31976R0173

28 . 1 . 76 No L 19 / 19 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 173 / 76 of 27 January 1976 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on glazed setts, flags and paving, hearth and wall tiles, falling within heading No 69.08 , originating in South Korea, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation ( EEC) No 3010/ 75 of 17 November 1975 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, in respect of glazed setts, flags and paving, COMMUNITIES, hearth and wall tiles the ceiling, calculated as indi­ cated above , should be 2 387 000 units of account, and Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European therefore the maximum 477 400 units of account ; Economic Community, whereas on 22 January 1976, the amounts of imports Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No into the Community of glazed setts, flags and paving, 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­ hearth and wall tiles, originating in South Korea, a tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in thereof, mind the objectives of Regulation ( EEC) No 3010/75 Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation which provides that maximum amounts should not be provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in gory of products, be suspended up to a Community respect of the products in question in relation to ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be South Korea, equal to 115% of the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question imported cif into the Community in 1971 and HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not including products Article 1 coming from countries and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established As from 31 January 1976 the levying of customs by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1972 cif duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation imports coming from other countries and from coun­ ( EEC) No 3010 / 75 of 17 November 1975, shall be tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ re-established in respect of the following products, ments ; imported into the Community and originating in Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts South Korea : for products originating in any one of the countries or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should CCT be within a maximum Community amount repre­ heading Description of goods senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of No certain products for which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to 69.08 Glazed setts, flags and paving, hearth and that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this wall tiles reduced percentage will be 20 % ; 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 amount has been following its publication in the Official Journal of reached ; the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 27 January 1976 . For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Member of the Commission

(!) OJ No L 310, 29 . 11 . 1975, p. 70 .