31978R1684

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

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1684/78 of 17 July 1978 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on rubber tyres, etc., other than 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 origi­ nating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN or motor-scooters, falling within heading No ex 40.11 , COMMUNITIES, ' the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 11 901 000 units of account, and therefore the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European maximum amount is 2 975 250 units of account ; Economic Community, whereas on 13 July 1978, the amounts of imports into Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No the Community of rubber tyres, etc., other than inner 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ tubes and tyre cases of the kind used on bicycles, tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in cycles with an auxiliary motor, motor-cycles or motordeveloping countries ( ! ), and in particular Article 4 (2) scooters, falling within heading No ex 40.11 origi­ thereof, nating 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 coming from countries and territories covered by HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 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 territories As from 21 July 1978 , the levying of customs duties, already covered by such arrangements ; whereas suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) however, the ceiling resulting from the sum of this No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the addition may in no case exceed 225 % of the preferen­ following products, imported into the Community tial ceiling open for 1976 ; and originating in Yugoslavia : Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries or CCT territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should heading Description No be within a maximum Community amount repre­ senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of ex 40.1 1 Rubber tyres, tyre cases, interchangeable certain products for which the maximum amount is to tyre treads, inner tubes and tyre flaps, for be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to wheels of all kinds : that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this reduced percentage will be 25 % ; — Other than inner tubes and tyre cases (new or used) of the kind used on bicy­ Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation cles, cycles with an auxiliary motor, provides that the levying of customs duties may be motor-cycles or motor-scooters, but re-established at any time in respect of imports of the including tyre cases with sewn-in inner products in question originating in any of the said tubes, for racing bicycles, and tyre flaps countries or territories — with the exception of those listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the relevant Community amount has been reached ; Article 2 Whereas, in respect of rubber tyres, etc., other than inner tubes and tyre cases of the kind used on bicycles, cycles with an auxiliary motor, motor-cycles 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, 17 July 1978 .

For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission