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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1376/84

of 17 May 1984

re-establishing the levying of customs duties on certain artificial flowers, foliage or fruit and parts thereof, falling within heading No 67.02 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 Article 1 of that Regulation, duties on the products listed in Annex B originating in each of the countries or territories listed in Annex C shall be totally suspended and the products as such shall, as a general rule, be subject to statistical surveillance every three months on the reference base referred to in Article 12; whereas, as provided for in Article 12, where the increase of preferential imports of these products, originating in one or more beneficiary countries, causes, or threatens to cause, economic difficulties in the Community or in a region of the Community, the levying of customs duties may be re-established once the Commission has had an appropriate exchange of information with the Member States; whereas for this purpose the reference base to be considered shall be, as a general rule, 150 % of the highest maximum amount valid for 1980;

Whereas, in the case of certain artificial flowers, foliage or fruit and parts thereof falling within heading No 67.02, the reference base is fixed at 3 526 200 ECU; whereas, on 16 May 1984, imports of these products into the Community, originating in Hong Kong, reached the reference base in question after being charged thereagainst; whereas the exchange of information organized by the Commission has demonstrated that continuance of the preference threatens to cause economic difficulties in a region of the Community; whereas, therefore, customs duties in respect of the products in question must be re-established against Hong Kong,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

As from 21 May 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:

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heading

No

// Description

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(NIMEXE codes

67.02-11, 19, 20) // Artificial flowers, foliage or fruit and parts thereof; articles made of artificial flowers, foliage or fruit:

A. Artificial flowers, foliage or fruit and parts thereof:

I. Parts

II. Other

B. Articles made of artificial flowers, foliage or fruit // // 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, 17 May 1984.

For the Commission

Karl-Heinz NARJES

Member of the Commission

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