31978R1100

No L 139/ 22 26 . 5 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1100/ 78 of 25 May 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on lead-acid accumulators, falling within subheading 85.04 A, originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN products in question originating in any of the said COMMUNITIES , countries or territories — with the exception of those listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the relevant Community amount has been reached ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas, in respect of lead-acid accumulators, falling within subheading 85.04 A, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 2 526 000 units of account, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No and therefore the maximum amount is 505 200 units 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ of account ; whereas on 10 May 1978 the amounts of tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in imports into the Community of lead-acid accumula­ developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) tors, falling within subheading 85.04 A, originating in thereof, Yugoslavia, a country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation ( EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that maximum Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ should be re-established in respect of the products in gory of products, be suspended up to a Community question in relation to Yugoslavia, ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be equal — with the exception of certain products the value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question imported cif into the Community in 1974 and HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established Article 1 by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif imports coming from other countries and from coun­ tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ As from 29 May 1978 , the levying of customs duties, ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) the sum of this addition may in no case exceed No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the 225 % of the preferential ceiling opened for 1976 ; following products, imported into the Community and originating in Yugoslavia :

Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts CCT for products originating in any one of the countries or heading Description No territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a maximum Community amount repre­ senting 50 % of that ceiling, with, the exception of 85.04 Electric accumulators : certain products for which the maximum amount is to A. Lead-acid accumulators be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this reduced percentage will be 20 % .

Article 2 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 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of (1) 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 , 25 May 1978 . For the Commission Etienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission