COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1614/94 of 1 July 1994 re-etablishing the levying of the customs duties applicable to products falling within CN code 8509 originating in China, to which the preferential tariff arrangements of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3831/90 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3831/90 of 20 December 1990 (1) applying generalized tariff preferences for 1991 in respect of certain industrial products originating in developing countries, extended for 1994 by Regulation (EC) No 3668/93 of 20 December 1993 (2), and in particular Article 9 thereof,

Whereas, pursuant to Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 3831/90, customs duties on certain products originating in each of the countries of territories listed in Annex III are totally suspended from 1 January 1994 to 30 June 1994, and the products as such are, as a general rule, subject to statistical surveillance every three months on the reference base referred to in Article 8;

Whereas, as provided for in Article 8, where the increase of preferential imports of these products, originating in one or more beneficiary country, threatens to cause economic difficulties in a region of the Community, the levying of customs duties may be reintroduced, once the Commission has had an appropriate exchange of information with the Member States; whereas for this purpose the reference base to be considered is equal, as a general rule, to 6,615 % of the total importations into the Community, originating from third countries in 1988;

Whereas, in the case of the products of the combined nomenclature code and origin indicated in the table below, the reference base is fixed at the levels indicated in that table:

"" ID="1">8509> ID="2">China> ID="3">8 050 000">

Whereas that reference base was reached on 30 April 1994 by charges of imports into the Community of the products in question originating in China; 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 must be reintroduced for the products in question,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

As from 8 July 1994, the levying of customs duties, suspended from 1 January 1994 to 30 June 1994 in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3831/90 shall be reintroduced on imports into the Community of the products indicated in the table below:

"" ID="1">8509 00 > ID="2">Electro-mechanical domestic appliances, with self-contained electric motor:> ID="3">China"> ID="1">8509 10 > ID="2"> Vacuum cleaners:"> ID="1">8509 10 10> ID="2"> For a voltage of 110 volts or more"> ID="1">8509 10 90> ID="2"> For a voltage of less than 110 volts"> ID="1">8509 20 00> ID="2"> Floor polishers"> ID="1">8509 30 00> ID="2"> Kitchen waste disposers"> ID="1">8509 40 00> ID="2"> Food grinders and mixers; fruit or vegetable juice extractors"> ID="1">8509 80 00> ID="2"> Other appliances"> ID="1">8509 90 > ID="2"> Parts:"> ID="1">8509 90 10> ID="2"> Of vacuum cleaners or floor polishers"> ID="1">8509 90 90> ID="2"> Other">

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, 1 July 1994.

For the Commission

Christiane SCRIVENER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ No L 370, 31. 12. 1990, p. 1.

(2) OJ No L 338, 31. 12. 1993, p. 22.