CELEX: 31974R1299
Language: en
Date: 1974-05-22 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1299/74 of the Commission of 22 May 1974 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on illuminating glassware, signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, not optically worked or of optical glass, falling within subheading No 70.14 B, originating in Hong Kong, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3501/73 of 18 December 1973 apply

No L 140/ 54                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                     23 . 5. 74
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 1299/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                    of 22 May 1974
                re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on illuminating glassware,
                signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, not optically worked or of
                optical glass, falling within subheading No 70.14 B, originating in Hong Kong,
                to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation
                                   (EEC) No 3501 /73 of 18 December 1973 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 optically worked or of optical glass, other, the ceiling,
COMMUNITIES,                                                   calculated as indicated above, should be 479 000 units
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          of account, and therefore the maximum amount
Economic Community ;                                           143 700 units of account ; whereas on 8 May 1974, the
                                                               amounts of imports into the Community of illumi­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   nating glassware, signalling glassware and optical
3501 /73 ( J ) of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­        elements of glass, not optically worked or of optical
ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating     glass, other, originating in Hong Kong, a country
in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2)       covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached
thereof ;                                                      that 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
equal to the sum arrived at by adding together the             Hong Kong,
value of the products in question imported cif into
the Community in 1971 and coming from countries
                                                               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
and territories Covered by those arrangements, but not
including products coming from countries and territo­
ries already covered by various preferential tariff                                        Article 1
arrangements established by the Community, and
5% of the value of 1971 cif imports coming from                As from 26 May 1974, the levying of customs duties,
other countries and from countries and territories             suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
already covered by such arrangements ;                         No     3501 /73     of   18   December          1973, shall   be
                                                               re-established in respect of the following products,
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts            imported into the Community and originating in
for products originating in any one of the countries or        Hong Kong :
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                          CCT
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                 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            70.14              Illuminating glassware, signalling glassware
reduced percentage will be 30% ;                                                  and optical elements of glass, not optically
                                                                                  worked or of optical glass :
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that                            B. Other
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­
tion originating "in any of the said countries or territo­
                                                                                           Article 2
ries once the relevant Community maximum amount
has been reached ;                                             This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
Whereas, in respect of illuminating glassware,                 following its publication in the Official Journal of
signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, not         the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                 Done at Brussels, 22 May 1974.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                               The President
                                                                          Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(') OJ No L 358 , 28 . 12. 1973, p. 15 .