CELEX: 31977R1236
Language: en
Date: 1977-06-09 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1236/77 of 9 June 1977 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on lead-acid electric accumulators, falling within subheading 85.04 A, originating in Yugoslavia to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply

10 . 6 . 77                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 143/ 15
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1236/77
                                                      of 9 June 1977
                re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on lead-acid electric accumula­
                tors , falling within subheading 85.04 A, originating in Yugoslavia to which the
                preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation ( EEC) No 3021 /76
                                                           apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­
COMMUNITIES,                                                     tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­
                                                                 ries — with the exception of those listed in Annex C
                                                                 of the same Regulation — once the relevant Commu­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            nity amount has been reached ;
Economic Community,
                                                                 Whereas, in respect of lead-acid electric accumulators,
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No                    falling within subheading 85.04 A, the ceiling, calcu­
3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­              lating as indicated above, should be 2 089 000 units of
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in       account, and therefore the maximum amount is
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)        417 800 units of account ; whereas on 2 June 1977,
thereof,                                                         the amounts of imports into the Community of lead­
                                                                 acid electric accumulators, falling within subheading
                                                                 85.04 A, originating in Yugoslavia a country covered
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                 by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­             maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                 objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be            provides that maximum amounts should not be
equal — with the exception of certain products the               exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in
value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A of           respect of the products in question in relation to
the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by            Yugoslavia,
adding together the value of the products in question
imported cif into the Community in 1974 and
coming from countries and territories covered by
those arrangements, but not including products
coming from countries and territories already covered            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
by various preferential tariff arrangements established
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif
imports coming from other countries and from coun­
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­                                    Article 1
ments ; whereas, however the ceiling resulting from
the sum of this addition may in no case exceed                   As from 13 June 1977, the levying of customs duties,
 172-5 % of that resulting from the substitution of the          suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
year 1971 for the year 1974 in the first term of the             No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect of the
addition and of the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the           following products, imported into the Community
second term of the addition ;                                    and originating in Yugoslavia :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                     CCT
                                                                       heading                 Description of goods
for products originating in any one of the countries or                  No
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                      8 5.04           Electric accumulators :
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of
                                                                                  A. Lead-acid accumulators
certain products for which the maximum amount is to
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this
reduced percentage will be 20 % ;
                                                                                          Article 2
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at           This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                 following its publication in the Official Journal of
(') OJ No L 349, 20 . 12 . 1976, 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, 9 June 1977.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                  Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                              Member of the Commission