CELEX: 31978R1956
Language: en
Date: 1978-08-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1956/78 of 10 August 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on Portland cement, etc., falling within heading No 25.23, originating in Yugoslavia to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

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                                COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1956/78
                                                   of 10 August 1978
                re-establishing the levying of customs duties on Portland cement, etc., falling
                within heading No 25.23 , originating in Yugoslavia to which the preferential
                  tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 countries or territories — with the exception of those
 COMMUNITIES,                                                  listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the
                                                               relevant Community amount has been reached ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European        Whereas, in respect of Portland cement, etc ., the
 Economic Community,                                          ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be
                                                               806 000 units of account, and therefore the maximum
                                                              amount is 403 000 units of account ; whereas on 26
 Having regard to Council Regulation           (EEC) No       July 1978 the amounts of imports into the Commu­
 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 opening           preferential    nity of Portland cement, etc., originating in Yugos­
 tariffs for certain products originating in   developing      lavia, a country covered by preferential tariff arrange­
 countries ('), and in particular Article 4   (2) thereof,     ments, reached that maximum amount ; whereas,
                                                              bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC)
                                                               No 2705/77 which provides that maximum amounts
                                                              should not be exceeded , customs duties should be
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation              re-established in respect of the products in question
 provides that customs duties may, for each category of        in relation to Yugoslavia,
 products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,
expressed in units of account, which will be equal —
with the exception of certain products the value of the
ceilings for which is given in Annex A to the Regula­
tion in question — to the sum arrived at by adding
together the value of the products in question                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
imported cif into the Community in 1974 and
coming from countries and territories covered by
those arrangements, but not including products
coming from countries and territories already covered                                  Article 1
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            As from 18 August 1978 , the levying of customs
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­        duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from          (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect
the sum of this addition may in no case exceed                of the following products, imported into the Commu­
225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ;             nity and originating in Yugoslavia :
                                                                     CCT
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                 heading
                                                                      No
                                                                                               Description
for products originating in any one of the countries or
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                   25.23            Portland cement, ciment fondu, slag
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                            cement, supersulphate cement and similar
                                                                               hydraulic cements, whether or not
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                            coloured or in the form of clinker
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A
thereto ;
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation                                       Article 2
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           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, 10 August 1978 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                  fitienne DAVIGNON
                                                              Member of the Commission