31978R2846

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COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2846/78 of 4 December 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on electronic calculating machines, not incorporating a printing device, falling within subheading 84.52 ex A and originating in Hong Kong to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, in respect of electronic calculating COMMUNITIES, machines, not incorporating a printing device, falling within subheading 84.52 ex A, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 28 840 000 units of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European account, and therefore the maximum amount is Economic Community, 7 210 000 units of account ; whereas on 24 November 1978, the amounts of imports into the Community of Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No electronic calculating machines, not incorporating a 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ printing device, falling within subheading 84.52 ex A, tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in originating in Hong Kong, a country covered by pref­ developing countries (!), and in particular Article 4 (2) erential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum thereof, amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs provides that customs duties may, for each category of duties should be re-established in respect of the products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, products in question in relation to Hong Kong, expressed in units of account, which will be equal — with the exception of certain products the value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to the Regula­ tion in question — to the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the products in question HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : imported cif into the Community in 1974 and coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not including products Article 1 coming from countries and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif As from 8 December 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 Hong Kong : 225 % of the preferential ceiling opened for 1976 ;

CCT Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts heading Description No for products originating in any one of the countries or territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should 84.52 be within a maximum Community amount repre­ Calculating machines ; accounting senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of machines, cash registers, postage-franking machines, ticket-issuing machines and certain products for which the maximum amount is to similar machines, incorporating a calcu­ be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to lating device : that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this reduced percentage will be 25 % ; ex A. Electronic calculating machines : Not incorporating a printing device Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be re-established at any time in respect of imports of the products in question originating in any of the said Article 2 countries or territories — with the exception of those 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 following its publication in the Official Journal of (!) OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, p. 23 . the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 4 December 1978 . For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission