31978R1891
No L 216/30 Official Journal of the European Communities 5 . 8 . 78
COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1891 / 78 of 2 August 1978 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on other kinds of leather, falling within subheading 41.05 B II 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 listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the COMMUNITIES, relevant Community amount has been reached ;
Whereas, in respect of other kinds of leather, falling Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European within subheading 41.05 B II, the ceiling, calculated Economic Community, as indicated above, should be 9 540 000 units of account, and therefore the maximum amount is Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1 908 000 units of account ; whereas on 24 July 1978 , 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen the amounts of imports into the Community of other tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in kinds of leather, falling within subheading 41.05 B II developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) and originating in Yugoslavia, a country covered by thereof, preferential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation provides that maximum amounts should not be provides that the customs duties may, for each cate exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in gory of products, be suspended up to a Community respect of the products in question in relation to i ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be Yugoslavia, 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 As from 8 August 1978 , the levying of customs duties, tries and territories already covered by such arrange suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) ments ; however the ceiling resulting from the sum of No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the this addition may in no case exceed 225 % of the pref following products, imported into the Community erential 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 41.05 senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of Other kinds of leather, except leather falling within heading No 41.06 or 41.08 : certain products for which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to B. Other : that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this II . Other reduced percentage will be 20 % ;
Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be Article 2 re-established at any time in respect of imports of the products in question originating in any of the said countries or territories — with the exception of those 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 216/31 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 Etienne DAVIGNON
Member of the Commission