31977R0441

No L 58 / 12 Official Journal of the European Communities 3 . 3 . 77

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 441 / 77

of 2 March 1977

amending for the third time Regulation (EEC) No 851 /76 fixing a countervailing charge on imports into Belgium , Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands of ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin produced in France

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : COMMUNITIES , Article 1 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community , and in particular Article 46 The following paragraph 3 is hereby added to Article thereof, 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 851 /76 : Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 851 /76 of ' 3 . The competent French authorities shall take 9 April 1976 fixing a countervailing charge on the necessary measures to control the manufacture imports into Belgium , Germany, Luxembourg and the and dispatch of ethyl alcohol obtained from Netherlands of ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin cereals and shall inform the Commission and produced in France ('), as last amended by Regula­ other Member States thereof, the authorities shall tion ( EEC) No 1 987/ 76 ( 2 ), introduced a countervailing in particular ensure that the words " alcool charge which is applied when the alcohol is entered ethylique obtenu a partir de cereales" (ethyl for home use in the four importing countries alcohol obtained from cereals) together with the concerned, unless France applies the charge at the tariff subheading ex 22.08 B or ex 22.09 A II, as time of export ; whereas the purpose of the Regulation appropriate, are entered in the space "description is to ease the difficulties resulting from the aid of goods" of the document which certifies the granted by France for exports of alcohol ; Community origin of the product and that these Whereas under Article 5 ( 2) of Regulation ( EEC) No particulars are authenticated by the stamp of the 851 /76 the Commission keeps a constant watch over French customs office issuing the said document. the development of trade in the products in question and adjusts the rate of the countervailing charge as The reduced countervailing charge on ethyl necessary in the light of the factors taken into consid­ alcohol obtained from cereals shall be-appliedy-in the Member State where it is entered for home use eration for the fixing thereof ; referred to in paragraph 1 , only on presentation of Whereas, since Regulation ( EEC) No 851 /76 was last the document referred to in the previous subpara­ amended , monetary events have made it necessary to graph bearing the abovementioned endorsements.' adjust the rate of the countervailing charge ;

Whereas alcohol produced from cereals in France is Article 2 sold for export at a higher price than that of other exported alcohol ; whereas in the circumstances a The Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 851 /76 is hereby reduced countervailing charge should be applied to replaced by the Annex hereto . this product ; whereas to ensure that the system intro­ duced by Regulation (EEC) No 851 /76 is properly Article 3 applied, provisions should be made for France to intro­ duce suitable control measures to be applied at the This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh time of the manufacture and dispatch of the alcohol day following its publication in the Official Journal concerned , of the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels , 2 March 1977 .

For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH

Vice-President

(>) OJ No L 96 , 10 . 4 . 1976 , p. 41 . ( 2 ) OJ No L 218 , 11 . 8 . 1976 , p. 8 .

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ANNEX

Rate ot charge per hi and per degree of alcohol Member State­ Ethyl alcohol Other alcohol obtained trom cereals of agricultural origin

Belgi u m / Luxembourg Bfrs/ Lfrs M 127 Bfrs/ Lfrs 6-393 Germany DM 0-0724 DM 0-4162 France FF 0-1513 FF 0-8693 Netherlands FL 0-0755 Fl 0-4341