CELEX: 31978R0425
Language: en
Date: 1978-02-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 425/78 of 28 February 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on spoons, forks, fish-eaters, etc., of stainless steel, falling within subheading 82.14 A and originating in developing countries to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

No L 59/40                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                  1 . 3 . 78
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 425/78
                                                  of 28 February 1978
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on spoons, forks, fish-eaters, etc., of
               stainless steel, falling within subheading 82.14 A and originating in developing
               countries to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regu­
                                            lation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be
COMMUNITIES,                                                  4 437 000 units of account ; whereas on 17 February
                                                               1978 the amounts of imports into the Community of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          the products in question, originating in countries and
Economic Community,
                                                               territories covered by preferential tariff arrangements,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   reached that ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­             objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     provides that the ceiling should not be exceeded,
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)      customs duties should be re-established in respect of
thereof,                                                       the products in question,
Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that
customs duties may, for each category of products, be          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed in
units of account, which will be equal — with the                                          Article 1
exception of certain products the value of the ceilings       As from 4 March 1978 , customs duties, suspended in
for which is given in Annex A thereto — to the sum             pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77,
arrived at by adding together the value of the products        shall be re-established in respect of the following
in question imported cif into the Community in 1974            products, imported into the Community, coming
and coming from countries and territories covered by           from any beneficiary country or territory, with the
those arrangements, but not including products                 exception of those listed in Annex C to Regulation
coming from countries and territories already covered         (EEC) No 2705/77 :
by various preferential tariff arrangements established
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif
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imports coming from other countries and from coun­                  heading                       Description
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­                No
ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from
the sum of this addition may in no case exceed                 82.14              Spoons, forks, fish-eaters, butter-knives,
225 % of that fixed for 1976 ;                                                    ladles, and similar kitchen or tableware :
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of the aforesaid Regula­                          A. Of stainless steel
tion provides that customs duties may be re­
established at any time on imports of the products in
question coming from any country or territory, with
the exception of those listed in Annex C thereto, once                                    Article 2
the Community ceiling has been reached ;
                                                              This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
Whereas, in respect of spoons, forks, fish-eaters, etc,,       following its publication in the Official Journal of
of stainless steel, falling within subheading 82.14 A,         the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
                Done at Brussels, 28 February 1978.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Éienne DAVIGNON
                                                                     Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 324, 19. 12. 1977, p. 23.