31976R0281

No L 36 / 8 Official Journal of the European Communities 11 . 2 . 76

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 281 /76 of 10 February 1976 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on gloves, including mittens and mitts, protective, for all trades falling within subheading 42.03 B I, origi­ nating in Hong Kong , 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 gloves, including mittens and COMMUNITIES , mitts, protective, for all trades falling within subheading 42.03 B I, the ceiling, calculated as indi­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European cated above, should be 12 632 000 units of account, Economic Community, and therefore the maximum 2 526 400 units of Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No account ; whereas on 6 February 1976, the amounts of 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­ imports into the Community of gloves, including tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in mittens and mitts, protective, for all trades falling developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4(2) within subheading 42.03 B I, originating in Hong thereof, Kong, a country covered by preferential tariff arrange­ Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation ments , reached that maximum amount ; whereas, provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) gory of products, be suspended up to a Community No 3010/75 which provides that maximum amounts ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be should not be exceeded , customs duties should be equal to 115 % of the sum arrived at by adding re-established in respect of the products in question together the value of the products in question in relation to Hong Kong, 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 14 February 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 Hong Kong : Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries or CCT territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should heading Description of goods be within a maximum Community amount repre­ No senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for which the maximum amount is to 42.03 Articles of apparel and clothing accesso­ be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to ries, of leather or of composition leather : that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this B. Gloves, including mittens and mitts : reduced percentage will be 20 % . I. Protective, for all trades 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, 10 February 1976 . For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Member of the Commission

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