CELEX: 31978R1961
Language: en
Date: 1978-08-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1961/78 of 10 August 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on filament lamps for lighting, falling within subheading 85.20 A, originating in Hong Kong to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

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                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1961 /78
                                                    of 10 August 1978
                 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on filament lamps for lighting,
                 falling within subheading 85.20 A, originating in Hong Kong to which the pref­
                 erential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77
                                                            apply
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   countries or territories — with the exception of those
 COMMUNITIES,                                                     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 filament lamps for lighting, the
                                                                  ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be
                                                                  3 835 000 units of account, and therefore the
                                                                  maximum amount is 958 750 units of account ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation            (EEC) No          whereas on 27 July 1978 the amounts of imports into
 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 opening           preferential       the Community of filament lamps for lighting, origi­
 tariffs for certain products originating in    developing        nating in Hong Kong, a country covered by preferen­
 countries ('), and in particular Article 4    (2) thereof,       tial tariff arrrangements, reached that maximum
                                                                  amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of
                                                                  Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that
 Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                 maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs
 provides that customs duties may, for each category of          duties should be re-established in respect of the
 products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,                products in question in relation to Hong Kong,
 expressed in units of account, which will be equal —
 with the exception of certain products the value of the
 ceilings for which is given in Annex A to the Regula­
 tion in question — to the sum arrived at by adding
 together the value of the products in question
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 imported cif into the Community in 1974 and
 coming from countries and territories covered by
 those arrangements, but not including products
 coming from countries and territories already covered
 by various preferential tariff arrangements established                                   Article 1
 by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif
 imports coming from other countries and from coun­
 tries and territories already covered by such arrange­          As from 18 August 1978 , the levying of customs
 ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from            duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
 the sum of this addition may in no case exceed                  (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect
 225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ;               of the following products, imported into the Commu­
                                                                 nity and originating in Hong Kong :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                     CCT
                                                                       heading                     Description
 for products originating in any one of the countries or                 No
 territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                      85.20            Electric filament lamps and electric
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                               discharge lamps (including infra-red and
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                               ultra-violet lamps) ; arc lamps :
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A                                 A. Filament lamps for lighting
thereto ; whereas, for these products, this reduced
 percentage will be 25 % ;
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation                                          Article 2
provides that the levying of customs duties may be
re-established at any time in respect of imports of the
products in question originating in aoy of the said              This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                 following its publication in the Official Journal of
(') 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, 10 August 1978 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                   fitienne DAVIGNON
                                                               Member of the Commission