31974R1639

No L 173 /68 Official Journal of the European Communities 28 . 6 . 74

REGULATION (EEC) No 1639/74 OF THE COMMISSION of 27 June 1974 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on reconstituted wood, etc., falling within heading No 44.18 , originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferen­ tial tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3501 /73 of 18 December 1973 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, in respect of reconstituted wood, etc., the COMMUNITIES, ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 2 098 000 units of .account, and therefore the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European maximum amount 1 049 000 units of account ; Economic Community ; whereas on 25 June 1974, the amounts of imports Having regard to Council Regulation . (EEC) No into the Community of reconstituted wood, etc., origi­ 3501 /73 (!) of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­ nating in Yugoslavia, a country covered by preferential ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating tariff 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 3501 /73, which provides that maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ should be re-established in respect of the products in gory of products, be suspended up to a Community question in relation to Yugoslavia, ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be equal to the sum arrived at by adding together the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : value of the products in question imported cif into Article 1 the Community in 1971 and coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not As from 1 July 1974, the levying of customs duties, including products coming from countries and territo­ suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) ries already covered by various preferential tariff No 3501 /73 of 18 December 1973 , shall be arrangements established by the Community, and re-established in respect of the following products, 5% of the value of 1971 cif imports coming from imported into the Community and originating in other countries and from countries and territories Yugoslavia : already covered by such arrangements ; Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts CCT heading Description of goods for products originating in any one of the countries or No territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a maximum Community amount repre­ 44.18 Reconstituted wood, being wood shavings, senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of wood chips, sawdust, wood flour or other certain products for which the maximum amount is to " ligneous waste agglomerated with natural or be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to artificial resins or other organic binding that Regulation ; substances, in sheets, blocks or the like Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be re-established at Article 2 any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­ This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day ries once the relevant Community maximum amount following its publication in the Official Journal of has been reached ; the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 27 June 1974. For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

(•) OJ No L 358 , 28 . 12. 1973 , p. 15.