31978R1216

7 . 6 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 151 / 5

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1216 / 78 of 6 June 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on wood, planed , tongued, grooved , etc ., falling within heading No 44.13 , originating in Brazil to which the preferen­ tial tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation ( EEC) No 2705 / 77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, in respect of wood , planed, tongued, COMMUNITIES , grooved , etc., falling within heading No 44.13 , the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 8 839 800 units of account, and therefore the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European maximum amount is 4 419 900 units of account ; Economic Community, whereas on 1 June 1978 the amounts of imports into the Community of wood , planed, tongued , grooved , etc ., falling within heading No 44.13 , originating in Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No Brazil , a country covered by preferential tariff arrange­ 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ ments, reached that maximum amount ; whereas , tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation ( EEC) developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) No 2705/77 which provides that maximum amounts thereof, should not be exceeded , customs duties should be re­ established in respect of the products in question in relation to Brazil , Whereas Article 1 (3 ) and (4) of that Regulation provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ gory of products , be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be equal — with the exception of certain products the value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : adding together the value of the products in question imported cif into the Community in 1974 and coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not including products Article 1 coming from countries and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif As from 10 June 1978 , the levying of customs duties, imports coming from other countries and from coun­ suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation ( EEC) tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the ments ; whereas , however, the ceiling resulting from following products, imported into the Community the sum of this addition may in no case exceed and originating in Brazil : 225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ;

CCT Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts heading Description No for products originating in any one of the countries or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should 44.13 Wood (including blocks, strips and friezes be within a maximum Community amount repre­ for parquet or wood block flooring, not senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of assembled), planed, tongued , grooved, certain products for which the maximum amount is to rebated, chamfered , V-jointed, centre Vbe reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to jointed, beaded, centre-beaded or the like, that Regulation ; but not further manufactured

Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be re­ established at any time in respect of imports of the products in question originating in any of the said Article 2 countries or territories — with the exception of those listed in Annex C thereto — once the relevant Community amount has been reached ; 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.

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

Done at Brussels, 6 June 1978 . For the Commission

Guido BRUNNER Member of the Commission