31974R2770

1 . 11 . 74 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 294 / 65

REGULATION (EEC) No 2770/74 OF THE COMMISSION of 30 October 1974 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on building board, falling within heading No 48.09, originating in Brazil, 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 Whereas, in respect of building board, falling within COMMUNITIES, heading No 48.09, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 7 745 000 units of account, and there­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European fore the maximum amount 3 872 500 units of Economic Community ; account, whereas on 24 October 1974, the amounts of Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No imports into the Community of building board falling 3501 /73 ( !) of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­ within heading No 48.09, originating in Brazil, a ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2) reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in thereof ; mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3501 /73, Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation which provides that maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ gory of products, be suspended up to a Community respect of the products in question in relation to Brazil , ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be equal to the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question imported cif into HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : the Community in 1971 and coming from countries Article 1 and territories covered by those arrangements but not including products coming from countries and territo­ As from 4 November 1974, the levying of customs ries already covered by various preferential tariff arran­ duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation gements established by the Community, and 5 % of (EEC) No 3501 /73 of 18 December 1973, shall be the value of 1971 cif imports coming from other coun­ re-established in respect of the following products, tries and from countries and territories already covered imported into the Community and originating in by such arrangements ; Brazil : Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries or CCT heading Description of goods territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should No be within a maximum Community amount repre­ senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of 48.09 Building board of wood pulp or of vege­ certain products for which the maximum amount is to table fibre, whether or not bonded with be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to natural or artificial resins or with similar that Regulation ; binders 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, 30 October 1974 . For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

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