31974R2144

14 . 8 . 74 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 225 / 23

REGULATION ( EEC) No 2144/ 74 OF THE COMMISSION of 13 August 1974 ^establishing the levying of customs duties on electric accumulators and lead­ acid accumulators , falling within subheading 85.04 A, originating in Yugoslavia, 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 electric accumulators, lead-acid COMMUNITIES, accumulators, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above , should be 1 346 000 units of account, and there­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European fore the maximum amount 369 200 units of account ; Economic Community ; whereas on 8 August 1974, the amounts of imports Having regard to' Council Regulation ( EEC) No into the Community of electric accumulators, lead­ 3501 /73 (') of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­ acid accumulators, originating in Yugoslavia, a country ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached in developing countries, and in particular Article 4(2) that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the thereof ; objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3501 /73, which Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation provides that maximum amounts should not be provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in gory of products, be suspended up to a Community respect of the products in question in relation to ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be Yugoslavia , 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 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : and territories covered by those arrangements , but not including products coming from countries and territo­ Articlc 1 ries already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established by the Community, and As from 17 August 1974, the levying of customs 5% of the value of 1971 cif imports coming from duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation other countries and from countries and territories ( EEC) No 3501 /73 of 18 December 1973, shall be already covered by such arrangements ; re-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 or Yugoslavia : territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a maximum Community amount repre­ CCT senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of heading Description of goods No certain products for which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to 85.04 Electric accumulators : that Regulation ; whereas, for those products, this A. Lead-acid accumulators reduced percentage will be 20 % ; Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be re-established at Articlc 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 Com »i unities.

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

Done at Brussels, 1 3 August 1 974 . l:or the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

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