31978R0662

No L 89 / 16 4 . 4 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 662/ 78 of 3 April 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on inner tubes and tyre cases, of the kind used on bicycles, cycles with an auxiliary motor, motor-cycles or motor­ scooters, falling within heading No ex 40.11 and originating in South Korea, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, in respect of inner tubes and tyre cases, of COMMUNITIES, the kind used on bicycles, cycles with an auxiliary motor, motor-cycles or motor-scooters, falling within heading ex 40.11 , the ceiling, calculated as indicated Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European above, should be 4 579 000 units of account, and there­ Economic Community, fore the maximum amount is 1 144 750 of account ; whereas, on 22 March 1978 , the amounts of imports Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No into the Community of inner tubes and tyre cases, of 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ the kind used on bicycles, cycles with an auxiliary tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in motor, motor-cycles or motor-scooters, falling within developing countries ( J), and in particular Article 4 (2) heading ex 40.1 1 and originating in South Korea, a thereof, country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 270 5/77 provides that customs duties may, for each category of which provides that maximum amounts should not be products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in expressed in units of account, which will be equal — respect of the products in question in relation to with the exception of certain products the value of the South Korea, ceilings for which is given in Annex A thereto — to the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question imported cif into the Commu­ nity in 1974 and coming from countries and territo­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : ries covered by those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­ Article 1 blished by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif imports coming from other countries and As from 7 April 1978 , the levying of customs duties, from countries and territories already covered by such suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) arrangements ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the from the sum of this addition may in no case exceed following products, imported into the Community 225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ; and originating in South Korea :

Whereas, haying regard to that ceiling, the amounts CCT for products originating in any one of the countries or heading Description territries listed in Annex B thereto should be within a No maximum Community amount representing 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for ex 40.11 Rubber tyres, tyre cases, interchangeable which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the tyre treads, inner tubes and tyre flaps, for percentage indicated in Annex A to the afrore-said wheels of all kinds : Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this reduced — Inner tubes and tyre cases (new or percentage will be 25 % ; used) of the kind used on bicycles, cycles with an auxiliary motor, motor­ cycles or motor-scooters Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) 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 question originating in any of the said Article 2 countries or territories — with the exception of those listed in Annex C thereto — once the relevant Community amount has been reached ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of (») OJ No L 324, 19. 12. 1977, 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, 3 April 1978 .

For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission