31973R1806

No L 183 /24 5 . 7 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION (EEC) No 1806/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 4 July 1973 re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on glazed setts, flags and paving , hearth and wall tiles, falling within heading No 69.08 , 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 Whereas, in respect of glazed setts, flags and paving, COMMUNITIES, hearth and wall tiles, the ceiling, calculated as indi­ cated above, should be 1 073 000 units of account, and Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European therefore the maximum amount 214 600 units of Economic Community ; account ; whereas on 20 June 1973 the amounts of Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No imports into the Community of glazed setts, flags and 2762/72 (*) of 19 December 1972 establishing prefer­ paving, hearth and wall tiles, originating in Hong ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating Kong, a country covered by preferential tariff arrange­ in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2) ments, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, thereof ; bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation No 2762/72, which provides that maximum amounts provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties should not be exceeded, Common Customs Tariff may, for each category of products, be suspended up duties should be re-established in respect of the to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of products in question in relation to Hong Kong ; account, which will usually be equal to the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question imported cif into the Community in 1968 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 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 by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1970 cif As from 8 July 1973, Common Customs Tariff duties, imports coming from other countries and from coun­ suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972, shall be tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ ments ; re-established in respect of the following products, imported into the Community and originating in Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts Hong Kong : for products originating in any one of the countries or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should CCT heading be within a maximum Community amount repre­ No Description of goods 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 69.08 Glazed setts, flags and paving, hearth that Regulation ; whereas, for those products, this and wall tiles reduced percentage will be 20 % ; 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, 4 July 1973 . For the Commission The Président François-Xavier ORTOLI

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