31978R2002

No L 231 / 14 23 . 8 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2002/78 of 22 August 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on wrought plates, sheets and strip, of aluminium, falling within heading No 76.03 , originating in Yugoslavia to which the preferential 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, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No Whereas, in respect of wrought plates, sheets and 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ strip, of aluminium, the ceiling, calculated as indi­ tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in cated above, should be 8 304 000 units of account, and therefore the maximum amount is 1 660 800 units of developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) thereof, account ; whereas on 4 August 1978 , the amounts of imports into the Community of wrought plates, sheets Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation and strip, of aluminium, originating in Yugoslavia, a provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, gory of products, be suspended up to a Community reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 equal — with the exception of certain products the which provides that maximum amounts should not be value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by respect of the products in question in relation to adding together the value of the products in question Yugoslavia, imported cif into the Community in 1974 and coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not including products HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 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 26 August 1978 , the levying of customs imports coming from other countries and from coun­ duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from of the following products, imported into the Commu­ the sum of this addition may in no case exceed nity and originating in Yugoslavia : 225 % of the preferential ceiling opened 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 76.03 Wrought plates, sheets and strip, of alumi­ nium certain products for which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this Article 2 reduced percentage will be 20 % ; 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, 22 August 1978 . For the Commission fitienne DAVIGNON Member of the Commission

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