31976R1171

No L 131 / 6 Official Journal of the European Communities 20 . 5 . 76

COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 1171 / 76 of 17 May 1976 amending Regulation ( EEC) No 2886/75 opening, allocating and providing for the administration of a Community tariff quota for newsprint, falling within subheading 48.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff ( 1976), and extending this quota temporarily to include certain other types of paper

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, pending a decision on the more general COMMUNITIES , problem of retaining the criterion governing water­ marks in the definition of newsprint or its possible Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European replacement by another control system , the time limit Economic Community, and in particular Articles 28 for the abovementioned authorization should be and 113 thereof, extended to 31 December 1976 , Having regard to the proposal from the Commission , Whereas , in its Regulation ( EEC) No 2886/75 (•), the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Council opened and allocated among Member States a duty-free Community tariff quota of 2 250 000 metric Article 1 tons in respect of newsprint falling within subheading 48.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff, and autho­ In Article 1 (2) of Regulation ( EEC) No 2886/75, for rized the Member States to charge against this tariff 'until 30 June 1976,' read 'until 31 December 1976,'. quota, until 30 June 1976 , types of paper complying with the definition of newsprint contained in the addi­ Article 2 tional note to chapter 48 , except as regards the criteria governing watermarks ; This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1976 .

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

Done at Brussels , 17 May 1976 . For the Council The President R. VOUEL

(') OJ No L 292, 12. 11 . 1975, p. 30 .