CELEX: 31978R1897
Language: en
Date: 1978-08-02
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1897/78 of 2 August 1978 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on tubes and pipes and blanks therefor, of copper; falling within heading No 74.07 and originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

5 . 8 . 78                          Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 216/37
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1897/78
                                                    of 2 August 1978
                re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on tubes and pipes and blanks
                therefor, of copper ; falling within heading No 74.07 and originating in Yugos­
                lavia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regula­
                                              tion (EEC) No 2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   products in question originating in any of the said
 COMMUNITIES,                                                   countries or territories — with the exception of those
                                                                listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the
                                                                relevant Community amount has been reached ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,
                                                                Whereas, in respect of tubes and pipes and blanks
                                                                therefor, of copper ; hollow bars of copper, the ceiling,
                                                                calculated as indicated above, should be 7 132 000
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    units of account, and therefore the maximum amount
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­              is 2 139 600 units of account ; whereas on 24 July
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in       1978 , the amounts of imports into the Community of
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)       tubes and pipes and blanks therefor, of copper ;
thereof,
                                                                hollow bars of copper, originating in Yugoslavia, a
                                                                country covered by preferential tariff arrangements,
                                                                reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­            which provides that maximum amounts should not be
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be           respect of the products in question in relation to
equal — with the exception of certain products the              Yugoslavia,
value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to
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                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 ; however, the ceiling resulting from the sum of         -As from 8 August 1978, the levying of customs duties,
this addition may in no case exceed 225 % of the pref­          suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
erential cerling open for 1976 ;                                No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
                                                                following products, imported into the Community
                                                                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 Id .           74.07           Tubes and pipes and blanks therefor, of
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to '                          copper ; hollow bars of copper
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this
reduced percentage will be 30 % ;
                                                                                        Article 2
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation
provides that the levying of customs duties may be
re-established at any time in respect of imports of the        This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                               following its publication in the Official Journal of
V) 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, 2 August 1978 .
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                  Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                             Member of the Commission