CELEX: 31974R2957
Language: en
Date: 1974-11-22 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2957/74 of the Commission of 22 November 1974 re-establishing the levying of customs 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 3501/73 of 18 December 1973 apply

No L 312/ 16                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                    23 . 11 . 74
                           REGULATION ( EEC) No 2957 /74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                  of 22 November 1974
               re-establishing the levying of customs 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 3501 /73 of 18
                                                  December 1973 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, calcu­
                                                                lated as indicated above , should be 5 898 000 units of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                            account,      and    therefore    the      maximum       amount
                                                                1 769 400 units of account ; whereas on 20 November
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    1974, the amounts of imports into the Community of
3501 /73 (') of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­           other articles of iron or steel, falling within heading
ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating       No 73.40, originating in Yugoslavia, a country covered
in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2)        by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
thereof ;                                                       maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                objectives of Regulation ( EEC) No 3501 / 73 , which
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­            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 Yugo­
equal to the sum arrived at by adding together the              slavia,
value of the products in question imported cif into
the Community in 1971 and coming from countries
and territories covered by those arrangements, but not          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
including products coming from countries and territo­
ries already covered by various preferential tariff arran­                                 Article 1
gements established by the Community, and 5 % of
the value of 1971 cif imports coming from other coun­           As from 26 November 1974, the levying of customs
tries and from countries and territories already covered        duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
by such arrangements ;                                          ( EEC) No 3501 /73 of 18 December 1973 , 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                    Description of goods
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                    No
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 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 maximum amount                  following its publication in the Official Journal of
has been reached ;                                               the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 22 November 1974 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                The President
                                                                           Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(') OJ No L 358 , 28 . 12. 1973 , p. 15 .