31976R0861

13 . 4 . 76 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 98 /5

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 861 /76 of 12 April 1976 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on melamine falling within subheading 29.35 ex Q, 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 melamine falling within COMMUNITIES, subheading 29.35 ex Q, the ceiling, calculated is indi­ cated above, should be 360 000 units of account, and Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European therefore the maximum amount 180 000 units of Economic Community, account ; whereas, on 7 April 1976, the amounts of Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No imports into the Community of melamine falling 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­ within subheading 29.35 ex Q, originating in South tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in Korea, a country covered by preferential tariff arrange­ developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) ments, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, thereof, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation No 3010/75 which provides that maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties should be provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ gory of products, be suspended up to a Community re-established in respect of the products in question in relation to South Korea, ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be 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 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 16 April 1976 the levying of customs duties, by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1972 cif suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) imports coming from other countries and from coun­ 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 South Korea : 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 29.35 Heterocyclic compounds ; nucleic acids : be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to ex Q : melamine that Regulation ; 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 relvant 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, 12 April 1976 . For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Member of the Commission

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