31977R1272

15 . 6. 77 No L 147/ 23 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1272/77 of 13 June 1977 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on illuminating glassware, signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, other, falling within subheading 70.14 B, 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 ries — with the exception of those listed in Annex C COMMUNITIES, to 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 illuminating glassware, signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, other, falling within subheading 70.14 B, the ceiling, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No calculated as indicated above, should be 897 000 units 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­ of account, and therefore the maximum amount is tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in 269 100 units of account ; whereas on 6 June 1977, developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) the amounts of imports into the Community of illumi­ thereof, nating glassware, signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, other, falling within subheading Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation 70.14 B, originating in Hong Kong, a country covered provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that gory of products, be suspended up to a Community maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which equal — with the exception of certain products the provides that maximum amounts should not be value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by respect of the products in question in relation to adding together the value of the products in question Hong Kong, imported cif into the Community in 1974 and coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and territories already covered HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 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 the sum of this addition may in no case exceed As from 18 June 1977, the levying of customs duties, 172-5 % of that resulting from the substitution of the suspended in pursuance, of Council Regulation (EEC) year 1971 for the year 1974 in the first term of the No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect of the addition and of the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the following products, imported into the Community second term of the addition ; and originating in Hong Kong :

Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts CCT heading Description of goods for products originating in any one of the countries or No territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a maximum Community amount repre­ 70.14 senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of Illuminating glassware, signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, not optically certain products for which the maximum amount is to worked or of optical glass : be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to B. Other that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this reduced percentage will be 30 % ;

Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that Article 2 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 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, 13 June 1977.

For the Commission

Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission