CELEX: 31976R1839
Language: en
Date: 1976-07-28
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1839/76 of 28 July 1976 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on electronic calculating machines, falling within subheading 84.52 A, originating in Singapore, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 apply

29. 7. 76                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                    No L 203/35
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1839/76
                                                     of 28 July 1976
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on electronic calculating machines,
               falling within subheading 84.52 A, originating in Singapore, to which the prefer­
               ential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17
                                                 November 1975 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be
COMMUNITIES,                                                    12 132 500       units   of  account       and     therefore   the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           maximum amount is 6 066 250 units of account ;
Economic Community,                                             whereas on 19 July 1976, the amounts of imports into
                                                                the Community of electronic calculating machines,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    falling within subheading 84.52 A, originating in
3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­              Singapore, a country covered by preferential tariff
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in      arrangements, reached that maximum amount ;
developing countries (1), and in particular Article 4 (2)       whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation
thereof,                                                        (EEC) No 3010/75, which provides that maximum
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties
provides that customs duties may, for each category of          should be re-established in respect of the products in
products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,               question in relation to Singapore,
expressed in units of account, which will be equal to
1 1 5 % of 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 1 August 1976, 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      3010/75     of   17   November           1975,   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 ;                                          Singapore :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
for products originating in any one of the countries or                CCT
                                                                      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             84.52               Calculating       machines ;        accounting
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                                 machines, cash registers, postage-franking
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                                machines, ticket-issuing machines and
that Regulation ;                                                                   similar machines, incorporating a calcu­
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that                              lating device :
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at                              A. Electronic calculating machines
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­
tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­
 ries once the relevant Community amount has been                                           Article 2
 reached ;                                                      This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
Whereas, in respect of electronic calculating                    following its publication in the Official Journal of
 machines, falling within subheading 84.52 A, the                the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                Done at Brussels, 28 July 1976.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                              Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                       Member of the Commission
 (») OJ No L 310, 29. 11 . 1975, p. 70.