CELEX: 41978D0352
Language: en
Date: 1978-03-20 00:00:00
Title: 78/352/ECSC: Decision of the representatives of the Governments of the Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community, meeting within the Council, of 20 March 1978 establishing supervision for imports of certain products originating in Sweden (1978)

14 . 4 . 78                                   Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 102/37
                                                                DECISION
                  OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE MEMBER STATES
                  OF THE EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY, MEETING WITHIN THE
                                                                COUNCIL,
                                                            of 20 March 1978
                     establishing supervision for imports of certain products originating in Sweden ( 1978 )
                                                              (78 /352/ECSC)
THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF                                The Member States shall periodically inform the Com­
THE MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN COAL AND                              mission of imports effected in accordance with the
STEEL COMMUNITY, MEETING WITHIN THE COUN­                                above rules; such information shall be supplied under
CIL,                                                                     the conditions laid down in paragraph 4 .
                                                                        3 . As soon as the ceilings have been reached, the
In agreement with the Commission,                                       Member States may, at the request of one of them or of
                                                                        the Commission , reimpose, until the end of the calendar
                                                                        year, each in respect of its own territory, the customs
HAVE DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :                                               duties applicable to third countries, adjusted, where
                                                                        appropriate, by the percentages laid down in Article 2
                                                                         (e) of Protocol 1 to the Agreement referred to in para­
                              Article 1                                 graph 1 .
 1 . Imports of certain products originating in Sweden
and indicated in Articles 1 and 2 of Protocol 1 to the                  Within the framework of the provisions of the first
Agreement between the Member States of the European                     subparagraph, the Commission shall coordinate the
Coal and Steel Community and the European Coal and                      procedures for reintroducing customs duties applicable
Steel Community, of the one part, and the Kingdom of                    to third countries, in particular, by notifying the date
Sweden, of the other part, shall be subject to annual                   common to the whole of the Community and directly
indicative ceilings and to Community supervision from                   applicable in each Member State. This notification shall
1 January to 31 December 1978 .                                         be published in the Official Journal of the European
                                                                        Communities.
The description of the products referred to in the pre­
ceding subparagraph, their tariff headings and statistic
numbers and the levels of the indicative ceilings are                   4 . Member States shall forward to the Commission, not
given in Council Regulation (EEC) No 703 /78 of 20                      later than the 15th day of each month , statements of the
March 1978 establishing indicative ceilings and Com­                    amounts set off during the preceding month . They shall,
munity supervision for imports of certain products                      if the Commission so requests, make up such statements
originating in Sweden (*).                                              for periods of 10 days and forward them within five
                                                                        clear days of expiry of the preceding 10-day period.
2 . Amounts shall be set off against the indicative ceil­
ings as and when the goods are entered with customs
authorities for home use and are accompanied by a
movement certificate conforming to the rules contained                                           Article 2
in the Agreement referred to in paragraph 1 .
Goods shall be set off against the indicative ceiling only               1 . Imports of products originating in Sweden which are
if the movement certificate has been submitted before
                                                                        mentioned in Articles 1 and 2 of Protocol 1 to the
the date on which customs duties are reimposed.                         Agreement and indicated in Annex II to Regulation
                                                                         ( EEC) No 703 /78 , shall be subject to Community
The reaching of a ceiling shall be determined at Com­                   supervision .
munity level on the basis of imports set off against it in
the manner defined in the preceding subparagraph.
                                                                        2 . Member States shall forward to the Commission, not
                                                                        later than the 15th day of each month, statements of
                                                                        imports of the products in question effected during the
( :l ) See page 25 of this Official Journal .                           preceding month ; only products submitted to the cus­
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toms authorities under cover of an entry for home use                                 Article 4
and accompanied by a movement certificate conforming
to the rules contained in Protocol 3 to the Agreement          The Member States shall take all measures required to
shall be taken into consideration for this purpose.            implement this Decision.
                         Article 3                              Done at Brussels, 20 March 1978 .
For the implementation of this Decision the Member                                              The President
States shall take all necessary measures in close cooper­
ation with the Commission .                                                                     K. HEINESEN