CELEX: 31978R2846
Language: en
Date: 1978-12-04 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2846/78 of 4 December 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on electronic calculating machines, not incorporating a printing device, falling within subheading 84.52 ex A and originating in Hong Kong, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

5. 12. 78                            Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 339/ 15
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2846/78
                                                  of 4 December 1978
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on electronic calculating machines,
               not incorporating a printing device, falling within subheading 84.52 ex A and
               originating in Hong Kong to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out
                                   in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas, in respect of electronic calculating
COMMUNITIES,                                                    machines, not incorporating a printing device, falling
                                                               within subheading 84.52 ex A, the ceiling, calculated
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           as indicated above, should be 28 840 000 units of
Economic Community,                                             account, and therefore the maximum amount is
                                                                7 210 000 units of account ; whereas on 24 November
                                                                1978, the amounts of imports into the Community of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    electronic calculating machines, not incorporating a
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­              printing device, falling within subheading 84.52 ex A,
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in      originating in Hong Kong, a country covered by pref­
developing countries (!), and in particular Article 4 (2)       erential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum
thereof,                                                        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                                    Article 1
by various preferential tariff arrangements established
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif              As from 8 December 1978, the levying of customs
imports coming from other countries and from coun­              duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­          (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect
ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from            of the following products, imported into the Commu­
the sum of this addition may in no case exceed                  nity and originating in Hong Kong :
225 % of the preferential ceiling opened for 1976 ;
                                                                      CCT
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                  heading                     Description
                                                                       No
for products originating in any one of the countries or
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                     84.52            Calculating      machines ;     accounting
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                              machines, cash registers, postage-franking
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                              machines, ticket-issuing machines and
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                             similar machines, incorporating a calcu­
                                                                                 lating device :
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this
reduced percentage will be 25 % ;                                                ex A. Electronic calculating machines :
                                                                                         Not incorporating a printing device
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation
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 any of the said                                      Article 2
countries or territories — with the exception of those
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
                                                                following its publication in the Official Journal of
(!) OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, p. 23 .                          the European Communities.
 ---pagebreak--- No L 339 / 16                  Official Journal of the European Communities                        5. 12. 78
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 4 December 1978 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                               Member of the Commission