CELEX: 31977R2603
Language: en
Date: 1977-11-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2603/77 of 25 November 1977 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on primary cells and primary batteries falling within heading No 85.03, originating in Hong Kong to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply

No L 302/38                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                 26. 11 . 77
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2603/77
                                                  of 25 November 1977
                 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on primary cells and primary
                 batteries falling within heading No 85.03 , originating in Hong Kong 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 primary cells and primary
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    batteries, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above,
 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­             should be 4 441 000 units of account, and therefore
 tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in      the maximum amount is 1 332 300 units of account ;
 developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)       whereas on 15 November 1977, the amounts of
 thereof,                                                        imports into the Community of primary cells and
                                                                 primary batteries, originating in Hong Kong, 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
                                                                 Hong Kong,
 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 preferential 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 29 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 Hong Kong :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                     CCT
 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              85.03            Primary cells and primary batteries
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, 25 November 1977.
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                    Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                Member of the Commission