31976R2209

No L 248 / 8 Official Journal of the European Communities 10 . 9 . 76

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2209/ 76 of 9 September 1976 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on other wood sawn lengthwise, sliced or peeled but not further prepared, etc., falling within subheading 44.14 B, originating in Brazil , 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 within subheading 44.14 B, the ceiling, calculated as COMMUNITIES , indicated above , should be 21 519 000 units of account, and therefore the maximum amount is Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 8 607 600 units of account ; whereas on 8 September Economic Community, 1976, the amounts of imports into the Community of Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No other wood sawn lengthwise, sliced or peeled but not 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­ further prepared, falling within subheading 44.14 B, tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in originating in Brazil, a country covered by preferential developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; thereof, whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 which provides that maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties provides that customs duties may, for each category of products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, should be re-established in respect of the products in expressed in units of account, which will be equal to question in relation to Brazil , 115 % of the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question imported cif into HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : the Community in 1971 and coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not Article 1 including products coming from countries and territo­ As from 13 September 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 ; Brazil : Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries or CCT territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should heading Description of goods be within a maximum Community amount repre­ No senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for which the maximum amount is to 44.14 Wood sawn lengthwise , sliced or peeled be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to but not further prepared , of a thickness not that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this exceeding 5 mm ; veneer sheets and sheets reduced percentage will be 40 % ; for plywood , of a thickness not exceeding 5 mm : Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be re-established at B. Other 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 other wood sawn lengthwise, following its publication in the Official Journal of sliced or peeled but not further prepared, etc ., falling the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 9 September 1976 .

For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 310, 29 . il . 1975 , p. 70 .