CELEX: 31977R1794
Language: en
Date: 1977-08-02 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1794/77 of 2 August 1977 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on acrylic polymers, methacrylic polymers and acrylo-methacrylic copolymers, in the form of plates, sheets, etc., falling within subheading 39.02 C ex XII, originating in Thailand to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply

4. 8 . 77                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                   No L 197/21
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1794/77
                                                    of 2 August 1977
                re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on acrylic polymers, methac­
                rylic polymers and acrylo-methacrylic copolymers, in the form of plates, sheets,
                etc., falling within subheading 39.02 C ex XII, originating in Thailand to which
                the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                      3021 /76 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  form of plates, sheets, etc., falling within subheading
COMMUNITIES,                                                    39.02 C ex II, the ceiling, calculated as indicated
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           above, should be 259 178 units of account, and there­
                                                                fore    the  maximum       amount      is   1 29 589     units   of
Economic Community,
                                                                account ; whereas on 29 July 1977, the amounts of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                imports into the Community of acrylic polymers,
3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­
                                                                methacrylic polymers and acrylo-methacrylic copoly­
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in
                                                                mers, in the form of plates, sheets, etc., falling within
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)
thereof,
                                                                subheading 39.02 C ex II, originating in Thailand, 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 Thai­
value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A of          land ,
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                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
coming from countries and territories covered by
those arrangements, but not including products
                                                                                           Article 1
coming from countries and territories already covered
by various preferential tariff arrangements established
                                                                As from 7 August 1 977, the levying of customs duties,
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif
                                                                suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
imports coming from other countries and from coun­
                                                                No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect of the
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­
ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from            following products, imported into the Community
                                                                and originating in Thailand :
the sum of this addition may in no case exceed
 172-5 % of that resulting from the substitution of the                CCT
year 1971 for the year 1974 in the first term of the                 heading                   Description of goods
                                                                        No
addition and of the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the
second term of the addition ;
                                                                39.02            Polymerisation         and      copolymerisation
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                              products (for example, polyethylene, polyte­
for products originating in any one of the countries or                          trahaloethylenes, polyisobutylene, polysty­
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should                          rene, polyvinyl chloride, polyvinyl acetate,
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                                      polyvinyl chloroacetate and other poly­
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                              vinyl derivatives, polyacrylic and polyme­
                                                                                 thacrylic derivatives, coumarone-indene
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                              resins) :
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                             C. Other :
that Regulation ;                                                                    ex XII. Acrylic polymers, methacrylic
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that                                          polymers          and       acrylo­
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at                                          methacrylic copolymers, in
                                                                                                the form of plates, sheets,
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­                                         film, foil and strip (other than
tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­                                       that classified in heading No
ries — with the exception of those listed in Annex C                                            51.02 by the application of
of the same Regulation — once the relevant Commu­                                               Note 4 to Chapter 51 ),
nity amount has been reached ;                                                                 whether or not printed or
                                                                                                otherwise          surface-worked,
Whereas, in respect of acrylic polymers, methacrylic                                            uncut or cut into rectangles
polymers and acrylo-methacrylic copolymers, in the                                              but not further worked (even
                                                                                                if, when so cut, they become
                                                                                                articles ready for use)
(') OJ No L 349, 20. 12. 1976, p. 23 .
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                                                 Article 2
          This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the
          Official Journal of the European Communities.
          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States .
          Done at Brussels, 2 August 1977.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                  Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                              Member of the Commission