31973R0939

No L 91/ 10 Official Journal of the European Communities 7 . 4 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 939/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 5 April 1973 reintroducing the charging of Common Customs Tariff duties on glazed setts, flags and paving, hearth and wall tiles, falling within heading No 69.08 originating in South Korea, covered by the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regu­ lation (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN of the said countries or territories once the relevant COMMUNITIES, Community maximum amount has been reached ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ Whereas, in respect of glazed setts, flags and paving, pean Economic Community ; hearth and wall tiles the ceiling, calculated as indi­ cated above, should be 1 073 000 units of account, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No and therefore the maximum amount 214 600 uniits of 2762/72 i 1 ) of 19 December 1972 establishing pre­ account ; whereas on 19 March 1973 the amounts ferential tariffs in respect of certain products origi­ of imports into the Community of glazed setts, flags nating in developing countries, and in particular and paving, hearth and wall tiles originating in South Article 4 (2) thereof ; Korea, a country covered by preferential tariff Whereas Article 1 (3 ) and (4) of that Regulation arrangements , reached the said maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties may, for each category of products, be suspended ( EEC ) No 2762/72, which provides that maximum up to a Community ceiling, expressed in uniits of amounts should not be exceeded, Common Customs account, which will usually be equal to the sum Tariff duties shouild be reintroduced in respect of arrived at by adding together the value of the pro­ the products in question in relation to South Korea ; ducts in question imported cif into the Community in 1968 and coming from countries and territories HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : covered by those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and territories Article 1 already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established by the Community, and As from 10 April 1973 , the charging of Common 5 °/o of the value of 1970 cif imports coming from Customs Tariff duties, suspended in pursuance of other countries and from countries and territories Council Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 Decem­ already covered by such arrangements ; ber 1972, shall be reintroduced in respect of the Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts following products, imported into the Community for products originating in any one of the countries and originating in South Korea : or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation shouild be within a maximum Community amount CCT heading Description of goods representing 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception No of certain products for which the maximum amount 69.08 Glazed setts, flags and paving, hearth is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in An­ and wall tiles nex A to that Regulation ; whereas, for those pror ducts, this reduced percentage will be 20 % ; Article 2 Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that the charging of Common Customs Tariff duties This Regulation shall enter into force on the third may be reintroduced at any time in respect of im­ day following its publication in the Official Journal ports of the products in question originating in any of the European Communities .

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

Done at Brussels, 5 April 1973 . For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

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