31975R1259

No L 126/ 14 Official Journal of the European Communities 17 . 5 . 75

REGULATION ( EEC) No 1259/ 75 OF THE COMMISSION of 14 May 1975 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on illuminating glassware , signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, falling within subheading 70.14 B, originating in Hong Kong , to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation ( EEC) No 3054/ 74 of 2 December 1974 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN falling within subheading ^j).14 B, the ceiling, calcu­ COMMUNITIES , lated as indicated above , should be 520 000 units of account, and therefore the maximum amount 156 000 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European units of account ; whereas on 5 May 1975 , the Economic Community ; amounts of imports into the Community of illumi­ Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No nating glassware, signalling glassware and optical 3054/74 (') of 2 December 1974 establishing preferen­ elements of glass, falling within subheading 70.14 B, tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in originating in Hong Kong, a country covered by pref­ developing countries, and in particular Article 4 ( 2) erential tariff arrangements , reached that maximum thereof ; amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation Regulation (EEC) No 3054/74 which provides that provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ maximum amounts should not be exceeded , customs gory of products, be suspended up to a Community duties should be re-established in respect of the ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be products in question in relation to Hong Kong, 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 Article 1 ries already covered by various preferential tariff arran­ gements established by the Community, and 5 % of As from 19 May 1975 , the levying of customs duties , the value of 1972 cif imports coming from other coun­ suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation ( EEC) tries and from countries and territories already covered No 3054/ 74 of 2 December 1974, shall be 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 Hong Kong : 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 70.14 that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this Illuminating glassware , signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, neither opti­ reduced percentage will be 30 % ; cally worked nor of optical glass : Whereas Article 2 ( 2) of that Regulation provides that B. Other the levying of customs duties may be re-established at any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­ Article 2 ries once the relevant Community maximum amount has been reached ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the second Whereas, in respect of illuminating glassware, day following its publication in the Official Journal signalling glassware and optical elements of glass , of the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels , 14 May 1975 . For the Commission The President François-Xavier ORTOLI

(') OJ No L 329 , 9 . 12 . 1974, p. 70 .