31976R2502

No L 284/22 Official Journal of the European Communities 15. 10. 76

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2502/76 of 14 October 1976 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on household utensils of wood, falling within heading No 44.24, originating in the Philippines, 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 Whereas, in respect of household utensils of wood, the COMMUNITIES , ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 1 717 000 units of account, and therefore the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European maximum amount is 858 500 units of account ; Economic Community, whereas on 6 October 1976, the amounts of imports Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No into the Community of household utensils of wood, 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­ originating in the Philippines, a country covered by tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in preferential tariff arrangements, reached that developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) 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 the ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be Philippines, equal to 115 % of the sum arrived at by adding 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 by various preferential tariff arrangements established As from 18 October 1976, the levying of customs by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1972 cif duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation imports coming from other countries and from coun­ (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975, shall be tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ re-established in respect of the following products, ments ; imported into the Community and originating in the Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts Philippines, for products originating in any one of the countries or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should CCT be within a maximum Community amount repre­ heading Description of goods No senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to 44.24 - Household utensils of wood that Regulation ; Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be re-established at Article 2 any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­ This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day ries once the relevant Community amount has been following its publication in the Official Journal of reached ; 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 .