CELEX: 31976R2123
Language: en
Date: 1976-08-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2123/76 of 27 August 1976 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on equipment for parlour games, etc., falling within heading No 97.04, originating in Hong Kong to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 apply

No L 237/44                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                   28 . 8 . 76
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2123/76
                                                   of 27 August 1976
               re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on equipment of parlour
               games, etc., falling within heading No 97.04, originating in Hong Kong to which
               the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                         3010/75 of 17 November 1975 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas, in respect of equipment for parlour games
COMMUNITIES,                                                   etc., falling within heading No 97.04, the ceiling,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          calculated as indicated above, should be 4 738 000
Economic Community,                                            units of account, and therefore the maximum
                                                                1 421 400 units of account ; whereas on 26 August
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    1976, the amounts of imports into the Community of
3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­             equipment for parlour games, etc., falling within
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     heading No 97.04, originating in Hong Kong, a
developing countries ( x), and in particular Article 4 (2)     country covered by preferential tariff arrangements,
thereof,
                                                               reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­           which provides that maximum amounts should not be
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community               exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be          respect of the products in question in relation to
equal to 115 % of the sum arrived at by adding                 Hong Kong,
together the value of the products in question
imported cif into the Community in 1971 and                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
coming from countries and territories covered by
those arrangements, but not including products                                            Article 1
coming from countries and territories already covered
by various preferential tariff arrangements established        As from 31 August 1976, the levying of customs
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1972 cif             duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
imports coming from other countries and from coun­             (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975, shall be
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­         re-established in respect of the following products,
ments ;                                                        imported into the Community and originating in
                                                                Hong Kong :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
for products originating in any one of the countries or
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should              CCT
                                                                    heading                    Description of goods
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                           No
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of
certain products for which the maximum amount is to            97.04              Equipment for parlour, table and funfair
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                              games for adults or children (including
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this                               billiard tables and pintables and table­
reduced percentage will be 30 % ;                                                 tennis requisites)
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 amount has been               following its publication in the Official Journal of
reached ;                                                       the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 27 August 1976 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                     Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 310, 29 . 11 . 1975, p. 70 .