CELEX: 31978R2649
Language: en
Date: 1978-11-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2649/78 of 10 November 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on gelatin and gelatin derivatives, falling within subheading 35.03 ex B and originating in Colombia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

11 . 11 . 78                         Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 318 /61
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2649/78
                                                  of 10 November 1978
                re-establishing the levying of customs duties on gelatin and gelatin derivatives,
                falling within subheading 35.03 ex B and originating in Colombia, 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 gelatin and gelatin derivatives,
COMMUNITIES,                                                     falling within subheading 35.03 ex B, the ceiling,
                                                                 calculated as indicated above, should be 747 600 units
                                                                 of account, and therefore the maximum amount is
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                 224 280 units of account ; whereas on 3 November
Economic Community,
                                                                 1978 , the amounts of imports into the Community of
                                                                 gelatin and gelatin derivatives, falling within
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     subheading 35.03 ex B, originating in Colombia, a
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­               country covered by preferential tariff arrangements,
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in       reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in
developing countries (J), and in particular Article 4 (2)        mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77
thereof,                                                         which provides that maximum amounts should not be
                                                                 exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in
                                                                 respect of the products in question in relation to
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                 Colombia,
provides that customs duties may, for each category 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 of the
ceilings for which is given in Annex A thereto — to
the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
products in question imported cif into the Commu­
nity in 1974 and coming from countries and territo­
ries covered by those arrangements, but not including
products coming from countries and territories already                                    Article 1
covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­
blished by the Community, and 5 % of the value of
1975 cif imports coming from other countries and                 From 14 November 1978 , the levying of customs
from countries and territories already covered by such           duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
arrangements ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting           (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect
from the sum of this addition may in no case exceed              of the following products, imported into the Commu­
225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ;                nity and originating in Colombia :
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
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of
                                                                 35.03            Gelatin (including gelatin in rectangles,
                                                                                  whether or not coloured or surface-worked)
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                               and gelatin derivatives ; glues derived from
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A                                 bones, hides, nerves, tendons or from
thereto ; whereas, for these products, this reduction                             similar products and fish glues ; isinglass :
will be 30 % ;
                                                                                  ex B. Gelatin and gelatin derivatives
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 thereto, once the relevant Commu­
nity 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, 10 November 1978 .
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                  Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                             Member of the Commission