31978R1892

No L 216/ 32 5 . 8 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1892/78 of 2 August 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on gloves, including mittens and mitts, protective for all trades, falling within subheading 42.03 B I and origi­ nating in developing countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation ( EEC) No 2705/77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN as indicated above, should be 17 369 000 units of COMMUNITIES, account ; whereas on 24 July 1978 the amounts of imports into the Community of the products in ques­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European tion, originating in countries and territories covered Economic Community, by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that the tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in ceiling should not be exceeded, customs duties should developing countries (*), and in particular Article 4 (2) be re-established in respect of the products in ques­ thereof, tion, Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : the customs duties may, for each category of products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed Article 1 in units of account, which will be equal — with the exception of certain products the value of the ceilings As from 8 August 1978 , customs duties, suspended in for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 question — to the sum arrived at by adding together shall be re-established in respect of the following the value of the products in question imported cif products, imported into the Community, coming into the Community in 1974 and coming from coun­ from any beneficiary country or territory, with the tries and territories covered by those arrangements, exception of those listed in Annex C to Regulation but not including products coming from countries (EEC) No 2705/77 : and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established by the Community, CCT and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif imports coming heading Description from other countries and from countries and territo­ No ries already covered by such arrangements ; however the ceiling resulting from the sum of this addition 42.03 Articles of apparel and clothing accesso­ may in no case exceed 225 % of that fixed for 1 976 ; ries, of leather or of composition leather : Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation B. Gloves, including mittens and mitts : provides that the customs duties may be re-established I. Protective, for all trades 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 gloves, including mittens and following its publication in the Official Journal of mitts, protective for all trades, the ceiling, calculated 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 fitienne DAVIGNON Member of the Commission

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