31977R2522

17. 11 . 77 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 293/25

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2522/77 of 15 November 1977 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on appliances, apparatus, accesso­ ries and requisites for gymnastics or athletics, or for sports and outdoor games falling within subheadings 97.06 B and C, originating in developing countries to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN 97.06 B and C, the ceiling, calculated as indicated COMMUNITIES, above, should be 16 078 000 units of account ; whereas on 10 November 1977 the amounts of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European imports into the Community of the products in ques­ Economic Community, tion, originating in countries and territories covered Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that 3021 /76 of 13 December 1976 establishing preferen­ ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in Regulation (EEC) No 3021 /76 which provides that the developing countries ( J), and in particular Article 4 (2) ceiling should not be exceeded, customs duties should thereof, be re-established in respect of the products in ques­ Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that tion , the customs duties may, for each category of products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : in units of account, which will be equal — with the exception of certain products the value of the ceilings Article 1 for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by adding together As from 20 November 1977, the levying of customs the value of the products in question imported cif duties, suspended in pusuance of Council Regulation into the Community in 1974 and coming from coun­ (EEC) No 3021 /76 shall re-established in respect of tries and territories covered by those arrangements, the following products, imported into the Commu­ but not including products coming from countries nity : and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established by the Community, CCT and 5 % of the value of 1974 cif imports coming heading Description of goods from other countries and from countries and territo­ No ries already covered by such arrangements ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from the sum of this 97.06 Appliances, apparatus, accessories and addition may in no case exceed 172-5% of that requisites for gymnastics or athletics, or for resulting from the substitution of the year 1971 for sports and outdoor games (other than arti­ the year 1974 in the first term of the addition and of cles falling within heading No 97.04) : the year 1972 for the year 1974 in the second term of B. Tennis rackets the addition ; C. Other Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation provides that the customs duties may be re-established at any time Article 2 once the Community ceiling has been reached ; Whereas, in respect of appliances, apparatus, accesso­ This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day ries and requisites for gymnastics or athletics, or for following its publication in the Official Journal of sports and outdoor games falling within subheadings 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 .