31978R1896

No L 216 / 36 5 . 8 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1896/ 78 of 2 August 1978 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on screws for wood, falling within heading No ex 73.32 and originating in Hong Kong , to which the prefer­ ential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705 /77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN products in question originating in any of the said COMMUNITIES, countries or territories — with the exception of those listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European relevant Community amount has been reached ; Economic Community, Whereas, in respect of screws for wood, falling within Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ heading No ex 73.32, the ceiling, calculated as indi­ cated above, should be 2 993 000 units of account, and tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in therefore the maximum amount is 1 496 500 units of developing countries ( ! ), and in particular Article 4 (2) thereof, account ; whereas on 24 July 1978 , the amounts of imports into the Community of screws for wood, Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation falling within heading No ex 73.32 and originating in provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ Hong Kong, a country covered by preferential tariff gory of products, be suspended up to a Community arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation equal — with the exception of certain products the (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that maximum value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to amounts should not be exceeded , customs duties the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by should be re-established in respect of the products in adding together the value of the products in question question in relation to Hong Kong, 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 Article 1 by various preferential tariff arrangements established by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif As from 8 August 1978, the levying of customs duties, imports coming from other countries and from coun­ suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the ments ; however the ceiling resulting from the sum of following products, imported into the Community this addition may in no case exceed 225 % of the pref­ and originating in Hong Kong : erential ceiling open for 1976 ;

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 ex 73.32 Screws for wood senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to Article 2 that Regulation ;

Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day provides that the levying of customs duties may be following its publication in the Official Journal of re-established at any time in respect of imports of the 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

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