CELEX: 31977R2618
Language: en
Date: 1977-11-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2618/77 of 28 November 1977 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on wrought plates, sheets and strip, of aluminium falling within heading No 76.03, originating in Yugoslavia to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply

29 . 11 . 77                        Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 304/35
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2618/77
                                                 of 28 November 1977
               re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on wrought plates, sheets and
               strip, of aluminium falling within heading No 76.03, originating in Yugoslavia
               to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation
                                               (EEC) No 3021 /76 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­
COMMUNITIES,                                                   tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­
                                                               ries — with the exception of those listed in Annex C
                                                               to the same Regulation — once the relevant Commu­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          nity amount has been reached ;
Economic Community,
                                                               Whereas, in respect of wrought plates, sheets and
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   strip, of aluminium, the ceiling, calculated as indi­
3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­            cated above, should be 8 304 000 units of account, and
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     therefore the maximum amount is 1 660 800 units of
developing countries (J ), and in particular Article 4 (2)     account ; whereas on 23 November 1977, the amounts
thereof,                                                       of imports into the Community of wrought plates,
                                                               sheets and strip, of aluminium, originating in Yugos­
                                                               lavia 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 3021 /76 which provides that maximum amounts
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be          should not be exceeded, customs duties should be re­
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 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
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 1974 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 2 December 1977, the levying of customs
1 72-5 % of that resulting from the substitution of the        duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
year 1971 for the year 1974 in the first term of the           (EEC) No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect
addition and of the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the         of the following products, imported into the Commu­
second term of the addition ;                                  nity and originating in Yugoslavia :
                                                                     CCT
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                 heading                     Description
for products originating in any one of the countries or               No
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                    76.03           Wrought plates, sheets and strip, of alumi­
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                             nium
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
reduced percentage will be 20 % ;
                                                                                       Article 2
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at        This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                               following its publication in the Official Journal of
(!) OJ No L 349, 20 . 12. 1976, 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, 28 November 1977.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                 Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                             Member of the Commission