CELEX: 31976R2503
Language: en
Date: 1976-10-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2503/76 of 14 October 1976 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on plaiting materials bound together in parallel strands, etc., falling within heading No 46.02, originating in Hong Kong, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 apply

15 . 10 . 76                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                    No L 284/23
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2503/76
                                                     of 14 October 1976
                 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on plaiting materials bound
                 together in parallel strands, etc., falling within heading No 46.02, originating in
                 Hong Kong , 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                                   No 46.02, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above,
COMMUNITIES,                                                     should be 3 215 000 units of account, and therefore
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           the maximum amount is 964 500 units of account ;
 Economic Community,                                             whereas on 7 October 1976, the amounts of imports
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    into the Community of plaiting materials bound
 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­              together in parallel strands, etc ., falling within heading
 tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in      No 46.02, originating in Hong Kong, a country
 developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)       covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached
 : hereof,
                                                                 that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
                                                                 objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 which
 Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                provides that maximum amounts should not be
 provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­            exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in
 gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                respect of the products in question in relation to
 ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be           Hong Kong,
 ;qual to 115% of the sum arrived at by adding
 together the value of the products in question
   imported cif into the Community in 1971 and                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 :coming from countries and territories covered by
 : hose arrangements, but not including products                                            Article 1
 :coming from countries and territories already covered
 by various preferential tariff arrangements established         As from 18 October 1976, the levying of customs
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1972 cif               duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
imports coming from other countries and from coun­               (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975, shall be
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­           re-established in respect of the following products,
ments ;                                                          imported into the Community and originating in
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts              Hong Kong :
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, with the exception of
certain products for which the maximum amount is to
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to             46.02              Plaiting materials (other than products
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this                                 falling within heading No 46.01 ) bound
reduced percentage will be 30 % ;                                                   together in parallel strands or woven in
                                                                                    sheet form , including matting, mats and
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that                              screens ; straw envelopes for bottles
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­
tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­                                   Article 2
ries once the relevant Community amount has been
reached ;                                                        This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
Whereas, in respect of plaiting materials bound                  following its publication in the Official Journal of
together in parallel strands, etc ., falling within heading      the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels , 14 October 1976 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                              Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                       Member of the Commission
') OJ No L 310 , 29 . 11 . 1975 , p. 70 .