31978R1962

o L 224/ 18 15 . 8 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1962/78 of 10 August 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on glazed setts, flags and paving, hearth and wall tiles, falling within heading No 69.08 , originating in developing countries to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regu­ lation (EEC) No 2704/77 apply

HE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, in respect of glazed setts, flags and paving, COMMUNITIES, hearth and wall tiles, the ceiling, calculated as indi­ cated above, should be 4 834 500 units of account ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European whereas on 26 July 1978 the amounts of imports into Economic Community, the Community of the products in question, origi­ laving regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No nating in countries and territories covered by preferen­ 2704/77 of 28 November 1977 opening and providing tial tariff arrangements, reached that ceiling ; whereas, or the administration of preferential Community bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) tariff ceilings for certain products originating in deve­ No 2704/77 which provides that the ceiling should not be exceeded, customs duties should be oping countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) thereof, re-established in respect of the products in question,

Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that customs duties may, for each category of products, be HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be equal — with the Article 1 exception of certain products the value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in As from 18 August 1978, customs duties, suspended question — to the sum arrived at by adding together in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No the value of the products in question imported cif 2704/77 shall be re-established in respect of the into the Community in 1974 and coming from coun­ following products, imported into the Community : tries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries CCT and territories already covered by various preferential heading Description No tariff arrangements established by the Community, and 5% of the value of 1975 cif imports coming from other countries and from countries and territo­ 69.08 Glazed setts, flags and paving, hearth and wall tiles ries already covered by such arrangements ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from the sum of this addition may in no case exceed 1 50 % of that fixed for 1977 ; Article 2

Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation provides that This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day the customs duties may be re-established at any time following its publication in the Official Journal of once the Community ceiling has been reached ; the European Communities.

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

(') OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, p. 13 .