31978R2847

5 . 12 . 78 No L 339 / 17 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2847/78 of 4 December 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on electrical capacitors, fixed or variable, falling within heading No 85.18 and originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN re-established at any time in respect of imports of the COMMUNITIES, products in question originating in any of the said countries or territories — with the exception of those 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 electrical capacitors, fixed or variable, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No should be 9 1 30 800 units of account, and therefore 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ the maximum amount is 1 826 1 60 units of account ; tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in whereas on 27 November 1978 , the amounts of developing countries (*), and in particular Article 4 (2) imports into the Community of electrical capacitors, thereof, fixed or variable, originating in Yugoslavia, a country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; bearing in mind the objec­ Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation tives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that maximum amounts should not be exceeded, provides that customs duties may, for each category of products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, customs duties should be re-established in respect of the products in question in relation to Yugoslavia, 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 imported cif into the Community in 1974 and HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif Article 1 imports coming from other countries and from coun­ tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ As from 8 December 1978, the levying of customs ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from the sum of this addition may in no case exceed duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation 225% of the preferential ceiling opened for 1976 ; (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the following products, imported into the Commu­ nity and originating in Yugoslavia :

Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts CCT for products originating in any one of the countries or heading Description territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should No be within a maximum Community amount repre­ senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of 85.18 Electrical capacitors, fixed or variable certain products for which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A to that Regulation ; whereas, for these products, this reduced percentage will be 20 % ; 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 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