31977R2521

No L 293/24 17 . 11 . 77 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2521 /77 of IS November 1977 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on tubes and pipes and blanks therefor, of copper ; hollow bars of copper falling within heading No 74.07, origi­ nating in developing countries to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, in respect of tubes and pipes and blanks COMMUNITIES, therefor, of copper ; hollow bars of copper, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 7 132 000 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European units of account ; whereas on 7 November 1977 the Economic Community, amounts of imports into the Community of the Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No products in question, originating in countries and terri­ 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­ tories covered by preferential tariff arrangements, tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in reached that ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which thereof, provides that the ceiling should not be exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in respect of Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that the products in question, the customs duties may, for each category of products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be equal — with the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : exception of certain products the value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in Article 1 question — to the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question imported cif As from 20 November 1977, the levying of customs into the Community in 1974 and coming from coun­ duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation tries and territories covered by those arrangements, (EEC) No 3021 /76 shall be re-established in respect of but not including products coming from countries the following products, imported into the Commu­ and territories already covered by various preferential nity : tariff arrangements established by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif imports coming CCT from other countries and from countries and territo­ heading Description of goods No ries already covered by such arrangements ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from the sum of this 74.07 Tubes and pipes and blanks therefor, of addition may in no case exceed 172-5 % of that copper ; hollow bars of copper resulting from the substitution of the year 1971 for the year 1974 in the first term of the addition and of the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the second term of the addition ; Article 2

Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation provides that This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day the customs duties may be re-established at any time following its publication in the Official Journal of once the Community ceiling has been reached ; the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 15 November 1977 . For the Commission Lorenzo NATALI Vice-President

(') OJ No L 349, 20 . 12. 1976, p. 23 .