31977R2456

No L 285/ 18 Official Journal of the European Communities 9 . 11 . 77

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2456/77 of 8 November 1977 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on gelatin and gelatin derivatives, falling within subheading 35.03 ex B, originating in Brazil to which the preferen­ tial 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 gelatin and gelatin derivatives falling within subheading 35.03 ex B, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above , should be 623 000 units Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No of account, and therefore the maximum amount is 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­ 186 900 units of account ; whereas on 26 October tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in 1977, the amounts of imports into the Community of developing countries (J), and in particular Article 4 (2) gelatin and gelatin derivatives falling within thereof, subheading 35.03 ex B, 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 provides that maximum amounts should not be gory of products, be suspended up to a Community 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 by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif Article 1 imports coming from other countries and from coun­ tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ As from 12 November 1977, the levying of customs ments ; however the ceiling resulting from the sum of duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation this addition may in no case exceed 172-5 % of that (EEC) No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect resulting from the substitution of the year 1971 for of the following products, imported into the Commu­ the year 1974 in the first term of the addition and of nity and originating in Brazil : 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 35.03 Gelatin (including gelatin in rectangles, territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should whether or not coloured or surface-worked) be within a maximum Community amount repre­ and gelatin derivatives ; glues derived from senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of bones, hides, nerves, tendons or from certain products for which the maximum amount is to similar products, and fish glues ; isinglass : be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to ex B. Gelatin and gelatin derivatives that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this reduced percentage will be 30 % ;

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, 8 November 1977 .

For the Commission

Richard BURKE Member of the Commission