CELEX: 31976R1853
Language: en
Date: 1976-07-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1853/76 of 28 July 1976 on the definition of the concept of originating products for purposes of the application of tariff preferences granted by the European Economic Community in respect of certain products from developing countries

30. 7. 76                            Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 204/ 15
                               COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1853/76
                                                     of 28 July 1976
              on the definition of the concept of originating products for purposes of the
              application of tariff preferences granted by the European Economic Community
                          in respect of certain products from developing countries
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                 Article 1
Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    For purposes of implementing Regulation (EEC) No
1749/76 of 20 July 1976 amending Regulation (EEC)               1749/76, the provisions of Regulation (EEC) No
No 3015/75 opening, allocating and providing for the            3214/75 shall apply.
administration of a Community tariff quota for raw or
unmanufactured flue-cured Virginia type tobacco orgi­
nating in developing countries (t),                                                   Article 2
Whereas    rules   should   be   established    for  those
                                                               Without prejudice to Article 8 of Regulation (EEC)
products falling within subheading 24.01 ex A I of the          No 3214/75, the certificate of origin 'form A' for raw
Common Customs Tariff referred to in the said Regu­            or unmanufactured flue-cured Virginia type tobacco
lation to define the conditions in which they acquire           falling within subheading 24.01 ex A I of the
the character of originating products, the mode of              Common Customs Tariff, originating in developing
proof and the terms as to verification thereof ; whereas       countries, which, at the time of the entry into force of
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3214/75 of 3                     the provisions concerning the tariff preferences
December 1975 on the definition of the concept of               accorded to these products, were either in transit or
originating products for the purposes of the applica­           being held in the Community under temporary ware­
tion of tariff preferences granted by the European              house procedure, in customs warehouses or in free
Economic Community in respect of certain deve­                  zones, may be produced, together with documentary
loping countries (2), should be adopted for this               evidence of direct transport, within six months from
purpose ;                                                       the date of entry into force of this Regulation .
Whereas it is necessary to provide transitional provi­
sions for the said products ;                                                         Article 3
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 August
on Origin,                                                      1976 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 28 July 1976.
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                          Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                      Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 196, 22. 7. 1976, p. 3 .
(2) OJ No L 323, 15. 12. 1975, p. 1 .