31978R2976

No L 355/ 10 19 . 12 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2976/ 78 of 15 December 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on fabric of asbestos, other, falling within subheadings 68.13 B II and III 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 calculated as indicated above, should be 1 983 000 COMMUNITIES , units of account, and therefore the maximum amount is 793 200 units of account ; whereas on 4 December Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 1978 , the amounts of imports into the Community of Economic Community, fabric of asbestos, other, falling within subheadings 68.13 B II and III and originating in Yugoslavia, a Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establsihing preferen­ reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) which provides that maximum amounts should not be thereof, exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in respect of the products in question in relation to Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation Yugoslavia, provides that customs duties may, for each category of 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 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 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 Article 1 coming from countries and territories covered by those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and territories already covered As from 22 December 1978 , the levying of customs by various preferential tariff arrangements established duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect imports coming from other countries and from coun­ of the following products, imported into the Commu­ tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ nity and originating in Yugoslavia : ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from the sum of this addition may in no case exceed CCT 225 % of that fixed for 1976 ; heading Description No Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries or 68.13 Fabricated asbestos and articles thereof (for territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should example, asbestos board, thread and fabric ; be within a maximum Community amount repre­ asbestos clothing, asbestos jointing), rein­ senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of forced or not other than goods falling within heading No 68.14 ; mixtures with a certain products for which the maximum amount is to basis of asbestos and mixtures with a basis be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A of asbestos and magnesium carbonate, and thereto ; whereas, for these products, this reduced articles of such mixtures : percentage will be 40 % ; B. Articles of asbestos : II . Fabric Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation III . Other provides that customs duties may be re-established at 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 thereto, once the relevant Community amount has been reached ; Article 2 Whereas, in respect of fabric of asbestos, other, falling within subheadings 68.13 B II and III, the ceiling, 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, 15 December 1978 .

For the Commission Etienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission ,