CELEX: 31976R2305
Language: en
Date: 1976-09-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2305/76 of 23 September 1976 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on woodscrews falling within subheading 73.32 ex II, originating in Hong Kong, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975 apply

24. 9. 76                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 260/ 15
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2305 /76
                                                    of 23 September 1976
                re-establishing the levying* of the customs duties on woodscrews falling within
                subheading 73.32 B ex II , originating in Hong Kong , 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                                    ries once the relevant Community amount has been
COMMUNITIES,                                                      reached ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            Whereas, in respect of woodscrews, the ceiling, calcu­
 Economic Community,                                              lated as indicated above, should be 2 993 000 units of
                                                                  account, and therefore the maximum amount is
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                   1 496 500 units of account ; whereas on 20 September
3010/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in        1976 the amounts of imports into the Community of
                                                                  woodscrews originating in Hong Kong, a country
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)
thereof,                                                          covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached
                                                                  that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                  objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 which
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­              provides that maximum amounts should not be
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                  exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be             respect of the products in question in relation to
equal to 115 % of the sum arrived at by adding                    Hong Kong,
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                                             Article I
coming from countries and territories already covered
by various preferential tariff arrangements established           As from 27 September 1976, the levying of customs
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1972 cif                duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
imports coming from other countries and from coun­                (EEC) No 3010/75 of 17 November 1975, shall be
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­            re-established in respect of the following products,
 ments ;                                                          imported into the Community and originating in
                                                                  Hong Kong :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
for products originating in any one of the countries or
                                                                        CCT
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should                heading                  Description of goods
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                              No
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of
certain products for which the maximum amount is to               73.32 B ex II      Woodscrews
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to
 that Regulation ;
                     «
                                                                                           Article 2
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that
 the levying of customs duties may be re-established at           This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­           following its publication in the Official Journal of
 tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­        the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 23 September 1976 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                               Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                        Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 310 , 29 . 11 . 1975 , p . 70 .