31978R2439

No L 295/ 12 20 . 10 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2439/78 of 18 October 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on illuminating glassware, signalling glassware and optical elements, falling within subheading 70.14 A II, originating in Yugoslavia and Romania, to which the preferential tariff arrange­ ments set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, in respect of illuminating glassware, COMMUNITIES, signalling glassware and optical elements, falling within subheading 70.14 A II, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 3 971 000 units of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European account, and therefore the maximum amount is Economic Community, 794 200 units of account ; whereas on 3 October 1978 , the amounts of imports into the Community of illumi­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No nating glassware, signalling glassware and optical 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ elements, falling within subheading 70.14 A II, origi­ tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in nating in Yugoslavia and Romania, countries covered developing countries (!), and in particular Article 4 (2) by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that thereof, maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation provides that maximum amounts should not be provides that customs duties may, for each category of exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, respect of the products in question in relation to expressed in units of account, which will be equal — Yugoslavia and Romania, 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 23 October 1978, the levying of customs 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 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 1 976 ; nity and originating in Yugoslavia and Romania :

CCT Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts heading Description for products originating in any one of the countries or No territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a maximum Community amount repre­ 70.14 Illuminating glassware, signalling glassware senting 50% of that ceiling, with the exception of and optical elements of glass, not optically certain products for which the maximum amount is to worked or of optical glass : be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to A. Articles for electrical lighting fittings : that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this II. Other (for example, diffusers, reduced percentage will be 20 % ; ceiling lights, bowls, cups, lamp­ shades, globes, tulip-shaped pieces) Whereas Article 2 (2) 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 products in question originating in any of the said Article 2 countries or territories — with the exception of those listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the relevant Community amount has been reached ; 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.

20 . 10 . 78 No L 295/ 13 Official Journal of 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