31975R0547

No L 58 /6 4 . 3 . 75 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION (EEC) No 547/75 OF THE COMMISSION of 3 March 1975 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on locks and padlocks (key, etc.) ; keys for any of the foregoing articles of base metal , falling within heading No 83.01 , originating in Hongkong, to which the preferential tariff arrange­ ments set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3054/74 of 2 December 1974 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN metal, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, COMMUNITIES, should be 1 940 000 units of account, and therefore the maximum amount 388 000 units of account ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European whereas on 27 February 1975, the amounts of imports Economic Community ; into the Community of locks and padlocks (key, etc .) ; keys for any of the foregoing articles of base metal, originating in' Hongkong, a country covered by prefer­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3054/74 (') of 2 December 1974 establishing preferen­ ential tariff arrangements, reached - that maximum tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3054/74 which provides that developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2) thereof ; maximum amounts should not be exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in respect of the products in question in relation to Hongkong, 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 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 ries already covered by various preferential tariff arran­ gements established by the Community, and 5 % of Article 1 the value of 1972 cif imports coming from other coun­ tries and from countries and territories already covered by such arrangements ; As from 7 March 1975, the levying of customs duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation ( EEC) No 3054/ 74 of 2 December 1974, 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 Hongkong : be within a maximum Community amount repre­ senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for which the maximum amount is to CCT heading Description of goods be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to No that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this reduced percentage will be 20 % ; 83.01 Locks and padlocks ( key, combination or electieally operated), and parts thereof, of Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that base metal ; frames incorporating locks, for the levying of customs duties may be re-established at handbags, trunks or the like , and part ot any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ such frames, of base metal ; keys for any of tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­ the foregoing articles of base metal ries once the relevant Community maximum amount has been reached ;

Whereas, in respect of locks and padlocks (key, combi­ nation or electically operated), and parts thereof, of Article 2 base metal ; frames incorporating locks, for handbags, trunks or the like, and part of such frames, of base metal ; keys for any of the foregoing articles of base This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of (') OJ No L 329, 9 . 12. 1974, p. 70 . the I:n ropca n (.Oniniiiiiitus.

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

Done at Brussels, 3 March 1975 .

For the Commission

The President

Francois-Xavier ORTOLI