CELEX: 31978R1549
Language: en
Date: 1978-07-04 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1549/78 of 4 July 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on artificial flowers, foliage or fruit, etc., falling within heading No 67.02, originating in developing countries to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

No L 182/ 16                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                      5. 7 . 78
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1549/78
                                                      of 4 July 1978
                re-establishing the levying of customs duties on artificial flowers, foliage or
                fruit, etc., falling within heading No 67.02, originating in developing countries
                to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation
                                                (EEC) No 2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  calculated as indicated above, should be 5 437 000
COMMUNITIES,                                                    units of account ; whereas on 28 June 1978 the
                                                                amounts of imports into the Community of the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           products in question, originating in countries and terri­
Economic Community,
                                                                tories covered by preferential tariff arrangements,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    reached that ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­              objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in      provides that the ceiling should not be exceeded,
developing countries (j ), and in particular Article 4 (2)      customs duties should be re-established in respect of
thereof,                                                        the products in question,
Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that
the customs duties may, for each category of products,          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed
in units of account, which will be equal — with the
                                                                                           Article 1
exception of certain products the value of the ceilings
for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in              As from 8 July 1978 , customs duties, suspended in
question — to the sum arrived at by adding together             pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77
the value of the products in question imported cif              shall be re-established in respect of the following
into the Community in 1974 and coming from coun­                products, imported into the Community, coming
tries and territories covered by those arrangements,            from any beneficiary country or territory, with the
but not including products coming from countries                exception of those listed in Annex C to Regulation
and territories already covered by various preferential         (EEC) No 2705/77 :
tariff arrangements established by the Community,
and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif imports coming
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from other countries and from countries and territo­
                                                                      heading                        Description
 ries already covered by such arrangements ; however                    No
the ceiling resulting from the sum of this addition
 may in no case exceed 225 % of that fixed for 1976 ;            67.02             Artificial flowers, foliage or fruit and parts
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation                                 thereof ; articles made of artificial flowers,
                                                                                   foliage or fruit
 provides that the customs duties may be re-established
 at any time on imports of the products in question
 coming from any country or territory, with the excep­
 tion of those listed in Annex C to that Regulation                                         Article 2
 once the Community ceiling has been reached ;                   This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
 Whereas, in respect of artificial flowers, foliage or           following its publication in the Official Journal of
 fruit, etc., falling within heading No 67.02, the ceiling,      the European Communities.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                  Done at Brussels, 4 July 1978 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                               Richard BURKE
                                                                        Member of the Commission
 (') OJ No L 324, 19. 12. 1977, p. 23.