31975R3329

No L 329 /6 23 . 12 . 75 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION ( EEC) No 3329/ 75 OF THE COUNCIL of 18 December 1975 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1599/75 on the arrangements applicable to agri­ cultural products and certain goods resulting from the processing of agricul­ tural products originating in the African , Caribbean and Pacific States or in the overseas countries and territories

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN between the Community as originally constituted and COMMUNITIES, the new Member States ; whereas appropriate provi­ sion should be made to enable measures to be taken in cases where there is a danger of deflection of trade, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Articles 43 and 1 1 3 thereof ;

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;

Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parlia­ Article 1 ment ('); Article 19 of Regulation (EEC) No 1599/75 is Whereas Article 19 of Council Regulation (EEC) No amended to read as follows : 1599/75 (2) of 24 June 1975 on the arrangements applicable to agricultural products and certain goods 'The products referred to in Regulations (EEC) No resulting from the processing of agricultural products 234/68 , (EEC) No 827/68 , (EEC) No 1308 /70, originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific (EEC) No 1696/71 , (EEC) No 2358/71 and (EEC) States or in the overseas countries and territories, lays No 1067/74 shall be imported free of customs duties.' down that the products referred to in Regulation (EEC) No 234/68 are to be imported free of customs duties, with the exception of products falling within heading No 06.03 or 06.04 of the Common Customs Article 2 Tariff ; Article 22 of Regulation (EEC) No 1599/75 is amended to read as follows : Whereas the exemption of those products from customs duties was deferred until it was possible to settle the problems relating to the unification of the 'The reductions provided for by this Regulation import arrangements applied by each Member State shall be calculated by reference to : with regard to third countries in respect of live trees and other plants ; bulbs, roots and the like ; cut — the variable components of levies where the flowers and ornamental foliage ; levies contain such components, — the levies in other cases, Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 3328 /75 (3) has esta­ blished common import arrangements ; whereas, applicable to imports from third countries into the consequently, products falling within heading No Community as originally constituted . 06.03 or 06.04 and originating in the African, Carib­ bean and Pacific States or the overseas countries and However, during the period of application of acces­ territories should be exempted from customs duties ; sion compensatory amounts in trade between the Community as originally constituted and the new Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1599/75 lays down, in Member States, measures to prevent deflections of respect of the products subject to levies or variable trade shall be take in accordance with the proce­ components, total or partial exemption from such dure referred to in Article 23, if this proves neces­ charges ; whereas deflections of trade should be sary.' prevented during the period of application of acces­ sion compensatory amounts in trade in those products Article 3 (') Opinion delivered on 15. 12. 1975 (not yet published in the Official Journal). (2) OJ No L 166, 28 . 6. 1975, p. 67. This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January (3) See page 4 of this Official Journal. 1976 .

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

Done at Brussels, 18 December 1975.

For the Council The President

M. TOROS