31976R0913

No L 105/24 Official Journal of the European Communities 22. 4. 76

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 913/76 of 21 April 1976 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on wood, planed, tongued, grooved, rebated, chamfered, etc., falling within heading No 44.13 , originating in Brazil, 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 heading No 44.13, the ceiling, calculated as indicated COMMUNITIES, above, should be 4 364 850 units of account, and there­ fore the maximum amount is 2 182 425 units of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, account ; whereas on 20 April 1976, the amounts of imports into the Community of wood, planed, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No tongued, grooved, rebated, chamfered, etc., falling 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­ within heading No 44.13, originating in Brazil, a tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, developing countries ( ! ), and in particular Article 4 (2) reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in thereof, mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75, Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation which provides that maximum amounts should not be provides that customs duties may, for each category of exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, respect of the products in question in relation to expressed in units of account, which will be equal to Brazil, 1 1 5 % of the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question imported cif into HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 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 25 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 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 44.13 Wood (including blocks, strips and friezes be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to for parquet or wood block flooring, not that Regulation ; assembled), planed, tongued, grooved, rebated, chamfered, V-jointed, centre Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that V-jointed, beaded, centre-beaded or the the levying of customs duties may be re-established at like, but not further manufactured any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ tion originating in any of the said countries or terri­ tories once the relevant Community amount has been Article 2 reached ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day Whereas, in respect of wood, planed, tongued, following its publication in the Official Journal of grooved, rebated, chamfered, etc., falling within the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 21 April 1976. For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Member of the Commission

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