31978R2528

No L 301 /44 28 . 10 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2528/78 of 27 October 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on gramophone records, etc., falling within heading No 92.12, 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 account ; whereas on 16 October 1978 the amounts of COMMUNITIES, imports into the Community of the products in ques­ tion , originating in countries and territories covered Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that Economic Community, ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that the 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ ceiling should not be exceeded, customs duties should tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in be re-established in respect of the products in ques­ developing countries (*), and in particular Article 4 (2) tion, thereof, Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : the customs duties may, for each category of products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed Article 1 in units of account, which will be equal — with the exception of certain products the value of the ceilings As from 31 October 1978 , customs duties, suspended for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No question — to the sum arrived at by adding together 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the the value of the products in question imported cif following products, imported into the Community, into the Community in 1974 and coming from coun­ coming from any beneficiary country or territory, with tries and territories covered by those arrangements, the exception of those listed in Annex C to Regula­ but not including products coming from countries tion (EEC) No 2705/77 : and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established by the Community, CCT and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif imports coming heading Description No from other countries and from countries and territo­ ries already covered by such arrangements ; whereas, 92.12 Gramophone records and other sound or however, the ceiling resulting from the sum of this similar recordings ; matrices for the produc­ addition may in no case exceed 225 % of that fixed tion of records, prepared record blanks, for 1976 ; film for mechanical sound recording, Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation prepared tapes, wires, strips and like arti­ provides that the customs duties may be re-established cles of a kind commonly used for sound or at any time on imports of the products in question similar recording coming from any country or territory, with the excep­ tion of those listed in Annex C to that Regulation, Article 2 once the Community ceiling has been reached ; Whereas, in respect of gramophone records, etc., This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day falling within heading No 92.12, the ceiling, calcu­ following its publication in the Official Journal of lated as indicated above, should be 7 037 000 units of 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 .