CELEX: 31975R1749
Language: en
Date: 1975-07-07 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1749/75 of the Commission of 7 July 1975 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on equipment for parlour, table and funfair games for adults or children (including billiard tables and pintables and table-tennis requisites), falling within heading No 97.04, 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 178 / 16                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                      9. 7. 75
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 1749/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 7 July 1975
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on equipment for parlour, table
               and funfair games for adults or children (including billiard tables and pintables
               and table-tennis requisites), falling within heading No 97.04, 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                                 billiard tables and pintables and table-tennis requi­
COMMUNITIES,                                                   sites), the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should
                                                               be 4 1 20 000 units of account, and therefore the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                           maximum amount 1 236 000 units of account ;
                                                               whereas on 12 June 1975, the amounts of imports
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   into the Community of equipment for parlour, table
3054/74 ( J) of 2 December 1974 establishing preferen­         and funfair games for adults or children (including
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     billiard tables and pintables and table-tennis requi­
developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2)          sites), originating in Hong Kong, a country covered by
thereof ;                                                      preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulion                 maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­           objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3054/74 which
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community               provides that maximum amounts should not be
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be          exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in
equal to the sum arrived at by adding together the             respect of the products in question in relation to
value of the products in question imported cif into            Hong Kong,
the Community in 1971 and coming from countries
and territories covered by those arrangements, but not         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
including products coming from countries and territo­
ries already covered by various preferential tariff arran­                                  Article 1
gements established by the Community, and 5 % of
the value of 1972 cif imports coming from other coun­          As from 12 July 1975, the levying of customs duties,
tries and from countries and territories already covered       suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
by such arrangements ;                                         No      3054/74     of     2  December          1974, shall  be
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts            re-established in respect of the following products,
for products originating in any one of the countries or        imported into the Community and originating in
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should        Hong Kong :
be within a maximum Community amount repre­
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                   CCT
                                                                    heading                     Description of goods
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                    No
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this            97.04               Equipment for parlour, table and funfair
reduced percentage will be 30 % ;                                                  games for adults or children (including
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that                             billiard tables and pintables and table­
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at                             tennis requisites)
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­
tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­
ries once the relevant Community maximum amount                                             Article 2
has been reached ;
                                                               This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
Whereas, in respect of equipment for parlour, table            following its publication in the Official Journal of
and funfair games for adults or children (including            the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 7 July 1975.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                               The President
                                                                          Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(•) OJ No L 329, 9 . 12. 1974, p. 70 .