CELEX: 31978R1683
Language: en
Date: 1978-07-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1683/78 of 17 July 1978 re-establishing the levying of the 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 originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

No L 193/ 16                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                18 . 7. 78
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1683/78
                                                     of 17 July 1978
               re-establishing the levying of the 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 originating in Yugoslavia, to which
               the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council 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 No ex 40.11 , the ceiling, calculated as indi­
Economic Community,                                             cated above, should be 4 579 000 units of account, and
                                                                therefore the maximum amount is 1 144 750 units of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    account ; whereas on 13 July 1978 , the amounts of
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­              imports into the Community of inner tubes and tyre
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in      cases of the kind used on bicycles, cycles with an
developing countries (*), and in particular Article 4 (2)       auxiliary motor, motor-cycles or motor-scooters,
thereof,                                                        falling within heading No ex 40.1 1 originating in
                                                                Yugoslavia, a country covered by preferential tariff
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                arrangements, reached that maximum amount ;
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­            whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that maximum
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be           amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties
equal — with the exception of certain products the              should be re-established in respect of the products in
value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to          question in relation to Yugoslavia,
the Regulation 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                                 Article 1
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1 975 cif
imports coming from other countries and from coun­              As from 21 July 1978 , the levying of customs duties,
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­          suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from            No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
the sum of this addition may in no case exceed                  following products, imported into the Community
225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ;               and originating in Yugoslavia :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                   CCT
for products originating in any one of the countries or              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             ex 40.11        Rubber tyres, tyre cases, interchangeable
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                             tyre treads, inner tubes and tyre flaps, for
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                            wheels of all kinds :
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this                             — Inner tubes and tyre cases (new or
reduced 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 to the same Regulation — 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
(1) 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, 17 July 1978 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                   Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                               Member of the Commission