31978R1900

No L 216/42 Official Journal of the European Communities 5 . 8 . 78

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1900/78 of 2 August 1978

re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on primary cells and primary batteries, falling within heading No 85.03 and originating in Hong Kong , to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705 /77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN re-established at any time in respect of imports of the COMMUNITIES , products in question originating in any of the said countries or territories — with the exception of those Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the Economic Community, relevant Community amount has been reached ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ Whereas, in respect of primary cells and primary tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in batteries, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 4 441 OOO units of account, and therefore developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) thereof, the maximum amount is 1 332 300 units of account ; whereas on 24 July 1978 , the amounts of imports into Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation the Community of primary cells and primary provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ batteries, originating in Hong Kong, a country gory of products, be suspended up to a Community covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the equal — with the exception of certain products the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to provides that maximum amounts should not be the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in adding together the value of the products in question respect of the products in question in relation to imported cif into the Community in 1974 and Hong Kong, 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 senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of 85.03 Primary cells and primary batteries certain products for which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to Article 2 that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this reduced percentage will be 30 % ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation following its publication in the Official Journal of provides that the levying of customs duties may be 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 .