31978R2973

No L 355 / 6 19 . 12 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2973 / 78 of 15 December 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on reconstituted wood, being wood shavings, etc ., falling within heading No 44.18 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 Whereas, in respect of reconstituted wood , being COMMUNITIES , wood shavings, etc ., falling within heading No 44.18 , the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 5 937 000 units of account, and therefore the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European maximum amount is 2 968 500 units of account ; Economic Community, whereas on 8 December 1978 , the amounts of imports into the Community of reconstituted wood , being wood shavings, etc ., falling within heading No 44.18 Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No and originating in Yugoslavia, a country covered by 2705/ 77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ preferential tariff arrangements, reached that tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) objectives of Regulation ( EEC) No 2705/77 which thereof, provides that maximum amounts should not be exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in Whereas Article 1 ( 3 ) and (4) of that Regulation respect of the products in question in relation to provides that customs duties may , for each category of Yugoslavia , products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, 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 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : together the value of the products in question imported cif into the Community in 1974 and coming from countries and territories covered by 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 imports coming from other countries and from coun­ As from 22 December 1978 , the levying of customs tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation ments ; whereas , however, the ceiling resulting from ( EEC) No 2705/ 77, shall be re-established in respect the sum of this addition may in no case exceed of the following products, imported into the Commu­ 225 % of that fixed for 1976 ; nity and originating in Yugoslavia :

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 be within a maximum Community amount repre­ 44.18 Reconstituted wood, being wood shavings, senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of wood chips, sawdust, wood flour or other certain products for which the maximum amount is to ligneous waste agglomerated with natural or artificial resins or other organic binding be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A substances , in sheets , blocks or the like thereto ;

Whereas Article 2 ( 2) and (3 ) of that Regulation provides that customs duties may be re-established at any time on imports of the products in question origi­ Article 2 nating in any of the said countries or territories, with the exception of those listed in Annex C thereto, 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.

19 . 12 . 78 No L 355 / 7 Official Journal of 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