31978R2440

No L 295/ 14 Official Journal of the European Communities 20 . 10 . 78

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2440/78 of 18 October 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on articles of jewellery and parts thereof, of precious metal, falling within subheading 71.12 A, originating in Thai­ land, 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 articles of jewellery and parts Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European thereof, of precious metal, falling within subheading Economic Community, 71.12 A, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 5 484 000 units of account, and therefore the maximum amount is 2 742 000 units of account ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No whereas on 29 September 1978, the amounts of 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ imports into the Community of articles of jewellery tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in and parts thereof, of precious metal, falling within developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) thereof, subheading 71.12 A, originating in Thailand, a country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation which 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 Thai­ expressed in units of account, which will be equal — land, 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 imported cif into the Community in 1974 and HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established Article 1 by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif imports coming from other countries and from coun­ tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ As from 23 October 1978, the levying of customs ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation the sum of this addition may in no case exceed (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect 225% of the preferential ceiling opened for 1976 ; of the following products, imported into the Commu­ nity and originating in Thailand : Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts CCT for products originating in any one of the countries or heading Description territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should No be within a maximum Community amount repre­ senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of 71.12 Articles of jewellery and parts thereof, of certain products for which the maximum amount is to precious metal or rolled precious metal : be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to A. Of precious metal that Regulation ;

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.

20 . 10 . 78 No L 295/ 15 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