31973R2455

No L 252/ 16 Official Journal of the European Communities 8 . 9 . 73

REGULATION (EEC No 2455/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 17 September 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 of the Common Customs Tariff origi­ nating in developing countries 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 question, originating in countries and territories COMMUNITIES, covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European of Regulation 2762/72, which provides that the ceiling Economic Community ; should not be exceeded, Common Customs Tariff Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No duties should be re-established in respect of the 2762/72 0 of 19 December 1972 establishing prefer­ products in question ; ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2) HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : thereof ; Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that Article 1 the Common Customs Tariff duties may, for each cate­ As from 11 September 1973, Common Customs Tariff gory of products, be suspended up to a Community duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972, shall be usually be equal to the sum arrived at by adding re-established in respect of the following products, together the value of the products in question imported into the Community : imported cif into the Community in 1968 and coming from countries and territories covered by CCT those arrangements, but not including products heading Description of goods No coming from countries and territories already covered covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­ 44.27 Standard lamps, table lamps and other blished by the Community, and 5 % of the value of lighting fittings, of wood ; articles of fur­ 1970 cif imports coming from other countries and niture, of wood, not falling within Chap­ ter 94 ; caskets , cigarette boxes, trays, from countries and territories already covered by such fruit bowls, ornaments and other fancy arrangements ; articles , of wood ; cases for cutlery, for drawing instruments or for violins, and Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation provides that similar receptacles, of wood ; articles Common Customs Tariff duties may be re-established of wood for personal use or adornment, at any time once the Community ceiling has been of a kind normally carried in the pocket, reached ; in the handbag or on the person ; parts of the foregoing articles, of wood Whereeas, in respect of standard lamps, table lamps and other lighting fittings, of wood, articles of wood Article 2 for personal use or adornment, etc the ceiling, calcu­ lated as indicated above, should be 1 534 000 units of This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day account ; whereas on 4 September 1972 the amounts following its publication in the Official Journal of of imports into the Community of the products in the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 7 September 1973 . For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

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