CELEX: 31977R2456
Language: en
Date: 1977-11-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2456/77 of 8 November 1977 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on gelatin and gelatin derivatives, falling within subheading 35.03 ex B, originating in Brazil to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply

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                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2456/77
                                                  of 8 November 1977
                re-establishing the levying of customs duties on gelatin and gelatin derivatives,
                falling within subheading 35.03 ex B, originating in Brazil to which the preferen­
               tial tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                ries — with the exception of those listed in Annex C
COMMUNITIES,                                                  to the same Regulation — once the relevant Commu­
                                                              nity amount has been reached ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                           Whereas, in respect of gelatin and gelatin derivatives
                                                              falling within subheading 35.03 ex B, the ceiling,
                                                              calculated as indicated above , should be 623 000 units
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                  of account, and therefore the maximum amount is
3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­            186 900 units of account ; whereas on 26 October
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in    1977, the amounts of imports into the Community of
developing countries (J), and in particular Article 4 (2)     gelatin and gelatin derivatives falling within
thereof,                                                      subheading 35.03 ex B, originating in Brazil, a country
                                                              covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation              that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­          objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community              provides that maximum amounts should not be
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be         exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in
equal — with the exception of certain products the            respect of the products in question in relation to
value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to        Brazil ,
the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by
adding together the value of the products in question
imported cif into the Community in 1974 and
coming from countries and territories covered by              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
those arrangements, but not including products
coming from countries and territories already covered
by various preferential tariff arrangements established
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif                                     Article 1
imports coming from other countries and from coun­
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­        As from 12 November 1977, the levying of customs
ments ; however the ceiling resulting from the sum of         duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
this addition may in no case exceed 172-5 % of that           (EEC) No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect
resulting from the substitution of the year 1971 for          of the following products, imported into the Commu­
the year 1974 in the first term of the addition and of        nity and originating in Brazil :
the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the second term of
the addition ;
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                                                                    heading                Description of goods
                                                                      No
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
for products originating in any one of the countries or
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should       35.03            Gelatin (including gelatin in rectangles,
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                                    whether or not coloured or surface-worked)
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                            and gelatin derivatives ; glues derived from
                                                                               bones, hides, nerves, tendons or from
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                            similar products, and fish glues ; isinglass :
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this                            ex B. Gelatin and gelatin derivatives
reduced percentage will be 30 % ;
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that
                                                                                       Article 2
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     This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                               following its publication in the Official Journal of
(!) OJ No L 349, 20 . 12. 1976, p. 23 .                        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, 8 November 1977 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                      Richard BURKE
                                                               Member of the Commission