31976R1839

29 . 7. 76 No L 203/35 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1839/76 of 28 July 1976 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on electronic calculating machines, falling within subheading 84.52 A, originating in Singapore, to which the prefer­ ential 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, 12 132 500 units of account and therefore the maximum amount is 6 066 250 units of account ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European whereas on 19 July 1976, the amounts of imports into Economic Community, the Community of electronic calculating machines, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No falling within subheading 84.52 A, originating in 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­ Singapore, a country covered by preferential tariff tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; developing countries (1), 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 Singapore, expressed in units of account, which will be equal to 1 1 5 % 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 As from 1 August 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 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 Singapore : 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 territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should No be within a maximum Community amount repre­ senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of 84.52 Calculating machines ; accounting certain products for which the maximum amount is to machines, cash registers, postage-franking be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to machines, ticket-issuing machines and that Regulation ; similar machines, incorporating a calcu­ lating device : Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be re-established at A. Electronic calculating machines 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 electronic calculating following its publication in the Official Journal of machines, falling within subheading 84.52 A, the the European Communities.

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

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

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