CELEX: 31974R2770
Language: en
Date: 1974-10-30 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2770/74 of the Commission of 30 October 1974 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on building board, falling within heading No 48.09, originating in Brazil, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3501/73 of 18 December 1973 apply

1 . 11 . 74                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                      No L 294/ 65
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 2770/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                  of 30 October 1974
                re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on building board, falling
               within heading No 48.09, originating in Brazil, to which the preferential 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 building board, falling within
COMMUNITIES,                                                    heading No 48.09, the ceiling, calculated as indicated
                                                                above, should be 7 745 000 units of account, and there­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           fore    the    maximum        amount       3 872 500     units  of
Economic Community ;
                                                                account, whereas on 24 October 1974, the amounts of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    imports into the Community of building board falling
3501 /73 ( !) of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­          within heading No 48.09, originating in Brazil, a
ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating       country covered by preferential tariff arrangements,
in developing countries, and in particular Article 4 (2)        reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in
thereof ;                                                       mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3501 /73,
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                which 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           Brazil,
equal to the sum arrived at by adding together the
value of the products in question imported cif into             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
the Community in 1971 and coming from countries
and territories covered by those arrangements but not                                       Article 1
including products coming from countries and territo­           As from 4 November 1974, the levying of customs
ries already covered by various preferential tariff arran­      duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
gements established by the Community, and 5 % of                (EEC) No 3501 /73 of 18 December 1973, shall be
the value of 1971 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 ;                                          Brazil :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
for products originating in any one of the countries or               CCT
                                                                     heading
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should                No
                                                                                                 Description of goods
be within a maximum Community amount repre­
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of             48.09               Building board of wood pulp or of vege­
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                                 table fibre, whether or not bonded with
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                                natural or artificial resins or with similar
that Regulation ;                                                                   binders
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, 30 October 1974 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                The President
                                                                           Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(i) OJ No L 358, 28 . 12. 1973, p. 15.