31973R1454

No L 144/72 31 . 5 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION (EEC) No 1454/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 30 May 1973 re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on wrought plates , sheets and strip, of aluminium, falling within heading No 76.03 , originating in Yugoslavia 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 wrought plates, sheets and COMMUNITIES, strip, of aluminium, the ceiling, calculated as indi­ cated above, should be 1 684 000 units of account, and Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European therefore the maximum amount 505 200 units of Economic Community ; account ; whereas on 24 May 1973 the amounts of Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No imports into the Community of wrought plates, sheets 2762/72 (') of 19 December 1972 establishing prefer­ and strip of aluminium, originating in Jugoslavia, a ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2) reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in thereof ; mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72, Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation which provides that maximum amounts should not be provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties exceeded, Common Customs Tariff duties should be may, for each category of products, be suspended up re-established in respect of the products in question to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of in relation to Yugoslavia ; account, which will usually be equal to the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : in question imported cif into the Community in 1968 and coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not including products Article 1 coming from countries and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established As from 3 June 1973, Common Customs Tariff by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1970 cif duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation imports coming from other countries and from coun­ (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972, shall be tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ re-established in respect of the following products, ments ; imported into the Community and originating in Yugoslavia Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should CCT heading Description of goods be within a maximum Community amount repre­ No 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 76.03 Wrought plates , sheets and strip , of alu­ minium that Regulation ; whereas, for those products, this reduced percentage will be 30 % ; 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, 30 May 1973 . For the Commission The President François-Xavier ORTOLI

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