31978R2977

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

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2977 /78 of 15 December 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on illuminating glassware, signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, not optically worked or of optical glass, falling within subheading 70.14 B 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 illuminating glassware, COMMUNITIES , signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, not optically worked or of optical glass, falling within subheading 70.14 B, the ceiling, calculated as indi­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European cated above, should be 1 229 000 units of account, and Economic Community, therefore the maximum amount is 368 700 units of account ; whereas on 4 December 1978 , the amounts Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) of imports into the Community of illuminating glass­ No 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing prefer­ ware, signalling glassware and optical elements of ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating glass, not optically worked or of optical glass, falling in developing countries ( ! ), and in particular Article 4 within subheading 70.14 B and originating in Yugo­ (2) thereof, slavia, a country covered by preferential tariff arrange­ ments, reached that maximum amount ; whereas, Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) provides that customs duties may, for each category of No 2705/77 which provides that maximum amounts products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, should not be exceeded , customs duties should be expressed in units of account, which will be equal — re-established in respect of the products in question with the exception of certain products the value of the in relation to Yugoslavia, 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 coming from countries and territories covered by HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established Article 1 by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif imports coming from other countries and from coun­ tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ As from 22 December 1978 , the levying of customs ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation the sum of this addition may in no case exceed (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect 225 % of that fixed for 1976 ; of the following products, imported into the Commu­ nity and originating in Yugoslavia : Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in any one of the countries or CCT territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should heading Description No be within a maximum Community amount repre­ senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of 70.14 certain products for which the m ximum amount is to Illuminating glassware, signalling glassware be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A and optical elements of glass, not optically worked or of optical glass : thereto ; whereas, for these products, this reduced percentage will be 30 % ; B. Other

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 (M OJ No L 324, of 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 Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission