31978R2195

No L 258/26 21 . 9 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2195/78 of 20 September 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on locks and padlocks, falling within heading No 83.01 , 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 listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the COMMUNITIES, relevant Community amount has been reached ;

Whereas, in respect of locks and padlocks, falling Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European within heading No 83.01 , the ceiling, calculated as Economic Community, indicated above, should be 3 Oil 000 units of account, and therefore the maximum amount is 451 650 units of account ; whereas on 12 September 1978, the Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No amounts of imports into the Community of locks and 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ padlocks, falling within heading No 83.01 , originating tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in in Hong Kong, a country covered by preferential tariff developing countries (*), and in particular Article 4 (2) thereof, arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation provides that customs duties may, for each category of should be re-established in respect of the products in question in relation to Hong Kong, 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 24 September 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 opened for 1976 ; nity and originating in Hong Kong :

CCT Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts heading Description No for products originating in any one of the countries or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should 83.01 Locks and padlocks (key, combination or be within a maximum Community amount repre­ electrically operated), and parts thereof, of senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of base metal ; frames incorporating locks, for certain products for which the maximum amount is to handbags, trunks or the like, and part of be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to such frames, of base metal ; keys for any of that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this the foregoing articles of base metal reduced percentage will be 15 % ;

Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be Article 2 re-established at any time in respect of imports of the products in question originating in any of the said countries or territories — with the exception of those 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, 20 September 1978 . For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission