31978R2442

No L 295/ 18 Official Journal of the European Communities 20 . 10 . 78

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2442/78 of 18 October 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on filament lamps for lighting, falling within subheading 85.20 A, originating in developing countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN lated as indicated above, should be 3 835 000 units of COMMUNITIES, account ; whereas on 2 October 1978 the amounts of imports into the Community of the products in ques­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European tion, originating in countries and territories covered Economic Community, by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that the tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in ceiling should not be exceeded, customs duties should developing countries ( !), and in particular Article 4 (2) be re-established in respect of the products in ques­ thereof, tion, Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that customs duties may, for each category of products, be HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 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 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, customs duties, suspended the value of the products in question imported cif in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No into the Community in 1974 and coming from coun­ 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the tries and territories covered by those arrangements, following products, imported into the Community, but not including products coming from countries coming from any beneficiary country or territory, with and territories already covered by various preferential the exception of those listed in Annex C to Regula­ tariff arrangements established by the Community, tion (EEC) No 2705/77 : and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif imports coming from other countries and from countries and territo­ CCT heading Description ries already covered such arrangements ; whereas, No however, the ceiling resulting from the sum of this addition may in no case exceed 225 % of the preferen­ 85.20 Electric filament lamps and electric tial ceiling opened for 1976 ; discharge lamps (including infra-red and Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation ultra-violet lamps) ; arc lamps : provides that the levying of customs duties may be A. Filament lamps for lighting 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 Article 2 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 Whereas, in respect of filament lamps for lighting, following its publication in the Official Journal of falling within subheading 85.20 A, the ceiling, calcu 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

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