CELEX: 31974R2144
Language: en
Date: 1974-08-13 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2144/74 of the Commission of 13 August 1974 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on electric accumulators and lead-acid accumulators, falling within subheading 85.04 A, originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3501/73 of 18 December 1973 apply

14 . 8 . 74                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                     No L 225/ 23
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 2144/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 13 August 1974
               ^establishing the levying of customs duties on electric accumulators and lead­
               acid accumulators , falling within subheading 85.04 A, originating in Yugoslavia,
               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                                   Whereas, in respect of electric accumulators, lead-acid
COMMUNITIES,                                                     accumulators, the ceiling, calculated as indicated
                                                                 above, should be 1 346 000 units of account, and there­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                 fore the maximum amount 369 200 units of account ;
Economic Community ;
                                                                 whereas on 8 August 1974, the amounts of imports
Having regard to' Council Regulation ( EEC) No                   into the Community of electric accumulators, lead­
3501 /73 (') of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­            acid accumulators, originating in Yugoslavia, a country
ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating        covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached
in developing countries, and in particular Article 4(2)           that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
thereof ;                                                        objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3501 /73, which
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                  provides that maximum amounts should not be
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­              exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                  respect of the products in question in relation to
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be            Yugoslavia ,
equal to the sum arrived at by adding together the
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
                                                                                               Articlc 1
ries already covered by various preferential tariff
arrangements established by the Community, and                    As from 17 August 1974, the levying of customs
5% of the value of 1971 cif imports coming from                   duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
other countries and        from   countries and    territories
                                                                  ( EEC) No 3501 /73 of 18 December 1973, shall be
already covered by such arrangements ;                            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           Yugoslavia :
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
                                                                         No
                                                                                                   Description of goods
certain products for which the maximum amount is to
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to              85.04               Electric accumulators :
that Regulation ; whereas, for those products, this
                                                                                      A. Lead-acid accumulators
reduced percentage will be 20 % ;
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at                                         Articlc 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 Com »i unities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
                Done at Brussels, 1 3 August 1 974.
                                                                               l:or the Commission
                                                                                   The President
                                                                             Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(') OJ No L 358 , 28 . 12 . 1973 , p. I S.