31978R2526

No L 301 /42 28 . 10 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2526/78 of 27 October 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on tableware and other articles of a kind commonly used for domestic or toilet purposes, falling within heading No 69.11 , 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 purposes, falling within heading No 69.11 , the ceiling, COMMUNITIES, calculated as indicated above, should be 1 549 200 units of accounts ; whereas on 16 October 1978 the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European amounts of imports into the Community of the Economic Community, products in question, originating in countries and terri­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No tories covered by preferential tariff arrangements, 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ reached that ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which developing countries (*), and in particular Article 4 (2) provides that the ceiling should not be exceeded, thereof, customs duties should be re-established in respect of the products in question, Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that the customs duties may, for each category of products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 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 31 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 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 that fixed for 1976 ; 69.11 Tableware and other articles of a kind commonly used for domestic or toilet Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation purposes provides that the customs duties may be re-established at any time on imports of the products in question coming from any country or territory, with the excep­ Article 2 tion of those listed in Annex C to that Regulation once the Community ceiling has been reached ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day Whereas, in respect of tableware and other articles of following its publication in the Official Journal of a kind commonly used for domestic or toilet the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 27 October 1978 .

For the Commission Wilhelm HAFERKAMP Vice-President

(») OJ No L 324, 19. 12. 1977, p. 23.