31976R2408

5 . 10 . 76 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 272/ 5

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2408 / 76 of 4 October 1976 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on zinc oxide and zinc peroxide , falling within heading No 28.19, 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 ries once the relevant Community amount has been COMMUNITIES , reached ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas, in respect of zinc oxide and zinc peroxide Economic Community, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above , should be 362 000 units of account, and therefore the maximum Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No amount is 181 000 units of account ; whereas on 27 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­ September 1976, the amounts of imports into the tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in Community of zinc oxide and zinc peroxide, origi­ developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 ( 2) nating in Yugoslavia, a country covered by preferential thereof, tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ ( EEC) No 3010/75 which provides that maximum gory of products , be suspended up to a Community amounts should not be exceeded , customs duties ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be should be re-established in respect of the products in equal to 115% of the sum arrived at by adding question in relation to Yugoslavia, 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 1 coming from countries and territories already covered As from 8 October 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 Yugoslavia : 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 28.19 Zinc oxide and zinc peroxide 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 , 4 October 1976 . For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 310 , 29 . 11 . 1 975 , p. 70 .