31976R0972

No L 112/ 18 Official Journal of the European Communities 29 . 4. 76

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 972/76 of 28 April 1976 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on other sheep and lambskin leather, falling within subheading 41.03 B II, originating in India 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 ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be COMMUNITIES, 1 895 000 units of account, and therefore the maximum amount is 947 500 units of account ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European whereas on 27 April 1976, the amounts of imports Economic Community, into the Community of other sheep and lambskin Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No leather, falling within subheading 41.03 B II, origi­ 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­ nating in India, a country covered by preferential tariff tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation thereof, (EEC) No 3010/75, which provides that maximum Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties provides that customs duties may, for each category of should be re-established in respect of the products in products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, question in relation to India, expressed in units of account, which will be equal to 115% 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 territo­ As from 2 May 1976, the levying of customs duties, ries already covered by various preferential tariff arran­ suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) gements established by the Community, and 5 % of No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975, shall be the value of 1972 cif imports coming from other coun­ re-established in respect of the following products, tries and from countries and territories already covered imported into the Community and originating in by such arrangements ; India : 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 41.03 Sheep and lambskin leather, except leather certain products for which the maximum amount is to falling within heading No 41.06, 41.07 or be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to 41.08 : that Regulation ; B. Other : Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that II . Other 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 other sheep and lambskin following its publication in the Official Journal of leather, falling within subheading 41.03 B II, the the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 28 April 1976. For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Member of the Commission

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