CELEX: 31976R0770
Language: en
Date: 1976-04-02 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 770/76 of 2 April 1976 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on illuminating glassware, signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, not optically worked or of optical glass, other, falling within subheading 70.14 B, originating in Hong Kong to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 apply

3 . 4. 76                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                   No L 90/7
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 770/76
                                                     of 2 April 1976
                re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on illuminating glassware,
                signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, not optically worked or of
                optical glass, other, falling within subheading 70.14 B, originating in Hong
                Kong to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regula­
                                tion (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 optically worked or of optical glass, other, falling
COMMUNITIES,                                                   within subheading 70.14 B, the ceiling, calculated as
                                                               indicated above, should be 598 000 units of account,
                                                               and     therefore   the    maximum         179 400    units of
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         account ; whereas on 29 March 1976 the amounts of
 Economic Community,
                                                               imports into the Community of illuminating glass­
                                                               ware, signalling glassware and optical elements of
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                  glass, not optically worked or of optical glass, other,
3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­             falling within subheading 70.14 B, originating in
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     Hong Kong, a country covered by preferential tariff
developing countries ( J), and in particular Article 4 (2)     arrangements, reached that maximum amount ;
 thereof,                                                      whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation
                                                               (EEC) No 3010/75, which provides that maximum
                                                               amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               should be re-established in respect of the products in
 provides that customs duties may, for each category of        question in relation to Hong Kong,
 products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,
expressed in units of account, which will be equal to
 115 % of the sum arrived at by adding together the
value of the products in question imported cif into
the Community in 1971 and coming from countries                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
and territories covered by those arrangements, but not
 including products coming from countries and terri­
tories already covered by various preferential tariff
arrangements established by the Community, and
                                                                                          Article 1
 5 % of the value of 1972 cif imports coming from
other countries and from countries and territories
already covered by such arrangements ;                         As from 6 April 1976, the levying of customs duties,
                                                               suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts            No     3010/75    of    17   November          1975,  shall be
 for products originating in any one of the countries or       re-established in respect of the following products,
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should        imported into the Community and originating in
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                    Hong Kong :
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                  CCT
                                                                    heading
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                  No
                                                                                              Description of goods
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this
reduced percentage will be 30 % ;                              70.14             Illuminating glassware, signalling glassware
                                                                                 and optical elements of glass, not optically
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that                           worked or of optical glass :
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at                           B. Other
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 amount has been
reached ;
                                                                                          Article 2
Whereas, in respect of illuminating glassware,
signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, not        This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                               following its publication in the Official Journal of
(') OJ No L 310, 29 . 11 . 1975, p. 70 .                       the European Communities.
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 2 April 1976.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                  Finn GUNDELACH
                                                             Member of the Commission