CELEX: 31977R0798
Language: en
Date: 1977-04-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 798/77 of 19 April 1977 re-establishing the levying of the 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 3021/76 apply

21 . 4. 77                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 97/ 15
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 798/77
                                                    of 19 April 1977
                re-establishing the levying of the 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 3021 /76 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­
COMMUNITIES,                                                   ries — with the exception of those listed in Annex C
                                                               of 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 broom and brush bodies and
                                                               handles of wood, falling within subheading 44.25 ex
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   B, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be
3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­             1 1 64 000 units of account, and therefore the
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     maximum amount is 349 200 units of account ;
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)      whereas on 8 April 1977, the amounts of imports into
thereof,                                                       the Community of broom and brush bodies and
                                                               handles of wood, falling within subheading 44.25 ex
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               B, originating in Brazil, a country covered by preferen­
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­           tial tariff arrangements, reached that maximum
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community               amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be          Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which provides that
equal — with the exception of certain products of the          maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs
value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A of         duties should be re-established in respect of the
the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by          products in question in relation to Brazil,
adding together the value of the products in question
imported cif into the Community in 1974 and
coming from countries and territories covered by
those arrangements, but not including products                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
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
ments ; however the ceiling resulting from the sum of          As from 24 April 1977, the levying of customs duties,
this addition may in no case exceed 172-5 % of that            suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
resulting from the substitution of the year 1971 for           No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect of the
the year 1974 in the first term of the addition and of         following products, imported into the Community
the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the second term of          and originating in Brazil :
the addition ;
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                                                                     heading                Description of goods
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                    No
for products originating in any one of the countries or
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should        44.25            Wooden tools, tool bodies, tool handles,
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                                     broom and brush bodies and handles ;
                                                                                boot and shoe lasts and trees of wood :
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                             ex B. Other : broom and brush bodies and
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                                   handles of wood
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this
reduced percentage will be 30 % ;
                                                                                        Article 2
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­        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, 19 April 1977 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                   Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                               Member of the Commission