CELEX: 31978R2528
Language: en
Date: 1978-10-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2528/78 of 27 October 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on gramophone records, etc., falling within heading No 92.12, originating in developing countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

No L 301 /44                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                   28 . 10 . 78
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2528/78
                                                   of 27 October 1978
                 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on gramophone records, etc.,
                 falling within heading No 92.12, 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                                 account ; whereas on 16 October 1978 the amounts of
 COMMUNITIES,                                                   imports into the Community of the products in ques­
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          tion, originating in countries and territories covered
 Economic Community,                                            by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
                                                                ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that the
 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­             ceiling should not be exceeded, customs duties should
 tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     be re-established in respect of the products in ques­
 developing countries (*), and in particular Article 4 (2)      tion,
 thereof,
 Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 the customs duties may, for each category of products,
 be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed                                         Article 1
 in units of account, which will be equal — with the
 exception of certain products the value of the ceilings        As from 31 October 1978 , customs duties, suspended
 for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in             in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No
 question — to the sum arrived at by adding together            2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
 the value of the products in question imported cif             following products, imported into the Community,
 into the Community in 1974 and coming from coun­               coming from any beneficiary country or territory, with
 tries and territories covered by those arrangements,           the exception of those listed in Annex C to Regula­
 but not including products coming from countries               tion (EEC) No 2705/77 :
 and territories already covered by various preferential
 tariff arrangements established by the Community,                    CCT
 and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif imports coming                     heading                       Description
                                                                       No
 from other countries and from countries and territo­
 ries already covered by such arrangements ; whereas,
 however, the ceiling resulting from the sum of this            92.12              Gramophone records and other sound or
 addition may in no case exceed 225 % of that fixed                                similar recordings ; matrices for the produc­
 for 1976 ;                                                                        tion of records, prepared record blanks,
                                                                                   film for mechanical sound recording,
 Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation                                prepared tapes, wires, strips and like arti­
 provides that the customs duties may be re-established                            cles of a kind commonly used for sound or
 at any time on imports of the products in question                                similar recording
 coming from any country or territory, with the excep­
 tion of those listed in Annex C to that Regulation,
 once the Community ceiling has been reached ;                                             Article 2
Whereas, in respect of gramophone records, etc.,                This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
 falling within heading No 92.12, the ceiling, calcu­           following its publication in the Official Journal of
 lated as indicated above, should be 7 037 000 units of         the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 27 October 1978 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                           Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
                                                                               Vice-President
(>) OJ No L 324, 19. 12. 1977, p. 23.