31974R0471

27 . 2 . 74 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 56/ 19

REGULATION ( EEC) No 471 /74 OF THE COMMISSION of 26 February 1974 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on glazed setts, flags and paving, hearth and wall tiles falling within heading No 69.08, originating in South Korea, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3501 /73 of 18 December 1973 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, in respect of glazed setts, flags and paving, COMMUNITIES , hearth and wall tiles falling within heading 69.08 , the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ 1 607 000 units of account, and therefore the maxi­ pean Economic Community ; mum amount 321 400 units of account ; whereas on Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 15 February 1974, the amounts of imports into the 3501 /73 (*) of 18 December 1973 establishing pre­ Community of glazed setts, flags and paving, hearth ferential tariffs in respect of certain products origi­ and wall tiles falling within heading 69.08 , originating nating in developing countries, and in particular in South Korea, a country covered by preferential Article 4 (2 ) thereof ; tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; Whereas Article 1 (3 ) and ( 4) of that Regulation whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation provides that the customs duties may, for each (EEC) No 3501 /73 , which provides that maximum category of products, be suspended up to a Com­ amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties munity ceiling, expressed in units of account, which should be re-established in respect of the products will be equal to the sum arrived at by adding to­ in question in relation to South Korea, gether the value of the products in question imported cif into the Community in 1971 and coming from HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : countries and territories covered by those arrange­ ments, but not including products coming from countries and territories already covered by various Article 1 preferential tariff arrangements established by the As from 2 March 1974, the levying of customs duties, Community, and 5 °/o of the value of 1971 cif imports suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) coming from other countries and from countries No 3501 /73 of 18 December 1973 , shall be re­ and territories already covered by such arrangements ; established in respect of the following products, Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts imported into the Community and originating in for products originating in any one of the countries South Korea : or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a maximum Community amount CCT heading Description of goods representing 50 °/o of that ceiling, with the exception No of certain products for which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex 69.08 Glazed setts, flags and paving, hearth A to that Regulation ; whereas, for those products, and wall tiles this reduced percentage will be 20 % ; Whereas Article 2 (2 ) of that Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be re-esta­ Article 2 blished any time in respect of imports of the products in question originating in any of the said countries or This Regulation shall enter into force on the third territories once the relevant Community maximum day following its publication in the Official Journal 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, 26 February 1974 . For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

( l ) OJ No L 358 , 28 . 1 2 . 1973 , p . 15 .