31978R0842

No L 115/36 Official Journal of the European Communities 27 . 4 . 78

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 842/ 78 of 26 April 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on other sheepskin and lambskin leather, other, falling within subheading 41.03 B II and originating in developing countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regulation ( EEC) No 2705 / 77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN 2 813 800 units of account ; whereas on 20 April 1978 COMMUNITIES, the amounts of imports into the Community of the products in question, originating in countries and terri­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European tories covered by preferential tariff arrangements, Economic Community, reached that ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No objectives of Regulation ( EEC) No 2705/77 which 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ provides that the ceiling should not be exceeded, tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in customs duties should be re-established in respect of developing countries (*), and in particular Article 4 (2) the products in question , thereof, 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 30 April 1978 , the levying of customs duties, for which is given in Annex A thereto — to the sum suspended in pursuance of Regulation (EEC) No arrived at by adding together the value of the products 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the in question imported cif into the Community in 1974 following products, imported into the Community, and coming from countries and territories covered by and coming from any beneficiary country or territory, those arrangements, but not including products with the exception of those listed in Annex C coming from countries and territories already covered thereto : 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 No tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ ments ; whereas , however, the ceiling resulting from the sum of this addition may in no case exceed 41.03 Sheepskin arid lambskin leather, except 225 % of that fixed for 1 976 ; leather falling within heading No 41.06 or 41.08 : Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation B. Other : provides that customs duties may be re-established at II . Other any time on imports of the products in question coming from any country or territory, with the excep­ tion of those listed in Annex C thereto, once the Article 2 Community ceiling has been reached ; Whereas, in respect of other sheepskin and lambskin This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day leather, other, falling within subheading 41.03 B II, following its publication in the Official Journal of the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 26 April 1978 . For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON Member of the Commission

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