CELEX: 31976R0768
Language: en
Date: 1976-04-02 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 768/76 of 2 April 1976 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on broom and brush bodies and handles of wood, falling within subheading 44.25 ex B, originating in Brazil to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 apply

3 . 4. 76                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                    No L 90/5
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 768/76
                                                     of 2 April 1976
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on broom and brush bodies and
               handles of wood, falling within subheading 44.25 Ex B, originating in Brazil to
               which the preferential tarifff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC)
                                        No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 B, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be
COMMUNITIES,                                                   776 000 units of account, and therefore the maximum
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          388 000 units of account ; whereas on 29 March 1976
 Economic Community,                                           the amounts of imports into the Community of
                                                               broom and brush bodies and handles of wood, falling
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                               within subheading 44.25 ex B, originating in Brazil, a
3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­
                                                               country covered by preferential tariff arrangements,
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in
                                                               reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in
developing countries (*), and in particular Article 4 (2)      mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75,
thereof,
                                                               which provides that maximum amounts should not be
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in
provides that customs duties may, for each category of         respect of the products in question in relation to
products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,              Brazil,
expressed in units of account, which will be equal to
 1 5 % of the sum arrived at by adding together the
                                                               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
value of the products in question imported cif into
the Community in 1971 and coming from countries
and territories covered by those arrangements, but not                                    Article 1
including products coming from countries and terri­            As from 6 April 1976, the levying of customs duties,
tories already covered by various preferential tariff          suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
arrangements established by the Community, and                 No     3010/75     of   17   November          1975,  shall be
 5 % of the value of 1972 cif imports coming from              re-established in respect of the following products,
other countries and from countries and territories
                                                               imported into the Community and originating in
already covered by such arrangements ;                         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            44.25              Wooden tools, tool bodies, tool handles,
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                              broom and brush bodies and handles ;
that Regulation ;                                                                 boot and shoe lasts and trees of wood :
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that                            Ex B. Other ; broom and brush bodies
                                                                                         and handles of wood
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­
tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­
                                                                                          Article 2
ries once the relevant Community amount has been
reached ;                                                      This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
Whereas, in respect of broom and brush bodies and              following its publication in the Official Journal of
handles of wood, falling within subheading 44.25 ex            the European Communties.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 2 April 1976.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                     Member of the Commission
(») OJ No L 310, 29. 11 . 1975, p. 70 .