CELEX: 31977R1488
Language: en
Date: 1977-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1488/77 of 1 July 1977 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on tableware and other articles of a kind commonly used for domestic or toilet purposes, of porcelain or china, falling within heading No 69.11, originating in Yugoslavia to which preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply

No L 164/ 32                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                 2.7.77
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1488/77
                                                         of 1 July 1977
                re-establishing the levying of customs duties on tableware and other articles of a
                kind commonly used for domestic or toilet purposes, of porcelain or china,
                falling within heading No 69.11 , originating in Yugoslavia to which the preferen­
                tial 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
                                                                   to 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 tableware and other articles of
                                                                   a kind commonly used for domestic or toilet
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       purposes, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above,
3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­                should be 1 291 000 units of account, and therefore
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in         the maximum amount is 387 300 units of account ;
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)          whereas on 20 June 1977, the amounts of imports
thereof,                                                           into the Community of tableware and other articles of
                                                                   a kind commonly used for domestic or toilet
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                   purposes, originating in Yugoslavia a country covered
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­               by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                   maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be              objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which
equal — with the exception of certain products the                  provides that maximum amounts should not be
value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to             exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in
the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by               respect of the products in question in relation to
adding together the value of the products in question              Yugoslavia,
imported cif into the Community in 1974 and
coming from countries and territories covered by
those arrangements, but not including products
coming from countries and territories already covered               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
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
                                                                                            Article 1
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­
 ments ; however the ceiling resulting from the sum of
 this addition may in no case exceed 172-5% of that                 As from 5 July 1977, the levying of customs duties,
 resulting from the substitution of the year 1971 for               suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
 the year 1974 in the first term of the addition and of             No 3021 / 76, shall be re-established in respect of the
 the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the second term of              following products, imported into the Community
 the addition ;                                                     and originating in Yugoslavia :
                                                                           CCT
 Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                      heading               Description of goods
 for products originating in any one of the countries or                    No
 territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should
 be within a maximum Community amount repre­                        69.1 1          Tableware and other articles of a kind
 senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                                commonly used for domestic or toilet
 certain products for which the maximum amount is to                                purposes, of porcelain or china (including
 be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                               biscuit porcelain and parian )
 that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this
 reduced percentage will be 30 % .
 Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that                                     Article 2
 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 ?>49 , 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, 1 July 1977.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                  Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                              Member of the Commission