CELEX: 31978R2774
Language: en
Date: 1978-11-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2774/78 of 28 November 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on plaiting materials bound together in parallel strands or woven in sheet form, including matting, mats and screens; straw envelopes for bottles, falling within heading No ex 46.02, originating in developing countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

No L 332/46                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                 29 . 11 . 78
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2774/78
                                                   of 28 November 1978
                  re-establishing the levying of customs duties on plaiting materials bound
                  together in parallel strands or woven in sheet form, including matting, mats and
                 screens ; straw envelopes for bottles, falling within heading No ex 46.02, origi­
                  nating in developing countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set
                                  out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 including matting, mats and screens ; straw envelopes
. COMMUNITIES,                                                   for bottles, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above,
                                                                 should be 6 511 000 units of account ; whereas on 15
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
  Economic Community,                                            November 1978 the amounts of imports into the
                                                                 Community of the products in question, originating
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   in countries and territories covered by preferential
  2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­             tariff arrangements, reached that ceiling ; whereas,
  tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC)
  developing countries (*), and in particular Article 4 (2)      No 2705/77 which provides that the ceiling should
  thereof,                                                       not     be     exceeded,     customs      duties  should     be
  Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that         re-established in respect of the products in question,
  the customs duties may, for each category of products,
  be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
  in units of account, which will be equal — with the
  exception of certain products the value of the ceilings                                    Article 1
  for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in
  question — to the sum arrived at by adding together            As from 2 December 1978, customs duties, suspended
  the value of the products in question imported cif             in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No
  into the Community in 1974 and coming from coun­               2705/77 shall be re-established in respect of the
  tries and territories covered by those arrangements,           following products, imported into the Community,
  but not including products coming from countries               coming from any beneficiary country or territory, with
  and territories already covered by various preferential        the exception of those listed in Annex C to Regula­
  tariff arrangements established by the Community,              tion (EEC) No 2705/77 :
  and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif imports coming
  from other countries and from countries and territo­                 CCT
  ries already covered by such arrangements ; whereas,                heading                        Description
                                                                        No
  however, the ceiling resulting from the sum of this
  addition may in no case exceed 225 % of that fixed
  for 1976 ;                                                     ex 46.02            Plaiting materials     bound together in
                                                                                     parallel strands or    woven insheet form,
  Whereas Article 2 (1 ) and (3) of that Regulation                                  including matting,      mats and screens ;
  provides that the customs duties may be re-established                             straw envelopes for   bottles
  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 plaiting materials bound                following its publication in the Official Journal of
  together in parallel strands or woven in sheet form,           the European Communities.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 28 November 1978 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                              Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                       Member of the Commission
 (») OJ No L 324, 19. 12. 1977, p. 23.