31976R0543

12 . 3 . 76 No L 64/ 15 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 543/76 of 11 March 1976 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on other goat and kidskin leather falling within subheading 41.04 B II , originating in India, to which the preferen­ tial 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 other goat and kidskin leather, COMMUNITIES , falling within subheading 41.04 B II the ceiling, calcu­ lated as indicated above, should be 2 928 000 units of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European account, and therefore the maximum 1 171 200 units Economic Community, of account ; whereas on 3 March 1976 the amounts of Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No imports into the Community of other goat and 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­ kidskin leather falling within subheading 41.04 B II, tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in originating in India, a country covered by preferential developing countries ( ! ), and in particular Article 4 (2) tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; thereof, whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 which provides that maximum provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties gory of products, be suspended up to a Community should be re-established in respect of the products in ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be question in relation to India, equal to 115% of the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : imported cif into the Community in 1971 and Article 1 coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not including products As from 15 March 1976 the levying of customs duties, coming from countries and territories already covered suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) by various preferential tariff arrangements established No 3010 /75 of 17 November 1975, shall be by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1972 cif re-established in respect of the following products, imports coming from other countries and from coun­ imported into the Community and originating in tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ India : ments ; Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts CCT for products originating in any one of the countries or heading Description of goods No territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a maximum Community amount repre­ senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of 41.04 Goat and kidskin leather, except leather certain products for which the maximum amount is to falling within heading No 41.06, 41.07 or 41.08 : be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this B. Other : reduced percentage will be 40 % ; II . Other 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, 11 March 1976 . For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Member of the Commission

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