31978R1890

No L 216/28 Official Journal of the European Communities 5 . 8 . 78

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1890/78 of 2 August 1978 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on other mineral or chemical fertilizers, nitrogenous, falling within subheading 31.02 C and originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705 /77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN countries or territories — with the exception of those COMMUNITIES, listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the relevant Community amount has been reached ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas, in respect of other mineral or chemical ferti­ Economic Community, lizers, nitrogenous falling within subheading 31.02 C, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 3 108 000 units of account, and therefore the Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No maximum amount is 621 600 units of account ; 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ whereas on 24 July 1978 , the amounts of imports into tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in the Community of other mineral or chemical ferti­ developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) lizers, nitrogenous, falling within subheading 31.02 C thereof, and originating in Yugoslavia, a country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ provides that maximum amounts should not be gory of products, be suspended up to a Community exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be respect of the products in question in relation to equal — with the exception of certain products the 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 by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif Article 1 imports coming from other countries and from coun­ tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ ments ; however the ceiling resulting from the sum of As from 8 August 1978, the levying of customs duties, this addition may in no case exceed 225 % of the pref­ suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) erential ceiling open for 1976 ; No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the following products, imported into the Community 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 be within a maximum Community amount repre­ No senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for which the maximum amount is to 31.02 Mineral or chemical fertilizers, nitrogenous be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to C. Other that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this reduced percentage will be 20 % ;

Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation Article 2 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 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.

5 . 8 . 78 No L 216/ 29 Official Journal of the European Communities

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

Done at Brussels, 2 August 1978 .

For the Commission

Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission