CELEX: 31978R2977
Language: en
Date: 1978-12-15 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2977/78 of 15 December 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on illuminating glassware, signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, not optically worked or of optical glass, falling within subheading 70.14 B and originating Yugoslavia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

No L 355/ 12                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                19 . 12 . 78
                                COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2977/78
                                                 of 15 December 1978
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on illuminating glassware,
               signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, not optically worked or of
               optical glass, falling within subheading 70.14 B and originating in Yugoslavia, to
               which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation ( EEC)
                                                   No 2705 /77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                Whereas, in respect of illuminating glassware,
COMMUNITIES,                                                  signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, not
                                                               optically worked or of optical glass, falling within
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          subheading 70.14 B, the ceiling, calculated as indi­
Economic Community,                                            cated above, should be 1 229 000 units of account, and
                                                               therefore the maximum amount is 368 700 units of
                                                               account ; whereas on 4 December 1978 , the amounts
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC)                      of imports into the Community of illuminating glass­
No 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing prefer­           ware, signalling glassware and optical elements of
ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating     glass, not optically worked or of optical glass, falling
in developing countries ( ! ), and in particular Article 4     within subheading 70.14 B and originating in Yugo­
(2) thereof,                                                   slavia, a country covered by preferential tariff arrange­
                                                               ments, reached that maximum amount ; whereas,
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC)
provides that customs duties may, for each category of         No 2705/77 which provides that maximum amounts
products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,              should not be exceeded , customs duties should be
expressed in units of account, which will be equal —           re-established in respect of the products in question
with the exception of certain products the value of the        in relation to Yugoslavia,
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         As from 22 December 1978 , the levying of customs
ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from           duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
the sum of this addition may in no case exceed                 (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect
225 % of that fixed for 1976 ;
                                                               of the following products, imported into the Commu­
                                                               nity and originating in Yugoslavia :
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 m ximum amount is to            70.14            Illuminating glassware, signalling glassware
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A                               and optical elements of glass, not optically
thereto ; whereas, for these products, this reduced                             worked or of optical glass :
percentage will be 30 % ;                                                       B. Other
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation
provides that customs duties may be re-established at
any time on imports of the products in question origi­                                 Article 2
nating in any of the said 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
(M OJ No L 324, of 19 . 12. 1977, p. 23 .                       the European Communities.
 ---pagebreak--- 19 . 12 . 78                    Official Journal of the European Communities                      No L 355/ 13
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 15 December 1978 .
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                     Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                Member of the Commission