31975R1749
No L 178 / 16 9 . 7. 75 Official Journal of the European Communities
REGULATION ( EEC) No 1749/75 OF THE COMMISSION of 7 July 1975 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on equipment for parlour, table and funfair games for adults or children (including billiard tables and pintables and table-tennis requisites), falling within heading No 97.04, 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 billiard tables and pintables and table-tennis requi COMMUNITIES, sites), the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 4 1 20 000 units of account, and therefore the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European maximum amount 1 236 000 units of account ; Economic Community ; whereas on 12 June 1975, the amounts of imports Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No into the Community of equipment for parlour, table 3054/74 ( J) of 2 December 1974 establishing preferen and funfair games for adults or children (including tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in billiard tables and pintables and table-tennis requi developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2) sites), originating in Hong Kong, a country covered by thereof ; preferential tariff arrangements, reached that Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulion maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the provides that the customs duties may, for each cate objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3054/74 which gory of products, be suspended up to a Community provides that maximum amounts should not be ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in equal to the sum arrived at by adding together the respect of the products in question in relation to value of the products in question imported cif into Hong Kong, the Community in 1971 and coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : including products coming from countries and territo ries already covered by various preferential tariff arran Article 1 gements established by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1972 cif imports coming from other coun As from 12 July 1975, the levying of customs duties, tries and from countries and territories already covered suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) by such arrangements ; No 3054/74 of 2 December 1974, shall be 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 certain products for which the maximum amount is to No be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this 97.04 Equipment for parlour, table and funfair reduced percentage will be 30 % ; games for adults or children (including Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that billiard tables and pintables and table the levying of customs duties may be re-established at tennis requisites) 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 third day Whereas, in respect of equipment for parlour, table following its publication in the Official Journal of and funfair games for adults or children (including the European Communities.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .
Done at Brussels , 7 July 1975. For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(•) OJ No L 329, 9 . 12. 1974, p. 70 .