CELEX: 31978R1893
Language: en
Date: 1978-08-02 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1893/78 of 2 August 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on wood, planed, tongued, etc., falling within heading No 44.13 and originating in developing countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

5 . 8 . 78                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 216/33
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1893/78
                                                    of 2 August 1978
                re-establishing the levying of customs duties on wood, planed, tongued, etc.,
                falling within heading No 44.13 and originating in developing countries, to
                which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC)
                                                   No 2705/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                account ; whereas on 24 July 1978 the amounts of
COMMUNITIES,                                                   imports into the Community of the products in ques­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         tion, originating in countries and territories covered
Economic Community,                                           by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
                                                              ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                  Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that the
2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­            ceiling should not be exceeded, customs duties should
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in    be re-established in respect of the products in ques­
developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2)     tion ,
thereof,
Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
the customs duties may, for each category of products,
be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed                                         Article 1
in units of account, which will be equal — with the
exception of certain products the value of the ceilings       As from 8 August 1978, customs duties, suspended in
for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in            pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77
question — to the sum arrived at by adding together           shall be re-established in respect of the following
the value of the products in question imported cif            products, imported into the Community, coming
into the Community in 1974 and coming from coun­              from any beneficiary country or territory, with the
tries and territories covered by those arrangements,          exception of those listed in Annex C to Regulation
but not including products coming from countries              (EEC) No 2705/77 :
and territories already covered by various preferential
tariff arrangements established by the Community,                    OCT
and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif imports coming                    heading                        Description
                                                                      No
from other countries and from countries and territo­
ries already covered by such arrangements ; however
the ceiling resulting from the sum of this addition           44.13               Wood (including blocks, strips and friezes
may in no case exceed 225 % of that fixed for 1976 ;                              for parquet or wood block flooring, not
                                                                                  assembled),   planed,     tongued, grooved,
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation                                rebated, chamfered, V-jointed, centre
provides that the customs duties may be re-established                            V-jointed, beaded, centre-beaded or the
at any time on imports of the products in question                                like, but not further manufactured
coming from any country or territory, with the excep­
tion of those listed in Annex C to that Regulation
once the Community ceiling has been reached ;                                             Article 2
Whereas, in respect of wood, planed, tongued, falling         This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
within heading No 44.13, the ceiling, calculated as           following its publication in the Official Journal of
indicated     above ,   should  be   8 839 800   units  of     the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
                Done at Brussels, 2 August 1978 .
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                           Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                     Member of the Commission
(•) OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, p. 23 .