CELEX: 31978R1896
Language: en
Date: 1978-08-02 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1896/78 of 2 August 1978 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on screws for wood, falling within heading No ex 73.32 and originating in Hong Kong, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

No L 216/ 36                        Official Journal of the European Communities                               5 . 8 . 78
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1896/78
                                                    of 2 August 1978
               re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on screws for wood, falling
               within heading No ex 73.32 and originating in Hong Kong , to which the prefer­
                ential 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
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the
Economic Community,                                            relevant Community amount has been reached ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   Whereas, in respect of screws for wood, falling within
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­             heading No ex 73.32, the ceiling, calculated as indi­
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     cated above, should be 2 993 000 units of account, and
                                                               therefore the maximum amount is 1 496 500 units of
developing countries ( ! ), and in particular Article 4 (2)
thereof,                                                       account ; whereas on 24 July 1978 , the amounts of
                                                               imports into the Community of screws for wood,
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               falling within heading No ex 73.32 and originating in
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­           Hong Kong, a country covered by preferential tariff
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community               arrangements, reached that maximum amount ;
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be          whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation
equal — with the exception of certain products the             (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that maximum
value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to         amounts should not be exceeded , customs duties
the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by          should be re-established in respect of the products in
adding together the value of the products in question          question in relation to Hong Kong,
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                                    Article 1
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif             As from 8 August 1978, the levying of customs duties,
imports coming from other countries and from coun­             suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­         No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
ments ; however the ceiling resulting from the sum of          following products, imported into the Community
this addition may in no case exceed 225 % of the pref­         and originating in Hong Kong :
erential ceiling open for 1976 ;
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                   CCT
for products originating in any one of the countries or              heading                       Description
                                                                       No
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should
be within a maximum Community amount repre­
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of            ex 73.32             Screws for wood
certain products for which the maximum amount is to
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to
 that Regulation ;                                                                         Article 2
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation               This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
 provides that the levying of customs duties may be             following its publication in the Official Journal of
 re-established at any time in respect of imports of the        the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 2 August 1978 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                             Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                      Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, p. 23 .