CELEX: 31974R1992
Language: en
Date: 1974-07-29 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1992/74 of the Commission of 29 July 1974 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on locks and padlocks, etc., falling within heading No 83.01, originating in Hong Kong, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3501/73 of 18 December 1973 apply

30. 7 . 74                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                      No L 208 / 9
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 1992/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 29 July 1974
                re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on locks and padlocks , etc .,
                falling within heading No 83.01 , originating in Hong Kong, to which the prefer­
                ential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3501 /73 of 18
                                                     December 1973 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas, in respect of locks and padlocks, etc ., falling
COMMUNITIES,                                                       within heading No 83.01 , the ceiling, calculated as
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              indicated above, should be 1 915 000 units of account,
                                                                   and therefore the maximum amount 383 000 units of
Economic Community ;
                                                                   account ; whereas on 24 July 1974, the amounts of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       imports into the Community of locks and padlocks,
3501 /73 ( J ) of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­            etc ., falling within heading No 83.01 , originating in
ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating          Hong Kong, a country covered by preferential tariff
in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2)           arrangements, reached that maximum amount ;
thereof ;                                                          whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                   (EEC) No 3501 /73 , which provides that maximum
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­               amounts should not be exceeded , customs duties
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                   should be re-established in respect of the products in
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be              question in relation to Hong Kong,
equal to the sum arrived at by adding together the
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
value of the products in question imported cif into
the Community in 1971 and coming from countries                                                  Article 1
and territories covered by those arrangements, but not
including products coming from countries and terri­                As from 2 August 1974, the levying of customs duties,
tories already covered by various preferential tariff              suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
                                                                   No      3501 / 73    of    18   December          1973 , shall  be
arrangements established by the Community, and
5% of the value of 1971 cif imports coming from                    re-established in respect of the following products,
Other countries and from countries and territories                 imported into the Community and originating in
already covered by such arrangements ;                             Hong Kong :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                       CCT
for products originating in any one of the countries or                  heading                     Description of goods
                                                                           No
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should
be within a maximum Community amount repre­
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                83.01                Locks and padlocks ( key, combination or
                                                                                       electrically operated), and parts thereof, of
certain products for which the maximum amount is to
                                                                                       base metal ; frames incorporating locks, for
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                                   handbags , trunks or the like, and parts of
that Regulation ; whereas, for those products, this                                    such frames, of base metal ; keys for any of
reduced percentage will be 20 % ;                                                      the foregoing articles, of base metal
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at
                                                                                                 Article 2
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­
tion originating in any of the said countries or terri­            This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
tories once the relevant Community maximum                         following its publication in the Official Journal of
amount has been reached ;                                           the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 29 July 1974 .
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                    The President
                                                                               Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
( i ) OJ No L 358 , 28 . 12 . 1973 , p. 15 .