CELEX: 31975R1940
Language: en
Date: 1975-07-28 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1940/75 of the Commission of 28 July 1975 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 Brazil, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3054/74 of 2 December 1974 apply

29 . 7 . 75                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No L 198 /33
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 1940/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 28 July 1975
                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 Brazil , to which the preferential tariff arrangements set
                    out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3054/74 of 2 December 1974 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  4 157 000 units of account,               and therefore the
COMMUNITIES,                                                    maximum amount 2 078 500                   units of account ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           whereas on 27 June 1975, the amounts of imports
Economic Community ;                                            into the Community of wood (including blocks, strips
                                                                and friezes for parquet or wood block flooring, not
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    assembled), planed, tongued, grooved, rebated, cham­
3054/74 ( ! ) of 2 December 1974 establishing preferen­         fered, V-jointed, centre V-jointed, beaded, centre­
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in      beaded or the like, but not further manufactured, origi­
developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2)           nating in Brazil, a country covered by preferential
thereof ;
                                                                tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ;
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­            (EEC) No 3054/74 which provides that maximum
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be           should be re-established in respect of the products in
equal to the sum arrived at by adding together the              question in relation to Brazil,
value of the products in question imported cif into
the Community in 1971 and coming from countries                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
and territories covered by those arrangements, but not
including products coming from countries and territo­                                       Article 1
ries already covered by various preferential tariff arran­      As from 1 August 1975, the levying of customs duties,
gements established by the Community, and 5 % of                suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
the value of 1972 cif imports coming from other coun­            No     3054/74     of    2   December         1974,  shall  be
tries and from countries and territories already covered         re-established in respect of the following products,
by such arrangements ;                                          imported into the Community and originating in
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts              Brazil :
for products originating in any one of the countries or
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should                CCT
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                           heading                   Description of goods
                                                                        No
senting 50 % of that ceiling ;
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that          44.13               Wood (including blocks, strips and friezes
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at                              for parquet or wood block flooring, not
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­                             assembled), planed, tongued, groved,
tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­                           rebated, chamfered, V-jointed, centre
ries once the relevant Community maximum amount                                     V-jointed, beaded, centre-beaded or the
has been reached ;                                                                  like, but not further manufactured
Whereas, in respect of wood (including blocks, strips
and friezes for parquet or wood block flooring, not                                         Article 2
assembled), planed, tongued, grooved, rebated, cham­
fered, V-jointed, centre V-jointed, beaded, centre­             This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
beaded or the like, but not further manufactured, the            following its publication * in the Official Journal of
ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be                the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                Done at Brussels, 28 July 1975.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                              F.O. GUNDELACH
                                                                       Member of the Commission
;») OJ No L 329 , 9 . 12. 74, p. 70 .