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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 998/84

of 10 April 1984

re-establishing the levying of customs duties on certain paint and similar brushes, falling within subheading 96.01 B ex III and originating in Hong Kong, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3569/83 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN

COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3569/83 of 16 December 1983 applying generalized tariff preferences for 1984 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 C, other than those listed in column 4 of Annex A, within the framework of the preferential tariff ceiling fixed in column 9 of Annex A; 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 certain paint and similar brushes falling within subheading 96.01 B ex III, the individual ceiling was fixed at 840 000 ECU; whereas, on 6 April 1984, 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 15 April 1984, the levying of customs duties, suspended pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3569/83 shall be re-established on imports into the Community of the following products originating in Hong Kong:

1.2 // // // CCT heading No // Description // // // 96.01 B ex III (NIMEXE codes 96.01-41, 49, 91, 92, 93, 95, 96) // Paint, distemper, varnish and similar brushes; brushes for cosmetics and personal toiletry; road sweeping brushes; household type brooms and brushes, including shoe brushes and clothes brushes; brushes for grooming animals // //

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, 10 April 1984.

For the Commission

Karl-Heinz NARJES

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ No L 362, 24. 12. 1983, p. 1.