31976R1692

No L 190 / 22 14 . 7 . 76 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1692 /76 of 13 July 1976 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on thread of asbestos, falling within subheading 68.13 B I , 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 of account ; whereas on 6 July 1976, the amounts of COMMUNITIES , imports into the Community of thread of asbestos, falling within subheading 68.13 B I, originating in Yugoslavia, a country covered by preferential tariff Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European arrangements , reached that maximum amount ; Economic Community, whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75, which provides that maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­ should be re-established in respect of the products in tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in question in relation to Yugoslavia, developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) thereof,

Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : provides that customs duties may, for each category of products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be equal to 1 1 5 % of the sum arrived at by adding together the Article 1 value of the products in question imported cif into the Community in 1971 and coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not As from 17 July 1976, the levying of customs duties, including products coming from countries and territo­ suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) ries already covered by various preferential tariff arran­ No 3010 / 75 of 17 November 1975, shall be gements established by the Community, and 5 % of re-established in respect of the following products, the value of 1972 cif imports coming from other coun­ imported into the Community and originating in tries and from countries and territories already covered Yugoslavia : by such arrangements ;

Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts CCT for products originating in any one of the countries or heading Description of goods No territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a maximum Community amount repre­ senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of 68.13 Fabricated asbestos and articles thereof (for certain products for which the maximum amount is to example, asbestos board, thread and fabric ; be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to asbestos clothing, asbestos jointing), rein­ that Regulation . forced or not, other than goods falling within heading No 68.14 ; mixtures with a basis of asbestos and mixtures with a b sis Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that of asbestos and magnesium carbonate, and articles of such mixtures : the levying of customs duties may be re-established at any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ B. Articles of asbestos : tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­ I. Thread ries once the relevant Community amount has been reached ;

Whereas, in respect of thread of asbestos, falling Article 2 within subheading 68.13 B I, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above , should be 573 000 units of account, and therefore the maximum amount is 286 500 units This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of (>) OJ No L 310 , 29 . 11 . 1975, p. 70 . the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 13 July 1976.

For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Member of the Commission