CELEX: 31978R0842
Language: en
Date: 1978-04-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 842/78 of 26 April 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on other sheepskin and lambskin leather, other, falling within subheading 41.03 B II and originating in developing countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

No L 115/36                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                  27 . 4 . 78
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 842/78
                                                     of 26 April 1978
                 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on other sheepskin and lambskin
                 leather, other, falling within subheading 41.03 B II and originating in developing
                 countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regulation
                                                 ( EEC) No 2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  2 813 800 units of account ; whereas on 20 April 1978
 COMMUNITIES,                                                   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,
                                                                reached that ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which
 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­             provides that the ceiling should not be exceeded,
 tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     customs duties should be re-established in respect of
 developing countries (*), and in particular Article 4 (2)      the products in question ,
thereof,
Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
customs duties may, for each category of products, be
suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed in                                            Article 1
units of account, which will be equal — with the
exception of certain products the value of the ceilings         As from 30 April 1978 , the levying of customs duties,
 for which is given in Annex A thereto — to the sum             suspended in pursuance of Regulation (EEC) No
arrived at by adding together the value of the products         2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
in question imported cif into the Community in 1974             following products, imported into the Community,
and coming from countries and territories covered by            and coming from any beneficiary country or territory,
those arrangements, but not including products                  with the exception of those listed in Annex C
coming from countries and territories already covered           thereto :
by various preferential tariff arrangements established
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif                    CCT
imports coming from other countries and from coun­                   heading                         Description
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­                 No
ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from
the sum of this addition may in no case exceed                  41.03               Sheepskin arid lambskin leather, except
225 % of that fixed for 1 976 ;                                                     leather falling within heading No 41.06 or
                                                                                    41.08 :
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation
                                                                                    B. Other :
provides that customs duties may be re-established at
                                                                                        II . Other
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 thereto, once the
Community ceiling has been reached ;                                                         Article 2
Whereas, in respect of other sheepskin and lambskin             This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
leather, other, falling within subheading 41.03 B II,           following its publication in the Official Journal of
the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be           the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 26 April 1978 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                             Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                      Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977 , p. 23 .