CELEX: 31976R1692
Language: en
Date: 1976-07-13 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1692/76 of 13 July 1976 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on thread of asbestos, falling within subheading 68.13 B I, originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 apply

No L 190 / 22                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                   14 . 7 . 76
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1692/76
                                                     of 13 July 1976
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on thread of asbestos, falling
               within subheading 68.13 B I , originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferential
                tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation ( EEC) No 3010/75 of 17
                                                 November 1975 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  of account ; whereas on 6 July 1976, the amounts of
COMMUNITIES ,                                                   imports into the Community of thread of asbestos,
                                                                falling within subheading 68.13 B I, originating in
                                                                Yugoslavia, a country covered by preferential tariff
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           arrangements, reached that maximum amount ;
Economic Community,
                                                                whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation
                                                                (EEC) No 3010/75, which provides that maximum
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties
3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­              should be re-established in respect of the products in
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in      question in relation to Yugoslavia,
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)
thereof,
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
provides that customs duties may, for each category of
products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,
expressed in units of account, which will be equal to
1 1 5 % of the sum arrived at by adding together the
value of the products in question imported cif into                                       Article 1
the Community in 1971 and coming from countries
and territories covered by those arrangements, but not
including products coming from countries and territo­           As from 17 July 1976, the levying of customs duties,
ries already covered by various preferential tariff arran­      suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
                                                                No     3010/75  of     17   November          1975,  shall    be
gements established by the Community, and 5 % of
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 ;                                          Yugoslavia :
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, with the exception of             68.13           Fabricated asbestos and articles thereof (for
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                             example, asbestos board, thread and fabric ;
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                            asbestos clothing, asbestos jointing), rein­
that Regulation .                                                               forced or not, other than goods falling
                                                                                within heading No 68.14 ; mixtures with a
                                                                                basis of asbestos and mixtures with a b sis
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that                          of asbestos and magnesium carbonate, and
                                                                                articles of such mixtures :
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­                         B. Articles of asbestos :
tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­                            I. Thread
ries once the relevant Community amount has been
reached ;
Whereas, in respect of thread of asbestos, falling                                        Article 2
within subheading 68.13 B I, the ceiling, calculated as
indicated above, should be 573 000 units of account,
and therefore the maximum amount is 286 500 units               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, 13 July 1976.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                  Finn GUNDELACH
                                                             Member of the Commission