31978R0921

No L 119/20 3 . 5 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 921 /78 of 28 April 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on fibre building board of wood or other vegetable material , falling within heading No 44.11 and originating in Brazil , to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regulation (EEC) No 2705 / 77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN listed in Annex C thereto — once the relevant COMMUNITIES , Community amount has been reached ;

Whereas, in respect of fibre building board of wood or Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, other vegetable material, falling within heading No 44.11 , the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 10 363 500 units of account, and therefore the maximum amount is 3 109 050 units of account ; Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ whereas, on 25 April 1978 , the amounts of imports tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in into the Community of fibre building board of wood developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) or other vegetable material , falling within heading No thereof, 44.1 1 and originating in Brazil, a country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that customs duties may, for each category of provides that maximum amounts should not be products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in expressed in units of account, which will be equal — respect of the products in question in relation to with the exception of certain products the value of the Brazil , ceilings for which is given in Annex A thereto — to the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question imported cif into the Commu­ nity in 1974 and coming from countries and territo­ ries covered by those arrangements, but not including HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : products coming from countries and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­ blished by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif imports coming from other countries and Article 1 from countries and territories already covered by such arrangements ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from the sum of this addition may in no case exceed As from 6 May 1978 , the levying of customs duties, 225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ; suspended in pursuance of Regulation ( EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the following products, imported into the Community Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts and originating in Brazil : for products originating in any one of the countries or territories listed in Annex B to the afore-said Regula­ CCT tion should be within a maximum Community heading Description amount representing 50 % of that ceiling, with the No exception of certain products for which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated 44.1 1 Fibre building board of wood or other vege­ in Annex A thereto ; whereas, for these products , this table material , whether or not bonded with reduced percentage will be 30 % ; natural or artificial resins or with other organic binders Whereas Article 2 (2) and ( 3) of that Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be re- Article 2 established at any time in respect of imports of the products in question originating in any of the said countries or territories — with the exception of those This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official journal of (') OJ No L 324, 19 . 12 . 1977, p. 23 . the European Communities .ies.

3 . 5 . 78 No L 119 / 21 Official Journal of the European Communities

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

Done at Brussels, 28 April 1978 . For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission