CELEX: 31978R2439
Language: en
Date: 1978-10-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2439/78 of 18 October 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on illuminating glassware, signalling glassware and optical elements, falling within subheading 70.14 A II, originating in Yugoslavia and Romania, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

No L 295/ 12                        Official Journal of the European Communities                               20. 10 . 78
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2439/78
                                                  of 18 October 1978
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on illuminating glassware,
               signalling glassware and optical elements, falling within subheading 70.14 A II,
               originating in Yugoslavia and Romania, to which the preferential tariff arrange­
                          ments set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                Whereas,      in respect     of  illuminating glassware,
COMMUNITIES,                                                  signalling glassware and optical elements, falling
                                                              within subheading 70.14 A II, the ceiling, calculated
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         as indicated above, should be 3 971 000 units of
Economic Community,                                           account, and therefore the maximum amount is
                                                              794 200 units of account ; whereas on 3 October 1978,
                                                              the amounts of imports into the Community of illumi­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                  nating glassware, signalling glassware and optical
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­            elements, falling within subheading 70.14 A II, origi­
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in    nating in Yugoslavia and Romania, countries covered
developing countries (!), and in particular Article 4 (2)     by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
thereof,                                                       maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
                                                              objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               provides that maximum amounts should not be
provides that customs duties may, for each category of         exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in
products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling,              respect of the products in question in relation to
expressed in units of account, which will be equal —          Yugoslavia and Romania,
with the exception of certain products the value of the
ceilings for which is given in Annex A to the Regula­
tion 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                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
coming from countries and territories covered by
those arrangements, but not including products
coming from countries and territories already covered                                  Article 1
by various preferential tariff arrangements established
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif
imports coming from other countries and from coun­             As from 23 October 1978, the levying of customs
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­         duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from           (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect
the sum of this addition may in no case exceed                 of the following products, imported into the Commu­
225 % of the preferential ceiling opened for 1 976 ;           nity and originating in Yugoslavia and Romania :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                  CCT
                                                                    heading                     Description
for products originating in any one of the countries or               No
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                    70.14           Illuminating glassware, signalling glassware
senting 50% of that ceiling, with the exception of                             and optical elements of glass, not optically
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                            worked or of optical glass :
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to
                                                                               A. Articles for electrical lighting fittings :
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this
reduced percentage will be 20 % ;                                                  II. Other (for example, diffusers,
                                                                                       ceiling lights, bowls, cups, lamp­
                                                                                       shades, globes, tulip-shaped pieces)
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. 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, 18 October 1978 .
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                    Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                Member of the Commission