CELEX: 31978R0662
Language: en
Date: 1978-04-03 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 662/78 of 3 April 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on inner tubes and tyre cases, of the kind used on bicycles, cycles with an auxiliary motor, motor-cycles or motor-scooters, falling within heading No ex 40.11 and originating in South Korea, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

No L 89/ 16                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                    4 . 4 . 78
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 662/78
                                                     of 3 April 1978
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on            inner tubes and tyre cases, of
               the kind used on bicycles, cycles with an auxiliary        motor, motor-cycles or motor­
               scooters, falling within heading No ex 40.11 and           originating in South Korea, to
               which the preferential tariff arrangements set              out in Regulation (EEC) No
                                                      2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  Whereas, in respect of inner tubes and tyre cases, of
COMMUNITIES,                                                    the kind used on bicycles, cycles with an auxiliary
                                                                motor, motor-cycles or motor-scooters, falling within
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           heading ex 40.11 , the ceiling, calculated as indicated
Economic Community,                                             above, should be 4 579 000 units of account, and there­
                                                                fore the maximum amount is 1 144 750 of account ;
                                                                whereas, on 22 March 1978 , the amounts of imports
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    into the Community of inner tubes and tyre cases, of
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­              the kind used on bicycles, cycles with an auxiliary
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in      motor, motor-cycles or motor-scooters, falling within
developing countries ( J), and in particular Article 4 (2)      heading ex 40.1 1 and originating in South Korea, a
thereof,                                                        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 270 5/77
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
with the exception of certain products the value of the         South Korea,
ceilings for which is given in Annex A thereto — to
the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the
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
covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­                                  Article 1
blished by the Community, and 5 % of the value of
 1975 cif imports coming from other countries and
from countries and territories already covered by such          As from 7 April 1978 , the levying of customs duties,
arrangements ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting          suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
from the sum of this addition may in no case exceed             No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ;               following products, imported into the Community
                                                                and originating in South Korea :
Whereas, haying regard to that ceiling, the amounts
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for products originating in any one of the countries or               heading                       Description
territries listed in Annex B thereto should be within a                 No
 maximum Community amount representing 50 % of
 that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for       ex 40.11           Rubber tyres, tyre cases, interchangeable
which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the                                   tyre treads, inner tubes and tyre flaps, for
 percentage indicated in Annex A to the afrore-said                                wheels of all kinds :
 Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this reduced                            — Inner     tubes and tyre cases (new or
 percentage will be 25 % ;                                                             used)  of the kind used on bicycles,
                                                                                       cycles with an auxiliary motor, motor­
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation                                       cycles or motor-scooters
 provides that the levying of customs duties may be 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                                    Article 2
 listed   in  Annex   C thereto — once        the relevant
 Community amount has been reached ;                            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, 3 April 1978 .
                                                                For the Commission
                                                                Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                            Member of the Commission