31977R1094

27. 5. 77 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 132/ 5

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1094 / 77 of 25 May 1977 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on wood, planed, tongued, grooved etc., falling within heading No 44.13 , originating in Brazil 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, to 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 wood, planed, tongued, grooved etc ., falling within heading No 44.13, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 6 547 500 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No units of account, and therefore the maximum amount 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­ is 3 273 750 units of account ; whereas on 18 May tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in 1977, the amounts of imports into the Community of developing countries (*), and in particular Article 4 (2) wood, planed, tongued, grooved, etc., falling within thereof, heading No 44.13, originating in Brazil, a country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which gory of products, be suspended up to a Community provides that maximum amounts should not be exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be equal — with the exception of certain products the respect of the products in question in relation to Brazil , value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to 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 30 May 1977, the levying of customs duties, ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) the sum of this addition may in no case exceed No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect of the 172-5 % of that resulting from the substitution of the following products, imported into the Community year 1971 for the year 1974 in the first term of the and originating in Brazil : addition and of 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 44.13 Wood (including blocks, strips and friezes territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should for parquet or woord block flooring, not be within a maximum Community amount repre­ assembled), planed, tongued, grooved, senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of rebated , chamfered, V-jointed, centre certain products for which the maximum amount is to V-jointed, beaded, centre-beaded or the be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to like , but not further manufactured 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 0) 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, 25 May 1977. For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission