CELEX: 31978R2442
Language: en
Date: 1978-10-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2442/78 of 18 October 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on filament lamps for lighting, falling within subheading 85.20 A, originating in developing countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

No L 295/ 18                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                   20. 10. 78
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2442/78
                                                     of 18 October 1978
                  re-establishing the levying of customs duties on filament lamps for lighting,
                  falling within subheading 85.20 A, 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                                  lated as indicated above, should be 3 835 000 units of
  COMMUNITIES,                                                   account ; whereas on 2 October 1978 the amounts of
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          imports into the Community of the products in ques­
  Economic Community,                                            tion, originating in countries and territories covered
                                                                 by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of
 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­              Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that the
  tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     ceiling should not be exceeded, customs duties should
 developing countries ( !), and in particular Article 4 (2)      be re-established in respect of the products in ques­
 thereof,                                                        tion,
 Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that
 customs duties may, for each category of products, be
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed in
 units of account, which will be equal — with the
 exception of certain products the value of the ceilings                                    Article 1
 for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in
 question — to the sum arrived at by adding together             As from 23 October 1978, customs duties, suspended
 the value of the products in question imported cif              in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No
 into the Community in 1974 and coming from coun­                2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
 tries and territories covered by those arrangements,            following products, imported into the Community,
 but not including products coming from countries                coming from any beneficiary country or territory, with
 and territories already covered by various preferential         the exception of those listed in Annex C to Regula­
 tariff arrangements established by the Community,               tion (EEC) No 2705/77 :
 and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif imports coming
 from other countries and from countries and territo­                  CCT
 ries already covered such arrangements ; whereas,                    heading
                                                                        No
                                                                                                     Description
 however, the ceiling resulting from the sum of this
 addition may in no case exceed 225 % of the preferen­
 tial ceiling opened for 1976 ;                                  85.20              Electric filament lamps and electric
                                                                                    discharge lamps (including infra-red and
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation                                  ultra-violet lamps) ; arc lamps :
 provides that the levying of customs duties may be                                 A. Filament lamps for lighting
 re-established at any time in respect of imports of the
 products in question originating in any of the said
 countries or territories — with the exception of those
                                                                                            Article 2
 listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the
 relevant Community amount has been reached ;
                                                                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
Whereas, in respect of filament lamps for lighting,              following its publication in the Official Journal of
 falling within subheading 85.20 A, the ceiling, calcu           the European Communities.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 18 October 1978 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                             Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                       Member of the Commission
(1) OJ No L 324, 19. 12. 1977, p. 23.