31977R1794

4 . 8 . 77 No L 197/ 21 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1794/77

of 2 August 1977

re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on acrylic polymers, methac­ rylic polymers and acrylo-methacrylic copolymers, in the form of plates, sheets, etc., falling within subheading 39.02 C ex XII, originating in Thailand to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN form of plates, sheets, etc., falling within subheading COMMUNITIES, 39.02 C ex II, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 259 178 units of account, and there­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European fore the maximum amount is 1 29 589 units of Economic Community, account ; whereas on 29 July 1977, the amounts of Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No imports into the Community of acrylic polymers, 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­ methacrylic polymers and acrylo-methacrylic copoly­ tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in mers, in the form of plates, sheets, etc., falling within developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) subheading 39.02 C ex II, originating in Thailand, a thereof, country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 gory of products, be suspended up to a Community which provides that maximum amounts should not be ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in equal — with the exception of certain products the respect of the products in question in relation to Thai­ value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A of land , 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 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not including products Article 1 coming from countries and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established As from 7 August 1 977, the levying of customs duties, by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) imports coming from other countries and from coun­ No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect of the tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ following products, imported into the Community ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from and originating in Thailand : the sum of this addition may in no case exceed 172-5 % of that resulting from the substitution of the CCT year 1971 for the year 1974 in the first term of the heading Description of goods No addition and of the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the second term of the addition ; 39.02 Polymerisation and copolymerisation Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts products (for example, polyethylene, polyte­ for products originating in any one of the countries or trahaloethylenes, polyisobutylene, polysty­ territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should rene, polyvinyl chloride, polyvinyl acetate, polyvinyl chloroacetate and other poly­ be within a maximum Community amount repre­ vinyl derivatives, polyacrylic and polyme­ senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of thacrylic derivatives, coumarone-indene certain products for which the maximum amount is to resins) : be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to C. Other : that Regulation ; ex XII . Acrylic polymers, methacrylic Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that polymers and acrylo­ methacrylic copolymers, in the levying of customs duties may be re-established at the form of plates, sheets, any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ film, foil and strip (other than tion originating in any of the said countries or territo­ that classified in heading No ries — with the exception of those listed in Annex C 51.02 by the application of Note 4 to Chapter 51 ), of the same Regulation — once the relevant Commu­ whether or not printed or nity amount has been reached ; otherwise surface-worked, Whereas, in respect of acrylic polymers, methacrylic uncut or cut into rectangles but not further worked (even polymers and acrylo-methacrylic copolymers, in the if, when so cut, they become articles ready for use) (') OJ No L 349, 20 . 12. 1976, p. 23 .

No L 197/ 22 4. 8 . 77 Official Journal of the European Communities

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This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 2 August 1977. For the Commission

Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission