CELEX: 31978R2976
Language: en
Date: 1978-12-15 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2976/78 of 15 December 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on fabric of asbestos, other, falling within subheadings 68.13 B II and III and originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

No L 355/ 10                        Official Journal of the European Communities                               19 . 12 . 78
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2976/78
                                                 of 15 December 1978
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on fabric of asbestos, other, falling
               within subheadings 68.13 B II and III and originating in Yugoslavia, to which
               the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                      2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 calculated as indicated above, should be 1 983 000
COMMUNITIES,                                                   units of account, and therefore the maximum amount
                                                               is 793 200 units of account ; whereas on 4 December
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           1978 , the amounts of imports into the Community of
Economic Community,                                            fabric of asbestos, other, falling within subheadings
                                                               68.13 B II and III and originating in Yugoslavia, a
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   country covered by preferential tariff arrangements,
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establsihing preferen­             reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)      which provides that maximum amounts should not be
thereof,                                                       exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in
                                                               respect of the products in question in relation to
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               Yugoslavia,
provides that customs duties may, for each category of
products, be 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 for which is given in Annex A to the Regula­          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
tion in question — to the sum arrived at by adding
together the value of the products in question
imported cif into the Community in 1974 and
                                                                                          Article 1
coming from countries and territories covered by
those arrangements, but not including products
coming from countries and territories already covered          As from 22 December 1978 , the levying of customs
by various preferential tariff arrangements established        duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif             (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect
imports coming from other countries and from coun­             of the following products, imported into the Commu­
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­         nity and originating in Yugoslavia :
ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from
the sum of this addition may in no case exceed                        CCT
225 % of that fixed for 1976 ;                                      heading                       Description
                                                                       No
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
for products originating in any one of the countries or        68.13           Fabricated asbestos and articles thereof (for
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should                        example, asbestos board, thread and fabric ;
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                                    asbestos clothing, asbestos jointing), rein­
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                            forced or not other than goods falling
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                            within heading No 68.14 ; mixtures with a
                                                                               basis of asbestos and mixtures with a basis
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A
                                                                               of asbestos and magnesium carbonate, and
thereto ; whereas, for these products, this reduced                            articles of such mixtures :
percentage will be 40 % ;
                                                                               B. Articles of asbestos :
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation                                    II . Fabric
provides that customs duties may be re-established at                               III . Other
any time on imports of the products in question origi­
nating in any of the said countries or territories, with
the exception of those listed in Annex C thereto, once
the relevant Community amount has been reached ;                                          Article 2
Whereas, in respect of fabric of asbestos, other, falling
within subheadings 68.13 B II and III, the ceiling,            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
                                                                     Etienne DAVIGNON
                                                                Member of the Commission        ,