31976R2698

6 . 11 . 76 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 304/23

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2698 /76 of 5 November 1976 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on other sewing machines ; furniture specially designed for sewing machines, falling within subheading 84.41 A I b), originating in Yugoslavia to which the preferential tariff arrange­ ments set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN 1976, the amounts of imports into the Community of COMMUNITIES, other sewing machines ; furniture specially designed for sewing machines, falling within subheading 84.41 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European A I b), originating in Yugoslavia, a country covered by Economic Community, preferential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 which 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­ provides that maximum amounts should not be tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in ' developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) respect of the products in question in relation to thereof, Yugoslavia, Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ gory of products, be suspended up to a Community HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be equal to 115 % of the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question Article 1 imported cif into the Community in 1971 and coming from countries and territories covered by As from 9 November 1976, the levying of customs those arrangements, but not including products duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation coming from countries and territories already covered (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975, shall be by various preferential tariff arrangements established re-established in respect of the following products, by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1972 cif imported into the Community and originating in imports coming from other countries and from coun­ Yugoslavia : tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ ments ; CCT Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts heading Description of goods No for products originating in any one of the countries or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should 84.41 Sewing machines ; furniture specially be within a maximum Community amount repre­ designed for sewing machines ; sewing senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of machine needles : certain products for which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to A. Sewing machines ; furniture specially that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this designed for sewing machines : reduced percentage will be 30 % ; I. Sewing machines (lock-stitch only), with heads of a weight not Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that exceeding 1 6 kg without motor or the levying of customs duties may be re-established at 17 kg including the motor ; any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ sewing machine heads (lock­ tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­ stitch only), of a weight not exceeding 16 kg without motor or ries once the relevant Community amount has been 17 kg including the motor : reached ; b) Other Whereas, in respect of other sewing machines ; furni­ ture specially designed for sewing machines, falling within subheading 84.41 A I b), the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 2 186 000 units of Article 2 account, and therefore the maximum amount is 655 800 units of account : whereas on 4 November This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of (') OJ No L 310, 29 . 11 . 1975, p. 70 . the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 5 November 1976.

For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH

Member of the Commission