31973R1519

No L 152/ 24 Official Journal of the European Communities 8 . 6 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 1519/ 73 OF THE COMMISSION of 7 June 1973 re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on building board of wood pulp or of vegetable fibre , whether or not bonded with natural or artificial resins or with similar binders, falling within heading No 48.09, originating in Brazil to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, in respect of building board of wood pulp or COMMUNITIES, of vegetable fibre whether or not bonded with natural or artificial resins or with similar binders the ceiling, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European calculated as indicated above, should be 2 343 000 Economic Community ; units of account, and therefore the maximum amount Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1 171 500 units of account ; whereas on 20 May 1973 2762/72 ( !) of 19 December 1972 establishing prefer­ the amounts of imports into the Community of ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating building board of wood pulp or of vegetable fibre, in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2) whether or not bonded with natural or artificial resins thereof ; or with similar binders originating in Brazil, a country Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the may, for each category of products, be suspended up objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2762/72, which to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of provides that maximum amounts should not be account, which will usually be equal to the sum exceeded, Common Customs Tariff duties should be arrived at by adding together the value of the products re-established in respect of the products in question in question imported cif into the Community in 1968 in relation to Brazil : and coming from countries and territories covered by HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and territories already covered Article 1 by various preferential tariff arrangements established As from 11 June 1973, Common Customs Tariff by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1970 cif duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation imports coming from other countries and from coun­ (EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December 1972, shall be tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ re-established in respect of the following products, ments ; imported into the Community and originating in Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts Brazil : for products originating in any one of the countries or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should CCT heading No Description of goods be within a maximum Community amount repre­ senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for which the maximum amount is to 48.09 Building board of wood pulp or of vege­ be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to table fibre, whether or not bonded with natural or artificial resins or with similar that Regulation ; binders Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties may be ArtieIt 2 re-established at any time in respect of imports of the products in question originating in any of the said This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day countries or territories once the relevant Community following its publication in the Official Journal of maximum amount has been reached ; the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 7 June 1973. For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

(') OJ No L 296, 30 . 12 . 1972, p . 15.