CELEX: 31976R1176
Language: en
Date: 1976-05-19
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1176/76 of 19 May 1976 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on electric accumulators, lead-acid accumulators, falling within subheading 85.04 A, originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 apply

No L 131 / 16                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                    20 . 5 . 76
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1176/76
                                                       of 19 May 1976
                re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on electric accumulators, lead-
                acid accumulators , falling within subheading 85.04 A , originating in Yugoslavia,
                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                                    Whereas, in respect of electric accumulators, lead-acid
COMMUNITIES,                                                      accumulators, falling within subheading 85.04 A, the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be
Economic Community,                                               1 548 000 units of account, and therefore the
                                                                  maximum amount is 309 600 units of account ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     whereas on 17 May 1976, the amounts of imports into
3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­                the Community of electric accumulators, lead-acid
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in        accumulators, falling within subheading 85.04 A, origi­
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)         nating in Yugoslavia, a country covered by preferential
thereof,
                                                                  tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ;
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                 whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­             (EEC) No 3010/75 which provides that maximum
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                 amounts should not be exceeded , customs duties
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be            should be re-established in respect of the products in
equal to 115 % of the sum arrived at by adding                   question in relation to Yugoslavia,
together the value of the products in question
imported cif into the Community in 1971 and
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
coming from countries and territories covered by
those arrangements, but not including products
coming from countries and territories already covered                                        Article 1
by various preferential tariff arrangements established
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1972 cif               As from 23 May 1976, the levying of customs duties,
imports coming from other countries and from coun­               suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
                                                                  No     3010 /75    of   17   November          1975, shall    be
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­
ments ;                                                           re-established in respect of the following products,
                                                                  imported into the Community and originating in
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts              Yugoslavia :
for products originating in any one of the countries or
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should
                                                                        CCT
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                            heading                   Description of goods
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                      No
certain products for which the maximum amount is to
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to              85.04              Electric accumulators :
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this                                  A. Lead-acid accumulators
reduced percentage will be 20 % ;
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at                                       Article 2
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­
tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­        This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
ries once the relevant Community amount has been                  following its publication in the Official Journal of
reached ;                                                         the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 19 May 1976 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                               Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                        Member of the Commission
(•) OJ No L 310 , 29 . 11 . 1975 , p. 70 .