CELEX: 31978R2978
Language: en
Date: 1978-12-15 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2978/78 of 15 December 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on thermionic, cold cathode and photo-cathode valves and tubes, etc., falling within subheadings 85.21 A, B and C and originating in developing countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

No L 355/ 14                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                  19 . 12 . 78
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2978 /78
                                                   of 15 December 1978
                 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on thermionic, cold cathode and
                 photo-cathode valves and tubes, etc., falling within subheadings 85.21 A, B and C
                 and originating in developing countries, to which the preferential tariff arrange­
                           ments set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 question, originating in countries and territories
 COMMUNITIES,                                                   covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached
                                                                that ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives
                                                                of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs
  Economic Community,                                           duties should be re-established in respect of the
                                                                products in question,
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­
 tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in
 developing countries (J), and in particular Article 4 (2)
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 thereof,
 Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that
 customs duties may, for each category of products, be                                  Article 1
 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        As    from   22   December         1978 ,     customs    duties,
 for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in             suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
 question — to the sum arrived at by adding together            No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
 the value of the products in question imported cif             following products, imported into the Community,
 into the Community in 1974 and coming from coun­               coming from any beneficiary country or territory, with
 tries and territories covered by those arrangements,           the exception of those listed in Annex C to Regula­
 but not including products coming from countries               tion (EEC) No 2705/77 :
 and territories already covered by various preferential
 tariff arrangements established by the Community,                    CCT
                                                                     heading
 and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif imports coming                       No
                                                                                                   Description
 from other countries and from countries and territo­
 ries already covered by such arrangements ; whereas            85.21           Thermionic, cold cathode and photo­
 however, the ceiling resulting from the sum of this                            cathode valves and tubes (including vapour
 addition may in no case exceed 225 % of that fixed                             or gas-filled valves and tubes, cathode-ray
 for 1976 ;                                                                     tubes, television camera tubes and mercury
                                                                                arc rectifying valves and tubes) ; photo­
                                                                                cells ; mounted piezo-electric crystals ;
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation                              diodes,    transistors     and   similar  semi­
 provides that customs duties may be re-established at                          conductor devices ; light-emitting diodes ;
                                                                                electronic microcircuits :
any time on imports of the products in question origi­
 nating in any of the said countries or territories, with                       A. Valves and tubes
 the exception of those listed in Annex C thereto, once                         B. Photocells, including photo-transistors
the Community ceiling has been reached ;                                        C. Mounted piezo-electric crystals
Whereas, in respect of thermionic, cold cathode and
photo-cathode valves and tubes, etc., falling within
subheadings 85.21 A, B and C, the ceiling, calculated                                   Article 2
as indicated above, should be 10 667 000 units of
account ; whereas on 4 December 1978 the amounts
of imports into the Community of the products in                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, 15 December 1978 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                               Member of the Commission