31976R2305

24. 9. 76 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 260/ 15

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2305 / 76 of 23 September 1976 re-establishing the levying* of the customs duties on woodscrews falling within subheading 73.32 B ex II , originating in Hong Kong , 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 ries once the relevant Community amount has been COMMUNITIES, reached ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas, in respect of woodscrews, the ceiling, calcu­ Economic Community, lated as indicated above, should be 2 993 000 units of account, and therefore the maximum amount is Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1 496 500 units of account ; whereas on 20 September 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­ 1976 the amounts of imports into the Community of tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in woodscrews originating in Hong Kong, a country developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached thereof, that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation objectives of Regulation ( EEC) No 3010/75 which provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ provides that maximum amounts should not be gory of products, be suspended up to a Community exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be respect of the products in question in relation to equal to 115 % of the sum arrived at by adding Hong Kong, 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 Article I coming from countries and territories already covered As from 27 September 1976, the levying of customs by various preferential tariff arrangements established by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1972 cif duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation ( EEC) No 3010 / 75 of 17 November 1975, shall be imports coming from other countries and from coun­ re-established in respect of the following products, tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ ments ; imported into the Community and originating in Hong Kong : 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 73.32 B ex II Woodscrews be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to that Regulation ; « Article 2 Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be re-established at This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ following its publication in the Official Journal of tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­ the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 23 September 1976 . For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Member of the Commission

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