CELEX: 31977R2521
Language: en
Date: 1977-11-15 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2521/77 of 15 November 1977 re-establishing  the levying of customs duties on tubes and pipes and blanks therefor, of copper; hollow bars of copper falling within heading No 74.07, originating in developing countries to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply

No L 293/24                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                    17 . 11 . 77
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2521 /77
                                                 of IS November 1977
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on tubes and pipes and blanks
               therefor, of copper ; hollow bars of copper falling within heading No 74.07, origi­
               nating in developing countries to which the preferential tariff arrangements set
                                out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                Whereas, in respect of tubes and pipes and blanks
COMMUNITIES,                                                  therefor, of copper ; hollow bars of copper, the ceiling,
                                                              calculated as indicated above, should be 7 132 000
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          units of account ; whereas on 7 November 1977 the
Economic Community,
                                                              amounts of imports into the Community of the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   products in question, originating in countries and terri­
3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­            tories covered by preferential tariff arrangements,
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     reached that ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)      objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which
thereof,                                                       provides that the ceiling should not be exceeded,
                                                               customs duties should be re-established in respect of
Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that         the products in question,
the customs duties may, for each category of products,
be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed
in units of account, which will be equal — with the            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
exception of certain products the value of the ceilings
for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in                                       Article 1
question — to the sum arrived at by adding together
the value of the products in question imported cif             As from 20 November 1977, the levying of customs
into the Community in 1974 and coming from coun­               duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
tries and territories covered by those arrangements,           (EEC) No 3021 /76 shall be re-established in respect of
but not including products coming from countries               the following products, imported into the Commu­
and territories already covered by various preferential        nity :
tariff arrangements established by the Community,
and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif imports coming                       CCT
from other countries and from countries and territo­                heading                    Description of goods
                                                                       No
ries already covered by such arrangements ; whereas,
however, the ceiling resulting from the sum of this
addition may in no case exceed 172-5 % of that                 74.07              Tubes and pipes and blanks therefor, of
resulting from the substitution of the year 1971 for                              copper ; hollow bars of copper
the year 1974 in the first term of the addition and of
the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the second term of
the addition ;                                                                           Article 2
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation provides that       This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
the customs duties may be re-established at any time           following its publication in the Official Journal of
once the Community ceiling has been reached ;                  the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 15 November 1977.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                             Lorenzo NATALI
                                                                              Vice-President
(') OJ No L 349, 20 . 12. 1976, p. 23 .