31974R0817

6 . 4. 74 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 96/21

REGULATION (EEC) No 817/74 OF THE COMMISSION of 5 April 1974 authorizing Denmark, the United Kingdom and Ireland to suspend temporarily customs duties on certain fats and oils of fish and marine mammals under tariff heading 15.12 B imported from other Member States

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty (') concerning the Acces­ Article 1 sion of new Member States to the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community signed on 22 January 1972, and in parti­ Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom shall be cular Article 59 (4) of the Act (2) annexed thereto ; authorized to suspend, until 31 December 1974 (totally in Denmark and Ireland, to the level of 4 % Whereas Article 59 (4| of the Act provides that, in in the United Kingdom) the customs duties applicable respect of products covered by a common organiza­ to imports from other Member States of the products tion of the market, the new Member States may be set out below : authorized to suspend in whole or in part the customs duties on products imported from other Member States ; CCT heading Description of goods Whereas the Governments of the new Member States No have announced that they are disposed to carry out, for a period extending to 31 December 1974, such a ex 15.12 Animal or vegetable oils and fats, wholly or suspension of duties, which would have the effect of partly hydrogenated, or solidified or reducing to zero the duty applicable in Denmark and hardened by any other process, whether or Ireland and to 4 % that applicable in the United not refined, but not further prepared : Kingdom for certain fats and oils, of fish and marine B. Other : mammals under tariff heading 15.12 B ; — Fats and oils obtained exclusively from fish and marine mammals Whereas this suspension will have a favourable affect on trade between the Member States ; whereas, there­ fore, the suspension of the aforementioned duties Article 2 should be authorized ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation This Regulation shall enter into force on the day are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ following its publication in the Official Journal of ment Committee for Oils and Fats, the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 5 April 1974. For the Commission

The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

(•) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 . f) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.