to suspend temporarily customs duties on hachled or otherwise processed but not spun flax or flax tow imported from other Member States

28 . 12. 73                              Official Journal of the European Communities                       No L 357/47
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 3499/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 21 December 1973
             authorizing the United Kingdom to suspend temporarily customs duties on
             hachled or otherwise processed but not spun flax and flax tow imported from
                                                      other Member States
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas, should this suspension be acceptable in
COMMUNITIES,                                                        exchanges between Member States, this request by the
                                                                    United Kingdom should be granted ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                               Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                   are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
Having regard to the Treaty (') on the Accession of                 ment Committee for Flax and Hemp,
new Member States to the European Economic
Community and the European Atomic Energy
Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972,                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
and in particular Article 59 (4) of the Act annexed
thereto ;
                                                                                            Article 1
Whereas Article 59 (4) of the Act provides that, in
respect of products covered by a common organiza­                  The United Kingdom is hereby authorized to suspend
tion of the market, the new Member States may be                    during the period from 1 January until 30 June 1974
authorized to suspend in whole or in part the customs               the customs duties applicable to imports of hachled or
duties on products imported from other Member                       otherwise processed but not spun flax and flax tow
States ;                                                           within heading No ex 54.01 from other Member
                                                                    States of the European Economic Community.
Whereas the United Kingdom has applied to suspend
customs duties on hachled or otherwise processed but                                        Article 2
not spun flax and flax tow within heading No ex
54.01 of the Common Customs Tariff from 1 January                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
until 30 June 1974 ;                                                1974 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels , 21 December 1973 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                 The President
                                                                            François-Xavier ORTOLI
C ) OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972 , p . 5 .