CELEX: 31976R1970
Language: en
Date: 1976-08-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1970/76 of 6 August 1976 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on citric acid, falling within subheading 29.16 A IV a), originating in Mexico, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 apply

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                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1970/76
                                                    of 6 August 1976
                re-establishing the levying of customs duties on citric acid, falling within
                subheading 29.16 A IV a), originating in Mexico, to which the preferential tariff
                arrangements set out in Council Regulation ( EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November
                                                         1975 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   and therefore the maximum amount is 100 800 units
COMMUNITIES,                                                     of account ; whereas on 28 July 1976, the amounts of
                                                                 imports into the Community of citric acid, falling
                                                                within subheading 29.16 A IV a), originating in
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           Mexico, a country covered by preferential tariff arran­
Economic Community,                                             gements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas,
                                                                 bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC)
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    No 3010/75, which provides that maximum amounts
3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­               should not be exceeded, customs duties should be re­
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in       established in respect of the products in question in
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)        relation to Mexico,
thereof,
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation
 provides that customs duties may, for each category of
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,
expressed in Units of account, which will be equal to
 115% of the sum arrived at by adding together the
value of the products in question imported cif into
                                                                                         Article 1
the Community in 1971 and coming from countries
and territories covered by those arrangements, but not
 including products coming from countries and territo­           As from 10 August 1976, 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 3010/75 of 17 November 1975, shall be
the value of 1972 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 ;                                           Mexico :
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
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of              29.16           Carboxylic acid with alcohol, phenol,
                                                                                 aldehyde or ketone function and other
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                              single or complex oxygen-function car­
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                             boxylic acids and their anhydrides,
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this                              halides, peroxides and peracids, and their
reduced percentage will be 30 % ;                                                halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or
                                                                                 nitrosated derivatives :
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that                           A. Carboxylic acids with alcohol function :
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at                               IV. Citric acid and its salts and esters :
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­                                 a) Citric acid
tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­
ries once the relevant Community amount has been
reached ;
                                                                                         Article 2
Whereas in respect of citric acid, falling within
subheading 29.16 A IV a), the ceiling, calculated as
indicated above should be 336 000 units of account,             This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                 following its publication in the Official Journal of
(') OJ No L 310, 29 . 11 . 1975, p. 70 .                         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, 6 August 1976.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                  Finn GUNDELACH
                                                             Member of the Commission