31978R2972

19 . 12 . 78 No L 355 / 5 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2972/78 of 15 December 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on wood sawn lengthwise , sliced or peeled but not further prepared , etc ., falling within subheading 44.14 B and 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 subheading 44.14 B, the ceiling, calculated as indi­ COMMUNITIES , cated above, should be 27 506 000 units of account ; whereas on 4 December 1978 the amounts of imports Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European into the Community of the products in question , origi­ Economic Community, nating in countries and territories covered by preferen­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No tial tariff arrangements, reached that ceiling ; whereas, 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation ( EEC) tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in No 2705/77 which provides that maximum amounts developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 ( 2) should not be exceeded , customs duties should be thereof, re-established in respect of the products in question, Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that customs duties may, for each category of products, be HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed in units of account, which will be equal — with the Article 1 exception of certain products the value of the ceilings for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in As from 22 December 1978 , customs duties, question — to the sum arrived at by adding together suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) the value of the products in question imported cif No 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, CCT and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif imports coming heading Description from other countries and from countries and territo­ No ries already covered by such arrangements ; whereas however, the ceiling resulting from the sum of this 44.14 Wood sawn lengthwise, sliced or peeled addition may in no case exceed 225 % of that fixed but not further prepared, of a thickness not for 1976 ; exceeding 5 mm ; veneer sheets and sheets for plywood, of a thickness not exceeding Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation 5 mm : provides that customs duties may be re-established at B. Other any time on imports of the products in question origi­ nating in any of the said countries or territories, with the exception of those listed in Annex C to that Regu­ Article 2 lation , once the Community ceiling has been reached ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day Whereas, in respect of wood sawn lengthwise, sliced following its publication in the Official Journal of or peeled but not further prepared , etc ., falling within the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels , 15 December 1978 . For the Commission Étienne DAVIGNON Member of the Commission

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