31973R2310

No L 237/ 24 Official Journal of the European Communities 25 . 8 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 2310 /73 OF THE COMMISSION

of 24 August 1973

re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on standard lamps, table lamps and other lighting fittings, of wood, articles of wood for personal use or adorn­ ment, etc, falling within heading No 44.27 , originating in the Philippines, 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 therefore the maximum amount 767 000 units of COMMUNITIES, account ; whereas on 22 August 1973 the amounts of imports into the Community of standard lamps, table lamps and other lighting fittings, of wood, articles of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European wood for personal use or adornment etc, originating Economic Community ; in the Philippines, a country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation 2762/72 (J) of 19 December 1972 establishing prefer­ (EEC) No 2762/72, which provides that maximum ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating amounts should not be exceeded, Common Customs in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2) Tariff duties should be re-established in respect of the thereof ; products in question in relation to the Philippines ;

Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties may, for each category of products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 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 Article 1 and coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and territories already covered As from 28 August 1973, Common Customs Tariff by various preferential tariff arrangements established duties suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1970 cif (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972, shall be imports coming from other countries and from coun­ re-established in respect of the following products, tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ imported into the Community and originating in the ments ; Philippines :

Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries or CCT territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should heading Description of goods No be within a maximum Community amount repre­ senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of 44.27 Standard lamps, table lamps and other certain products for which the maximum amount is to lighting fittings, of wood ; articles of be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to furniture, of wood, not falling within that Regulation ; Chapter 94 ; caskets, cigarette -boxes, trays, fruit bowls, ornaments and other fancy articles, of wood ; cases for cut­ Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that lery, for drawing instruments or for vio­ the Common Customs Tariff duties may be lins, and similar receptacles, of wood ; articles of wood for personal use or re-established at any time in respect of imports of the adornment, of a kind normally carried products in question originating in any of the said in the pocket, in the handbag or on the countries or territories once the relevant Community person ; parts of the foregoing articles, maximum amount has been reached ; of wood

Whereas, in respect of standard lamps, table lamps Article 2 and other lighting fittings, of wood, articles of wood for personal use or adornment etc, the ceiling, calcu­ lated above , should be 1 534 000 units of account, and This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of (i ) OJ No L 296, 30. 12. 1972, p. 15. the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 24 August 1973 .

For the Commission

The President

François-Xavier ORTOLI