31975R3120

No L 309/70 Official Journal of the European Communities 29 . 11 . 75

REGULATION ( EEC) No 3120/ 75 OF THE COMMISSION of 28 November 1975 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on woodscrews, falling within subheading 73.32 B ex II, originating in Hong Kong, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3054/74 of 2 December 1974 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, in respect of woodscrews, the ceiling, calcu­ COMMUNITIES , lated as indicated above, should be 2 603 000 units of account, and therefore the maximum amount Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 1 301 500 units of account ; whereas on 25 November Economic Community ; 1975 the amounts of imports into the Community of Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No woodscrews, originating in Hong Kong, a country 3054/74 (') of 2 December 1974 establishing preferen­ covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2) objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3054/74, which thereof ; provides that maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation provides that customs duties may, for each category of respect of the products in question in relation to products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, Hong Kong, 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 the Commu­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : nity in 1971 and coming from countries and territo­ ries covered by those arrangements, but not including Article 1 products coming from countries and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­ As from 2 December 1975, the levying of customs blished by the Community, and 5 % of the value of duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation 1972 cif imports coming from other countries and (EEC) No 3054/74 of 2 December 1974, shall be from countries and territories already covered by such re-established in respect of the following products, arrangements ; imported into the Community and originating in Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts Hong Kong : for products originating in any one of the countries or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should Cat­ be within a maximum Community amount repre­ heading Description of goods No senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to 73.32 B ex II Woodscrews that Regulation ; 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, 28 November 1975 . For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Member of the Commission

(•) OJ No L 329, 9 . 12. 1974, p. 70 .