31976R0681

No L 81 /32 Official Journal of the European Communities 27. 3 . 76

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 681 /76

of 26 March 1976 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on locks and padlocks etc., of base metal falling within heading No 83.01 , originating 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 calculated as indicated above should be 2 231 000 COMMUNITIES, units of account, and therefore the maximum 446 200 units of account ; whereas on 24 March 1976 the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European amounts of imports into the Community of locks and Economic Community, padlocks etc. of base metal, falling within heading No Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 83.01 , originating in Hong Kong, a country covered 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­ by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 which thereof, provides that maximum amounts should not be Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in 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, equal to 1 1 5 % of the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : products in question, imported cif into the Commu­ nity in 1971 and coming from countries and territo­ Article 1 ries covered by those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and territories already As from 30 March 1976, the levying of customs covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­ duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation blished by the Community, and 5 % of the value of (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975, shall be 1972 cif imports coming from other countries and re-established in respect of the following products, from countries and territories already covered by such imported into the Community and originating in arrangements ; 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 83.01 Locks and padlocks (key, combination or be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to electrically operated), and parts thereof, of that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this base metal ; frames incorporating locks, for reduced percentage will be 20 % ; handbags, trunks or the like, and part of such frames, of base metal ; key for any of Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that the foregoing articles of base metal the levying of customs duties may be re-established at any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­ Article 2 ries once the relevant Community amount has been reached ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day Whereas, in respect of locks and padlocks etc. of base following its publication in the Official Journal of metal, falling within heading No 83.01 , the ceiling the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 26 March 1976 .

For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH

Member of the Commission

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