31974R2769

No L 294/64 Official Journal of the European Communities 1 . 11 . 74

REGULATION (EEC) No 2769/74 OF THE COMMISSION of 30 October 1974 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on builders' carpentry and joinery, falling within heading No 44.23, originating in developing countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3501 /73 of 18 December 1973 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN imports into the Community of the products in ques­ COMMUNITIES, tion, originating in countries and territories covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Economic Community ; Regulation (EEC) No 3501 /73 which provides that the Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No ceiling should not be exceeded, customs duties should 3501 /73 (*) of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­ be re-established in respect of the products in ques­ tion , ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2) thereof ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that the customs duties may, for each category of products, Article 1 be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will usually be equal to the As from 4 November 1974, customs duties, suspended sum arrived at by adding together the value of the in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No products in question imported cif into the Commu­ 3501 /73 of 18 December 1973 , shall be re-established nity in 1971 and coming from countries and territo­ in respect of the following products, imported into the ries covered by those arrangements, but not including Community : products coming from countries and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­ CCT blished by the Community, and 5 % of the value of heading Description of goods No 1971 cif imports coming from other countries and from countries and territories already covered by such 44.23 arrangements ; Builders' carpentry and joinery (including prefabricated and sectional buildings and Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation provides that assembled parquet flooring panels) the customs duties may be re-established at any time once the Community ceiling has been reached ; Article 2 Whereas, in respect of builders' carpentry and joinery, falling within heading No 44.23, the ceiling, calcu­ This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day lated as indicated above, should be 5 319 000 units of following its publication in the Official Journal of account ; whereas on 21 October 1974 the amounts of the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 30 October 1974 . For the Commission

The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

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