31978R2529

28 . 10 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 301 /45

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2529/78 of 27 October 1978 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties on equipment for parlour, etc., falling within heading No 97.04, originating in South Korea, to which the prefer­ ential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN countries or territories — with the exception of those COMMUNITIES, 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 equipment for parlour, etc., Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No falling within heading No 97.04, the ceiling, calcu­ lated as indicated above, should be 8 173 050 units of 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ account, and therefore the maximum amount is tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in 2 043 263 units of account ; whereas on 17 October developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) thereof, 1978 the amounts of imports into the Community of equipment for parlour, falling within heading No Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation 97.04, originating in South Korea, a country covered provides that the customs duties may, for each cate­ by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that gory of products, be suspended up to a Community maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which equal — with the exception of certain products the provides that maximum amounts should not be value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in the Regulation in question — to the sum arrived at by respect of the products in question in relation to adding together the value of the products in question South Korea, 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 Article 1 by various preferential tariff arrangements established by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif As from 31 October 1978, the levying of customs imports coming from other countries and from coun­ duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from of the following products, imported into the Commu­ the sum of this addition may in no case exceed nity and originating in South Korea : 225 % of the preferential ceiling open for 1976 ;

CCT Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts heading Description for products originating in any one of the countries or No territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a maximum Community amount repre­ 97.04 Equipment for parlour, table and funfair senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of games for adults or children (including certain products for which the maximum amount is to billiard tables and pintables and table be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to tennis requisites) that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this reduced percentage will be 25 % ; Article 2 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 re-established at any time in respect of imports of the following its publication in the Official Journal of products in question originating in any of the said 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 .