CELEX: 31973R1594
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-14 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1594/73 of the Commission of 14 June 1973 re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on lead-acid accumulators falling within heading No 85.04 A, 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 159/26                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                     16. 6. 73
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 1594/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 14 June 1973
              re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on lead-acid accumulators falling within
              heading No 85.04 A, originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferential tariff arrange­
                 ments set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  said    countries   or    territories     once    the   relevant
COMMUNITIES,                                                    Community maximum amount has been reached ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­              Whereas, in respect of lead-acid accumulators, the
pean Economic Community ;                                       ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be
                                                                353 000 units of account, and therefore the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                maximum amount 105 900 units of account ;
2762/72 (*) of 19 December 1972 establishing prefer­
                                                                whereas on 31 May 1973 the amounts of imports
ential tariffs in respect of certain products origi­
                                                                into the Community of lead-acid accumulators, orig­
nating in developing countries, and in particular
Article 4 (2) thereof ;                                         inating in Yugoslavia, a country covered by prefer­
                                                                ential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum
Whereas Article 1 (3 ) and (4) of that Regulation               amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of
provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties                  Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72, which provides that
may, for each category of products, be suspended                maximum        amounts       should      not     be   exceeded,
up to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of                Common         Customs       Tariff     duties      should    be
account, which will usually be equal to the sum                 re-established in respect of the products in question
arrived at by adding together the value of the                  in relation to Yugoslavia ;
products in question imported cif into the Commu­
nity in 1968 and coming from countries and territo­             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
ries covered by those arrangements, but not
including products coming from countries and terri­                                        Article 1
tories already covered by various preferential tariff
                                                                As from 19 June 1973 , Common Customs Tariff
arrangements established by the Community, and
5 °/o of the value of 1970 cif imports coming from              duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regula­
other countries and from countries and territories              tion (EEC ) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972, shall
already covered by such arrangements ;                          be re-established in respect of the following
                                                                products, imported into the Community and origi­
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts              nating in Yugoslavia :
for products originating in any one of the countries
or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation                    CCT
should be within a maximum Community amount                          heading                     Description of goods
                                                                       No
representing 50 % of that ceiling, with the excep­
tion of certain products for which the maximum                   85.04             Electric accumulators :
amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated                                A. Lead-acid accumulators
in Annex A to that Regulation ; whereas, for those
products, this reduced percentage will be 30 °/o ;
                                                                                           Article 2
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides
that the Common Customs Tariff duties may be                     This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
re-established at any time in respect of imports of              day following its publication in the Official Journal
the products in question originating in any of the               of the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety an directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 14 June 1973 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                              The President
                                                                         François-Xavier ORTOLI
 (*) OJ No L 296, 30. 12. 1972, p . 15 .