CELEX: 31978R1548
Language: en
Date: 1978-07-04
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1548/78 of 4 July 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on household utensils of wood, falling within heading No 44.24, originating in developing countries to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

5 . 7 . 78                           Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 182/ 15
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1548/78
                                                       of 4 July 1978
                 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on household utensils of wood,
                 falling within heading No 44.24, originating in developing countries 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 household utensils of wood, the
 COMMUNITIES,                                                    ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be
                                                                 3 220 000 units of account ; whereas on 28 June 1978
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           the amounts of imports into the Community of the
 Economic Community,                                             products in question, originating in countries and terri­
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    tories covered by preferential tariff arrangements,
 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­              reached that ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the
 tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in      objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which
 developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)       provides that the ceiling should not be exceeded,
 thereof,                                                        customs duties should be re-established in respect of
                                                                 the products in question,
 Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that
 the customs duties may, for each category of products,
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed
 in units of account, which will be equal — with the
                                                                                          Article 1
 exception of certain products the value of the ceilings
 for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in              As from 8 July 1978, customs duties, suspended in
 question — to the sum arrived at by adding together             pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77
 the value of the products in question imported cif              shall be re-established in respect of the following
 into the Community in 1974 and coming from coun­                products, imported into the Community, coming
 tries and territories covered by those arrangements,            from any beneficiary country or territory, with the
 but not including products coming from countries                exception of those listed in Annex C to Regulation
 and territories already covered by various preferential         (EEC) No 2705/77 :
 tariff arrangements established by the Community,
 and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif imports coming                       CCT
 from other countries and from countries and territo­
                                                                      heading                     Description
 ries already covered by such arrangements ; however                    No
 the ceiling resulting from the sum of this addition
 may in no case exceed 225 % of that fixed for 1976 ;            44.24              Household utensils of wood
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation
 provides that the customs duties may be re-established                                   Article 2
 at any time on imports of the products in question
 coming from any country or territory, with the excep­           This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
 tion of those listed in Annex C to that Regulation              following its publication in the Official Journal of
once the Community ceiling has been reached ;                    the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 4 July 1978 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                               Richard BURKE
                                                                       Member of the Commission
(•) OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, p. 23 .