CELEX: 31978R2529
Language: en
Date: 1978-10-27
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2529/78 of 27 October 1978 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on equipment for parlour games, etc., falling within heading No 97.04, originating in South Korea, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

28 . 10 . 78                         Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 301 /45
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2529/78
                                                     of 27 October 1978
                  re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on equipment for parlour, etc.,
                  falling within heading No 97.04, originating in South Korea, to which the prefer­
                   ential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 countries or territories — with the exception of those
  COMMUNITIES,                                                   listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          relevant Community amount has been reached ;
  Economic Community,                                            Whereas, in respect of equipment for parlour, etc.,
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   falling within heading No 97.04, the ceiling, calcu­
  2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­             lated as indicated above, should be 8 173 050 units of
  tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     account, and therefore the maximum amount is
  developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)      2 043 263 units of account ; whereas on 17 October
  thereof,                                                        1978 the amounts of imports into the Community of
 Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                equipment for parlour, falling within heading No
 provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­            97.04, originating in South Korea, a country covered
 gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
 ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be           maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
 equal — with the exception of certain products the              objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which
 value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to          provides that maximum amounts should not be
                                                                 exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in
 the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by
 adding together the value of the products in question           respect of the products in question in relation to
                                                                 South Korea,
 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                                     Article 1
 by various preferential tariff arrangements established
 by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif              As from 31 October 1978, the levying of customs
 imports coming from other countries and from coun­              duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
 tries and territories already covered by such arrange­          (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect
 ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from            of the following products, imported into the Commu­
 the sum of this addition may in no case exceed                  nity and originating in South Korea :
 225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ;
 Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                   CCT
                                                                      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                     97.04             Equipment for parlour, table and funfair
 senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                               games for adults or children (including
 certain products for which the maximum amount is to                               billiard tables and pintables and table
 be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                              tennis requisites)
 that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this
 reduced percentage will be 25 % ;
                                                                                           Article 2
 Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation
 provides that the levying of customs duties may be              This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
 re-established at any time in respect of imports of the         following its publication in the Official Journal of
 products in question originating in any of the said             the European Communities.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 27 October 1978 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                            Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
                                                                                Vice-President
(*) OJ No L 324, 19. 12. 1977, p. 23.