31973R1594

No L 159/26 Official Journal of the European Communities 16. 6. 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 1594/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 14 June 1973 re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on lead-acid accumulators falling within heading No 85.04 A, originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferential tariff arrange­ ments set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN 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 lead-acid accumulators, the pean Economic Community ; ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 353 000 units of account, and therefore the Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No maximum amount 105 900 units of account ; 2762/72 (*) of 19 December 1972 establishing prefer­ whereas on 31 May 1973 the amounts of imports ential tariffs in respect of certain products origi­ into the Community of lead-acid accumulators, orig­ nating in developing countries, and in particular inating in Yugoslavia, a country covered by prefer­ Article 4 (2 ) thereof ; ential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum Whereas Article 1 (3 ) and (4) of that Regulation amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72, which provides that may, for each category of products, be suspended maximum amounts should not be exceeded, up to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of Common Customs Tariff duties should be account, which will usually be equal to the sum re-established in respect of the products in question arrived at by adding together the value of the in relation to Yugoslavia ; products in question imported cif into the Commu­ nity in 1968 and coming from countries and territo­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : ries covered by those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and terri­ Article 1 tories already covered by various preferential tariff As from 19 June 1973 , Common Customs Tariff arrangements established by the Community, and duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regula­ 5 °/o of the value of 1970 cif imports coming from tion (EEC ) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972, shall other countries and from countries and territories be re-established in respect of the following already covered by such arrangements ; products, imported into the Community and origi­ Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts nating in Yugoslavia : for products originating in any one of the countries or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation CCT heading Description of goods should be within a maximum Community amount No representing 50 % of that ceiling, with the excep­ tion of certain products for which the maximum 85.04 Electric accumulators : amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated A. Lead-acid accumulators in Annex A to that Regulation ; whereas, for those products, this reduced percentage will be 30 °/o ; Article 2 Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties may be This Regulation shall enter into force on the third re-established at any time in respect of imports of day following its publication in the Official Journal the products in question originating in any of the of the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 14 June 1973 . For the Commission The President François-Xavier ORTOLI

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