31973R0523

23 . 2. 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 50/39

REGULATION (EEC) No 523/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 22 February 1973 on the restoration of Common Customs Tariff duties on carbides of calcium, of subheading 28.56 C, originating in Yugoslavia and covered by the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN vant Community maximum amount has been COMMUNITIES, reached ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ Whereas, in respect of carbides of calcium the pean Economic Community ; ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 196 000 units of account, and therefore the Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No maximum amount 58 800 units of account ; 2762/72 (x) of 19 December 1972 establishing prefer­ whereas on 20 February 1973 the amounts of ential tariffs in respect of certain products origi­ imports into the Community of carbides of calcium nating in developing countries, and in particular originating in Yugoslavia, a country covered by pref­ Article 4 (2) thereof ; erential tariff arrangements, reached the said Whereas Article 1 (3 ) and (4) of that Regulation maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC ) No 2762/72, which provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties provides that maximum amounts should not be may, for each category of products, be suspended exceeded, Common Customs Tariff duties should up to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will usually be equal to the sum be re-introduced in respect of the products in ques­ tion in relation to Yugoslavia ; arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question imported cif into the Commu­ nity in 1968 and coming from countries and terri­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : tories covered by those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and terri­ Article 1 tories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established by the Community, and As from 26 February 1973 , the charging of 5 % of the value of 1970 cif imports coming from Common Customs Tariff duties, suspended in pursu­ other countries and from countries and territories ance of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72 of already covered by such arrangements ; 19 December 1972, shall be restored in respect of the following products imported into the Commu­ Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts nity and originating 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 representing 50 % of that ceiling, with the excep­ No tion of certain products for which the maximum 28.56 Carbides (for example, silicon carbide, amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated boron carbide, metal carbides) : in Annex A to that Regulation ; whereas, for those C. Of calcium products, this reduced percentage will be 30 % ; Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides Article 2 that the charging of Common Customs Tariff duties may be re-introduced at any time in respect of This Regulation shall enter into force on the third imports of the products in question originating in day following its publication in the Official Journal any of the said countries or territories once the rele­ of the European Communities .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 22 February 1973 . For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

(*) OJ No L 296 , 30. 12. 1972 , p. 15 .