CELEX: 31978R1684
Language: en
Date: 1978-07-17 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1684/78 of 17 July 1978 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on rubber tyres, etc., other than inner tubes and tyre cases of the kind used on bicycles, cycles with an auxiliary motor, motorcycles or motor-scooters, falling within heading No ex 40.11 originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

No L 193/ 18                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                    18 . 7 . 78
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1684/78
                                                     of 17 July 1978
                re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on rubber tyres, etc., other than
                inner tubes and tyre cases of the kind used on bicycles, cycles with an auxiliary
                motor, motor-cycles or motor-scooters, falling within heading No ex 40.11 origi­
                nating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in
                                     Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   or motor-scooters, falling within heading No ex 40.11 ,
COMMUNITIES,                                                   ' the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be
                                                                 11 901 000 units of account, and therefore the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,                                             maximum amount is 2 975 250 units of account ;
                                                                 whereas on 13 July 1978, the amounts of imports into
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    the Community of rubber tyres, etc., other than inner
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­               tubes and tyre cases of the kind used on bicycles,
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in       cycles with an auxiliary motor, motor-cycles or motor-
developing countries ( ! ), and in particular Article 4 (2)      scooters, falling within heading No ex 40.11 origi­
thereof,                                                         nating in Yugoslavia, a country covered by preferential
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                 tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ;
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­             whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                 (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that maximum
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be            amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties
equal — with the exception of certain products the               should be re-established in respect of the products in
value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to           question in relation to Yugoslavia,
the 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                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
those arrangements, but not including products
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 territories              As from 21 July 1978 , the levying of customs duties,
already covered by such arrangements ; whereas                   suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
however, the ceiling resulting from the sum of this              No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
addition may in no case exceed 225 % of the preferen­            following products, imported into the Community
tial ceiling open for 1976 ;                                     and originating in Yugoslavia :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts
for products originating in any one of the countries or                CCT
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should               heading                      Description
                                                                        No
be within a maximum Community amount repre­
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of
certain products for which the maximum amount is to             ex 40.1 1         Rubber tyres, tyre cases, interchangeable
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to                              tyre treads, inner tubes and tyre flaps, for
                                                                                  wheels of all kinds :
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this
reduced percentage will be 25 % ;                                                 — Other than inner tubes and tyre cases
                                                                                      (new or used) of the kind used on bicy­
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation                                      cles, cycles with an auxiliary motor,
provides that the levying of customs duties may be                                    motor-cycles or motor-scooters, but
re-established at any time in respect of imports of the                               including tyre cases with sewn-in inner
products in question originating in any of the said                                   tubes, for racing bicycles, and tyre flaps
countries or territories — with the exception of those
listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the
relevant Community amount has been reached ;
Whereas, in respect of rubber tyres, etc., other than                                      Article 2
inner tubes and tyre cases of the kind used on
bicycles, cycles with an auxiliary motor, motor-cycles          This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                 following its publication in the Official Journal of
(•) OJ No L. 324, 19 . 12. 1977, 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, 17 July 1978 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                   Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                               Member of the Commission