31973R3316

8 . 12 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 339 / 17

REGULATION ( EEC) No 3316/ 73 OF THE COMMISSION of 6 December 1973 re-establishing Common Customs Tariff duties on reconstituted wood, being wood shavings, falling within heading No 44.18 , originating in Yugoslavia, 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 ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be COMMUNITIES , 222 000 units of account, and therefore the maximum amount 1 1 1 000 units of account ; whereas on 4 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European December 1973 the amounts of imports into the Economic Community ; Community of reconstituted wood, being wood shav­ Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No ings, falling within heading No 44.18 originating in 2762/72 (') of 19 December 1972 establishing prefer­ Yugoslavia a country covered by preferential tariff ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2) whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation thereof ; ( EEC) No 2762/72, which provides that maximum Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation amounts should not be exceeded , Common Customs provides that the Common Customs Tariff duties Tariff duties should be re-established in respect of the may, for each category of products, be suspended up products in question in relation to Yugoslavia , to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will usually be equal to the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : in question imported cif into the Community in 1968 and coming from countries and territories covered by Article 1 those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and territories already covered As from 1 1 December 1973 , Common Customs Tariff by various preferential tariff arrangements established duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation by the Community , and 5 % of the value of 1970 cif ( EEC) No 2762/72 of 19 December • 1972, shall be imports coming from other countries and from coun­ re-established in respect of the following products, tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ imported into the Community and originating in ments ; Yugoslavia : Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries or CCT territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should heading Description of goods No be within a maximum Community amount repre­ senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of 44.18 Reconstituted wood, being wood certain products for which the maximum amount is to shavings , wood chips, sawdust, wood be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to flour or other ligneous waste agglo­ merated with natural or artificial resins that Regulation ; or other organic binding substances , in Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that sheets , blocks or the like the Common Customs Tariff duties may be re-established at any time in respect of imports of the products in question originating in any of the said Article 2 countries or territories once the relevant Community maximum amount has been reached ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day Whereas , in respect of reconstituted wood , being following its publication in the Official Journal of wood shavings, falling within heading No 44.18 the the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 6 December 1973 . For the Commission The President François-Xavier ORTOLI

(') O J No L 296 , .W. 12 . 1972, p . 15 .