CELEX: 31978R2002
Language: en
Date: 1978-08-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2002/78 of 22 August 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on wrought plates, sheets and strip, of aluminium, falling within heading No 76.03, originating in Yugoslavia to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

No L 231 / 14                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                    23 . 8 . 78
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2002/78
                                                   of 22 August 1978
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on wrought plates, sheets and strip,
               of aluminium, falling within heading No 76.03 , originating in Yugoslavia to
               which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC)
                                                   No 2705 /77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 products in question originating in any of the said
COMMUNITIES,                                                   countries or territories — with the exception of those
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the
Economic Community,                                            relevant Community amount has been reached ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   Whereas, in respect of wrought plates, sheets and
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­             strip, of aluminium, the ceiling, calculated as indi­
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in     cated above, should be 8 304 000 units of account, and
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)      therefore the maximum amount is 1 660 800 units of
thereof,                                                       account ; whereas on 4 August 1978 , the amounts of
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation               imports into the Community of wrought plates, sheets
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­           and strip, of aluminium, originating in Yugoslavia, a
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community               country covered by preferential tariff arrangements,
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be          reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in
equal — with the exception of certain products the             mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77
value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to         which provides that maximum amounts should not be
the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by          exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in
adding together the value of the products in question          respect of the products in question in relation to
imported cif into the Community in 1974 and                    Yugoslavia,
coming from countries and territories covered by
those arrangements, but not including products                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
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             As from 26 August 1978, the levying of customs
imports coming from other countries and from coun­             duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­         (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect
ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from           of the following products, imported into the Commu­
the sum of this addition may in no case exceed                 nity and originating in Yugoslavia :
225 % of the preferential ceiling opened for 1976 ;
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                  CCT
for products originating in any one of the countries or             heading                        Description
territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should               No
be within a maximum Community amount repre­
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of            76.03                Wrought plates, sheets and strip, of alumi­
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                                 nium
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this
reduced percentage will be 20 % ;                                                         Article 2
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation               This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
provides that the levying of customs duties may be             following its publication in the Official Journal of
re-established at any time in respect of imports of the        the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 22 August 1978 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            fitienne DAVIGNON
                                                                     Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, p. 23 .