CELEX: 31977R2312
Language: en
Date: 1977-10-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2312/77 of 20 October 1977 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on electronic calculating machines falling within subheading 84.52 A, originating in Singapore, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply

No L 269 /30                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                 21 . 10 . 77
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2312/77
                                                   of 20 October 1977
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on electronic calculating machines
                falling within subheading 84.52 A, originating in Singapore, to which the prefer­
                 ential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 ries — with the exception of those listed in Annex C
COMMUNITIES,                                                   to the same Regulation — once the relevant Commu­
                                                               nity amount has been reached ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                            Whereas, in respect of electronic calculating
                                                               machines, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above,
                                                               should be 21 363 000 units of account, and therefore
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   the maximum amount is 7 477 050 units of account ;
3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­            whereas, on 14 October 1977, the amounts of imports
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     into the Community of electronic calculating
developing countries ( J ), and in particular Article 4 (2)    machines originating in Singapore, a country covered
thereof,                                                       by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
                                                               maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
                                                               objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76, which
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               provides that maximum amounts should not be
provides that customs duties may, for each category of         exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in
products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,              respect of the products in question in relation to
expressed in units of account, which will be equal —           Singapore,
with the exception of certain products the value of the
ceilings for which is given in Annex A thereof — to
the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the
products in question imported cif into the Commu­
nity in 1974 and coming from countries and territo­            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
ries covered by those arrangements, but not including
products coming from countries and territories already
covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­
blished by the Community, and 5 % of the value of                                      Article 1
1974 cif imports coming from other countries and
from countries and territories already covered by such
arrangements ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting         From 24 October 1977, the levying of customs duties,
from the sum of this addition may in no case exceed            suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
 172-5 % of that resulting from the substitution of the        No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect of the
year 1971 for the year 1974 in the first term of the           following products, imported into the Community
addition and of the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the         and originating in Singapore :
second term of the addition ;
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                                                                     heading                Description of goods
                                                                       No
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
for products originating in any one of the countries or
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should        84.52           Calculating       machines ;        accounting
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                                    machines, cash registers, postage-franking
                                                                                machines, ticket-issuing machines and
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                            similar machines, incorporating a calcu­
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                             laing device :
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A
thereof ; whereas, for these products, this reduced                            A. Electronic calculating machines
 percentage will be 35 % ;
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that                                 Article 2
 the levying of customs duties may be re-established at
 any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­
 tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­     This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                following its publication in the Official Journal of
 (') OJ No L 349, 20 . 12. 1976, 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, 20 October 1977.
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                    fctienne DAVIGNON
                                                                Member of the Commission