31976R0768

3 . 4 . 76 No L 90/5 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 768/76 of 2 April 1976 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on broom and brush bodies and handles of wood, falling within subheading 44.25 Ex B, originating in Brazil to which the preferential tarifff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN B, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be COMMUNITIES, 776 000 units of account, and therefore the maximum 388 000 units of account ; whereas on 29 March 1976 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European the amounts of imports into the Community of Economic Community, broom and brush bodies and handles of wood, falling Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No within subheading 44.25 ex B, originating in Brazil, a 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­ country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in developing countries (*), and in particular Article 4 (2) mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75, thereof, which 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, Brazil, expressed in units of account, which will be equal to 1 5 % of the sum arrived at by adding together the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : value of the products in question imported cif into the Community in 1971 and coming from countries Article 1 and territories covered by those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and terri­ As from 6 April 1976, the levying of customs duties, tories already covered by various preferential tariff suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) arrangements established by the Community, and No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975, shall be 5 % of the value of 1972 cif imports coming from re-established in respect of the following products, other countries and from countries and territories imported into the Community and originating in already covered by such arrangements ; Brazil : 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 No be within a maximum Community amount repre­ senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for which the maximum amount is to 44.25 Wooden tools, tool bodies, tool handles, be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to broom and brush bodies and handles ; boot and shoe lasts and trees of wood : that Regulation ; Ex B. Other ; broom and brush bodies Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that and handles of wood 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 broom and brush bodies and following its publication in the Official Journal of handles of wood, falling within subheading 44.25 ex the European Communties.

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

Done at Brussels, 2 April 1976. For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Member of the Commission

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