CELEX: 31978R2440
Language: en
Date: 1978-10-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2440/78 of 18 October 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on articles of jewellery and parts thereof, of precious metal, falling within subheading 71.12 A, originating in Thailand, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

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                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2440/78
                                                  of 18 October 1978
                re-establishing the levying of customs duties on articles of jewellery and parts
                thereof, of precious metal, falling within subheading 71.12 A, originating in Thai­
                land, 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 articles of jewellery and parts
 Economic Community,                                          thereof, of precious metal, falling within subheading
                                                              71.12 A, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above,
                                                              should be 5 484 000 units of account, and therefore
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                 the maximum amount is 2 742 000 units of account ;
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­            whereas on 29 September 1978, the amounts of
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in    imports into the Community of articles of jewellery
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)     and parts thereof, of precious metal, falling within
thereof,                                                      subheading 71.12 A, originating in Thailand, a
                                                              country covered by preferential tariff arrangements,
                                                              reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation              mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77
provides that customs duties may, for each category of        which provides that maximum amounts should not be
products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,             exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in
expressed in units of account, which will be equal —          respect of the products in question in relation to Thai­
with the exception of certain products the value of the       land,
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
imported cif into the Community in 1974 and
coming from countries and territories covered by              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
those arrangements, but not including products
coming from countries and territories already covered
by various preferential tariff arrangements established
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif                                     Article 1
 imports coming from other countries and from coun­
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­        As from 23 October 1978, the levying of customs
 ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from         duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
 the sum of this addition may in no case exceed               (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect
225% of the preferential ceiling opened for 1976 ;            of the following products, imported into the Commu­
                                                              nity and originating in Thailand :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
for products originating in any one of the countries or             CCT
                                                                   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           71.12            Articles of jewellery and parts thereof, of
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                            precious metal or rolled precious metal :
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to
that Regulation ;                                                              A. Of precious metal
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, 18 October 1978 .
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                    Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                Member of the Commission