31978R0425

No L 59/40 1 . 3 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 425/78 of 28 February 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on spoons, forks, fish-eaters, etc., of stainless steel, falling within subheading 82.14 A and originating in developing countries to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regu­ lation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be COMMUNITIES, 4 437 000 units of account ; whereas on 17 February 1978 the amounts of imports into the Community of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European the products in question, originating in countries and Economic Community, territories covered by preferential tariff arrangements, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No reached that ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in provides that the ceiling should not be exceeded, developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) customs duties should be re-established in respect of thereof, the products in question, Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : customs duties may, for each category of products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed in Article 1 units of account, which will be equal — with the exception of certain products the value of the ceilings As from 4 March 1978 , customs duties, suspended in for which is given in Annex A thereto — to the sum pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77, arrived at by adding together the value of the products shall be re-established in respect of the following in question imported cif into the Community in 1974 products, imported into the Community, coming and coming from countries and territories covered by from any beneficiary country or territory, with the those arrangements, but not including products exception of those listed in Annex C to Regulation coming from countries and territories already covered (EEC) No 2705/77 : by various preferential tariff arrangements established by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif CCT imports coming from other countries and from coun­ heading Description tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ No ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from the sum of this addition may in no case exceed 82.14 Spoons, forks, fish-eaters, butter-knives, 225 % of that fixed for 1976 ; ladles, and similar kitchen or tableware : Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of the aforesaid Regula­ A. Of stainless steel tion provides that customs duties may be re­ established at any time on imports of the products in question coming from any country or territory, with Article 2 the exception of those listed in Annex C thereto, once the Community ceiling has been reached ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day Whereas, in respect of spoons, forks, fish-eaters, etc,, following its publication in the Official Journal of of stainless steel, falling within subheading 82.14 A, the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 28 February 1978. For the Commission Éienne DAVIGNON Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 324, 19. 12. 1977, p. 23 .