CELEX: 31973R1298
Language: en
Date: 1973-05-15 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1298/73 of the Commission of 15 May 1973 re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on illuminating glassware, signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, not optically worked nor of optical glass, falling within subheading No 70.14 B, originating in Hong Kong, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972 apply

18 . 5 . 73                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 131 /33
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 1298/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                             of 15 May 1973
                re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on illuminating glassware, signalling
                glassware and optical elements of glass, not optically worked nor of optical glass,
                falling within subheading No 70.14 B, originating in Hong Kong, to which the pre­
                ferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72 of
                                                        19 December 1972 apply
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        not optically worked nor of optical glass, falling
 COMMUNITIES,                                                          within subheading No 70.14 B, the ceiling, calcu­
                                                                       lated as indicated above, should be 281 000 units of
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                    account, and therefore the maximum amount
 pean Economic Community ;                                             56 200 units of account ; whereas on 20 April 1973
 Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No                         the amounts of imports into the Community of illu­
2762/72 ( x ) of 19 December 1972 establishing prefer­                 minating glassware, signalling glassware and optical
ential tariffs in respect of certain products origi­                   elements of glass, not optically worked nor of
nating in developing countries, and in particular                      optical glass, falling within subheading No 70.14 B,
Article 4 (2) thereof ;                                                 originating in Hong Kong, a country covered by pre­
                                                                       ferential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum
Whereas Article 1 ( 3 ) and (4) of that Regulation                     amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of
provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties                         Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72, which provides that
may, for each category of products, be suspended                       maximum amounts should not be exceeded,
up to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of                       Common        Customs      Tariff     duties     should    be
 account, which will usually be equal to the sum                       re-established in respect of the products in question
arrived at by adding together the value of the                         in relation to Hong Kong ;
products in question imported cif into the Commu­
 nity in 1968 and coming from countries and terri­
 tories covered by those arrangements, but not                         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
including products coming from countries and terri­
tories already covered by various preferential tariff
arrangements established by the Community, and                                                  Article 1
5 °/o of the value of 1970 cif imports coming from
other countries and from countries and territories                     As from 21 May 1973 , Common Customs Tariff
 already covered by such arrangements ;                                duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regula­
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                    tion ( EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972,
for products originating in any one of the countries                   shall be re-established in respect of the following
or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation                    products, imported into the Community and origi­
should be within a maximum Community amount                            nating in :
representing 50 % of that ceiling, with the excep­
tion of certain products for which the maximum                              CCT
                                                                           heading                 Description of goods
amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated                          No
in Annex A to thai Regulation ; whereas, for those
products, this reduced percentage will be 20 % ;                       70.14 B          Illuminating glassware, signalling glass­
                                                                                        ware and optical elements of glass, not
Whereas Article 2 ( 2) of that Regulation provides                                      optically worked of optical glass :
that the Common Customs Tariff duties may be                                            B. Other
re-established at any time in respect of imports of
the products in question originating in any of the
said     countries    or  territories     once     the   relevant                               Article 2
Community maximum amount has been reached ;
                                                                      This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
Whereas, in respect of illuminating glassware,                        day following its publication in the Official journal
signalling glassware and optical elements of glass,                   of the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 15 May 1973 .
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                    The President
                                                                               François-Xavier ORTOL .I
(*) OJ No L 296 , 30 . 12 . 1972 , p . 15 .