31974R1583

25 . 6 . 74 Official Joiirnal of the European Communities No L 168 / 17

REGULATION ( EEC) No 1583/ 74 OF THE COMMISSION of 24 June 1974 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on goat and kid skin leather, other, falling within subheading 41.04 B II , originating in India, 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 goat and kid skin leather, COMMUNITIES , other, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 2 537 000 units of account, and therefore Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European the maximum amount 761 100 units of account ; Economic Community ; whereas on 10 June 1974, the amounts of imports Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No into the Community of goat and kid skin leather, 350 1 /73 (^ of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­ other, originating in India, a country covered by prefer­ ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating ential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2) amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of thereof ; Regulation (EEC) No 3501 /73 , which provides that Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation maximum amounts should not be exceeded , customs provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ duties should be re-established in respect of the gory of products, be suspended up to a Community products in question in relation to India,. ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be equal to the sum arrived at by adding, together the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : value of the products in question itnported cif into the Community in 1971 and coming from countries Article 1 and territories covered by those arrangements, but not As from 28 June 1974, the levying of customs duties , including products coming from countries and territo­ suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) ries already covered by various preferential tariff No 3501 /73 of 18 December 1973 , shall be arrangements established by the Community, and re-established in respect of the following products, 5% of the value of 1971 cif imports coming from other countries and from countries and territories imported into the ComnVunity and originating in India : already covered by such arrangements ; Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts CCT for products originating in any one of the countries or heading Description of goods territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should No be within a maximum Community amount repre­ senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of 41.04 Goat and kid skin leather, except leather certain products for which the maximum amount is to falling within heading No 41.06, 41.07 or 41.08 : be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to B. Other : that Regulation ; whereas, for those products, this reduced percentage will be 30 % ; II . Other Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be re-established at Article 2 any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­ This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day ries once the relevant Community maximum amount following its publication in the Official Journal of has been reached ; the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels , 24 June 1974 . For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

(') OJ No L 358 , 28 . 12 . 1973 , p. 15 .