31974R1024

No L 117 / 32 Official Journal of the European Communities 30 . 4 . 74

REGULATION ( EEC) No 1024/74 OF THE COMMISSION of 26 April 1974 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on other articles for electrical lighting fittings falling within subheading No 70.14 A II , originating in Yugos­ lavia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regula­ tion ( EEC) No 3501 / 73 of 18 December 1973 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN II, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be COMMUNITIES, 2 399 000 units of account, and therefore the maximum amount 479 800 units of account ; whereas on 24 April 1974, the amounts of imports into the Community of other articles for electrical lighting Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European fittings falling within subheading No 70.14 A II , origi­ Economic Community ; nating in Yugoslavia, a country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No (EEC) No 3501 /73, which provides that maximum 3501 /73 (') of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­ amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating should be re-established in respect of the products in in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2) question in relation to Yugoslavia, thereof ;

Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ gory of products, be suspended up to a Community HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be equal to the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question imported cif into the Community in 1971 and coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not Article 1 including products coming from countries and territo­ ries already covered by various preferential tariff arran­ gements established by the Community, and 5 % of As from 3 May 1974, the levying of customs duties, the value of 1971 cif imports coming from other coun­ suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) tries and from countries and territories already covered No 3501 / 73 of 18 December 1973 , shall be by such arrangements ; re-established in respect of the following products, imported into the Community and originating in Yugoslavia : Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should OCT be within a maximum Community amount repre­ heading Description of goods senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of No certain products for which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to 70.14 Illuminating glassware, signalling glassware that Regulation ; whereas, for those products, this and optical elements of glass, not optically reduced percentage will be 20 % ; worked nor of optical glass : A. Articles for electrical lighting fittings : II . Other (for example, diffusers, ceiling Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that lights, bowls, cups, lampshades, the levying of customs duties may be re-established at globes, tulip-shaped pieces) any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­ ries once the relevant Community maximum amount has been reached ; Article 2 Whereas , in respect of other articles for electrical lighting fittings falling within subheading No 70.14 A This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of (>) OJ No L 358 , 28 . 12. 1973 , 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 , 26 April 1 974 . For the Commission

The President François-Xavier ORTOLI