CELEX: 31978R3035
Language: en
Date: 1978-12-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3035/78 of 21 December 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on sewing machines, falling within subheading 84.41 A I b) and originating in developing countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

No L 359/44                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                    22. 12. 78
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3035/78
                                                 of 21 December 1978
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on sewing machines, falling within
               subheading 84.41 Alb) and originating in developing countries, to which the
               preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77
                                                           apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of
COMMUNITIES,                                                     Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            ceiling should not be exceeded, customs duties should
Economic Community,                                              be re-established in respect of the products in ques­
                                                                 tion,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in
developing countries (!), and in particular Article 4 (2)
                                                                                              Article 1
thereof,
Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that           As from 25 December 1978, the levying of customs
customs duties may, for each category of products, be            duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed in                (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect
units of account, which will be equal — with the                 of the following products, imported into the Commu­
exception of certain products the value of the ceilings          nity, coming from any beneficiary country or territory,
for which is given in Annex A thereto — to the sum               with the exception of those listed in Annex C
                                                                 thereto :
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                   CCT
those arrangements, but not including products                        heading                         Description
                                                                        No
coming from countries and territories already covered
by various preferential tariff arrangements established
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif               84.41               Sewing machines ; furniture specially
imports coming from other countries and from coun­                                   designed for sewing machines ; sewing
                                                                                     machine needles :
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­
ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from                                 A. Sewing machines ; furniture specially
the sum of this addition may in no case exceed                                           designed for sewing machines :
225 % of that fixed for 1976 ;                                                           I. Sewing machines (lock-stitch only),
Whereas Article 2 (1 ) and (3) of that Regulation                                           with heads of a weight not exceeding
                                                                                             16 kg without motor or 17 kg
provides that customs duties may be re-established at                                       including the motor ; sewing
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­                                     machine heads (lock-stitch only), of
tion coming from any country or territory, with the                                         a weight not exceeding 16 kg
exception of those listed in Annex C thereto, once the                                      without motor or 17 kg including
Community ceiling has been reached ;                                                        the motor :
Whereas, in respect of sewing machines falling within                                       b) Other
subheading 84.41 A I b), the ceiling, calculated as indi­
cated above, should be 3 983 000 units of account ;
                                                                                              Article 2
whereas, on 18 December 1978, the amounts of
imports into the Community of the products in ques­              This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
tion, originating in countries and territories covered           following its publication in the Official Journal of
by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that                the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 21 December 1978 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                              Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                       Member of the Commission
(!) OJ No L 324, 19. 12. 1977, p. 23.