Customs Duties (ECSC) (No. 2) (Amendment) Order 1985
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2020/1985 |
| Year | 1985 |
1985 No. 2020
CUSTOMS AND EXCISE
The Customs Duties (ECSC) (No. 2) (Amendment) Order 198519thDecember 1985
20thDecember 1985
1stJanuary 1986
The Treasury by virtue of the powers conferred on them by section 5(1) and (3) of, and paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 to, the European Communities Act 1972(a) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, on the recommendation of the Secretary of State, hereby make the following Order:—
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Customs Duties (ECSC) (No. 2) (Amendment) Order 1985 and shall come into operation on 1st January 1986.
2. The Customs Duties (ECSC) (No. 2) Order 1985(b) shall be amended as follows:—
(a) in Article 2, the reference to the CCT Schedule shall be a reference to the CCT Schedule annexed to Council Regulation (EEC) No. 950/68(c) as last amended by Council Regulation (EEC) No. 3331/85(d);
(b) in Article 4(2), the words "or Spain" shall be inserted after the words "member State";
(c) after Article 4(2) there shall be added the following paragraphs:
"(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1) above neither Spain nor Portugal shall be treated as a member State before 1st March 1986.
"(4) The duties charged under paragraph (1) above in respect of goods originating in Spain shall only apply from 1st January until 28th February 1986."; and
(d) From 1st March 1986—
(i) "Portugal" shall be deleted from Part I of Schedule 1; and
(ii) the entries relating to Portugal shall be deleted from Schedule 2.
Donald Thompson, Tim Sainsbury, Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.
19th December 1985.
(a) 1972 c.68; section 1(2) was amended by the European Communities (Spanish and Portuguese Accession) Act 1985 (c.75) and section 5(3) and Schedule 2 by the Customs and Excise Duties (General Reliefs) Act 1979 (c.3), Schedule 2, paragraph 3.
(b) S.I. 1985/1630.
(c) OJ No. L172, 22.7.1968, p.l, OJ/SE 1968 (1) p.275.
(d) OJ No. L331, 9.12.1985, p.l.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This Note is not part of the Order.)
This Order amends the Customs Duties (ECSC) (No. 2) Order 1985 (the principal Order). It updates the reference to the CCT Schedule, by reference to which rates of customs duty are charged under the unified ECSC tariff on certain ECSC products imported into the United Kingdom. The tariff has been amended with effect from 1st January 1986 to take account of the reductions in customs duties to be made by member States of the ECSC under the Geneva (1979) Protocol to the General Agreement on...
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