CELEX: 31978R0743
Language: en
Date: 1978-04-12 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 743/78 of 12 April 1978 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on melamine, falling within subheading No 29.35 ex Q, originating in Mexico, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

13 . 4. 78                          Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 100/ 17
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 743/78
                                                     of 12 April 1978
                 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on melamine, falling within
                 subheading No 2935 ex Q, originating in Mexico, to which the preferential tariff
                       arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  products in question originating in any of the said
 COMMUNITIES,                                                   countries or territories — with the exception of those
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the
 Economic Community,                                            relevant Community amount has been reached ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   Whereas, in respect of melamine, falling within
 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­             subheading No 29.35 ex Q, the ceiling, calculated as
                                                                indicated above, should be 486 000 units of account,
 tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     and therefore the maximum amount is 243 000 units
 developing countries (*), and in particular Article 4 (2)
 thereof,                                                       of account ; whereas on 7 April 1978, the amounts of
                                                                imports into the Community of melamine, falling
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                within subheading No 29.35 ex Q, originating in
 provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­           Mexico, a country covered by preferential tariff arran­
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                gements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas,
 ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be          bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC)
 equal — with the exception of certain products the             No 2705/77 which provides that maximum amounts
 value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to         should not be exceeded, customs duties should be re­
 the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by          established in respect of the products in question in
 adding together the value of the products in question          relation to Mexico,
 imported cif into the Community in 1974 and
 coming from countries and territories covered by               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 those arrangements, but not including products
 coming from countries and territories already covered                                    Article 1
 by various preferential tariff arrangements established        As from 16 April 1978, the levying of customs duties,
 by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif             suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
 imports coming from other countries and from coun­             No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
 tries and territories already covered by such arrange­         following products, imported into the Community
 ments ; however the ceiling resulting from the sum of          and originating in Mexico :
 this addition may in no case exceed 225 % of the pref­
 erential ceiling open for 1976 ;
                                                                      CCT
 Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                 heading                      Description
 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                    29.35              Heterocyclic compounds ; nucleic acids :
 senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                               ex Q. Melamine
 certain products for which the maximum amount is to
 be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to
 that Regulation ;                                                                        Article 2
 Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation               This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
 provides that the levying of customs duties may be re­         following its publication in the Official Journal of
 established at any time in respect of imports of the           the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                 Done at Brussels, 12 April 1978 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                             Guido BRUNNER
                                                                      Member of the Commission
(») OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, p. 23 .