31978R1549

No L 182/ 16 5 . 7 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1549/78 of 4 July 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on artificial flowers, foliage or fruit, etc., falling within heading No 67.02, originating in developing countries to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN calculated as indicated above, should be 5 437 000 COMMUNITIES, units of account ; whereas on 28 June 1978 the amounts of imports into the Community of the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European products in question, originating in countries and terri­ Economic Community, tories 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 (j ), 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 the customs duties may, for each category of products, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be equal — with the Article 1 exception of certain products the value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in As from 8 July 1978 , customs duties, suspended in question — to the sum arrived at by adding together pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 the value of the products in question imported cif shall be re-established in respect of the following into the Community in 1974 and coming from coun­ products, imported into the Community, coming tries and territories covered by those arrangements, from any beneficiary country or territory, with the but not including products coming from countries exception of those listed in Annex C to Regulation and territories already covered by various preferential (EEC) No 2705/77 : tariff arrangements established by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif imports coming CCT from other countries and from countries and territo­ heading Description ries already covered by such arrangements ; however No the ceiling resulting from the sum of this addition may in no case exceed 225 % of that fixed for 1976 ; 67.02 Artificial flowers, foliage or fruit and parts thereof ; articles made of artificial flowers, Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation foliage or fruit provides that the customs duties may be re-established at any time on imports of the products in question coming from any country or territory, with the excep­ Article 2 tion of those listed in Annex C to that Regulation once the Community ceiling has been reached ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day Whereas, in respect of artificial flowers, foliage or following its publication in the Official Journal of fruit, etc., falling within heading No 67.02, the ceiling, the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 4 July 1978 . For the Commission Richard BURKE Member of the Commission

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