CELEX: 31977R2520
Language: en
Date: 1977-11-15 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2520/77 of 15 November 1977 re-establishing  the levying of customs duties on wrought plates, sheets and strip, of copper falling within heading No 74.04, originating in Yugoslavia to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply

No L 293/22                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                  17 . 11 . 77
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2520/77
                                                 of 15 November 1977
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on wrought plates, sheets and strip,
               of copper falling within heading No 74.04, originating in Yugoslavia to which
               the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                      3021 /76 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­
COMMUNITIES,                                                    tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­
                                                                ries — with the exception of those listed in Annex C
                                                                to the same Regulation — once the relevant Commu­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           nity amount has been reached ;
Economic Community,
                                                                Whereas, in respect of wrought plates, sheets and
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    strip, of copper, the ceiling, calculated as indicated
3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­             above, should be 2 963 000 units of account, and there­
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in      fore    the   maximum   amount       is   888 900   units    of
developing countries (1), and in particular Article 4 (2)       account ; whereas on 7 November 1977, the amounts
thereof,                                                        of imports into the Community of wrought plates,
                                                                sheets and strip, of copper, originating in Yugoslavia a
                                                                country covered by preferential tariff arrangements,
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation
                                                                reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­
                                                                mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community
                                                                which provides that maximum amounts should not be
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be           exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in
equal — with the exception of certain products the
                                                                respect of the products in question in relation to
value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to
                                                                Yugoslavia,
the Regulation 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
those arrangements, but not including products
coming from countries and territories already covered            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
by various prefentialp tariff arrangements established by
the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif
imports coming from other countries and from coun­
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­                                  Article 1
ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from
the sum of this addition may in no case exceed
 172-5 % of that resulting from the substitution of the         As from 20 November 1977, the levying of customs
year 1971 for the year 1974 in the first term of the             duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
addition and of the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the          (EEC) No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect
second term of the addition ;                                    of the following products, imported into the Commu­
                                                                 nity and originating in Yugoslavia :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                    OCT
for products originating in any one of the countries or               heading                Description of goods
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should                 No
be within a maximum Community amount repre­
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of              74.04            Wrought plates, sheets and strip, of copper
certain products for which the maximum amount is to
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to
 that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this
 reduced percentage will be 30 % ;
                                                                                        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
                                                                 following its publication in the Official Journal of
(') OJ No L 349, 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, 15 November 1977.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                     Lorenzo NATALI
                                                                       Vice-President