CELEX: 31977R0535
Language: en
Date: 1977-03-15 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 535/77 of 15 March 1977 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on asbestos thread falling within subheading 68.13 B I, originating in Yugoslavia to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply

No L 69 / 10                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                 16 . 3 . 77
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 535 /77
                                                     of 15 March 1977
                 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on asbestos thread falling
                 within subheading 68.13 B I , originating in Yugoslavia to which the preferential
                   tariff arrangements set put in Council Regulation ( EEC) No 3021 /76 apply
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 of the same Regulation — once the relevant Commu­
 COMMUNITIES,                                                   nity amount has been reached ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          Whereas, in respect of asbestos thread, falling within
 Economic Community,                                            subheading 68.13 B I, the ceiling, calculated as indi­
                                                                cated above , should be 860 000 units of account, and
                                                                therefore the maximum amount is 344 000 units of
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   account ; whereas on 9 March 1977 , the amounts of
 3021 / 76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­
                                                                imports into the Community of asbestos thread,
 tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in
 developing countries ( ! ), and in particular Article 4 (2)
                                                                falling within subheading 68.13 B I, originating in
 thereof,                                                       Yugoslavia a country covered by preferential tariff
                                                                arrangements, reached that maximum amount ;
                                                                whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation
 Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               (EEC) No 3021 /76 which provides that maximum
 provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­           amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties
 gory of products, be suspended up to a Community               should be re-established in respect of the products in
 ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be          question in relation to Yugoslavia,
 equal — with the exception of certain products the
 value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A of
 the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by
 adding together the value of the products in question          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 imported cif into the Community in 1974 and
 coming from countries and territories covered by
 those arrangements, but not including products                                          Article 1
 coming from countries and territories already covered
by various preferential tariff arrangements established
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif              As from 19 March 1977, the levying of customs
 imports coming from other countries and from coun­             duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
 tries and territories already covered by such arrange­         (EEC) No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect
 ments ; however the ceiling resulting from the sum of          of the following products, imported into the Commu­
 this addition may in no case exceed 172-5% of that             nity and originating in Yugoslavia :
 resulting from the substitution of the year 1971 for
 the year 1974 in the first term of the addition and of               CCT
 the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the second term of               heading                  Description of goods
                                                                       No
 the addition ;
                                                                68.13           Fabricated asbestos and articles thereof (for
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                             example, asbestos board, thread and fabric ;
 for products originating in any one of the countries or                        asbestos clothing, asbestos jointing), rein­
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should                         forced or not, other than goods falling
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                                     within heading No 68.14 ; mixtures with a
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                             basis of asbestos and mixtures with a basis
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                             of asbestos and magnesium carbonate, and
                                                                                articles of such mixtures :
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this                             B. Articles of asbestos :
reduced percentage will be 40 % ;                                                    I. Thread
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­                                  Article 2
tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­
ries — with the exception of those listed in Annex C            This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                following its publication in the Official Journal of
(') OJ No L 349 , 20 . 12 . 1976, p. 23 .                       the European Communities.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 15 March 1977 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                   Etienne DAV1GNON
                                                               Member of the Commission