CELEX: 31976R0681
Language: en
Date: 1976-03-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 681/76 of 26 March 1976 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on locks and padlocks etc., of base metal falling within heading No 83.01, originating in Hong Kong to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 apply

No L 81 /32                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                     27. 3 . 76
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 681 /76
                                                   of 26 March 1976
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on locks and padlocks etc., of base
               metal falling within heading No 83.01 , originating in Hong Kong to which the
               preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75
                                             of 17 November 1975 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                calculated as indicated above should be 2 231 000
COMMUNITIES,                                                  units of account, and therefore the maximum 446 200
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         units of account ; whereas on 24 March 1976 the
Economic Community,                                           amounts of imports into the Community of locks and
                                                              padlocks etc. of base metal, falling within heading No
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   83.01 , originating in Hong Kong, a country covered
3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­
                                                              by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in
                                                               maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)     objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 which
thereof,
                                                               provides that maximum amounts should not be
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in
provides that customs duties may, for each category of         respect of the products in question in relation to
products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,              Hong Kong,
expressed in units of account, equal to 1 1 5 % of the
sum arrived at by adding together the value of the
products in question, imported cif into the Commu­             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
nity in 1971 and coming from countries and territo­
ries covered by those arrangements, but not including                                     Article 1
products coming from countries and territories already
covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­      As from 30 March 1976, the levying of customs
blished by the Community, and 5 % of the value of              duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
1972 cif imports coming from other countries and               (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975, shall be
from countries and territories already covered by such         re-established in respect of the following products,
arrangements ;
                                                               imported into the Community and originating in
                                                               Hong Kong :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
for products originating in any one of the countries or
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territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should             heading                     Description of goods
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                           No
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of
certain products for which the maximum amount is to            83.01              Locks and padlocks (key, combination or
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                              electrically operated), and parts thereof, of
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this                               base metal ; frames incorporating locks, for
reduced percentage will be 20 % ;                                                 handbags, trunks or the like, and part of
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that                            such frames, of base metal ; key for any of
                                                                                  the foregoing articles of base metal
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                                  Article 2
ries once the relevant Community amount has been
reached ;                                                      This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
Whereas, in respect of locks and padlocks etc. of base         following its publication in the Official Journal of
metal, falling within heading No 83.01 , the ceiling            the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                Done at Brussels, 26 March 1976 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                     Member of the Commission
(>) OJ No L 310, 29. 11 . 1975, p. 70.