CELEX: 31978R0921
Language: en
Date: 1978-04-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 921/78 of 28 April 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on fibre building board of wood or other vegetable material, falling within heading No 44.11 and originating in Brazil, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

No L 119/20                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                     3. 5. 78
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 921 /78
                                                    of 28 April 1978
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on fibre building board of wood or
               other vegetable material , falling within heading No 44.11 and originating in
                Brazil , to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regulation (EEC)
                                                    No 2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  listed    in  Annex   C thereto — once            the  relevant
COMMUNITIES,                                                    Community amount has been reached ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          Whereas, in respect of fibre building board of wood or
Economic Community,                                             other vegetable material, falling within heading No
                                                                44.11 , the ceiling, calculated as indicated above,
                                                                should be 10 363 500 units of account, and therefore
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    the maximum amount is 3 109 050 units of account ;
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­             whereas, on 25 April 1978 , the amounts of imports
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in      into the Community of fibre building board of wood
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)       or other vegetable material, falling within heading No
thereof,                                                        44.1 1 and originating in Brazil, a country covered by
                                                                preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
                                                                maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which
provides that customs duties may, for each category of          provides that maximum amounts should not be
products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,               exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in
expressed in units of account, which will be equal —            respect of the products in question in relation to
with the exception of certain products the value of the         Brazil ,
ceilings for which is given in Annex A thereto — to
the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the
products in question imported cif into the Commu­
nity in 1974 and coming from countries and territo­
ries covered by those arrangements, but not including           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
products coming from countries and territories already
covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­
blished by the Community, and 5 % of the value of
1975 cif imports coming from other countries and
from countries and territories already covered by such                                    Article 1
arrangements ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting
from the sum of this addition may in no case exceed
225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ;               As from 6 May 1978 , the levying of customs duties,
                                                                suspended in pursuance of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts             following products, imported into the Community
for products originating in any one of the countries or         and originating in Brazil :
territories listed in Annex B to the afore-said Regula­
tion should be within a maximum Community                              CCT
                                                                      heading                       Description
amount representing 50 % of that ceiling, with the                      No
exception of certain products for which the maximum
amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated             44.1 1            Fibre building board of wood or other vege­
in Annex A thereto ; whereas, for these products, this                            table material , whether or not bonded with
reduced percentage will be 30 % ;                                                 natural or artificial    resins or with other
                                                                                  organic binders
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation
provides that the levying of customs duties may be re-                                    Article 2
established at any time in respect of imports of the
products in question originating in any of the said
countries or territories — with the exception of those          This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                following its publication in the Official journal of
(') OJ No L 324, 19 . 12 . 1977, p. 23 .                        the European Communities.    ies.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 28 April 1978 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                              Member of the Commission