CELEX: 31977R2568
Language: en
Date: 1977-11-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2568/77 of 22 November 1977 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on thread of asbestos, falling within subheading 68.13 B I, originating in Venezuela to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply

23 . 11 . 77                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No L 299 / 13
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2568/77
                                                  of 22 November 1977
                re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on thread of asbestos, falling
               within subheading 68.13 B I, originating in Venezuela to which the preferential
                  tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  to 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 thread of asbestos, falling
Economic Community,                                             within subheading 68.13 B I, the ceiling, calculated as
                                                                indicated above, should be 860 000 units of account,
                                                                and therefore the maximum amount is 344 000 units
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    of account ; whereas on 14 November 1977 the
3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in      amounts of imports into the Community of thread of
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)       asbestos, falling within subheading 68.13 B I, origi­
thereof,                                                        nating in Venezuela, 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 Venezuela,
equal — with the exception of certain products the
value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to
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 26 November 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 ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from            of the following products, imported into the Commu­
the sum of this addition may in no case exceed                  nity and originating in Venezuela :
 172-5 % of that resulting from the substitution of the
year 1971 for the year 1974 in the first term of the                  CCT
addition and of the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the               heading                   Description of goods
                                                                       No
second term of 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, 22 November 1977 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                               Member of the Commission