CELEX: 31978R1957
Language: en
Date: 1978-08-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1957/78 of 10 August 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on tableware and other articles of a kind commonly used for domestic or toilet purposes, falling within heading No 69.11, originating in Yugoslavia to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

No L 224/8                          Official Journal of the European Communities                             15 . 8 . 78
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1957/78
                                                   of 10 August 1978
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on tableware and other articles of a
               kind commonly used for domestic or toilet purposes, falling within heading No
               69.11 , originating in Yugoslavia to which the preferential tariff arrangements set
                                out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705 /77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 countries or territories — with the exception of those
COMMUNITIES,                                                   listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the
                                                               relevant Community amount has been reached ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          Whereas, in respect of tableware and other articles of
Economic Community,                                            a kind commonly used for domestic or toilet
                                                               purposes, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above,
                                                               should be 1 549 200 units of account, and therefore
Having regard to Council Regulation            (EEC) No        the maximum amount is 464 760 units of account ;
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 opening            preferential    whereas on 26 July 1978 the amounts of imports into
tariffs for certain products originating in     developing     the Community of tableware and other articles of a
countries ('), and in particular Article 4     (2) thereof,    kind commonly used for domestic or toilet purposes,
                                                               originating in Yugoslavia, a country covered by prefer­
                                                               ential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of
provides that customs duties may, for each category of         Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that
products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,              maximum amounts should not be exceeded , customs
expressed in units of account, which will be equal —           duties should be re-established in respect of the
with the exception of certain products the value of the        products in question 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
ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from           As from 18 August 1978 , the levying of customs
the sum of this addition may in no case exceed                 duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ;              (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect
                                                               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 maximum amount is to            69.11            Tableware and other articles of a kind
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A                               commonly used for domestic or toilet
                                                                                purposes
thereto ; whereas, for these products, this reduced
percentage will be 30 % ;
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation                                        Article 2
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            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, 10 August 1978 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                  fitienne DAVIGNON
                                                              Member of the Commission