CELEX: 31977R1549
Language: en
Date: 1977-07-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1549/77 of 8 July 1977 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on tubes and pipes and blanks therefor, of copper; hollow bars of copper falling within heading No 74.07 originating in Yugoslavia to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021/76 apply

12. 7. 77                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 172/ 13
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1549/77
                                                      of 8 July 1977
               re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on tubes and pipes and blanks
               therefor, of copper ; hollow bars of copper falling within heading No 74.07 origi­
               nating in Yugoslavia to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in
                                     Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­
COMMUNITIES,                                                    tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­
                                                                ries, with the exception of those listed in Annex C to
                                                                the same Regulation, once the relevant Community
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           amount has been reached ;
Economic Community,
                                                                Whereas, in respect of tubes and pipes and blanks
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    therefor, of copper ; hollow bars of copper, the ceiling,
3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­             calculated as indicated above, should be 7 1 32 000
tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in      units of account, and therefore the maximum amount
developing countries ( !), and in particular Article 4 (2)      is 2 139 600 units of account ; whereas on 5 July
thereof,                                                        1977, the amounts of imports into the Community of
                                                                tubes and pipes and blanks therefor, of copper ;
                                                                hollow bars of copper, originating in Yugoslavia, a
Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                country covered by preferential tariff arrangements,
provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­            reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in
gory of products, be suspended up to a Community                mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76
ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be           which provides that maximum amounts should not be
equal, with the exception of certain products the value         exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in
of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to the            respect of the products in question in relation to
Regulation in question, to the sum arrived at by                Yugoslavia,
adding together the value of the products in question
imported cif into the Community in 1974 and
coming from countries and territories covered by
those arrangements, but not including products
coming from countries and territories already covered           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
by various preferential tariff arrangements established
by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif
imports coming from other countries and from coun­
tries and territories already covered by such arrange­                                  Article 1
ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from
the sum of this addition may in no case exceed
                                                                As from 15 July 1977, the levying of customs duties,
 172-5 % of that resulting from the substitution of the
                                                                suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
year 1971 for the year 1974 in the first term of the
                                                                No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect of the
addition and of the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the
second term of the addition ;
                                                                following products, imported into the Community
                                                                and originating in Yugoslavia :
Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts                    CCT
for products originating in any one of the countries or               heading
                                                                        No
                                                                                              Description of goods
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             74.07            Tubes and pipes and blanks therefor, of
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                              copper ; hollow bars of copper
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to
that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this
reduced percentage will be 30 % ;
                                                                                        Article 2
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at          This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                 following its publication in the Official Journal of
(>) OJ No L 349 , 20 . 12 . 1976, 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, 8 July 1977.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                     Richard BURKE
                                                              Member of the Commission