31976R2501

15 . 10 . 76 No L 284/21 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2501/ 76 of 14 October 1976 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on wood planed, tongued, grooved, rebated, chamfered, etc., falling within heading No 44.13 , originating in Malaysia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regu­ lation ( EEC) No 3010/ 75 of 17 November 1975 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be COMMUNITIES , 4 364 850 units of account, and therefore the maximum amount is 2 182 425 units of account ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, whereas on 6 October 1976, the amounts of imports into the Community of wood planed, tongued, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No grooved, rebated, chamfered, etc ., falling within 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­ heading 44.13 originating in Malaysia, a country tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached developing countries ( ! ), and in particular Article 4 (2) that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the thereof, objectives of Regulation ( EEC) No 3010/75 which Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation provides that maximum amounts should not be provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in gory of products, be suspended up to a Community respect of the products in question in relation to ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be Malaysia , equal to 115 % of the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : imported cif into the Community in 1971 and coming from countries and territories covered by Article 1 those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and territories already covered As from 18 October 1976, the levying of customs by various preferential tariff arrangements established duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1972 cif ( 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 imported into the Community and originating in ments ; Malaysia : Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries or CCT 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 44.13 Wood (including blocks, strips and friezes certain products for which the maximum amount is to for parquet or wood block flooring, not be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to assembled), planed, tongued , grooved, that Regulation ; rebated , chamfered , V-jointed , centre Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that V-jointed, beaded , centre-beaded or the like , but not further manufactured the levying of customs duties may be re-established at 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 wood planed, tongued, grooved, following its publication in the Official Journal of rebated, chamfered , etc ., falling within heading 44.13 , the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels , 14 October 1976 . For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Member of the Commission

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