31977R2123

No L 247/ 18 Official Journal of the European Communities 28 . 9 . 77

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2123/77 of 27 September 1977 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on other wood sawn lengthwise, falling within subheading 44.14 B, originating in developing countries to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN lated as indicated above, should be 27 506 000 units of COMMUNITIES, account ; whereas on 22 September 1 977 the amounts of imports into the Community of the products in Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European question, originating in countries and territories Economic Community, covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No that ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­ of Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which provides that tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in the ceiling should not be exceeded, customs duties developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) should be re-established in respect of the products in thereof, question, Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that the customs duties may, for each category of products, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be equal — with the Article 1 exception of certain products the value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in As from 1 October 1977, customs duties, suspended question — to the sum arrived at by adding together in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No the value of the products in question imported cif 3021 /76 shall be re-established in respect of the into the Community in 1974 and coming from coun­ following products, imported into the Community : tries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries CCT and territories already covered by various preferential heading Description of goods tariff arrangements established by the Community, No and 5% of the value of 1974 cif imports coming from other countries and from countries and territo­ 44.14 Wood sawn lengthwise, sliced or peeled ries already covered by such arrangements ; however but not further prepared, of a thickness not the ceiling resulting from the sum of this addition exceeding 5 mm ; veneer sheets and sheets may in no case exceed 172-5 % of that resulting from for plywood, of a thickness not exceeding 5 mm : the substitution of the year 1971 for the year 1974 in the first term of the addition and of the year 1972 for B. Other the year 1974 in the second term of the addition ; Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation provides that Article 2 the customs duties may be re-established at any time once the Community ceiling has been reached ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day Whereas, in respect of other wood sawn lengthwise, following its publication in the Official Journal of falling within subheading 44.14 B, the ceiling, calcu­ the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 27 September 1977. For the Commission Antonio GIOLITTI Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 349, 20 . 12. 1976, p. 23 .