31974R2145

No L 225/ 24 Official Journal of the European Communities 14 . 8 . 74

REGULATION ( EEC) No 2145 / 74 OF THE COMMISSION of 13 August 1974 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on appliances, apparatus, accesso­ ries and requisites for gymnastics or athletics, or for sports and outdoor games (other than articles falling within heading No 97.04), falling within subheading 97.06 B and C , originating in Pakistan , to which the preferential tariff arrange­ ments set out in Council Regulation ( EEC) No 3501 /73 of 18 December 1973 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN 97.06 B and C, the ceiling, calculated as indicated COMMUNITIES , above , should be 9 061 000 units of account, and there­ fore the maximum amount 2 718 300 units of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European account ; Economic Community ; Whereas on 8 August 1974, the amounts of imports Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3501 /73 ( ! ) of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­ into the Community of appliances, apparatus, accesso­ ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating ries and requisites for gymnastics or athletics, or for in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2) sports and outdoor games (other than articles falling thereof ; within heading No 97.04), falling within subheading 97.06 B and C, originating in Pakistan , a country Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation covered by , preferential tariff arrangements, reached provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the gory of products, be suspended up to a Community objectives of Regulation ( EEC) No 3501 /73 , which ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be provides that maximum amounts should not be equal to the sum arrived at by adding together the exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in value of the products in question imported cif into respect of the products in question in relation to the Community in 1971 and coming from countries Pakistan , and territories covered by those arrangements , but not including products coming from countries and territo­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : ries already covered by various preferential tariff Article 1 arrangements established by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1971 cif imports coming from As from 17 August 1974, the levying of customs other countries and from countries and territories duties , suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation already covered by such arrangements ; ( EEC) No 3501 /73 of 18 December 1973 , shall be Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts re-established in respect of the following products, for products originating in any one of the countries or imported into the Community and originating in territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should Pakistan : be within a maximum Community amount repre­ senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of CCT heading Description of goods certain products for which the maximum amount is to No be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to that Regulation ; whereas, for those products, this 97.06 Appliances , apparatus, accessories and requi­ reduced percentage will be 30 % ; sites for gymnastics or athletics, or for Whereas Article 2 ( 2) of that Regulation provides that sports and outdoor games (other than arti­ the levying of customs duties may be re-established at cles falling within heading No 97.04) : any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ B. Tennis rackets tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­ C. Other ries once the relevant Community maximum amount has been reached ; Article 2 Whereas , in respect of appliances, apparatus, accesso­ ries and requisites for gymnastics or athletics , or for This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day sports and outdoor games (other than articles falling following its publication in the Official Journal of within heading No 97.04), falling within subheading the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels , I 3 August 1 974 . , For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

(') OJ No L 3.S8 , 28 . 12 . 1973 , p. 15 .