31978R2774

No L 332/46 29 . 11 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2774/78 of 28 November 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on plaiting materials bound together in parallel strands or woven in sheet form, including matting, mats and screens ; straw envelopes for bottles, falling within heading No ex 46.02, origi­ nating in developing countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN including matting, mats and screens ; straw envelopes . COMMUNITIES, for bottles, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 6 511 000 units of account ; whereas on 15 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European November 1978 the amounts of imports into the Economic Community, Community of the products in question, originating Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No in countries and territories covered by preferential 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ tariff arrangements, reached that ceiling ; whereas, tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) developing countries (*), and in particular Article 4 (2) No 2705/77 which provides that the ceiling should thereof, not be exceeded, customs duties should be Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that re-established in respect of the products in question, 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 As from 2 December 1978, customs duties, suspended question — to the sum arrived at by adding together in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) No the value of the products in question imported cif 2705/77 shall be re-established in respect of the into the Community in 1974 and coming from coun­ following products, imported into the Community, tries and territories covered by those arrangements, coming from any beneficiary country or territory, with but not including products coming from countries the exception of those listed in Annex C to Regula­ and territories already covered by various preferential tion (EEC) No 2705/77 : tariff arrangements established by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif imports coming from other countries and from countries and territo­ CCT heading Description ries already covered by such arrangements ; whereas, No however, the ceiling resulting from the sum of this addition may in no case exceed 225 % of that fixed ex 46.02 Plaiting materials bound together in for 1976 ; parallel strands or woven insheet form, Whereas Article 2 (1 ) and (3) of that Regulation including matting, mats and screens ; provides that the customs duties may be re-established straw envelopes for bottles 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 plaiting materials bound following its publication in the Official Journal of together in parallel strands or woven in sheet form, the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 28 November 1978 . For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON Member of the Commission

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