CELEX: 31977R1550
Language: en
Date: 1977-07-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1550/77 of 8 July 1977 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on electrical capacitors, fixed or variable falling within heading No 85.18 originating in Singapore to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply

12 . 7 . 77                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                  No L 172/ 15
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1550/77
                                                      of 8 July 1977
                re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on electrical capacitors, fixed
               or variable falling within heading No 85.18 originating in Singapore to which
                the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation ( EEC) No
                                                      3021 /76 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­
COMMUNITIES,                                                    tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­
                                                                ries, with the exception of those listed in Annex C to
                                                                the same Regulation, once the relevant Community
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           amount has been reached ;
Economic Community,
                                                                Whereas, in respect of electrical capacitors, fixed or
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    variable, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above,
3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­             should be 7 609 000 units of account, and therefore
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in      the maximum amount is 1 521 800 units of account ;
developing countries ( ! ), and in particular Article 4 (2)     whereas on 29 June 1977, the amounts of imports
thereof,                                                        into the Community of electrical capacitors, fixed or
                                                                variable, originating in Singapore, a country covered
                                                                by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­
                                                                maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
                                                                objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community
                                                                provides that maximum amounts should not be
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be           exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in
equal, with the exception of certain products the value
                                                                respect of the products in question in relation to
of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to the
                                                                Singapore,
Regulation 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
those arrangements, but not including products
coming from countries and territories already covered           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
by various preferential tariff arrangements established
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif
imports coming from other countries and from coun­
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­                                   Article 1
ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from
the sum of this addition may in no case exceed
 172-5 % of that resulting from the substitution of the         As from 15 July 1977, the levying of customs duties,
year 1971 for the year 1974 in the first term of the            suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
addition and of the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the          No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect of the
second term of the addition ;                                   following products, imported into the Community
                                                                and originating in Singapore :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                   CCT
for products originating in any one of the countries or              heading                  Description of goods
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             85.18            Electrical capacitors, fixed or variable
certain products for which the maximum amount is to
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) of that Regulation provides that
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at          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, 8 July 1977.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                     Richard BURKE
                                                              Member of the Commission