CELEX: 31974R1639
Language: en
Date: 1974-06-27 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1639/74 of the Commission of 27 June 1974 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on reconstituted wood, etc., falling within heading No 44.18, originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3501/73 of 18 December 1973 apply

No L 173/68                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                         28 . 6. 74
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 1639/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 27 June 1974
                re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on reconstituted wood, etc.,
                falling within heading No 44.18 , originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferen­
               tial tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3501 /73 of 18
                                                   December 1973 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  Whereas, in respect of reconstituted wood, etc., the
COMMUNITIES,                                                    ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be
                                                                 2 098 000 units of .account,                  and therefore the
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           maximum amount 1 049 000                      units of account ;
Economic Community ;
                                                                whereas on 25 June 1974, the amounts of imports
 Having regard to Council Regulation . (EEC) No                 into the Community of reconstituted wood, etc., origi­
3501 /73 (!) of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­           nating in Yugoslavia, a country covered by preferential
ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating        tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ;
in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2)        whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation
thereof ;                                                       (EEC) No 3501 /73, which provides that maximum
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­             should be re-established in respect of the products in
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                question in relation to Yugoslavia,
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be
equal to 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          As from 1 July 1974, the levying of customs duties,
including products coming from countries and territo­           suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
ries already covered by various preferential tariff              No     3501 /73      of    18   December            1973, shall   be
arrangements established by the Community, and                   re-established in respect of the following products,
5% of the value of 1971 cif imports coming from                  imported into the Community and originating in
other countries and from countries and territories
                                                                Yugoslavia :
already covered by such arrangements ;
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                    CCT
for products originating in any one of the countries or               heading                       Description of goods
                                                                        No
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                     44.18                Reconstituted wood, being wood shavings,
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                                  wood chips, sawdust, wood flour or other
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                                " ligneous waste agglomerated with natural or
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                                 artificial resins or other organic binding
that Regulation ;                                                                    substances, in sheets, blocks or the like
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at                                         Article 2
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­
tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­       This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
ries once the relevant Community maximum amount                 following its publication in the Official Journal of
has been reached ;                                               the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
                Done at Brussels, 27 June 1974.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                 The President
                                                                            Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(•) OJ No L 358 , 28 . 12. 1973 , p. 15.