31978R2441

No L 295/ 16 20 . 10 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2441 /78 of 18 October 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on electrical capacitors, fixed or variable, falling within heading No 85.18 , originating in Singapore, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN re-established at any time in respect of imports of the COMMUNITIES, products in question originating in any of the said countries or territories — with the exception of those listed in Annex C to the same Regulation — once the relevant Community amount has been reached ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas, in respect of electrical capacitors, fixed or variable, falling within heading No 85.18, the ceiling, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No calculated as indicated above, should be 9 1 30 800 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ units of account, and therefore the maximum amount tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in is 1 826 160 units of account ; whereas on 29 developing countries (! ), and in particular Article 4 (2) September 1978, the amounts of imports into the thereof, Community of electrical capacitors, fixed or variable, originating in Singapore, a country covered by prefer­ ential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that provides that customs duties may, for each category of maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, duties should be re-established in respect of the expressed in units of account, which will be equal — products in question in relation to Singapore, 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 coming from countries and territories covered by HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif Article 1 imports coming from other countries and from coun­ tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from As from 23 October 1978, the levying of customs the sum of this addition may in no case exceed duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation 225 % of the preferential ceiling opened for 1 976 ; (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the following products, imported into the Commu­ nity and originating in Singapore : Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries or CCT 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 85.18 Electrical capacitors, fixed or variable 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 reduced percentage will be 20 % ;

Article2¶

Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of (i OJ No L 324, 19. 12. 1977, p. 23. the European Communities.

20 . 10 . 78 No L 295/ 17 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