CELEX: 31977R2602
Language: en
Date: 1977-11-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2602/77 of 25 November 1977 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on fabric and other articles of asbestos falling within subheadings 68.13 B II and III, originating in Yugoslavia to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply

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                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2602/77
                                                   of 25 November 1977
                  re-establishing the levying of customs duties on fabric and other articles of
                  asbestos falling within subheadings 68.13 B II and III, originating in Yugoslavia
                  to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation
                                                  (EEC) No 3021 /76 apply
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  Whereas, in respect of fabric and other articles of
  COMMUNITIES,                                                    asbestos falling within subheadings 68.13 B II and III,
                                                                  the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           1 688 000 units of account, and therefore the
  Economic Community,                                             maximum amount is 675 200 units of account ;
                                                                  whereas on 18 November 1977, the amounts of
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
  3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­             imports into the Community of fabric and other arti­
  tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in      cles of asbestos falling within subheadings 68.13 B II
  developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)       and III, originating in Yugoslavia, a country covered
  thereof,                                                        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 3021 /76 which
  provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­            provides that maximum amounts should not be
  gory of products, be suspended up to a Community               exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in
  ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be           respect of the products in question in relation to
  equal — with the exception of certain products the             Yugoslavia,
  value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to
  the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by
  adding together the value of the products in question
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
  imported cif into the Community in 1974 and
  coming from countries and territories covered by
  those arrangements, but not including products                                             Article 1
 coming from countries and territories already covered
  by various preferential tariff arrangements established
 by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif              As from 29 November 1977, 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 3021 /76, 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 Yugoslavia :
  172-5 % of that resulting from the substitution of the
 year 1971 for the year 1974 in the first term of the                  CCT
                                                                      heading                     Description of goods
 addition and of the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the                 No
 second term of the addition ;
 Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts             68.13             Fabricated asbestos and articles thereof (for
 for products originating in any one of the countries or                           example, asbestos board, thread and fabric ;
 territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should                           asbestos clothing,' asbestos jointing), rein­
                                                                                   forced or not, other than goods falling
 be within a maximum Community amount repre­                                       within heading No 68.14 ; mixtures with a
 senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                               basis of asbestos and mixtures with a basis
 certain products for which the maximum amount is to                               of asbestos and magnesium carbonate, and
 be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                              articles of such mixtures :
 that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this                               B. Articles of asbestos :
 reduced percentage will be 40 % ;
                                                                                        II . Fabric
 Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that                                III . Other
 the levying of customs duties may be re-established at
 any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­
 tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­
 ries — with the exception of those listed in Annex C                                        Article 2
 to the same Regulation — once the relevant Commu­
 nity amount has been reached ;                                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                following its publication in the Official Journal of
(') OJ No L 349, 20 . 12. 1976, 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, 25 November 1 977.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                   Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                               Member of the Commission