CELEX: 31978R0690
Language: en
Date: 1978-04-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 690/78 of 6 April 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on equipment for parlour, falling within heading No 97.04 and originating in Hong Kong, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

No L 93 / 18                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                   7 . 4 . 78
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 690/78
                                                     of 6 April 1978
                re-establishing the levying of customs duties on equipment for parlour, falling
               within heading No 97.04 and originating in Hong Kong , to which the preferen­
                     tial tariff arrangements set out in Regulation ( EEC) No 2705 /77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 countries or territories — with the exception of those
COMMUNITIES,                                                   listed    in   Annex     C  thereto — once       the  relevant
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          Community amount has been reached ;
Economic Community,                                            Whereas, in respect of equipment for parlour, the
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No                  ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­             8 173 050 units of account, and therefore the
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     maximum is 2 043 263 units of account ; whereas, on
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)      31 March 1978 , the amounts of imports into the
thereof,                                                       Community of equipment for parlour, originating in
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation
                                                                Hong Kong, a country covered by preferential tariff
                                                               arrangements, reached that maximum amount ;
provides that customs duties may, for each category of         whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation
products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,
                                                               ( EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that maximum
expressed in units of account, which will be equal —           amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties
with the exception of certain products the value of the        should be re-established in respect of the products in
ceilings for which is given in Annex A thereto — to
the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the         question in relation to Hong Kong,
products in question imported cif into the Commu­
nity in 1974 and coming from countries and territo­             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
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              As from 10 April 1978 , the levying of customs duties,
 1975 cif imports coming from other countries and               suspended in pursuance of Regulation (EEC) No
from countries and territories already covered by such          2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
arrangements ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting          following products, imported into the Community
 from the sum of this addition may in no case exceed            and originating in Hong Kong :
225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ;
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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 to the aforesaid Regula­
tion should be within a maximum Community                      97.04               Equipment for parlour, table and funfair
amount representing 50 % of that ceiling, with the                                 games for adults or children (including
exception of certain products for which the maximum                                billiard tables and pintables and table­
amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated                                tennis requisites)
 in Annex A thereto ; whereas, for these products, this
 reduced percentage will be 25 % ;
                                                                                           Article 2
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation
 provides that the levying of customs duties may be re­        This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
established at any time in respect of imports of the           following its publication in the Official Journal of
 products in question originating in any of the said            the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
                Done at Brussels, 6 April 1978 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                             Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                Vice-President
(!) OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, p. 23 .