31977R1762

No L 191 / 92 Official Journal of the European Communities 30 . 7 . 77

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1762/77 of 28 July 1977 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on Portland cement, whether or not coloured, falling within heading No 25.23 , originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferential 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 Portland cement, whether or not coloured, the ceiling, calculated as indicated Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No above, should be 687 000 units of account, and there­ 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­ fore the maximum amount is 343 500 units of tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in account ; whereas on 23 July 1977, the amounts of developing countries (*), and in particular Article 4 (2) imports into the Community of Portland cement, thereof, whether or not coloured, originating in Yugoslavia, a country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ which provides that maximum amounts should not be gory of products, be suspended up to a Community exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be respect of the products in question in relation to equal — with the exception of certain products the Yugoslavia, value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question imported cif into the Community in 1974 and coming from countries and territories covered by HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries ar\d territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif Article 1 imports coming from other countries and from coun­ tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ As from 2 August 1 977, the levying of customs duties, ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) the sum of this addition may in no case exceed No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect of the 172-5 % of that resulting from the substitution of the following products, imported into the Community year 1971 for the year 1974 in the first term of the and originating in Yugoslavia : addition and of the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the second term of the addition ; CCT heading Description of goods No Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries or 25.23 Portland cement, ciment fondu, slag territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a maximum Community amount repre­ cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of coloured , in the form of clinker certain products for which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to that Regulation ;

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 349, 20 . 12 . 1976, p . 23 . the European Communities.

30 . 7 . 77 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 191 /93

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 28 July 1977. For the Commission fitienne DAVIGNON Member of the Commission