CELEX: 31976R2860
Language: en
Date: 1976-11-23
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 2860/76 of 23 November 1976 increasing the Community tariff quota opened for 1976 by Regulation (EEC) No 2886/75 for newsprint falling within subheading 48.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff

27. 11 . 76                              Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 329/ 15
                                          COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 2860/76
                                                         of 23 November 1976
                 increasing the Community tariff quota opened for 1976 by Regulation ( EEC) No
                 2886/75 for newsprint falling within subheading 48.01 A of the Common
                                                            Customs Tariff
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                         this quantity to take account of the requirements
 COMMUNITIES,                                                        noted ; whereas, in order to safeguard the Community
                                                                     character of the tariff quota in question, a Community
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               reserve equal to the proposed increase should be set
 Economic Community, and in particular Articles 28
                                                                     up ,
 and 113 thereof,
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Whereas, for newsprint falling within subheading
 48.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff, a duty-free                                             Article 1
 Community tariff quota, the amount of which was                      1 . The volume of the Community tariff quota
 fixed at 2 250 000 metric tons, was opened by the                   opened by Regulation (EEC) No 2886/75 for news­
 Council and allocated among the Member States by                    print falling within subheading 48.01 A of the
 Regulation (EEC) No 2886/75 ('); whereas by that                    Common Customs Tariff is hereby increased from
 Regulation , as amended by Regulation ( EEC) No                     2 250 000 to 2 400 000 metric tons .
 1 171 /76 (2), the benefit of the tariff quota in question
 was extended to certain types of paper which , apart                2.    This increase of 150 000 metric tons shall consti­
 from the criterion of watermarks, correspond to the                 tute a reserve . The Community reserve set up by
 definition of newsprint given in the Additional Note                virtue of Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 2886/75
 to Chapter 48 of the Common Customs Tariff ;                        is thus increased from 109 000 to 259 000 metric tons .
 Whereas , on the basis of the most recent data on this                                        Article 2
 product for 1976, it can be estimated that the addi­
 tional imports from non-member countries required                   This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
 by the Community amount to 150 000 metric »tons ;                   following its publication in the Official Journal of
 whereas the size of the quota should be increased by                the European Communities.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 23 November 1976 .
                                                     < .                          For the Council
                                                                                    The President
                                                                            A. P. L. M. M. van der STEE
(') OJ No L 292, 12 . 11 . 1975, p . Mi .
(2 ) OJ No L 131 , 20 . 5 . 1976, p . 6 .