CELEX: 51973PC0290
Language: en
Date: 1973-02-27
Title: Proposal for a REGULATION (EEC) OF THE COUNCIL fixing certain basic duties (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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COM (73) 290
Vol. 1973/0045
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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                 COM(73 ) 290 final
                                                 Brussels , 27 February 1973
                                  Proposal for a
                         REGULATION (EEC ) OF THE COUNCIL
                          fixing certain basic duties
                  ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
  COM(73 ) 290 final
 ---pagebreak---                               Proposal for a
          I-        ■ REGULATION (EEC ) OF THE COPECIL
                        fixing certain basic duties
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN - COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty concerning the Accession of new hember
States to the European Economic Community and the European Atomic
Energy Community (■*•), signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972 , and in
particular Article 33 of the Act ( 2 ) annexed thereto , hereinafter
called the "Act ";
Whereas , under Article 31 ( 1 ) of the Act , the successive reductions
provided for by Article 32 of the Act in respect of customs duties
on imports into the Community as originally constituted of products
in free circulation in the new Member States are to be applied to
basic duties which are the duties actually applied on 1 January 1972 ;
whereas these provisions apply inter alia to products falling within
Chapter 91 of the Common Customs Tariff ;
Vihereab ! for these' products and from 1 January 1973 the Community has
implemented the third instalment of the reductions in duties arising
out of the tariff agreements concluded following the Geneva Trade
Conference ( 1964-67 );
Whereas for the purpose of maintaining Community preference as provided
in the second subparagraph of Article 33 of the Act the duties actually
applied on 1 January 1972 should be replaced , as basic duties for the
products aforesaid , by the duties as reduced on 1 January 1$73 »
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
( 1 ) O.J. No L 73 , 27 March 1972 , p . 5 .
(2 ) O.J. No L 73 , 27 March 1972 , p . l4 .
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                                 Article 1
               The basic duties to which , the successive reductions
provided for in Article 32 of the Act are to be applied shall , for
imports of products falling within Chapter 91 of the Common Customs
Tariff into the Community as originally constituted , be the Common
Customs Tariff duties applicable on 1 January 1973 »
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                                 Article 2
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               This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April 1S73
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
directly applicable in all Member States . ;
Done at. .Brussels , .   >     •   . '           .       For the Council r
                  ■                                        The President ' '