CELEX: 31978R1216
Language: en
Date: 1978-06-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1216/78 of 6 June 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on wood, planed, tongued, grooved, etc., falling within heading No 44.13, originating in Brazil to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

7 . 6 . 78                           Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 151 / 5
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1216/ 78
                                                      of 6 June 1978
                re-establishing the levying of customs duties on wood, planed , tongued, grooved ,
                etc ., falling within heading No 44.13 , originating in Brazil to which the preferen­
                tial tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation ( EEC) No 2705 / 77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  Whereas, in respect of wood , planed, tongued,
COMMUNITIES,                                                    grooved , etc., falling within heading No 44.13 , the
                                                                ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be
                                                                8 839 800 units of account, and therefore the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           maximum amount is 4 419 900 units of account ;
Economic Community,                                             whereas on 1 June 1978 the amounts of imports into
                                                                the Community of wood , planed, tongued , grooved ,
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No                   etc ., falling within heading No 44.13 , originating in
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­              Brazil , a country covered by preferential tariff arrange­
                                                                ments, reached that maximum amount ; whereas ,
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in
                                                                bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC)
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)
thereof,                                                        No 2705/77 which provides that maximum amounts
                                                                should not be exceeded , customs duties should be re­
                                                                established in respect of the products in question in
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                relation to Brazil ,
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be
equal — with the exception of certain products the
value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to
the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
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
                                                                                          Article 1
coming from countries and territories already covered
by various preferential tariff arrangements established
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif
imports coming from other countries and from coun­              As from 10 June 1978 , the levying of customs duties,
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­          suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation ( EEC)
ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from            No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
the sum of this addition may in no case exceed                  following products, imported into the Community
225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ;               and originating in Brazil :
                                                                       CCT
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                   heading
                                                                        No
                                                                                                  Description
for products originating in any one of the countries or
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                     44.13             Wood (including blocks, strips and friezes
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                               for parquet or wood block flooring, not
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                               assembled), planed, tongued, grooved,
                                                                                  rebated, chamfered , V-jointed, centre V-
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                              jointed, beaded, centre-beaded or the like,
that Regulation ;                                                                 but not further manufactured
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) 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 question originating in any of the said                                       Article 2
countries or territories — with the exception of those
listed   in   Annex     C   thereto — once    the  relevant
Community amount has been reached ;                             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.
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             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 6 June 1978 .
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                      Guido BRUNNER
                                                                Member of the Commission