31978R2436

20 . 10 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 295/9

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2436/78 of 18 October 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on chamois-dressed leather, falling within heading No 41.06, originating in developing countries, to which the pref­ erential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, in respect of chamois-dressed leather, falling COMMUNITIES, within heading No 41.06, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 418 000 units of account ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European whereas on 2 October 1978 the amounts of imports Economic Community, into the Community of the products in question, origi­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No nating in countries and territories covered by preferen­ 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ tial tariff arrangements, reached that ceiling ; whereas, tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) No 2705/77 which provides that the ceiling should thereof, not be exceeded, customs duties should be 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 suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed in HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : units of account, which will be equal — with the exception of certain products the value of the ceilings Article 1 for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by adding together As from 23 October 1978, the levying of customs the value of the products in question imported cif duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation into the Community in 1974 and coming from coun­ (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect tries and territories covered by those arrangements, of the following products, imported into the Commu­ but not including products coming from countries nity, coming from any beneficiary country or territory, and territories already covered by various preferential with the exception of those listed in Annex C to Regu­ tariff arrangements established by the Community, lation (EEC) No 2705/77 : and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif imports coming from other countries and from countries and territo­ CCT ries already covered by such arrangements ; whereas, heading Description however, the ceiling resulting from the sum of this No addition may in no case exceed 225 % of the preferen­ tial ceiling opened for 1976 ; 41.06 Chamois-dressed leather Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be re-established at any time in respect of imports of the Article 2 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 listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the following its publication in the Official Journal of relevant Community amount has been reached ; the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 18 October 1978 . For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON Member of the Commission

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