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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1188/85
of 7 May 1985
re-establishing the levying of customs duties on gramophone records and other sound or similar recordings falling within heading No 92.12, originating in Hong Kong, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3562/84 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN
COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3562/84 of 18 December 1984 applying generalized tariff preferences for 1985 in respect of certain industrial products originating in developing countries (1), and in particular Article 13 thereof,
Whereas, pursuant to Articles 1 and 10 of that Regulation, suspension of customs duties shall be accorded to each of the countries or territories listed in Annex III other than those listed in column 4 of Annex I, within the framework of the preferential tariff ceiling fixed in column 9 of Annex I; whereas, as provided for in Article 11 of that Regulation, as soon as the individual ceilings in question are reached at Community level, the levying of customs duties on imports of the products in question originating in each of the countries and territories concerned may at any time be re-established;
Whereas, in the case of gramophone records and other sound or similar recordings falling within heading No 92.12, the individual ceiling was fixed at 3 468 600 ECU; whereas, on 3 May 1985, imports of these products into the Community originating in Hong Kong reached the ceiling in question after being charged thereagainst;
Whereas, it is appropriate to re-establish the levying of customs duties in respect of the products in question against Hong Kong,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
As from 11 May 1985, the levying of customs duties, suspended pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3562/84 shall be re-established on imports into the Community of the following products originating in Hong Kong:
1.2 // // // CCT heading No // Description // // // 92.12 (NIMEXE code 92.12-all numbers) // Gramophone records and other sound or similar recordings; matrices for the production of records, prepared record blanks, film for mechanical sound recording, prepared tapes, wires, strips and like articles of a kind commonly used for sound or similar recording // //
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 7 May 1985.