CELEX: 31975R1378
Language: en
Date: 1975-05-29 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1378/75 of the Commission of 29 May 1975 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on citric acid falling within subheading 29.16 A IV a) originating in Mexico, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3054/74 of 2 December 1974 apply

No L 139/30                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                    30 . 5. 75
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 1378/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 29 May 1975
                re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on citric acid falling within
                subheading 29.16 A IV a) originating in Mexico, 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                                   Whereas, in respect of citric acid falling within
COMMUNITIES,                                                      subheading 29.16 A IV a) the ceiling, calculated as
                                                                  indicated above should be 292 000 units of account,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            and therefore the maximum amount 146 000 units of
 Economic Community ;                                             account ; whereas on 27 May 1975, the amounts of
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     imports into the Community of citric acid falling
3054/74 (') of 2 December 1974 establishing preferen­             within subheading 29.16 A IV a) originating in
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in        Mexico, a country covered by preferential tariff arran­
developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2)             gements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas,
thereof ;                                                         bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                  No 3054/74 which provides that maximum amounts
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                  should not be exceeded, customs duties should be
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­              re-established in respect of the products in question
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                  in relation to Mexico,
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be
equal to the sum arrived at by adding together the                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
value of the products in question imported cif into
the Community in 1971 and coming from countries                                               Article 1
and territories covered by those arrangements, but not
including products coming from countries and territo­             As from 2 June 1975, the levying of customs duties,
ries already covered by various preferential tariff arran­        suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
gements established by the Community, and 5 % of                  No      3054/74     of    2   December         1974, shall   be
the value of 1972 cif imports coming from other coun­             re-established in respect of the following products,
tries and from countries and territories already covered          imported into the Community and originating in
by such arrangements ;                                            Mexico :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
                                                                         CCT
for products originating in any one of the countries or                heading                    Description of goods
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should                   No
be within a maximum Community amount repre­
senting 50 % of that ceiling ;                                    29.1 6 A IV a)      Citric acid
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 da)
ries once the relevant Community maximum amount                   following its publication in the Official Journal o
has been reached ;                                                the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 29 May 1975 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                  The President
                                                                             Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(') OJ No L 329 , 9 . 12 . 1974, p. 70 .