30. 11. 89 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 349/7 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3559/89 of 28 November 1989 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on aluminium plates, sheets and strips, of a thickness exceeding 0,2 mm, falling within CN code 7606, originating in Venezuela, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 4257/88 apply THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4257/88 of 19 December 1988 applying generalized tariff preferences for 1989- in -respect -of certain -industrial products originating in developing countries (), and in particular Article 15 thereof, Whereas, pursuant to Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 4257/88, duties-on certain products originating in each of the countries or territories listed in Annex III' thereto © shall be totally suspended and the products as such shall, as a general rule, be subject to statistical suveillance every three months on the reference base referred to in Article 14; Whereas, as provided for in Article 14, where the increase of preferential imports of these products, originating in- one or more beneficiary countries, causes or threatens to cause economic . difficulties in- a region- of the Community, the levying of customs duties may be re-established once the Commission has had an appropriate exchange of information with the Member States ; whereas for this purpose the reference base to be considered shall be, as a general rule, equal to 6 % of the total importations into the Community originating from third countries in 1987; Whereas, in the case of aluminium plates, sheets and strips, of a thickness exceeding 0,2 mm, falling within CN code 7606, originating in Venezuela, -the reference base is fixed at ECU 8288 000 ; whereas; on 22 August 1989, imports of these products into the Community originating in Venezuela reached the reference base in - question after being charged thereagainst; whereas the exchange of information organized by the Commission has demonstrated that continuance of the preference threatens to cause difficulties in a region of the ‘Community ; whereas, it is appropriate to re-establish the levying of customs duties in- respect of the products in question against' Venezuela, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 As from 3 December 1989, the levying of customs duties suspended pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 4257/88, shall be re-established on imports into the-Community of the following products originating in Venezuela, CN code Description e ' 7606 - Aluminium plates, sheets and strip, of a thickness exceeding 0,2 mm: — Rectangular (including square) : 760611 | — — Of aluminium, not alloyed : 7606 11 10 — — — Painted, varnished or plastic-coated — — — Other, of a thickness of : 7606 11 91 — — — — Less than 3 mm 7606 11 93 — — — — Not less than 3 mm but less.than 6 mm 760611 99 — — — — Not less than 6 mm 760612 —~ — Of aluminium alloys : 7606 12 10 — — — Strip for venetian blinds ) — — — Other: 7606 12 50 — — = — Painted, varnished or plastic-coated — — — — Other, of a thickness of : 7606 12 91 = — — — — Less than 3 mm 76061293 | — — — — — Not less-than 3 mm but less than 6 mm 76061299 | — = = - - Not less than 6 mm — Other: 7606 91 00 — — Of aluminium, not alloyed 7606 92 00 — — Of aluminium alloys () OJ No L 375, 31. 12. 1988, p. 1.