CELEX: 31978R2972
Language: en
Date: 1978-12-15 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2972/78 of 15 December 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on wood sawn lengthwise, sliced or peeled but not further prepared, etc., falling within subheading 44.14 B and originating in developing countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

19 . 12 . 78                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                   No L 355/ 5
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2972/78
                                                  of 15 December 1978
                re-establishing the levying of customs duties on wood sawn lengthwise , sliced or
                peeled but not further prepared , etc ., falling within subheading 44.14 B and origi­
                nating in developing countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set
                                out in Council Regulation ( EEC) No 2705 /77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  subheading 44.14 B, the ceiling, calculated as indi­
COMMUNITIES,                                                    cated above, should be 27 506 000 units of account ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           whereas on 4 December 1978 the amounts of imports
Economic Community,                                             into the Community of the products in question , origi­
                                                                nating in countries and territories covered by preferen­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    tial tariff arrangements, reached that ceiling ; whereas,
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­              bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC)
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in      No 2705/77 which provides that maximum amounts
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)       should not be exceeded , customs duties should be
thereof,                                                        re-established in respect of the products in question,
Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that
customs duties may, for each category of products, be           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed in
units of account, which will be equal — with the                                           Article 1
exception of certain products the value of the ceilings
for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in              As    from      22    December      1978 ,     customs   duties,
question — to the sum arrived at by adding together             suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
the value of the products in question imported cif              No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
into the Community in 1974 and coming from coun­                following products, imported into the Community,
tries and territories covered by those arrangements,            coming from any beneficiary country or territory, with
but not including products coming from countries                the exception of those listed in Annex C to Regula­
and territories already covered by various preferential         tion (EEC) No 2705/77 :
tariff arrangements established by the Community,
and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif imports coming                       CCT
                                                                     heading                        Description
from other countries and from countries and territo­                   No
ries already covered by such arrangements ; whereas
however, the ceiling resulting from the sum of this             44.14               Wood sawn lengthwise, sliced or peeled
addition may in no case exceed 225 % of that fixed                                  but not further prepared, of a thickness not
for 1976 ;                                                                          exceeding 5 mm ; veneer sheets and sheets
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation                                  for plywood, of a thickness not exceeding
                                                                                    5 mm :
provides that customs duties may be re-established at
any time on imports of the products in question origi­                              B. Other
nating in any of the said countries or territories, with
the exception of those listed in Annex C to that Regu­
lation , once the Community ceiling has been                                               Article 2
reached ;
                                                                This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
Whereas, in respect of wood sawn lengthwise, sliced             following its publication in the Official Journal of
or peeled but not further prepared , etc ., falling within       the European Communities.
                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
(') OJ No L 324, 19. 12. 1977, p. 23 .