31977R1488

No L 164/ 32 2.7.77 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1488 / 77 of 1 July 1977 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on tableware and other articles of a kind commonly used for domestic or toilet purposes, of porcelain or china, falling within heading No 69.11 , originating in Yugoslavia to which the preferen­ tial tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­ COMMUNITIES , ries — with the exception of those listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the relevant Commu­ nity amount has been reached ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas, in respect of tableware and other articles of a kind commonly used for domestic or toilet Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No purposes, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­ should be 1 291 000 units of account, and therefore tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in the maximum amount is 387 300 units of account ; developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) whereas on 20 June 1977, the amounts of imports thereof, into the Community of tableware and other articles of a kind commonly used for domestic or toilet purposes, originating in Yugoslavia a country covered Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the gory of products, be suspended up to a Community objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be provides that maximum amounts should not be equal — with the exception of certain products the exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to respect of the products in question in relation to the 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 Article 1 tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ ments ; however the ceiling resulting from the sum of this addition may in no case exceed 172-5% of that As from 5 July 1977, the levying of customs duties, resulting from the substitution of the year 1971 for suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) the year 1974 in the first term of the addition and of No 3021 / 76, shall be re-established in respect of the the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the second term of following products, imported into the Community the addition ; and originating in Yugoslavia :

CCT Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts heading Description of goods 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 69.1 1 Tableware and other articles of a kind senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of commonly used for domestic or toilet certain products for which the maximum amount is to purposes , of porcelain or china (including be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to biscuit porcelain and parian ) 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 any time in respect of imports of the products in ques This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of (') OJ No L ?>49 , 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 , 1 July 1977 . For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission