CELEX: 31973R3317
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-06 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3317/73 of the Commission of 6 December 1973 re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on other articles of iron or steel, falling within heading No 73.40, originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972 apply

No L 339 / 18                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                     8 . 12. 73
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 3317/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 6 December 1973
               re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on other articles of iron or steel ,
               falling within heading No 73.40 , originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferen­
               tial tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19
                                                     December 1972 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas, in respect of other articles of iron or steel
COMMUNITIES,                                                       falling within heading No 73.40 the ceiling, calculated
                                                                   as indicated above , should be 3 143 000 units of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                               account, and therefore the maximum amount 942 900
                                                                   units of account ; whereas on 4 December 1973 the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       amounts of imports into the Community of other arti­
2762/ 72 (') of 19 December 1972 establishing prefer­              cles of iron or steel falling within heading No 73.40
ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating          originating in Yugoslavia a country covered by prefer­
in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2)           ential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum
thereof ;
                                                                   amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                   Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72, which provides that
provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties                     maximum amounts should not be exceeded , Common
may, for each category of products, be suspended up                Customs Tariff duties should be re-established in
to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of                      respect of the products in question in relation to
account, which will usually be equal to the sum                    Yugoslavia,
arrived at by adding together the value of the products
in question imported cif into the Community in 1968
and coming from countries and territories covered by               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
those arrangements, but not including products
coming from countries and territories already covered
by various preferential tariff arrangements established                                        Article 1
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1970 cif
imports coming from other countries and from coun­                 As from 11 December 1973 , Common Customs Tariff
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­             duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
ments ;                                                            ( EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972, shall be
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
                                                                   re-established in respect of the following products,
for products originating in any one of the countries or            imported into the Community and originating in
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should            Yugoslavia :
be within a maximum Community amount repre­
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                   CCT heading
                                                                          No                        Description of goods
certain products for which the maximum amount is to
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to
that Regulation ; whereas, for those products, this                 73.40             Other articles of iron or steel
reduced percentage will be 30 % ;
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that
the Common Customs Tariff duties may be                                                       Article 2
re-established at any time in respect of imports of the
products in question originating in any of the said                This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
countries or territories once the relevant Community               following its publication in the Official Jonnutl of
maximum amount has been reached :                                  the Eiirobcitn Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
                Done at Brussels , 6 December 1973 .
                                                                              b'or the (j) )))»i ission
                                                                                  The President
                                                                             Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(') OJ No L 296, 30 . 12 . ) 972 , p . 15 .