31975R3123

29 . 11 . 75 No L 309 / 73 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION ( EEC) No 3123/75 OF THE COMMISSION of 28 November 1975 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on certain appliances, apparatus, accessories and requisites for gymnastics or athletics , or for sports and outdoor games (other than articles falling within heading No 97.04), falling within subheadings 97.06 B and C, originating in India, 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 whereas, in respect of certain appliances, apparatus, COMMUNITIES, accessories and requisites for gymnastics or athletics, or for sports and outdoor games (other than articles falling within heading No 97.04), the ceiling, calcu­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European lated as indicated above, should be 1 1 054 000 units of Economic Community ; account, and therefore the maximum amount 3 316 200 units of account ; whereas on 25 November 1975 the amounts of imports into the Community of certain appliances, apparatus, accessories and requi­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No sites for gymnastics or athletics, or for sports and 3054/74 (') of 2 December 1974 establishing preferen­ outdoor games (other than articles falling within tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in heading No 97.04), originating in India, a country developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2) thereof ; covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3054/74, which provides that maximum amounts should not be Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in provides that customs duties may, for each category of respect of the products in question in relation to products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, India, 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 the Commu­ nity in 1971 and coming from countries and territo­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : ries covered by those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and territories already Article 1 covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­ blished by the Community, and 5 % of the value of As from 2 December 1975, the levying of customs 1972 cif imports coming from other countries and duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation from countries and territories already covered by such (EEC) No 3054/74 of 2 December 1974, shall be arrangements ; re-established in respect of the following products, imported into the Community and originating in India : Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries or CCT territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should heading Description of goods be within a maximum Community amount repre­ No senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for which the maximum amount is to 97.06 Appliances, apparatus, accessories and be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to requisites for gymnastics or athletics, or for that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this sports and outdoor games (other than arti­ reduced percentage will be 30 % ; cles falling within heading No 97.04) : B. Tennis rackets C. Other Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that 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 third day following its publication in the Official Journal of (') OJ No L 329 , 9 . 12. 1974, p. 70 . 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, 28 November 1975 . For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH Member of the Commission