CELEX: 31978R0663
Language: en
Date: 1978-04-03 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 663/78 of 3 April 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on other goatskin and kidskin leather, other, falling within subheading 41.04 B II and originating in India, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

No L 89 / 18                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                    4. 4. 78
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 663/78
                                                      of 3 April 1978
                 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on other goatskin and kidskin
                 leather, other, falling within subheading 41.04 B II and originating in India, to
                 which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regulation (EEC) No
                                                       2705/77 apply
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas, in respect of other goatskin and kidskin
 COMMUNITIES,                                                    leather, other, falling within subheading 41.04 B II,
                                                                 the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be
                                                                 4 544 800    units   of    account,     and   therefore   the
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           maximum amount is 2 272 400 units of account ;
 Economic Community,                                            whereas, on 17 March 1978 , the amounts of imports
                                                                 into the Community of other goatskin and kidskin
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    leather, other, falling within subheading 41.04 B II
 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­              and originating in India, a country covered by prefer­
 tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     ential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum
 developing countries (•), and in particular Article 4 (2)       amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of
 thereof,                                                        Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that
                                                                 maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs
                                                                duties should be re-established in respect of the
 Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                products in question in relation to India,
 provides that customs duties may, for each category of
 products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,
 expressed in units of account, which will be equal —
 with the exception of certain products the value of the
 ceilings for which is given in Annex A thereto — to
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the
 products in question imported cif into the Commu­
 nity in 1974 and coming from countries and territo­
 ries covered by those arrangements, but not including
 products coming from countries and territories already                                    Article 1
 covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­
 blished by the Community, and 5 % of the value of
 1975 cif imports coming from other countries and               As from 7 April 1978 , the levying of customs duties,
 from countries and territories already covered by such         suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
 arrangements ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting          No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
 from the sum of this addition may in no case exceed             following products, imported into the Community
 225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ;              and originating in India :
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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 thereto should be within
 a maximum Community amount representing 50 %                   41.04             Goatskin and kidskin leather, except
 of that ceiling, with the exception of certain products                          leather falling within heading No 41.06 or
 for which the maximum amount is to be reduced to                                 41.08 :
 the percentage indicated in Annex A to the afore-said                            B. Other r
 Regulation ;                                                                         II . Other
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation
provides that the levying of customs duties may be re­
established at any time in respect of imports of the
products in question originating in any of the said                                        Article 2
countries or territories — with the exception of those
listed in     Annex C thereto — once the relevant
Community amount has been reached ;                             This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                following its publication in the Official Journal of
(•) 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, 3 April 1978 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                  Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                              Member of the Commission