CELEX: 31973R1724
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-28 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1724/73 of the Commission of 28 June 1973 re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on equipment for parlour, table and funfair games for adults or children (including billiard tables and pintables and table-tennis requisites) falling within heading No 97.04, originating in Hong Kong, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972 apply

No L 175 /36                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                   29 . 6. 73
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 1724/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                            of 28 June 1973
               re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on equipment for parlour, table and fun­
               fair games for adults or children (including billiard tables and pintables and table-tennis
               requisites) falling within heading No 97.04, originating in Hong Kong, to which the
               preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72 of
                                                        19 December 1972 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        billiard tables and pintables and table-tennis requi­
COMMUNITIES ,                                                         sites), the ceiling, calculated as indicated above,
Having regard to to the Treaty establishing the                       should be 1 606 000 units of account, and therefore
European Economic Community ;                                          the maximum amount 481 800 units of account ;
                                                                       whereas on 10 June 1973 the amounts of imports
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           into the Community of equipment for parlour, table
2762/72 (*) of 19 December 1972 establishing prefer­                   and funfair games for adults or children (including
ential tariffs in respect of certain products origi­                   billiard tables and pintables and table-tennis requi­
nating in developing countries, and in particular                      sites ), originating in Hong Kong, a country covered
Article 4 (2) thereof ;                                                by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
Whereas Article 1 (3 ) and (4) of that Regulation                      maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties                         objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72, which
may, for each category of products, be suspended                       provides that maximum amounts should not be ex­
up to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of                       ceeded, 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 Hong Kong ;
products in question imported cif into the Commu­
nity in 1968 and coming from countries and territo­
ries covered by those arrangements, but not                            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
including products coming from countries and terri­
tories already covered by various preferential tariff                                             Article 1
arrangements established by the Community, and
5 °/o of the value of 1970 cif imports coming from                     As from 2 July 1973 , Common Customs Tariff
other countries and from countries and territories
                                                                       duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regula­
 already covered by such arrangements ;                                tion (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972, shall
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                    be re-established in respect of the following
for products originating in any one of the countries                   products, imported into the Community and origi­
or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation                     nating in Hong Kong :
should be within a maximum Community amount
representing 50 °/o of that ceiling, with the excep­
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tion of certain products for which the maximum                              heading                   Description of goods
amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated                            No
in Annex A to that Regulation ; whereas, for those
products, this reduced percentage will be 30 °/o ;                      97.04             Equipment for parlour, table and funfair
                                                                                          for adults or children (including billiard
Whereas Article 2 (2 ) of that Regulation provides                                        tables and pintables and table-tennis
that the Common Customs Tariff duties may be                                              requisites)
re-established at any time in respect of imports of
the products in question originating in any of the
said     countries   or    territories      once    the  relevant                                 Article 2
 Community maximum amount has been reached ;                           This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
Whereas , in respect of equipment for parlour, table                   day following its publication in the Official Journal
 and funfair games for adults or children ( including                   of the European Communities .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 28 June 1973 .
                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                      The President
                                                                                 François-Xavier ORTOLI
 ( s ) OJ No L 296 , 30 . 12 . 1972 , p . 15 .