CELEX: 31978R2441
Language: en
Date: 1978-10-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2441/78 of 18 October 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on electrical capacitors, fixed or variable, falling within heading No 85.18, originating in Singapore, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

No L 295/ 16                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                    20. 10. 78
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2441 /78
                                                  of 18 October 1978
                re-establishing the levying of customs duties on electrical capacitors, fixed or
               variable, falling within heading No 85.18 , originating in Singapore, to which the
                preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77
                                                           apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   re-established at any time in respect of imports of the
COMMUNITIES,                                                     products in question originating in any of the said
                                                                 countries or territories — with the exception of those
                                                                 listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            relevant Community amount has been reached ;
 Economic Community,
                                                                 Whereas, in respect of electrical capacitors, fixed or
                                                                 variable, falling within heading No 85.18, the ceiling,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     calculated as indicated above, should be 9 1 30 800
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­               units of account, and therefore the maximum amount
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in       is 1 826 160 units of account ; whereas on 29
developing countries (! ), and in particular Article 4 (2)       September 1978, the amounts of imports into the
thereof,                                                         Community of electrical capacitors, fixed or variable,
                                                                 originating in Singapore, a country covered by prefer­
                                                                 ential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                 amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of
provides that customs duties may, for each category of           Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that
 products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,               maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs
expressed in units of account, which will be equal —             duties should be re-established in respect of the
with the exception of certain products the value of the          products in question in relation to Singapore,
ceilings for which is given in Annex A to the Regula­
 tion in question — to the sum arrived at by adding
 together the value of the products in question
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
by various preferential tariff arrangements established
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif                                         Article 1
 imports coming from other countries and from coun­
 tries and territories already covered by such arrange­
 ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from            As from 23 October 1978, the levying of customs
 the sum of this addition may in no case exceed                  duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
 225 % of the preferential ceiling opened for 1 976 ;            (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect
                                                                 of the following products, imported into the Commu­
                                                                 nity and originating in Singapore :
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
                                                                        No
be within a maximum Community amount repre­
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of
certain products for which the maximum amount is to              85.18             Electrical capacitors, fixed or variable
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this
reduced percentage will be 20 % ;
                                                                                           Article 2
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation
provides that the levying of customs duties may be               This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                 following its publication in the Official Journal of
(i OJ No L 324, 19. 12. 1977, 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, 18 October 1978 .
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                    Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                Member of the Commission