CELEX: 31974R2436
Language: en
Date: 1974-09-26 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2436/74 of the Commission of 26 September 1974 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on hydraulic cements, falling within heading No 25.23, originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3501/73 of 18 December 1973 apply

No L 261 /48                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                    27. 9 . 74
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 2436/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                 of 26 September 1974
               re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on hydraulic cements, falling
               within heading No 25.23 , 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                                  Whereas, in respect of hydraulic cements, falling
COMMUNITIES,                                                    within heading No 25.23 , the ceiling, calculated as
                                                                indicated above should be 457 000 units of account,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           and therefore the maximum amount 228 500 units of
Economic Community ;
                                                                account ; whereas on 18 September 1974, the amount
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    of imports into the Community of hydraulic cements,
3501 /73 (•) of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­           falling within heading No 25.23, originating in Yugos­
ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating       lavia, a country covered by preferential tariff arrange­
in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2)        ments, reached that maximum amount ; whereas,
thereof ;                                                       bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC)
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                No 3501 /73, which provides that maximum amounts
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­            should not be exceeded, customs duties should be re­
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                established in respect of the products in question in
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be           relation to Yugoslavia,
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
and territories covered by those arrangements, but not                                      Article 1
including products coming from countries and territo­           As from 30 September 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 ;                                          Yugoslavia :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
for products originating in any one of the countries or               OCT
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should              heading                    Description of goods
                                                                       No
be within a maximum Community amount repre­
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of             25.23               Portland cement, ciment fondu, slag
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                                 cement, supersulphate cement and similar
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                                hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured
that Regulation ;                                                                   in the form of clinker
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 territo­       This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
ries once the relevant Community maximum amount                 following its publication in the Official Journal of
has been reached ;                                               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. 1.5 .