CELEX: 31975R0547
Language: en
Date: 1975-03-03 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 547/75 of the Commission of 3 March 1975 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on locks and padlocks (key, etc.); keys for any of the foregoing articles of base metal, falling within heading No 83.01, originating in Hongkong, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3054/74 of 2 December 1974 apply

No L 58 /6                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                     4 . 3 . 75
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 547/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 3 March 1975
                re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on locks and padlocks (key,
                etc.) ; keys for any of the foregoing articles of base metal , falling within heading
                No 83.01 , originating in Hongkong, to which the preferential tariff arrange­
                ments set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3054/74 of 2 December 1974
                                                            apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    metal, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above,
COMMUNITIES,                                                      should be 1 940 000 units of account, and therefore
                                                                  the maximum amount 388 000 units of account ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             whereas on 27 February 1975, the amounts of imports
Economic Community ;                                              into the Community of locks and padlocks (key, etc .) ;
                                                                  keys for any of the foregoing articles of base metal,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      originating in' Hongkong, a country covered by prefer­
3054/74 (') of 2 December 1974 establishing preferen­             ential tariff arrangements, reached - that maximum
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in        amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of
developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2)             Regulation (EEC) No 3054/74 which provides that
thereof ;                                                         maximum amounts should not be exceeded , customs
                                                                  duties should be re-established in respect of the
Whereas Article         1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation          products in question in relation to Hongkong,
provides that the      customs duties may, for each cate­
gory of products,      be suspended up to a Community
ceiling, expressed      in units of account, which will be
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
including products coming from countries and territo­
ries already covered by various preferential tariff arran­
gements established by the Community, and 5 % of                                             Article 1
the value of 1972 cif imports coming from other coun­
tries and from countries and territories already covered
by such arrangements ;                                            As from 7 March 1975, the levying of customs duties,
                                                                  suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts               No      3054/ 74   of   2    December         1974, shall     be
for products originating in any one of the countries or           re-established in respect of the following products,
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should           imported into the Community and originating in
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                        Hongkong :
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                      CCT
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                    heading                  Description of goods
                                                                          No
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this
reduced percentage will be 20 % ;
                                                                   83.01            Locks and padlocks ( key, combination or
                                                                                    electieally operated), and parts thereof, of
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that                              base metal ; frames incorporating locks, for
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at                              handbags, trunks or the like, and part ot
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­                             such frames, of base metal ; keys for any of
tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­                           the foregoing articles of base metal
ries once the relevant Community maximum amount
has been reached ;
Whereas, in respect of locks and padlocks (key, combi­
nation or electically operated), and parts thereof, of                                       Article 2
base metal ; frames incorporating locks, for handbags,
trunks or the like, and part of such frames, of base
metal ; keys for any of the foregoing articles of base            This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                   following its publication in the Official Journal of
(') OJ No L 329, 9 . 12. 1974, p. 70 .                             the I:n ropca n (.Oniniiiiiitus.
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States .
          Done at Brussels, 3 March 1975 .
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                     The President
                                                                Francois-Xavier ORTOLI