31976R2123
No L 237/44 Official Journal of the European Communities 28 . 8 . 76
COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2123/76 of 27 August 1976 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on equipment of parlour games, etc., falling within heading No 97.04, originating in Hong Kong to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, in respect of equipment for parlour games COMMUNITIES, etc., falling within heading No 97.04, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 4 738 000 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European units of account, and therefore the maximum Economic Community, 1 421 400 units of account ; whereas on 26 August Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1976, the amounts of imports into the Community of 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen equipment for parlour games, etc., falling within tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in heading No 97.04, originating in Hong Kong, a developing countries ( x), and in particular Article 4 (2) country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, thereof, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 provides that the customs duties may, for each cate which provides that maximum amounts should not be gory of products, be suspended up to a Community exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be respect of the products in question in relation to equal to 115 % of the sum arrived at by adding Hong Kong, together the value of the products in question imported cif into the Community in 1971 and HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not including products Article 1 coming from countries and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established As from 31 August 1976, the levying of customs by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1972 cif duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation imports coming from other countries and from coun (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975, shall be tries and territories already covered by such arrange re-established in respect of the following products, ments ; imported into the Community and originating in Hong Kong : 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 97.04 Equipment for parlour, table and funfair be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to games for adults or children (including that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this billiard tables and pintables and table reduced percentage will be 30 % ; tennis requisites) Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be re-established at Article 2 any time in respect of imports of the products in ques tion originating in any of the said countries or territo This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day ries once the relevant Community amount has been following its publication in the Official Journal of reached ; the European Communities.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .
Done at Brussels, 27 August 1976 . For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 310, 29 . 11 . 1975, p. 70 .