CELEX: 31976R2698
Language: en
Date: 1976-11-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2698/76 of 5 November 1976 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on other sewing machines; furniture specially designed for sewing machines, falling within subheading 84.41 A I b), originating in Yugoslavia to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 apply

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                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2698/76
                                                  of 5 November 1976
               re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on other sewing machines ;
                furniture specially designed for sewing machines, falling within subheading
               84.41 A I b), originating in Yugoslavia to which the preferential tariff arrange­
                ments set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975
                                                           apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   1976, the amounts of imports into the Community of
COMMUNITIES,                                                     other sewing machines ; furniture specially designed
                                                                 for sewing machines, falling within subheading 84.41
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            A I b), originating in Yugoslavia, a country covered by
Economic Community,                                              preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
                                                                 maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 which
3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­
                                                                 provides that maximum amounts should not be
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in       exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in '
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)        respect of the products in question in relation to
thereof,
                                                                 Yugoslavia,
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be
equal to 115 % of the sum arrived at by adding
together the value of the products in question                                            Article 1
imported cif into the Community in 1971 and
coming from countries and territories covered by
those arrangements, but not including products                   As from 9 November 1976, the levying of customs
coming from countries and territories already covered            duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
by various preferential tariff arrangements established          (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975, shall be
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1972 cif               re-established in respect of the following products,
imports coming from other countries and from coun­               imported into the Community and originating in
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­           Yugoslavia :
ments ;
                                                                       CCT
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                   heading                  Description of goods
                                                                        No
for products originating in any one of the countries or
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                      84.41            Sewing machines ; furniture specially
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                               designed for sewing machines ; sewing
                                                                                   machine needles :
certain products for which the maximum amount is to
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                              A. Sewing machines ; furniture specially
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this                                    designed for sewing machines :
reduced percentage will be 30 % ;                                                      I. Sewing machines (lock-stitch only),
                                                                                           with heads of a weight not
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that                                     exceeding 1 6 kg without motor or
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at                                      17 kg including the motor ;
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­                                    sewing machine heads (lock­
tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­                                  stitch only), of a weight not
ries once the relevant Community amount has been                                           exceeding 16 kg without motor or
reached ;                                                                                   17 kg including the motor :
                                                                                           b) Other
Whereas, in respect of other sewing machines ; furni­
ture specially designed for sewing machines, falling
within subheading 84.41 A I b), the ceiling, calculated
as indicated above, should be 2 186 000 units of                                          Article 2
account, and therefore the maximum amount is
655 800 units of account : whereas on 4 November                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                 following its publication in the Official Journal of
(') OJ No L 310, 29 . 11 . 1975, p. 70 .                          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, 5 November 1976.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                  Finn GUNDELACH
                                                             Member of the Commission