CELEX: 31978R1100
Language: en
Date: 1978-05-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1100/78 of 25 May 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on lead-acid accumulators, falling within subheading 8.5.04 A, originating in Yugoslavia to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

No L 139/ 22                         Official Journal of the European Communities                             26 . 5 . 78
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1100/78
                                                     of 25 May 1978
                re-establishing the levying of customs duties on lead-acid accumulators, falling
               within subheading 85.04 A, originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferential
                  tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  products in question originating in any of the said
COMMUNITIES,                                                    countries or territories — with the exception of those
                                                                listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the
                                                                relevant Community amount has been reached ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                             Whereas, in respect of lead-acid accumulators, falling
                                                               within subheading 85.04 A, the ceiling, calculated as
                                                                indicated above, should be 2 526 000 units of account,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   and therefore the maximum amount is 505 200 units
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­              of account ; whereas on 10 May 1978 the amounts of
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in      imports into the Community of lead-acid accumula­
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)       tors, falling within subheading 85.04 A, originating in
thereof,                                                       Yugoslavia, a country covered by preferential tariff
                                                               arrangements, reached that maximum amount ;
                                                               whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that maximum
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­           amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community               should be re-established in respect of the products in
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be          question in relation to Yugoslavia,
equal — with the exception of certain products the
value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to
the Regulation 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                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
coming from countries and territories covered by
those arrangements, but not including products
coming from countries and territories already covered
by various preferential tariff arrangements established
                                                                                          Article 1
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif
imports coming from other countries and from coun­
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­
                                                               As from 29 May 1978 , the levying of customs duties,
ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from
                                                               suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
the sum of this addition may in no case exceed
                                                               No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
225 % of the preferential ceiling opened for 1976 ;
                                                               following products, imported into the Community
                                                               and originating in Yugoslavia :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                   CCT
for products originating in any one of the countries or              heading                      Description
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should                No
be within a maximum Community amount repre­
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with, the exception of           85.04              Electric accumulators :
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                              A. Lead-acid accumulators
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this
reduced percentage will be 20 % .
                                                                                          Article 2
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           This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                               following its publication in the Official Journal of
(1) 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, 25 May 1978 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                   Etienne DAVIGNON
                                                               Member of the Commission