CELEX: 31978R0981
Language: en
Date: 1978-05-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 981/78 of 16 May 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on other goat and kidskin leather, other falling within subheading 41.04 B II, originating in developing countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

17. 5. 78                            Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 128 / 11
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 981/78
                                                      of 16 May 1978
                re-establishing the levying of customs duties on other goat and kidskin leather,
               other falling within subheading 41.04 B II, originating in developing countries,
                to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation
                                                 (EEC) No 2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  calculated as indicated above, should be 4 544 800
COMMUNITIES,                                                    units of account ; whereas on 3 May 1978 the amounts
                                                                of imports into the Community of the products in
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                question, originating in countries and territories
Economic Community,
                                                                covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    that ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­              of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in      the ceiling should not be exceeded, customs duties
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)       should be re-established in respect of the products in
thereof,                                                        question,
Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that
the customs duties may, for each category of products,           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
be 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 20 May 1978, customs duties, suspended in
for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in              pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77
question — to the sum arrived at by adding together             shall be re-established in respect of the following
the value of the products in question imported cif               products, imported into the Community, coming
into the Community in 1974 and coming from coun­                from any beneficiary country or territory, with the
tries and territories covered by those arrangements,            exception of those listed in Annex C to Regulation
but not including products coming from countries                (EEC) No 2705/77 :
and territories already covered by various preferential
tariff arrangements established by the Community,
                                                                      CCT
and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif imports coming                      heading                         Description
from other countries and from countries and territo­                   No
ries already covered by such arrangements ; however
the ceiling resulting from the sum of this addition             41.04              Goat and kidskin leather, except leather
may in no case exceed 225 % of that fixed for 1976 ;                               falling within heading No 41.06 or 41.08 :
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation                                 B. Other :
provides that the customs duties may be re-established                                  II . Other
at any time on imports of the products in question
coming from any country or territory, with the excep­
tion of those listed in Annex C to that Regulation                                           Article 2
once the Community ceiling has been reached ;                   This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
Whereas, in respect of other goat and kidskin leather,          following its publication in the Official Journal of
other falling within subheading 41.04 B II, the ceiling,         the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
                Done at Brussels, 16 May 1978 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                        Christopher TUGENDHAT
                                                                      Member of the Commission
( i ) OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, p. 23 .