CELEX: 31977R2231
Language: en
Date: 1977-10-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2231/77 of 6 October 1977 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on wood (including blocks, strips and friezes for parquet or wood block flooring, not assembled), planed, tongued, grooved, rebated, chamfered, V-jointed, centre V-jointed, beaded, centre-beaded or the like, but not further manufactured, falling within heading No 44.13, originating in Malaysia to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply

8 . 10 . 77                         Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 257/ 21
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2231 /77
                                                   of 6 October 1977
               re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on wood (including blocks,
               strips and friezes for parquet or wood block flooring, not assembled), planed,
               tongued, grooved, rebated, chamfered, V-jointed, centre V-jointed, beaded,
               centre-beaded or the like, but not further manufactured, falling within heading
                No 44.13 , originating in Malaysia to which the preferential 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,                                                  of 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 wood falling within heading
                                                              No 44.13, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                  should be 6 547 500 units of account, and therefore
3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­           the maximum amount is 3 273 750 units of account ;
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in    whereas on 5 October 1977, the amounts of imports
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)     into the Community of wood falling within heading
thereof,                                                      No 44.13, originating in Malaysia a country covered
                                                              by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation              maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­          objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community              provides that maximum amounts should not be
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be         exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in
equal — with the exception of certain products the             respect of the products in question in relation to
value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A of        Malaysia,
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                                Article 1
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif
imports coming from other countries and from coun­            As from 11 October 1977, the levying of customs
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­
                                                               duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from
                                                               (EEC) No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect
the sum of this addition may in no case exceed
                                                               of the following products, imported into the Commu­
 172-5 % of that resulting from the substitution of the
                                                               nity and originating in Malaysia :
year 1971 for the year 1974 in the first term of the
addition and of the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the
second term of the addition ;                                        ccr
                                                                    heading                 Description of goods
                                                                      No
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
for products originating in any one of the countries or        44.13           Wood (including blocks, strips and friezes
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should                        for parquet or wood block flooring, not
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                                    assembled), planed, tongued, grooved,
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                            rebated, chamfered, V-jointed, centre V­
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                            jointed, beaded, centre-beaded or the like,
                                                                               but not further manufactured
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to
that Regulation ;
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at                                 Article 2
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, 6 October 1977.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                  Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                              Member of the Commission