31977R1237

10 . 6 . 77 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 143 / 17

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1237 / 77 of 9 June 1977 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on equipment for parlour, table and funfair games, falling within heading No 97.04 , originating in Hong Kong to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021 / 76 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­ COMMUNITIES, ries — with the exception of those listed in Annex C of the same Regulation — once the relevant Commu­ nity amount has been reached ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas, in respect of equipment for parlour, table and funfair games, falling within heading No 97.04, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­ 7 107 000 units of account, and therefore the tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in maximum amount is 2 132 100 units of account ; developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) whereas on 2 June 1977, the amounts of imports into thereof, the Community of equipment for parlour, table and funfair games, falling within heading No 97.04, origi­ Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation nating in Hong Kong a country covered by preferen­ provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ tial tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of gory of products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be Regulation ( EEC) No 3021 /76 which provides that maximum amounts should not be exceeded , customs equal — with the exception of certain products the value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A of duties should be re-established in respect of the products in question in relation to Hong Kong, the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question imported cif into the Community in 1974 and coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not including products HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : corning from countries and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif imports coming from other , countries and from coun­ Article 1 tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ ments ; whereas, however the ceiling resulting from As from 13 June 1977, the levying of customs duties, the sum of this addition may in no case exceed suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) 172-5 % of that resulting from the substitution of the No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect of the year 1971 for the year 1974 in the first term of the following products, imported into the Community addition and of the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the and originating in Hong Kong : second term of the addition ;

CCT Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts heading Description of goods No for products originating in any one of the countries or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a maximum Community amount repre­ 97.04 Equipment for parlour, table and funfair senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of games for adults or children (including billiard tables and pintables and table­ certain products for which the maximum amount is to tennis requisites) be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this reduced percentage will be 30 % ;

Article 2 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 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of (') OJ No L 349, 20 . 12. 1976, p. 23 . 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, 9 June 1977 .

For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission