CELEX: 31978R2979
Language: en
Date: 1978-12-15 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2979/78 of 15 December 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on appliances, apparatus, accessories and requisites for gymnastics or athletics, etc., falling within subheadings 97.06 B and C and originating in developing countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

No L 355/ 16                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                     19 . 12 . 78
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2979/78
                                                 of 15 December 1978
                re-establishing the levying of customs duties on appliances, apparatus, accesso­
                ries and requisites for gymnastics or athletics, etc., falling within subheadings
               97.06 B and C and 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                                 lated as indicated above, should be 16 078 000 units of
COMMUNITIES,                                                  account ; whereas on 8 December 1978 the amounts
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         of imports into the Community of the products in
Economic Community,                                           question, originating in countries and territories
                                                              covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                  that ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­            of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which - provides that
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)     duties should be re-established in respect of the
thereof,                                                       products in question,
Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that
customs duties may, for each category of products, be          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
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       As     from      22    December       1978 ,     customs    duties,
for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in
                                                               suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
question — to the sum arrived at by adding together
                                                               No 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,
and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif imports coming                      CCT
                                                                    heading
from other countries and from countries and territo­                                                Description
                                                                      No
ries already covered by such arrangements ; whereas,
however, the ceiling resulting from the sum of this            97.06               Appliances, appararatus, accessories and
addition may in no case exceed 225 % of that fixed                                 requisites for gymnastics or athletics, or for
for 1976 ;                                                                         sports and outdoor games (other than arti­
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation                                 cles falling within heading No 97.04) :
provides that customs duties may be re-established at                              B. Tennis rackets
any time on imports of the products in question origi­                             C. Other
nating in any of the said countries or territories, with
the exception of those listed in Annex C thereto, once
the Community ceiling has been reached ;                                                   Article 2
Whereas, in respect of appliances, apparatus, accesso­         This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
ries and requisites for gymnastics or athletics, falling       following its publication in the Official Journal of
within subheadings 97.06 B and C, the ceiling, calcu           the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 15 December 1978 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                     Member of the Commission
(1) OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, p. 23.