CELEX: 31976R0890
Language: en
Date: 1976-04-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 890/76 of 14 April 1976 providing for exemption in certain cases from tax on exports of potatoes

No L 101 /40                           Official Journal of the European Communities                             15. 4. 76
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 890/76
                                                       of 14 April 1976
              providing for exemption in certain cases from the tax on exports of potatoes
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas, in accordance with Article 1 (2) of Regula­
COMMUNITIES,                                                      tion (EEC) No 348/76, the Member States have been
                                                                  consulted concerning this measure,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
348/76 of 17 February 1976 on measures to be taken                                          Article 1
owing to the difficulties affecting potato supplies (*),          Member States are authorized to exempt from the
and in particular Article 1 (2) thereof,                          export tax laid dov.'n in Article 1 ( 1 ) of Regulation
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 348 /76 introduced a                  (EEC) No 348 /76 exports of the products described in
tax on exports of certain categories of potatoes to non­          that Regulation to the non-member countries or terri­
                                                                  tories listed in the Annex hereto effected before 30
member countries ; whereas, in order to permit
Member States to maintain certain traditional trade               May 1976, provided that such exports are effected
flows, they should be authorized to exempt from that              pursuant to contracts concluded before 17 February
                                                                   1976 .
tax, for a limited period, exports to the non-member
countries or territories in question effected pursuant                                      Article 2
to contracts concluded before the adoption of Regula­
tion (EEC) No 348 /76 ; whereas there is no risk that             This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
the quantities will exceed these traditional trade                publication in the Official Journal of the European
flows ;                                                            Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 14 April 1976.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                               P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                          Member of the Commission
                                                            ANNEX
                                     Barbados                                       Senegal
                                     Faroe Islands                                  Seychelles
                                     Gabon                                          Sierra Leone
                                     Gambia                                         Surinam
                                     Ivory Coast                                    Togo
                                     Leeward Islands                                Trinidad
                                     Liberia                                        windward Islands
                                     Netherlands Antilles                           French overseas territories
 (i ) OJ No L 43 , 19 . 2. 1976, p. 14.