CELEX: 31974R2437
Language: en
Date: 1974-09-26 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2437/74 of the Commission of 26 September 1974 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on fabricated asbestos, falling within heading No 68.13, originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3501/73 of 18 December 1973 apply

27. 9 . 74                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                     No L 261 /49
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 2437/74 OF THE COMMISSION                                         \
                                                   of 26 September 1974
                re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on fabricated asbestos, falling
                within heading No 68.13 , originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferential
                tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3501 /73 of 18
                                                    December 1973 apply
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  indicated above, should be 1 405 000 units of account,
 COMMUNITIES,                                                    and therefore the maximum amount 702 500 units of
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           account ; whereas on 18 September 1974, the amount
 Economic Community ;                                            of imports into the Community of fabricated asbestos,
                                                                 falling within heading No 68.13, originating in Yugos­
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    lavia, a country covered by preferential tariff arrange­
 3501 /73 (') of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­            ments, reached that maximum amount ; whereas,
 ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating       bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC)
 in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2)         No 3501 /73, which provides that maximum amounts
 thereof ;                                                       should not be exceeded, customs duties should be
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                 re-established in respect of the products in question
 provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­            in relation to Yugoslavia,
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
equal to the sum arrived at by adding together the
value of the products in question imported cif into                                           Article 1
the Community in 1971 and coming from countries
and territories covered by those arrangements, but not           As from 30 September 1974, the levying of customs
including products coming from countries and territo­            duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
ries already covered by various preferential tariff arran­       (EEC) No 3501 /73 of 18 December 1973 , shall be
gements established by the Community, and 5 % of                 re-established in respect of the following products,
the value of 1971 cif imports coming from other coun­            imported into the Community and originating in
tries and from countries and territories already covered         Yugoslavia :
by such arrangements ;
                                                                       C CT
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                   heading                      Description of goods
for products originating in any one of the countries or                 No
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                      68.13               Fabricated asbestos and articles thereof (for
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                                  example, asbestos board , thread and fabric ;
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                                  asbestos clothing, asbestos jointing), rein­
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                                 forced or not, other than goods falling
that Regulation ;                                                                    within heading No 68.14 ; mixtures with a
                                                                                     basis of asbestos and mixtures with a basis
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that                               of asbestos and magnesium carbonate, and
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at                               articles of such mixtures
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 maximum amount                                               Article 2
has been reached ;                                               This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
Whereas, in respect of fabricated asbestos, falling              following its publication in the Official Journal of
within heading No 68.13 , the ceiling, calculated as             the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 26 September 1974.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                 The President
                                                                            Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(') OJ No L 358 , 28 . 12 . 1973 , p. 15 .