31978R1957

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

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1957/78 of 10 August 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on tableware and other articles of a kind commonly used for domestic or toilet purposes, falling within heading No 69.11 , 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 tableware and other articles of Economic Community, a kind commonly used for domestic or toilet purposes, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 1 549 200 units of account, and therefore Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No the maximum amount is 464 760 units of account ; 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 opening preferential whereas on 26 July 1978 the amounts of imports into tariffs for certain products originating in developing the Community of tableware and other articles of a countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) thereof, kind commonly used for domestic or toilet purposes, originating in Yugoslavia, a country covered by prefer­ ential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of provides that customs duties may, for each category of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, maximum amounts should not be exceeded , customs expressed in units of account, which will be equal — duties should be re-established in respect of the with the exception of certain products the value of the products in question in relation to Yugoslavia, 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 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 by various preferential tariff arrangements established by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif Article 1 imports coming from other countries and from coun­ tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from As from 18 August 1978 , the levying of customs the sum of this addition may in no case exceed duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation 225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ; (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the following products, imported into the Commu­ nity and originating in Yugoslavia : Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries or CCT territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should heading Description No be within a maximum Community amount repre­ senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of 69.11 Tableware and other articles of a kind certain products for which the maximum amount is to commonly used for domestic or toilet be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A purposes thereto ; whereas, for these products, this reduced percentage will be 30 % ;

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