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COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1970/76 of 6 August 1976 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on citric acid, falling within subheading 29.16 A IV a), originating in Mexico, 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 and therefore the maximum amount is 100 800 units COMMUNITIES , of account ; whereas on 28 July 1976, the amounts of imports into the Community of citric acid, falling within subheading 29.16 A IV a), originating in Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Mexico, a country covered by preferential tariff arran­ Economic Community, gements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No No 3010/75, which provides that maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties should be re­ 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­ tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in established in respect of the products in question in developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) relation to Mexico, thereof,

Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation provides that customs duties may, for each category of HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed in Units of account, which will be equal to 115% of the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question imported cif into Article 1 the Community in 1971 and coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and territo­ As from 10 August 1976, the levying of customs ries already covered by various preferential tariff arran­ duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation gements established by the Community, and 5 % of (EEC) 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 ; Mexico :

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 29.16 Carboxylic acid with alcohol, phenol, senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of aldehyde or ketone function and other certain products for which the maximum amount is to single or complex oxygen-function car­ be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to boxylic acids and their anhydrides, that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this halides, peroxides and peracids, and their reduced percentage will be 30 % ; halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives : Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that A. Carboxylic acids with alcohol function : IV. Citric acid and its salts and esters : the levying of customs duties may be re-established at any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ a) Citric acid tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­ ries once the relevant Community amount has been reached ;

Article 2 Whereas in respect of citric acid, falling within subheading 29.16 A IV a), the ceiling, calculated as indicated above should be 336 000 units of account, 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, 6 August 1976. For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH Member of the Commission