31978R2978

No L 355/ 14 Official Journal of the European Communities 19 . 12 . 78

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2978 /78 of 15 December 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on thermionic, cold cathode and photo-cathode valves and tubes, etc., falling within subheadings 85.21 A, B and C and originating in developing countries, to which the preferential tariff arrange­ ments set out in Council Regulation ( EEC) No 2705 /77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN question , originating in countries and territories COMMUNITIES, covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs Economic Community, duties should be re-established in respect of the products in question,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in developing countries (J), and in particular Article 4 (2) HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : thereof,

Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that Article 1 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 As from 22 December 1978 , customs duties, exception of certain products the value of the ceilings suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the question — to the sum arrived at by adding together following products, imported into the Community, the value of the products in question imported cif coming from any beneficiary country or territory, with into the Community in 1974 and coming from coun­ the exception of those listed in Annex C to Regula­ tries and territories covered by those arrangements, tion (EEC) No 2705/77 : but not including products coming from countries and territories already covered by various preferential CCT tariff arrangements established by the Community, heading Description and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif imports coming No from other countries and from countries and territo­ ries already covered by such arrangements ; whereas 85.21 Thermionic, cold cathode and photo­ however, the ceiling resulting from the sum of this cathode valves and tubes (including vapour addition may in no case exceed 225 % of that fixed or gas-filled valves and tubes, cathode-ray for 1976 ; tubes, television camera tubes and mercury arc rectifying valves and tubes) ; photo­ cells ; mounted piezo-electric crystals ; diodes, transistors and similar semi­ Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation conductor devices ; light-emitting diodes ; provides that customs duties may be re-established at electronic microcircuits : any time on imports of the products in question origi­ A. Valves and tubes nating in any of the said countries or territories, with the exception of those listed in Annex C thereto, once B. Photocells, including photo-transistors the Community ceiling has been reached ; C. Mounted piezo-electric crystals

Whereas, in respect of thermionic, cold cathode and photo-cathode valves and tubes, etc., falling within subheadings 85.21 A, B and C, the ceiling, calculated Article 2 as indicated above, should be 10 667 000 units of account ; whereas on 4 December 1978 the amounts of imports into the Community of the products in 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/ 15 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