CELEX: 31978R2195
Language: en
Date: 1978-09-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2195/78 of 20 September 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on locks and padlocks, falling within heading No 83.01, originating in Hong Kong, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

No L 258/26                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                  21 . 9 . 78
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2195/78
                                                 of 20 September 1978
                re-establishing the levying of customs duties on locks and padlocks, falling
               within heading No 83.01 , 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                                listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the
COMMUNITIES,                                                   relevant Community amount has been reached ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         Whereas, in respect of locks and padlocks, falling
Economic Community,                                           within heading No 83.01 , the ceiling, calculated as
                                                               indicated above, should be 3 Oil 000 units of account,
                                                               and therefore the maximum amount is 451 650 units
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   of account ; whereas on 12 September 1978, the
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­             amounts of imports into the Community of locks and
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     padlocks, falling within heading No 83.01 , originating
developing countries (*), and in particular Article 4 (2)      in Hong Kong, a country covered by preferential tariff
thereof,                                                       arrangements, reached that maximum amount ;
                                                              whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation
                                                              (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that maximum
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties
provides that customs duties may, for each category of         should be re-established in respect of the products in
products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,              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
imports coming from other countries and from coun­             As from 24 September 1978, the levying of customs
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­         duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from           (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect
the sum of this addition may in no case exceed                 of the following products, imported into the Commu­
225 % of the preferential ceiling opened for 1976 ;            nity and originating in Hong Kong :
                                                                     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                    83.01            Locks and padlocks (key, combination or
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                             electrically operated), and parts thereof, of
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                             base metal ; frames incorporating locks, for
                                                                                handbags, trunks or the like, and part of
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                            such frames, of base metal ; keys for any of
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this                             the foregoing articles of base metal
reduced percentage will be 15 % ;
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation
provides that the levying of customs duties may be                                       Article 2
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         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, 20 September 1978 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                  Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                              Member of the Commission