31974R2180

No L 230 / 16 Official Journal of the European Communities 21 . 8 . 74

REGULATION (EEC) No 2180/74 OF THE COMMISSION of 20 August 1974 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on illuminating glassware, signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, not optically worked nor of optical glass, falling within subheading 70.14 A II , originating in Romania, 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 subheading 70.14 A II, the ceiling calculated as indi­ COMMUNITIES, cated above, should be 2 399 000 units of account, and therefore the maximum amount 479 800 units of account ; whereas on 14 August 1974, the amounts of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European imports into the Community of illuminating glass­ Economic Community ; ware, signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, not optically worked nor of optical glass falling Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No within subheading 70.14 A II originating in Romania, 3501 /73 ( l ) of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­ a country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2) mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3501 /73, thereof ; which provides that maximum amounts should not be exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in respect of the products in question in relation to Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation Romania, provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ gory of products, be suspended up to a Community 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 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : the Community in 1971 and coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and territo­ Article 1 ries already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1971 cif imports coming from As from 24 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 re-established in respect of the following products, imported into the Community and originating in Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts Romania : for products originating in any one of the countries or 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 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 70.14 Illuminating glassware , signalling glassware reduced percentage will be 20 % ; and optical elements of glass, not optically worked nor of optical glass : Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that A. Articles for electrical lighting fittings : the levying of customs duties may be re-established at II . Other (for example, diffusers, ceil­ any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ ings lights, bowls, cups, lampshades, globes, tulip-shaped pieces) 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 illuminating glassware, signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, not optically worked nor of optical glass falling within This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Officiai 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, 20 August 1974. For the Commission The President

Francois-Xavier ORTOLI