CELEX: 31978R1342
Language: en
Date: 1978-06-20
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1342/78 of 20 June 1978 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on wrought bars, rods, angles, shapes and sections of aluminium; aluminium wire falling within heading No 76.02 originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

21 . 6. 78                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 164/9
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1342/78
                                                    of 20 June 1978
               re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on wrought bars, rods, angles,
               shapes and sections of aluminium ; aluminium wire falling within heading No
                76.02 originating in Yugoslavia, 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
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          listed in Annex C of the same Regulation — once the
Economic Community,                                            relevant Community amount has been reached ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   Whereas, in respect of wrought bars, rods, angles,
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­             shapes and sections of aluminium ; aluminium wire,
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     the ceiling, calculated above, should be 3 516 000
developing countries (J) and in particular Article 4 (2)       units of account, and therefore the maximum amount
thereof,                                                       is 703 200 units of account ; whereas on 10 June
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               1978 , the amounts of imports into the Community of
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­           wrought bars, rods, angles, shapes and sections of
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community               aluminium ; aluminium wire, originating in Yugos­
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be          lavia, a country covered by preferential tariff arrange­
                                                               ments, reached that maximum amount ; whereas,
equal — with the exception of certain products the
value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to         bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC)
the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by          No 2705/77 which provides that maximum amounts
                                                               should not be exceeded, customs duties should be re­
adding together the value of the products in question
imported cif into the Community in 1974 and                    established in respect of the products in question in
coming from countries and territories covered by               relation to Yugoslavia,
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
imports coming from other countries and from coun­             As from 24 June 1978, the levying of customs duties,
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­         suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
ments ; however the ceiling resulting from the sum of          No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
this addition may in no case exceed 225 % of the pref­         following products, imported into the Community
erential ceiling open for 1976 ;                               and originating in Yugoslavia :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
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for products originating in any one of the countries or             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            76.02                Wrought bars, rods, angles, shapes and
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                                 sections of aluminium ; aluminium wire
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this
reduced percentage will be 20 % ;                                                           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 re­         following its publication in the Official Journal of
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, 20 June 1978 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            fitienne DAVIGNON
                                                                     Member of the Commission
(!) OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, p. 23 .