31976R1176

No L 131 / 16 Official Journal of the European Communities 20 . 5 . 76

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1176/ 76 of 19 May 1976 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on electric accumulators , leadacid accumulators , falling within subheading 85.04 A , originating in Yugoslavia, 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 electric accumulators, lead-acid COMMUNITIES , accumulators, falling within subheading 85.04 A, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 1 548 000 units of account, and therefore the Economic Community, maximum amount is 309 600 units of account ; Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No whereas on 17 May 1976, the amounts of imports into 3010 /75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­ the Community of electric accumulators, lead-acid tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in accumulators, falling within subheading 85.04 A, origi­ developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) nating in Yugoslavia, a country covered by preferential thereof, tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ (EEC) No 3010/75 which provides that maximum gory of products, be suspended up to a Community amounts should not be exceeded , customs duties ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be should be re-established in respect of the products in equal to 115 % of the sum arrived at by adding question in relation to Yugoslavia, together the value of the products in question imported cif into the Community in 1971 and HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and territories already covered Article 1 by various preferential tariff arrangements established As from 23 May 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 Whereas , having regard to that ceiling, the amounts Yugoslavia : for products originating in any one of the countries or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should CCT be within a maximum Community amount repre­ heading Description of goods No senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to 85.04 Electric accumulators : that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this A. Lead-acid accumulators reduced percentage will be 20 % ; 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 relevant 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 , 19 May 1976 . For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Member of the Commission

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