CELEX: 31978R3033
Language: en
Date: 1978-12-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3033/78 of 21 December 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on melamine, falling within subheading 29.35 ex Q and originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

No L 359/42                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                22. 12. 78
                                COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3033/78
                                                 of 21 December 1978
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on melamine, falling within
               subheading 29.35 ex Q and originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferential
                  tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                ries, with the exception of those listed in Annex C
COMMUNITIES,                                                   thereto, once the relevant Community amount has
                                                              been reached ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,                                          Whereas, in respect of melamine falling within
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC)                     subheading 29.35 ex Q, the ceiling, calculated as indi­
No 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing prefer­           cated above, should be 486 000 units of account, and
                                                              therefore the maximum amount is 243 000 units of
ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating
in developing countries ( !), and in particular Article 4     account ; whereas, on 18 December 1978 , the amounts
(2) thereof,                                                  of imports into the Community of melamine, falling
                                                              within subheading 29.35 ex Q and originating in
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation              Yugoslavia, a country covered by preferential tariff
provides that customs duties may, for each category of        arrangements, reached that maximum amount ;
products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,             whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation
expressed in units of account, which will be equal —          (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that maximum
with the exception of certain products the value of the       amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties
ceilings for which is given in Annex A thereto — to           should be re-established in respect of the products in
the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the        question in relation to Yugoslavia,
products in question imported cif into the Commu­
nity in 1974 and coming from countries and territo­
                                                               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
ries covered by those arrangements, but not including
products coming from countries and territories already
                                                                                         Article 1
covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­
blished by the Community, and 5 % of the value of             As from 25 December 1978 the levying of customs
 1975 cif imports coming from other countries and             duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
from countries and territories already covered by such        (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect
arrangements ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting         of the following products, imported into the Commu­
from the sum of this addition may in no case exceed            nity and originating in Yugoslavia :
225 % of that fixed for 1976 ;
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                 CCT
for products originating in any one of the countries or            heading
                                                                     No
                                                                                                 Description
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should
be within a maximum Community amount repre­
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of           29.35               Heterocyclic compounds ; nucleic acids :
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                               ex Q. Melamine
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A
thereto ;
                                                                                         Article 2
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation
provides that customs duties may be re-established at         This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­       following its publication in the Official Journal of
tion originating in any of the said countries or territo       the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 21 December 1978 .
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                           Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                    Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, p. 23 .