CELEX: 31978R1413
Language: en
Date: 1978-06-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1413/78 of 23 June 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on thread of asbestos, falling within subheading 68.13 B I, originating in Yugoslavia to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

27 . 6. 78                           Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 170/37
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1413/78
                                                      of 23 June 1978
                 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on thread of asbestos, falling
                 within subheading 68.13 B I , originating in Yugoslavia to which the preferential
                   tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas, in respect of thread of asbestos, falling
 COMMUNITIES,                                                   within subheading 68.13 B I, the ceiling, calculated as
                                                                indicated above, should be 1 056 000 units of account,
                                                                and therefore the maximum amount is 422 400 units
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          of account ; whereas on 16 June 1978 the amounts of
 Economic Community,
                                                                imports into the Community of thread of asbestos,
                                                                falling within subheading 68.13 B I, originating in
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   Yugoslavia, a country covered by preferential tariff
 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­             arrangements, reached that maximum amount ;
 tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation
 developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)      (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that maximum
 thereof,                                                       amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties
                                                                should be re-established in respect of the products in
                                                                question in relation to Yugoslavia,
 Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation
 provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­
 gory of products, be suspended up to a Community
 ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be
 equal, with the exception of certain products the value
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to 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                                             Article 1
 coming from countries and territories covered by
 those arrangements, but not including products
 coming from countries and territories already covered          From 30 June 1978 , the levying of customs duties,
 by various preferential tariff arrangements established        suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
 by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif             No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
 imports coming from other countries and from coun­             following products, imported into the Community
 tries and territories already covered by such arrange­         and originating in Yugoslavia :
 ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from
 the sum of this addition may in no case exceed                       CCT
 225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ;                   heading                     Description
                                                                       No
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts             68.13           Fabricated asbestos and articles thereof (for
 for products originating in any one of the countries or                        example, asbestos board , thread and fabric ;
 territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should                        asbestos clothing, asbestos jointing), rein­
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                                     forced or not, other than goods falling
 senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                            within heading No 68.14 ; mixtures with a
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                             basis of asbestos and mixtures with a basis
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A ;                             of asbestos and magnesium carbonate, and
                                                                                articles of such mixtures :
whereas, for these products, this reduced percentage
will be 40 % ;                                                                  B. Articles of asbestos :
                                                                                     I. Thread
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation
provides that the levying of customs duties may be re­
established at any time in respect of imports of the
products in question originating in any of the said                                      Article 2
countries or territories, with the exception of those
listed in Annex C to the same Regulation, once the
relevant Community amount has been reached ;                    This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                following its publication in the Official Journal of
(') OJ No L 324, 19 . 12 . 19 77, 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, 23 June 1978 .
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                   Lorenzo NATALI
                                                                     Vice-President