31978R2979

No L 355/ 16 19 . 12 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2979/78 of 15 December 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on appliances, apparatus, accesso­ ries and requisites for gymnastics or athletics, etc., falling within subheadings 97.06 B and C and originating in developing countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation ( EEC) No 2705/77 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN lated as indicated above, should be 16 078 000 units of COMMUNITIES, account ; whereas on 8 December 1978 the amounts of imports into the Community of the products in Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European question , originating in countries and territories Economic Community, covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No that ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ of Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which - provides that tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs developing countries ('), and in particular Article 4 (2) duties should be re-established in respect of the thereof, 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 As from 22 December 1978 , customs duties, for which is given in Annex A to the Regulation in suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC) question — to the sum arrived at by adding together No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect of the the value of the products in question imported cif following products, imported into the Community, into the Community in 1974 and coming from coun­ coming from any beneficiary country or territory, with tries and territories covered by those arrangements, the exception of those listed in Annex C to Regula­ but not including products coming from countries tion ( EEC) No 2705/77 : and territories already covered by various preferential 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 97.06 Appliances, appararatus, accessories and addition may in no case exceed 225 % of that fixed requisites for gymnastics or athletics, or for for 1976 ; sports and outdoor games (other than arti­ cles falling within heading No 97.04) : Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation provides that customs duties may be re-established at B. Tennis rackets any time on imports of the products in question origi­ C. Other nating in any of the said countries or territories, with the exception of those listed in Annex C thereto, once the Community ceiling has been reached ; Article 2 Whereas, in respect of appliances, apparatus, accesso­ This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day ries and requisites for gymnastics or athletics, falling following its publication in the Official Journal of within subheadings 97.06 B and C, the ceiling, calcu 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

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