CELEX: 31976R2209
Language: en
Date: 1976-09-09 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2209/76 of 9 September 1976 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on other wood sawn lengthwise, sliced or peeled but not further prepared, etc., falling within subheading 44.14 B, originating in Brazil, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 apply

No L 248 / 8                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                     10 . 9 . 76
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2209/76
                                                   of 9 September 1976
                re-establishing the levying of customs duties on other wood sawn lengthwise,
                sliced or peeled but not further prepared, etc., falling within subheading 44.14 B,
                originating in Brazil , 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                                  within subheading 44.14 B, the ceiling, calculated as
COMMUNITIES,                                                    indicated above , should be 21 519 000 units of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           account, and therefore the maximum amount is
Economic Community,                                             8 607 600 units of account ; whereas on 8 September
                                                                 1976, the amounts of imports into the Community of
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No                   other wood sawn lengthwise, sliced or peeled but not
3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­              further prepared, falling within subheading 44.14 B,
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in      originating in Brazil, a country covered by preferential
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)       tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ;
thereof,                                                        whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                (EEC) No 3010/75 which provides that maximum
provides that customs duties may, for each category of          amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties
products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,               should be re-established in respect of the products in
expressed in units of account, which will be equal to           question in relation to Brazil ,
115 % of 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
ries already covered by various preferential tariff arran­      As from 13 September 1976, the levying of customs
gements established by the Community, and 5 % of                duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
the value of 1972 cif imports coming from other coun­           ( EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975, shall be
tries and from countries and territories already covered         re-established in respect of the following products,
by such arrangements ;                                           imported into the Community and originating in
                                                                 Brazil :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
for products originating in any one of the countries or
                                                                       CCT
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should               heading                     Description of goods
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                             No
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of
certain products for which the maximum amount is to              44.14
                                                                                     Wood sawn lengthwise , sliced or peeled
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                                 but not further prepared, of a thickness not
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this                                  exceeding 5 mm ; veneer sheets and sheets
reduced percentage will be 40 % ;                                                    for plywood, of a thickness not exceeding
                                                                                     5 mm :
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at                               B. Other
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­
tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­
ries once the relevant Community amount has been                                            Article 2
reached ;
                                                                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
Whereas, in respect of other wood sawn lengthwise,               following its publication in the Official Journal of
sliced or peeled but not further prepared, etc ., falling        the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 9 September 1976.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                               Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                       Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 310, 29 . il . 1975 , p. 70 .