31977R0797

21 . 4 . 77 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 97/ 13

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 797/77 of 19 April 1977 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on other sheep and lambskin leather falling within subheading 41.03 B II , originating in India, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN ries — with the exception of those listed in Annex C COMMUNITIES, of the same Regulation — once the relevant Commu­ nity amount has been reached ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas, in respect of other sheep and lambskin leather, falling within subheading 41.03 B II , the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2 558 000 units of account, and therefore the 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­ maximum amount is 1 279 000 units of account ; tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in whereas on 8 April 1977, the amounts of imports into developing countries ( ! ), and in particular Article 4 (2) the Community of other sheep and lambskin leather, thereof, falling within subheading 41.03 B II, originating in India, a country covered by preferential tariff arrange­ ments, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which provides that maximum amounts gory of products, be suspended up to a Community should not be exceeded , customs duties should be ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be equal — with the exception of certain products the re-established in respect of the products in question in relation to India , 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 imported cif into the Community in 1974 and coming from countries and territories covered by HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established Article 1 by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif imports coming from other countries and from coun­ tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ As from 24 April 1977, the levying of customs duties, ments ; however the ceiling resulting from the sum of suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) this addition may in no case exceed 172-5 % of that No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect of the resulting from the substitution of the year 1971 for following products, imported into the Community the year 1974 in the first term of the addition and of and originating in India : the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the second term of the addition ; CCT heading Description of goods No Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries or 41.03 Sheep and lambskin leather, except leather territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should falling within heading No 41.06, 41.07 or be within a maximum Community amount repre­ 41.08 : senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of B. Other : certain products for which the maximum amount is to II . Other be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to that Regulation ;

Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that Article 2 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 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, 19 April 1977. For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission