31977R2283

18 . 10 . 77 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 265 / 11

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2283/77 of 14 October 1977 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on filament lamps for lighting, falling within subheading 85.20 A, originating in Romania 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 of the same Regulation — once the relevant Commu­ nity amount has been reached ; Haviqg regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas, in respect of filament lamps for lighting falling within subheading 85.20 A, the ceiling, calcu­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No lated as indicated above, should be 3 310 000 units of 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­ account, and therefore the maximum amount is tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in 827 500 units of account ; whereas on 12 October developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) 1977, the amounts of imports into the Community of thereof, filament lamps for lighting falling within subheading 85.20 A, originating in Romania a country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of the Regulation maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which gory of products, be suspended up to a Community 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 value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A of Romania, 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 and 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 ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from As from 21 October 1977, the levying of customs the sum of this addition may in no case ' exceed duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation 172-5 % of that resulting from the substitution of the (EEC) No 3021 /76, shall be re-established in respect year 1971 for the year 1974 in the first term of the of the following products, imported into the Commu­ addition and of the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the nity and originating in Romania : 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 85.20 Electric filament lamps and electric territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a maximum Community amount repre­ discharge lamps (including infra-red and ultra-violet lamps) ; arc-lamps ; electrically senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of ignited photographic flashbulbs : certain products for which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to A. Filament lamps for lighting that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this reduced percentage will be 25 % ;

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.

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

Done at Brussels, 14 October 1977. For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON % Member of the Commission