31977R0535

No L 69 / 10 16 . 3 . 77 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 535 / 77 of 15 March 1977 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on asbestos thread falling within subheading 68.13 B I , originating in Yugoslavia to which the preferential tariff arrangements set put in Council Regulation ( EEC) No 3021 /76 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN of the same Regulation — once the relevant Commu­ COMMUNITIES , nity amount has been reached ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas, in respect of asbestos thread, falling within Economic Community, subheading 68.13 B I, the ceiling, calculated as indi­ cated above , should be 860 000 units of account, and therefore the maximum amount is 344 000 units of Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No account ; whereas on 9 March 1977 , the amounts of 3021 / 76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­ imports into the Community of asbestos thread, tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in falling within subheading 68.13 B I, originating in developing countries ( ! ), and in particular Article 4 (2) Yugoslavia a country covered by preferential tariff thereof, arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation ( EEC) No 3021 /76 which provides that maximum provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties gory of products, be suspended up to a Community should be re-established in respect of the products in ceiling , expressed in units of account, which will be question in relation to Yugoslavia , equal — with the exception of certain products the value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A of the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : imported cif into the Community in 1974 and 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 19 March 1977, the levying of customs by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation imports coming from other countries and from coun­ ( EEC) No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ of the following products, imported into the Commu­ ments ; however the ceiling resulting from the sum of this addition may in no case exceed 172-5% of that nity and originating in Yugoslavia : resulting from the substitution of the year 1971 for the year 1974 in the first term of the addition and of CCT heading Description of goods the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the second term of No the addition ;

68.13 Fabricated asbestos and articles thereof (for Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts example, asbestos board, thread and fabric ; for products originating in any one of the countries or asbestos clothing, asbestos jointing), rein­ territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should forced or not, other than goods falling be within a maximum Community amount repre­ within heading No 68.14 ; mixtures with a basis of asbestos and mixtures with a basis senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of of asbestos and magnesium carbonate, and certain products for which the maximum amount is to articles of such mixtures : be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to B. Articles of asbestos : that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this reduced percentage will be 40 % ; I. Thread

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 ries — with the exception of those listed in Annex C This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of (') OJ No L 349 , 20 . 12 . 1976, p. 23 . 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, 15 March 1977 .

For the Commission Etienne DAV1GNON Member of the Commission