31973R1724

No L 175 / 36 Official Journal of the European Communities 29 . 6 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 1724/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 28 June 1973 re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on equipment for parlour, table and fun­ fair games for adults or children (including billiard tables and pintables and table-tennis requisites) falling within heading No 97.04, originating in Hong Kong, 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 billiard tables and pintables and table-tennis requi­ COMMUNITIES , sites), the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 1 606 000 units of account, and therefore Having regard to to the Treaty establishing the the maximum amount 481 800 units of account ; European Economic Community ; whereas on 10 June 1973 the amounts of imports Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No into the Community of equipment for parlour, table 2762/72 (*) of 19 December 1972 establishing prefer­ and funfair games for adults or children (including ential tariffs in respect of certain products origi­ billiard tables and pintables and table-tennis requi­ nating in developing countries, and in particular sites ), originating in Hong Kong, a country covered Article 4 (2 ) thereof ; by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that Whereas Article 1 (3 ) and (4) of that Regulation maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72, which may, for each category of products, be suspended provides that maximum amounts should not be ex­ up to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of ceeded, 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 Hong Kong ; products in question imported cif into the Commu­ nity in 1968 and coming from countries and territo­ ries covered by those arrangements, but not HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 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 Hong Kong : 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 97.04 Equipment for parlour, table and funfair products , this reduced percentage will be 30 °/o ; for adults or children (including billiard Whereas Article 2 (2 ) of that Regulation provides tables and pintables and table-tennis requisites) 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 Article 2 said countries or territories once the relevant Community maximum amount has been reached ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the third Whereas , in respect of equipment for parlour, table day following its publication in the Official Journal and funfair games for adults or children ( including of the European Communities .

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

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