CELEX: 31976R2409
Language: en
Date: 1976-10-04
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2409/76 of 4 October 1976 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on flax or ramie yarn, not put up for retail sale, falling within heading No 54.03, originating in Brazil, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3004/75 of 17 November 1975 apply

No L 272/ 6                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                  5 . 10. 76
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2409/76
                                                    of 4 October 1976
                re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on flax or ramie yarn , not put
                up for retail sale, falling within heading No 54.03 , originating jn Brazil , to which
                the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation ( EEC) No
                                          3004/75 of 17 November 1975 apply
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  whereas, in respect of flax or ramie yarn , not put up
 COMMUNITIES,                                                   for retail sale, the ceiling, calculated as indicated
                                                                above , should be 232 metric tons , and therefore the
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          maximum amount 116 metric tons , whereas on 28
 Economic Community,
                                                                September 1976 the amounts of imports into the
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   Community of flax or ramie yarn , not put up for retail
 3004/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­             sale, originating in Brazil , a country covered by prefer­
 tial tariffs in respect of certain textile products origi­     ential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum
 nating in developing countries ('), and in particular          amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of
 Article 4 (2) thereof,                                         Regulation ( EEC) No 3004/75 which provides that
                                                                maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs
 Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation
                                                                duties should be re-established in respect of the
 provides that customs duties may, for each category of         products in question in relation to Brazil ,
 products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling
 equal to 166% of the sum arrived at by adding
 together the value of the products in question , in            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 metric tons, imported into the Community in 1968
 and coming from countries listed in Annex B to that                                      Article 1
 Regulation , but not including products coming from            As from 8 October 1976, the levying of customs
 countries already covered by various preferential tariff       duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
 arrangements established by the Community, and                 ( EEC) No 3004/75 of 17 November 1975, shall be
 5% of the 1970 metric tonnage of such imports                  re-established in respect of the following products,
 coming from other countries and from countries                 imported into the Community and originating in
 already covered by such arrangements ; whereas,                Brazil :
 having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for
 products originating in any one of the countries listed
                                                                      CCT
 in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a                    heading                   Description of goods
 maximum Community amount representing 50 % of                         No
 that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for
 which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the               54.03              Flax or ramie yarn , not put up for retail
 percentage indicated in Annex A to that Regulation ;                              sale
 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 once the         This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
 relevant Community maximum amount has been                     following its publication in the Official Journal of
 reached ;                                                      the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 4 October 1976 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                             Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                      Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 310 , 29 . 11 . 1975, p. 24.