31973R1723

29 . 6 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 175/35

REGULATION (EEC) No 1723/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 28 June 1973 re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on illuminating glassware, signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, not optically worked nor of optical glass, other, falling within subheading No 70.14 B, 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 ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be COMMUNITIES, 281 000 units of account, and (therefore the maximum amount 56 200 units for account ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ whereas on 31 May 1973 the amounts of imports pean Economic Community ; into the Community of illuminating glassware, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No signalling glassware and optical elements of "glass, 2762/72 ( x ) of 19 December 1972 establishing prefer­ not. optically worked nor of optical glass, other, ential tariffs in respect of certain products origi­ originating in Yugoslavia, a country covered by pref­ nating in developing countries, and in particular erential tariff arrangements, reached Chat maximum Article 4 ( 2 ) thereof ; amount : whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Whereas Article 1 (3 ) and (4) of that Regulation Regulation ( EEC) No 2762/72, which provides that provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties maximum amounts should be exceeded, Common may, for each category of products, be suspended Customs Tariff duties should be re-established in up to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of respect of the products in question in relation to account, which will usually be equal to the sum 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 tories already covered by various preferential tariff Article 1 arrangements established by the Community, and 5 °/o of the value of 1970 cif imports coming from As from 2 July 1973 , Common Customs Tariff other countries and from countries and territories duties, (suspended in pursuance of Council Regula­ already covered by such arrangements ; tion (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972, shall Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts be re-established in respect of the following for products originating in any one of the countries products , imported into the Community and origi­ or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation nating in Yugoslavia : should be within a (maximum Community amount representing 50 °/o of that ceiling, with the excep­ CCT tion of certain products for which the maximum heading Description of goods No amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to that Regulation ; whereas, for those 70.14 Illuminating glassware, signalling glass­ products, this reduced percentage will be 20 °/o ; ware and optical elements of glass , not optically worked nor of optical glass : Whereas Article 2 ( 2 ) of that Regulation provides B. Other that the Common Customs Tariff duties may be re-established at any time in respect of imports of the products in question originating in any of the said countries or territories once the relevant Article 2 Community maximum amount has been reached ; Whereas, in respect of illuminating glassware, This Regulation shall enter into force on the third signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. not optically worked nor of optical glass, other, the

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

Done at Brussels, 28 June 1973 . For the Commission The President François-Xavier ORTOLI

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