CELEX: 31975R2991
Language: en
Date: 1975-11-10
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2991/75 of the Council of 10 November 1975 on the tariff treatment applicable in the Community as originally constituted to a certain number of products imported from the new Member States

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                                               (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                  REGULATION (EEC) No 2991 /75 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                       of 10 November 1975
                on the tariff treatment applicable in the Community as originally constituted to a
                           certain number of products imported from the new Member States
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                               Whereas, in order to maintain Community preference
                                                                        for these imports from the new Member States, the
Having regard to the Act of Accession (*), and in                       customs duties applicable thereto in the Community
particular the second paragraph of Article 33 thereof;                  as originally constituted should be calculated taking
                                                                        into account the new duties consolidated in respect
Having       regard     to    the   proposal       from     the         of third countries,
Commission ;
Whereas under Council Regulation (EEC) No 1615/                         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
74 (2) of 25 June 1974 amending Regulation (EEC)
No 950/68 on the Common Customs Tariff, the
conventional duty applied to products falling within                                            Article 1
subheading 85.21 D in the form of wafers not yet
cut into chips was reduced to 9 °/o ;                                   1.    From 1 January to 31 December 1975 , the
                                                                        customs duties applicable in the Community as
Whereas, under the Agreement with third countries                       originally constituted to imports from the new
signed as a result of the negotiations carried out                      Member States of the products listed in the Annex
pursuant to Article XXIV, paragraph 6 of the                            shall be those shown in respect of each of them .
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and
concluded on behalf of the Community by the                             2. The customs duties applicable during the
Council Decision of 22 July 1974 the European                           1976/77 marketing year in the Community as
Economic Community has undertaken to reduce the                         originally constituted to imports from the new
customs duties for various products on 1 January                        Member States of offals of domestic bovine animals
1975 and to make additional reductions for some of                      falling within subheadings 02.01 B II b ) 1 and b ) 2
those products on 1 January 1976 ;                                      shall be those shown below :
                    CCT                                                                                     Duty
                   heading                                    Description                                 applicable
                     No                                                                                       %
                      1                                           2                                           3
                    02.01         Meat and edible offals of the animals falling within heading
                                  Nos 01.01 to 01.04 inclusive, fresh , chilled or frozen :
                                  B. Offals :
                                     II . Other :
                                          b ) Of domestic bovine animals :
                                              1.  Livers                                                     2-2
                                              2.  Other                                                      1-4
H OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p . 14 .
(2) OJ No L 174, 28 . 6. 1974, p . 4 .
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                                                   Article 2
            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1976'.
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 10 November 1975 .
                                                                         For the Council
                                                                          The President
                                                                          G. MARCORA
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                                                                   ANNEX
                                                Customs duties referred to in Article 1 (1 )
                    CCT
                   heading                                                                                             Duty
                     No                                           Description                                      applicable
            on 1 January 1976                                                                                            °/o
                      1                                               2                                                   3
                    01.01         Live horses, asses, mules and hinnies:
                                  A. Horses :
                                      II . For slaughter ( a)                                                          0-8
                    02.01         Meat and edible offals of the animals falling within heading
                                  No 01.01 , 01.02, 01.03 or 01.04. fresh, chilled or frozen :
                                  A. Meat :
                                       I. Of horses, asses, mules and hinnies                                          1-6
                                  B. Offals :
                                      II . Other:
                                           a ) Of horses, asses, mules and hinnies                                     2-0
                                           d ) Other                                                                   0-6
                    02.04         Other meat and edible meat offals, fresh, chilled or frozen :
                                  A. Of domestic pigeons and domestic rabbits                                          2-2
                    08.02         Citrus fruits, fresh or dried :
                                  A. Oranges :
                                      I. Sweet oranges, fresh :
                                          a) From 1 April to 30 April                                                  5-2
                                          b) From 1 May to 15 May                                                      2-4
                                          c) From 16 May to 15 October                                                 1-6
                                  D. Grapefruit                                                                        1-6
                   08.04          Grapes, fresh or dried :
                                  B. Dried :
                                       I. In immediate containers of a net capacity of 15 kg or
                                           less                                                                        1-6
                                      II . Other                                                                       1-6
                    08.06         Apples, pears and quinces, fresh :
                                  A. Apples:
                                      II . Other :
                                           c) From 1 April to 31 July                                             2-4 with a
                                                                                                                    min. of
                                                                                                                0-50 u.a. per
                                                                                                                 100 kg net
            ( a ) Entry under this subheading is subject to conditions to be determined bv the competent authorities .
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                  CCT
                heading                                                                            Duty
                   No                                     Description                            applicable
                                                                                                     °/o
           on 1 January 1976
                    1                                         2                                       3
                 08.06       B. Pears :
               (cont'd)
                                 II . Other :
                                      b ) From 1 April to 15 July                              2-8 with a
                                                                                                  min. of
                                                                                              0-60 u.a . per
                                                                                               100 kg net
                 08.10       Fruit (whether or not cooked) preserved by freezing, not
                             containing added sugar:
                             ex A. Strawberries, raspberries, blackcurrants, red currants,
                                      bilberries, blackberries (brambleberries), mulberries
                                      and cloudberries:
                                      — Bilberries, blackberries (brambleberries), mulberries
                                          and cloudberries                                         7-2
                 08.11       Fruit provisionally preserved (for example, by sulphur dioxide
                             gas, in brine, in sulphur water or in other preservative solu­
                             tions), but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption :
                             D. Bilberries                                                         3-2
                  16.04      Prepared or preserved fish, including caviar and caviar
                             substitutes :
                             B. Salmonidae                                                         1-4
                 20.06       Fruit otherwise prepared or preserved, whether or not
                             containing added sugar or spirit:
                             B. Other:
                                 II. Not containing added spirit:
                                      a) Containing added sugar, in immediate packings of
                                          a net capacity of more than 1 kg:
                                          6.  Pears :
                                              aa) With a sugar content exceeding 13 °/o by
                                                   weight                                          8 +
                                                                                               ( compensa­
                                                                                              tory amount)
                                              bb ) Other                                           8-0
                                      b ) Containing added sugar, in immediate packings of
                                          a net capacity of 1 kg or less:
                                          6.  Pears :
                                              aa) With a sugar content exceeding 15 °/o by
                                                   weight                                          8-8 +
                                                                                               ( compensa­
                                                                                              tory amount)
                                              bb ) Other                                           8-8
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                   CCT
                  heading                                                                                              Duty
                    No                                           Description                                      applicable
           on 1 January 1976                                                                                            °/o
                      1                                               2                                                  3
                   20.06         B. II . c) Not containing added sugar, in immediate packings
                 (cont'd)                      of a net capacity :
                                                1 . Of 4-5 kg or more:
                                                    cc) Pears                                                         8-4
                                               2. Of less than 4-5 kg:
                                                    aa ) Pears                                                        8-4
                   24.01         Unmanufactured tobacco , tobacco refuse:
                                 A. Tobacco of a value, per package, not less than 280 u.a.
                                     per 100 kg net weight:
                                     I. Flue cured Virginia type and light air cured Burley type
                                         (including Burley hybrids) (a )                                         2-8 with a
                                                                                                              maximum of
                                                                                                                 9 u.a . per
                                                                                                                 100 kg net
                   37.02         Film in rolls, sensitized, unexposed, perforated or not:
                                 A. Of a width of 35 mm or less:
                                     II. Other                                                                        1-6
                   38.14         Anti-knock preparations, oxidation inhibitors, gum inhibitors,
                                 viscosity improvers, anti-corrosive, preparations and similar
                                 prepared additives for mineral oils:
                                 A. Anti-knock preparations based on tetraethyl-lead (ethyl
                                     fluid )                                                                          2-6
                                 B. Other :
                                       I. For lubricants:
                                            b ) Other                                                                 1-8
                                      II. Anti-knock preparations based on tetramethyl-lead,
                                            on ethylmethyl-lead or on mixtures of tetraethyl-lead
                                            and tetramethyl-lead                                                      1-8
                                     III. Other                                          ;                            1-8
                   39.01         Condensation, polycondensation and polyaddition products,
                                 whether or not modified or polymerized, and whether or not
                                 linear (for example, phenoplasts, aminoplasts, alkyds, poly­
                                 allyl esters, and other unsaturated polyesters, silicones):
                                 C. Other:
                                     IV. Polyamides                                                                   3-2
                  44.05          Wood sawn lengthwise, sliced or peeled, but not further
                                 prepared, of a thickness exceeding 5 mm :
                                 B. Coniferous wood , of a length of 125 cm or less and of a
                                     thickness of less than 12-5 mm                                                   1-0
           ( a ) Entry under this subheading is subject to conditions to be determined by the competent authorities .
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                  CCT
                                                                                                                     Duty
                heading                                        Description                                      applicable
                   No
                                                                                                                      °/o
           on 1 January 1976
                    1                                               2                                                  3
                 48.01          Paper and paperboard (including cellulose wadding), machine­
                                made, in rolls or sheets :
                                C. Kraft paper and kraft board :
                                    II. Other '                                                                     2-1
                  48.21         Other articles of paper pulp, paper, paperboard or cellulose
                                wadding:
                                B. Napkins and napkin liners, for babies, put up for retail
                                    sale                                                                            2-0
                  73.22         Reservoirs, tanks, vats and similar containers, for any
                                material (other than compressed or liquefied gas), of iron or
                                steel, of a capacity exceeding 300 1, whether or not lined or
                                heat-insulated, but not fitted with mechanical or thermal
                                equipment                                                                            1-0
                  84.06         Internal combustion piston engines :
                                B. Outboard motors of a cylinder capacity of:
                                    II . More than 325 cc                                                            1-6
                                C. Other engines :
                                    II . Compression ignition engines:
                                         a) Marine propulsion engines :
                                             2 . Other ( a )                                                         1-6
                                         b ) Other :
                                             2.  Other                                                               2-4
                  84.10         Pumps (including motor pumps and turbo pumps) for liquids,
                                whether or not fitted with measuring devices, liquid elevators
                                of bucket, chain, screw band and similar kinds :
                                B. Other pumps :
                                     I. Pumps having a pressure capacity of 20 bars or more                          1-5
                  84.23         Excavating, levelling, tamping, boring and extracting
                                machinery, stationary or mobile, for earth, minerals or ores
                                (for example, mechanical shovels, coal-cutters, excavators,
                                scrapers, levellers and bulldozers), piledrivers, snow-ploughs,
                                not self-propelled (including snow-plough attachments):
                                A. Excavating, levelling, tamping, boring and extracting
                                     machinery for earth, minerals or ores :
                                     I. Self-propelled, track-laying or wheeled, not capable of
                                        running on rails :
                                        a) Scrapers                                                                  1-8
                                        c) Parts                                                                     1-8
            (a) Entry under this subheading is subject to conditions to be determined by the competent authorities .
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                    CCT
                  heading                                                                          Duty
                     No                                      Description                         applicable
             on 1 January 1976                                                                      °/o
                      1                                          2                                   3
                   85.21       Thermionic, cold cathode and photo-cathode valves and tubes
                               (including vapour or gas filled valves and tubes, cathode-ray
                               tubes, television camera tubes and mercury arc rectifying
                               valves and tubes); photocells, mounted piezo-electric crystals,
                               diodes, transistors and similar semi-conductor devices, elec­
                               tronic microcircuits :
                               D. Diodes, transistors and similar semi-conductor devices,
                                   electronic microcircuits :
                                   I. Wafers not yet cut into chips                                1-8
                   87.01       Tractors (other than those falling within heading No 87.07),
                               whether or not fitted with power take-offs, winches or pulleys :
                               C. Other :
                                   II. Other                                                       2-8
                    87.02      Motor vehicles for the transport of persons, goods, or
                               materials (including sports motor vehicles, other than those
                               of heading No 87.09 ):
                               B. For the transport of goods or materials :
                                   II. Other:
                                       a) With either a spark ignition or a compression
                                           ignition engine :
                                           1 . Motor lorries with either a spark ignition engine
                                               of a cylinder capacity of 2 800 cc or more or
                                               a compression ignition engine of a cylinder
                                               capacity of 2 500 cc or more:
                                               aa) Dumpers of a cylinder capacity :
                                                    1.1 Of less than 10 000 cc                     3-4
                                                    2.2 Of 10 000 cc or more                       4-0
                    90.24      Instruments and apparatus for measuring, checking or auto­
                               matically controlling the flow, depth, pressure or other
                               variables of liquids or gases, or for automatically controlling
                                temperature (for example, pressure gauges, thermostats, level
                               gauges, flow meters, heat meters, automatic oven-draught
                                regulators) not being articles falling within heading No 90.14 :
                               A. Pressure gauges ( manometers )                                   1-8
                               C. Other                                                            1-8