31973R3021

No L 308/ 12 Official Journal of the European Communities 8 . 11 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 3021/73 OF THE COMMISSION

of 7 November 1973 re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on artificial flowers, foliage or fruit and parts thereof, etc, falling within heading No 67.02, 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 artificial flowers, foliage or COMMUNITIES, fruit and parts thereof, etc, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 1 293 000 units of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ account, and therefore the maximum amount pean Economic Community ; 646 500 units of account ; whereas on 2 November Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No 1973 the amounts of imports into the Community 2762/72 (*) of 19 December 1972 establishing prefer­ of artificial flowers, foliage or fruit and parts ential tariffs in respect of certain products origi­ thereof, etc, originating in Hong Kong, a country nating in developing countries, and in particular covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached Article 4 (2) thereof ; that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) 2762/72, which Whereas Article 1 (3 ) and (4) of that Regulation provides that maximum amounts should not be provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties exceeded, Common Customs Tariff duties should may, for each category of products, be suspended be re-established in respect of the products in ques­ up to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of tion 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 Commu­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : nity in 1968 and coming from countries and territo­ ries covered by those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and terri­ Article 1 tories already covered by various preferential tariff As from 11 November 1973 , Common Customs arrangements established by the Community, and Tariff duties, suspended in pursuance of Council 5 °/o of the value of 1970 cif imports coming from Regulation ( EEC ) No 2762/ 72 of 19 December other countries and from countries and territories 1972, shall be re-established in respect of the already covered by such arrangements ; following products, imported into the Community Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the and originating in Hong Kong : amounts for products originating in any one of the countries or territories listed in Annex B to that CCT heading Regulation should be within a maximum Commu­ No Description nity amount representing 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for which the 67.02 Artificial flowers, foliage or fruit and maximum amount is to be reduced to the percen­ parts thereof ; articles made of artificial tage indicated in Annex A to that Regulation ; flowers ; foliage or fruit

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 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third said countries or territories once the relevant day following its publication in the Official Journal Community maximum amount has been reached ; of the European Communities .

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

Done at Brussels, 7 November 1973 . For the Commission The President François-Xavier ORTOLI

t1 ) OJ No L 296 , 30. 12 . 1972, p . 15 .