CELEX: 31973R3021
Language: en
Date: 1973-11-07
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3021/73 of the Commission of 7 November 1973 re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on artificial flowers, foliage or fruit and parts thereof, etc, falling within heading No 67.02, originating in Hong Kong, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972 apply

No L 308/ 12                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                8 . 11 . 73
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 3021/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 7 November 1973
                re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on artificial flowers, foliage or fruit
                and parts thereof, etc, falling within heading No 67.02, originating in Hong Kong,
                to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC)
                                               No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972 apply
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN
                                                                    Whereas, in respect of artificial flowers, foliage or
  COMMUNITIES,                                                      fruit and parts thereof, etc, the ceiling, calculated as
                                                                    indicated above, should be 1 293 000 units of
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­
  pean Economic Community ;                                         account, and therefore the maximum amount
                                                                    646 500 units of account ; whereas on 2 November
  Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No                      1973 the amounts of imports into the Community
  2762/72 (*) of 19 December 1972 establishing prefer­              of artificial flowers, foliage or fruit and parts
  ential tariffs in respect of certain products origi­              thereof, etc, originating in Hong Kong, a country
  nating in developing countries, and in particular                 covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached
  Article 4 (2) thereof ;                                           that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind
                                                                    the objectives of Regulation (EEC) 2762/72, which
 Whereas Article 1 (3 ) and (4) of that Regulation                  provides that maximum amounts should not be
 provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties                     exceeded, Common Customs Tariff duties should
 may, for each category of products, be suspended                   be re-established in respect of the products in ques­
 up to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of                   tion in relation to Hong Kong,
 account, which will usually be equal to the sum
 arrived at by adding together the value of the
 products in question imported cif into the Commu­
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 nity in 1968 and coming from countries and territo­
 ries covered by those arrangements, but not
  including products coming from countries and terri­                                         Article 1
 tories already covered by various preferential tariff
                                                                    As from 11 November 1973 , Common Customs
 arrangements established by the Community, and
                                                                    Tariff duties, suspended in pursuance of Council
 5 °/o of the value of 1970 cif imports coming from
 other countries and from countries and territories                 Regulation ( EEC ) No 2762/72 of 19 December
                                                                    1972, shall be re-established in respect of the
 already covered by such arrangements ;
                                                                    following products, imported into the Community
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the                         and originating in Hong Kong :
 amounts for products originating in any one of the
 countries or territories listed in Annex B to that
                                                                      CCT heading
Regulation should be within a maximum Commu­                              No                         Description
 nity amount representing 50 % of that ceiling, with
the exception of certain products for which the                    67.02             Artificial flowers, foliage or fruit and
maximum amount is to be reduced to the percen­                                       parts thereof ; articles made of artificial
 tage indicated in Annex A to that Regulation ;                                      flowers ; foliage or fruit
Whereas Article 2 (2 ) of that Regulation provides
that the Common Customs Tariff duties may be                                                 Article 2
re-established at any time in respect of imports of
the products in question originating in any of the                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
said    countries    or   territories      once  the  relevant     day following its publication in the Official Journal
Community maximum amount has been reached ;                        of the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 7 November 1973 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                  The President
                                                                           François-Xavier ORTOLI
t1 ) OJ No L 296 , 30. 12 . 1972, p . 15 .