CELEX: 31973R1806
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-04 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1806/73 of the Commission of 4 July 1973 re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on glazed setts, flags and paving, hearth and wall tiles, falling within heading No 69.08, 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 183/24                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                  5 . 7 . 73
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 1806/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 4 July 1973
                re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on glazed setts, flags and paving,
                hearth and wall tiles, falling within heading No 69.08 , 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                                  Whereas, in respect of glazed setts, flags and paving,
COMMUNITIES,                                                    hearth and wall tiles, the ceiling, calculated as indi­
                                                                cated above, should be 1 073 000 units of account, and
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           therefore the maximum amount 214 600 units of
Economic Community ;
                                                                account ; whereas on 20 June 1973 the amounts of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    imports into the Community of glazed setts, flags and
2762/72 (*) of 19 December 1972 establishing prefer­            paving, hearth and wall tiles, originating in Hong
ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating       Kong, a country covered by preferential tariff arrange­
in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2)        ments, reached that maximum amount ; whereas,
thereof ;                                                       bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC)
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                No 2762/72, which provides that maximum amounts
provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties                  should not be exceeded, Common Customs Tariff
may, for each category of products, be suspended up             duties should be re-established in respect of the
to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of                   products in question in relation to Hong Kong ;
account, which will usually be equal to the sum
arrived at by adding together the value of the products
in question imported cif into the Community in 1968             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
and coming from countries and territories covered by
those arrangements, but not including products
coming from countries and territories already covered                                      Article 1
by various preferential tariff arrangements established
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1970 cif              As from 8 July 1973, Common Customs Tariff duties,
 imports coming from other countries and from coun­              suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
 tries and territories already covered by such arrange­          No     2762/72     of  19   December        1972, shall    be
 ments ;                                                         re-established in respect of the following products,
                                                                 imported into the Community and originating in
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
                                                                 Hong Kong :
 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                       CCT heading
                                                                        No                    Description of goods
 senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of
 certain products for which the maximum amount is to
 be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to             69.08             Glazed setts, flags and paving, hearth
 that Regulation ; whereas, for those products, this                                and wall tiles
 reduced percentage will be 20 % ;
 Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that
 the Common Customs Tariff duties may be                                                   Article 2
  re-established at any time in respect of imports of the
 products in question originating in any of the said             This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
 countries or territories once the relevant Community            following its publication in the Official Journal of
  maximum amount has been reached ;                               the European Communities.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 4 July 1973 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                                The Président
                                                                           François-Xavier ORTOLI
  (') OJ No L 296, 30 . 12 . 1972, p. 15 .