CELEX: 31978R1960
Language: en
Date: 1978-08-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1960/78 of 10 August 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on electrical capacitors, fixed or variable, falling within heading No 85.18, originating in South Korea to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

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                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1960/78
                                                   of 10 August 1978
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on electrical capacitors, fixed or
               variable , falling within heading No 85.18 , originating in South Korea to which
                the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                      2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 products in question originating in any of the said
 COMMUNITIES,                                                  countries or territories — with the exception of those
                                                               listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the
                                                               relevant Community amount has been reached ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,
                                                               Whereas, in respect of electrical capacitors, fixed or
                                                               variable, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above,
                                                               should be 9 130 800 units of account, and therefore
Having regard to Council Regulation            (EEC) No        the maximum amount is 1 826 160 units of account ;
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 opening            preferential    whereas on 26 July 1978 the amounts of imports into
tariffs for certain products originating in     developing     the Community of electrical capacitors, fixed or vari­
countries (*), and in particular Article 4     (2) thereof,    able, originating in South Korea, a country covered by
                                                               preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
                                                               maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which
provides that customs duties may, for each category of         provides that maximum amounts should not be
products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,              exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in
expressed in units of account, which will be equal —           respect of the products in question in relation to
with the exception of certain products the value of the        South Korea,
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
 imported cif into the Community in 1974 and
coming from countries and territories covered by               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
those arrangements, but not including products
coming from countries and territories already covered
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                                      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 18 August 1978, the levying of customs
225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ;              duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
                                                               (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect
                                                               of the following products, imported into the Commu­
                                                               nity and originating in South Korea :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
for products originating in any one of the countries or
                                                                     CCT
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should             heading                      Description
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                           No
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of
certain products for which the maximum amount is to            85.18            Electrical capacitors, fixed or variable
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A
thereto ; whereas, for these products, this reduced
percentage will be 20 % ;
                                                                                        Article 2
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation
provides that the levying of customs duties may be
re-established at any time in respect of imports of the        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