31978R1956

No L 224/ 6 Official Journal of the European Communities 15 . 8 . 78

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1956/78 of 10 August 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on Portland cement, etc., falling within heading No 25.23 , 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 Portland cement, etc ., the Economic Community, ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 806 000 units of account, and therefore the maximum amount is 403 000 units of account ; whereas on 26 July 1978 the amounts of imports into the Commu­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No nity of Portland cement, etc., originating in Yugos­ 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 opening preferential lavia, a country covered by preferential tariff arrange­ tariffs for certain products originating in developing ments, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) thereof, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that maximum amounts should not be exceeded , customs duties should be Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation re-established in respect of the products in question provides that customs duties may, for each category of in relation to Yugoslavia, products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be equal — with the exception of certain products the value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to the Regula­ tion in question — to the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : imported cif into the Community in 1974 and coming from countries and territories covered by 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 imports coming from other countries and from coun­ As from 18 August 1978 , the levying of customs tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect the sum of this addition may in no case exceed of the following products, imported into the Commu­ 225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ; nity and originating in Yugoslavia :

CCT heading Description Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts No for products originating in any one of the countries or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should 25.23 Portland cement, ciment fondu, slag be within a maximum Community amount repre­ cement, supersulphate cement and similar senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of hydraulic cements, whether or not certain products for which the maximum amount is to coloured or in the form of clinker be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A thereto ;

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.

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

Done at Brussels, 10 August 1978 .

For the Commission fitienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission