31978R1683

No L 193/ 16 18 . 7 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1683/ 78 of 17 July 1978 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on inner tubes and tyre cases of the kind used on bicycles, cycles with an auxiliary motor, motor-cycles or motorscooters, falling within heading No ex 40.11 originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council 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 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European heading No ex 40.11 , the ceiling, calculated as indi­ Economic Community, cated above, should be 4 579 000 units of account, and therefore the maximum amount is 1 144 750 units of account ; whereas on 13 July 1978 , the amounts of Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No imports into the Community of inner tubes and tyre 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in cases of the kind used on bicycles, cycles with an developing countries (*), and in particular Article 4 (2) auxiliary motor, motor-cycles or motor-scooters, thereof, falling within heading No ex 40.1 1 originating in Yugoslavia, a country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that maximum gory of products, be suspended up to a Community amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be should be re-established in respect of the products in equal — with the exception of certain products the question in relation to Yugoslavia, 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 1 975 cif imports coming from other countries and from coun­ As from 21 July 1978 , the levying of customs duties, tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the 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 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 ex 40.11 Rubber tyres, tyre cases, interchangeable certain products for which the maximum amount is to tyre treads, inner tubes and tyre flaps, for wheels of all kinds : be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this — Inner tubes and tyre cases (new or reduced 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 to the same Regulation — 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 (1) OJ No L 324, 19. 12. 1977, p . 23 . the European Communities.

18 . 7 . 78 No L 193 / 17 Official Journal of the European Communities

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

Done at Brussels, 17 July 1978 .

For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission