CELEX: 31978R2845
Language: en
Date: 1978-12-04
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2845/78 of 4 December 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on articles of jewellery and parts thereof, of precious metal, falling within subheading 71.12 A and originating in Hong Kong, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

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                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2845/78
                                                 of 4 December 1978
                re-establishing the levying of customs duties on articles of jewellery and parts
                thereof, of precious metal, falling within subheading 71.12 A and originating in
                Hong Kong, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council
                                         Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the
COMMUNITIES,                                                   relevant Community amount has been reached ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          Whereas, in respect of articles of jewellery and parts
Economic Community,                                            thereof, of precious metal, falling within subheading
                                                               71,12 A, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above,
                                                               should be 5 484 000 units of account, and therefore
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   the maximum amount is 2 742 000 units of account ;
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­             whereas on 24 November 1978, the amounts of
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     imports into the Community of articles of jewellery
developing countries (!), and in particular Article 4 (2)      and parts thereof, of precious metal, falling within
thereof,                                                       subheading 71.12 A, originating in Hong Kong, a
                                                               country covered by preferential tariff arrangements,
                                                               reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77
provides that customs duties may, for each category of         which 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        Hong Kong,
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                                      Article 1
 imports coming from other countries and from coun­
 tries and territories already covered by such arrange­
 ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from           As from 8 December 1978, the levying of customs
 the sum of this addition may in no case exceed                 duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
 225 % of the preferential ceiling opened for 1976 ;            (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect
                                                                of the following products, imported into the Commu­
                                                                nity and originating in Hong Kong :
 Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
 for products originating in any one of the countries or              CCT
                                                                     heading                    Description
 territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should               No
 be within a maximum Community amount repre­
 senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of
 certain products for which the maximum amount is to
                                                                71.12           Articles of jewellery and parts thereof, of
                                                                                precious metal or rolled precious metal :
 be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to
 that Regulation ;                                                              A. Of precious metal
 Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation
 provides that the levying of customs duties may be                                     Article 2
 re-established at any time in respect of imports of the
 products in question originating in any of the said
 countries or territories — with the exception of those         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, 4 December 1978 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                   Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                               Member of the Commission