CELEX: 31974R2776
Language: en
Date: 1974-10-30 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2776/74 of the Commission of 30 October 1974 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on filament lamps for lighting, falling within subheading 85.20 A, originating in Hong Kong, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3501/73 of 18 December 1973 apply

1 . 11 . 74                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                    No L 294/71
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 2776/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                   of 30 October 1974
               re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on filament lamps for lighting ,
               falling within subheading 85.20 A, originating in Hong Kong, to which the pref­
               erential 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 filament lamps for lighting
COMMUNITIES,                                                    falling within subheading 85.20 A, the ceiling, calcu­
                                                                lated as indicated above, should be 2 099 000 units of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                            account, and therefore the maximum amount 629 700
                                                                units of account ; whereas on 21 October 1974, the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    amounts of imports into the Community of filament
3501 /73 (') of 18 December 1973 establishing prefe­            lamps for lighting falling within subheading 85.20 A,
rential tariffs in respect of certain products originating      originating in Hong Kong, a country covered by pref­
in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2)        erential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum
thereof ;                                                       amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                Regulation (EEC) No 3501 /73 , which provides that
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­            maximum amounts should not be exceeded , customs
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                duties should be re-established in respect of the
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be           products in question in relation to Hong Kong,
equal to the sum arrived at by adding together the
value of the products in question imported cif into             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
the Community in 1971 and coming from countries
                                                                                            Article 1
and territories covered by those arrangements, but not
including products coming from countries and territo­           As from 4 November 1974, the levying of customs
ries already covered by various preferential tariff arran­      duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
gements established by the Community, and 5% of                 (EEC) No 3501 /73 of 18 December 1973, shall be
the value of 1971 cif imports coming from other coun­           re-established in respect of the following products,
tries and from countries and territories already covered        imported into the Community and originating in
by such arrangements ;                                          Hong Kong :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
for products originating in any one of the countries or               CCT
                                                                     heading                     Description of goods
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should                No
be within a maximum Community amount repre­
senting 50% of that ceiling, with the exception of              85.20              Electric filament lamps and electric
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                                discharge lamps (including infra-red and
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                               ultra-violet lamps) ; arc-lamps ; electrically
that Regulation ; whereas, for those products, this                                ignited photographic flashbulbs :
reduced percentage will be 30 % ;                                                  A. Filament lamps for lighting
Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that the
levying of customs duties may be re-established at any                                      Article 2
time in respect of imports of the products in question
originating in any of the said countries or territories         This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
once the relevant Community maximum amount has                  following its publication in the Official Journal of
been reached ;                                                   the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels , 30 October 1974 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                The President
                                                                           Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(') OJ No L 358 , 28 . 12. 1973 , p. 15.