CELEX: 31978R1521
Language: en
Date: 1978-06-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1521/78 of 30 June 1978 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on other illuminating glassware, signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, not optically worked nor of optical glass, falling within subheading 70.14 B, originating in Hong Kong to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

1 . 7. 78                            Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 178/81
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1521 /78
                                                      of 30 June 1978
                re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on other illuminating glass­
               ware , signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, not optically worked
                nor of optical glass, falling within subheading 70.14 B, originating in Hong
                Kong to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regula­
                                               tion (EEC) No 2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  Whereas, in respect of other illuminating glassware,
COMMUNITIES,                                                    signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, not
                                                                optically worked nor of optical glass, falling within
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           subheading 70.14 B, the ceiling, calculated as indi­
 Economic Community,                                            cated above, should be 1 229 000 units of account, and
                                                                therefore the maximum amount is 368 700 units of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    account ; whereas on 22 June 1978, the amounts of
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­              imports into the Community of other illuminating
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in      glassware, signalling glassware and optical elements of
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)       glass, not optically worked nor of optical glass, falling
thereof,                                                        within subheading 70.14 B, originating in Hong
                                                                Kong, a country covered by preferential tariff arrange­
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                ments, reached that maximum amount ; whereas,
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­            bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC)
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                No 2705/77 which provides that maximum amounts
                                                                should not be exceeded, customs duties should be re­
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be
equal — with the exception of certain products the              established in respect of the products in question in
value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to          relation to Hong Kong,
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
those arrangements, but not including products                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
coming from countries and territories already covered
by various preferential tariff arrangements established
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif
imports coming from other countries and from coun­                                      Article 1
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­
ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from
the sum of this addition may in no case exceed                  As from 4 July 1978, the levying of customs duties,
225% of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ;                suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
                                                                No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts             following products, imported into the Community
for products originating in any one of the countries or         and originating in Hong Kong :
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                           CCT
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                  heading
                                                                       No
                                                                                                 Description
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             70.14            Illuminating glassware, signalling glassware
reduced percentage will be 30 % ;                                                and optical elements of glass, not optically
                                                                                 worked nor of optical glass :
                                                                                 B. Other
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation
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                                     Article 2
countries or territories — with the exception of those
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
; i ) 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, 30 June 1978 .
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                 Etienne DAVIGNON
                                                             Member of the Commission