CELEX: 31992R1193
Language: en
Date: 1992-05-09 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1193/92 of 8 May 1992 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on products falling within CN code 871200, originating in China, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3831/90 apply

9 . 5. 92                                Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 124/9
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1193/92
                                                          of 8 May 1992
                   re-establishing the levying of customs duties on products falling within CN code
                    8712 00, originating in China, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set
                                   out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3831/90 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        ECU 9 454 000 ; whereas that reference base was reached
                                                                   on 23 March 1992 by charges of imports into the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              Community of the products in question originating in
Economic Community,                                                China ; whereas the exchange of information organized
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3831 /90              by the Commission has demonstrated that continuance of
of 20 December 1990 applying generalized tariff prefe­             the preference threatens to cause economic difficulties a
rences for 1991 in respect of certain industrial products          region of the Community ; whereas, therefore, customs
originating in developing countries ('), extended for 1992         duties for the products in question must be reintroduced
by Regulation (EEC) No 3587/91 (2), and in particular              with regard to China,
Article 9 thereof,
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas, in pursuant to Article 1 of Regulation (EEC)
No 3831 /90, customs duties on certain products origina­
ting in each of the countries or territories listed in Annex                                    Article 1
III are totally suspended for 1992, and the products as            As from 12 May 1992, the levying of customs duties,
such are, as a general rule, subject to statistical surveil­       suspended for 1992 in pursuance of Council Regulation
lance every three months on the reference base referred to
in Article 8 ;
                                                                   (EEC) No 3831 /90 shall be reintroduced on imports into
                                                                   the Community of the following products, originating in
                                                                   China :
Whereas, as provided for in Article 8, where the increase
of preferential imports of these products, originating in
one or more beneficiary countries, threatens to cause                  CN code                         Description
economic difficulties in a region of the Community, the
levying of customs duties may be re-established, once the              8712 00       Bicyles and other cycles (including delivery
Commission has had an appropriate exchange of informa­                               tricycles), not motorized
tion with the Member States ; whereas for this purpose the
reference base to be considered is equal, as a general rule,
to 6,615 % of the total importations into the Community,                                        Article 2
originating from third countries in 1988 ;
                                                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
Whereas, in the case of the products of the CN code                following its publication in the Official Journal of the
8712 00 originating in China the reference base is fixed at        European Communities.
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                   Done at Brussels, 8 May 1992.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                            Christiane SCRIVENER
                                                                        Member of the Commission
(>) OJ No L 370, 31 . 12. 1990, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 341 , 12. 12. 1991 , p. 1 . This Regulation was last
    amended by Council Regulation (EEC) No 282/92 (OJ No L
    31 , 7. 2. 1992, p. 1 ).