CELEX: 31974R1024
Language: en
Date: 1974-04-26 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1024/74 of the Commission of 26 April 1974 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on other articles for electrical lighting fittings falling within subheading No 70.14 A II, 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 117 / 32                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                        30 . 4 . 74
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 1024/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 26 April 1974
               re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on other articles for electrical
               lighting fittings falling within subheading No 70.14 A II , originating in Yugos­
               lavia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regula­
                                 tion (EEC) No 3501 /73 of 18 December 1973 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   II, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be
COMMUNITIES,                                                     2 399 000 units of account, and therefore the
                                                                 maximum amount 479 800 units of account ; whereas
                                                                 on 24 April 1974, the amounts of imports into the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            Community of other articles for electrical lighting
Economic Community ;                                             fittings falling within subheading No 70.14 A II, origi­
                                                                 nating in Yugoslavia, a country covered by preferential
                                                                 tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ;
                                                                 whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     (EEC) No 3501 /73, which provides that maximum
3501 /73 (') of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­            amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties
ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating        should be re-established in respect of the products in
in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2)         question in relation to Yugoslavia,
thereof ;
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
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
and territories covered by those arrangements, but not
including products coming from countries and territo­                                         Article 1
ries already covered by various preferential tariff arran­
gements established by the Community, and 5 % of                 As from 3 May 1974, the levying of customs duties,
the value of 1971 cif imports coming from other coun­            suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
tries and from countries and territories already covered         No     3501 /73    of     18    December          1973 ,  shall   be
by such arrangements ;                                           re-established in respect of the following products,
                                                                 imported into the Community and originating in
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts              Yugoslavia :
for products originating in any one of the countries or
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                            OCT
                                                                      heading                      Description of goods
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                     No
certain products for which the maximum amount is to
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to             70.14             Illuminating glassware, signalling glassware
that Regulation ; whereas, for those products, this                                and optical elements of glass, not optically
reduced percentage will be 20 % ;                                                  worked nor of optical glass :
                                                                                   A. Articles for electrical lighting fittings :
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that                                 II . Other (for example, diffusers, ceiling
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at                                       lights, bowls, cups, lampshades,
                                                                                            globes, tulip-shaped pieces)
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­
tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­
ries once the relevant Community maximum amount
has been reached ;
                                                                                              Article 2
Whereas, in respect of other articles for electrical
lighting fittings falling within subheading No 70.14 A           This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                  following its publication in the Official Journal of
(>) OJ No L 358 , 28 . 12. 1973 , p . 15 .                        the European Communities.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 26 April 1 974.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                       The President
                                                                  François-Xavier ORTOLI