31978R3033

No L 359/42 22 . 12 . 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3033/78

of 21 December 1978

re-establishing the levying of customs duties on melamine, falling within subheading 29.35 ex Q 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 ries, with the exception of those listed in Annex C COMMUNITIES, thereto, once the relevant Community amount has been reached ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas, in respect of melamine falling within subheading 29.35 ex Q, the ceiling, calculated as indi­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) cated above, should be 486 000 units of account, and No 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing prefer­ therefore the maximum amount is 243 000 units of ential tariffs in respect of certain products originating account ; whereas, on 18 December 1978 , the amounts in developing countries ( !), and in particular Article 4 of imports into the Community of melamine, falling (2) thereof, within subheading 29.35 ex Q and originating in Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation Yugoslavia, a country covered by preferential tariff provides that customs duties may, for each category of arrangements, reached that maximum amount ; products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation expressed in units of account, which will be equal — (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that maximum with the exception of certain products the value of the amounts should not be exceeded, customs duties ceilings for which is given in Annex A thereto — to should be re-established in respect of the products in the sum arrived at by adding together the value of the question in relation to Yugoslavia, products in question imported cif into the Commu­ nity in 1974 and coming from countries and territo­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : ries covered by those arrangements, but not including products coming from countries and territories already Article 1 covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­ blished by the Community, and 5 % of the value of As from 25 December 1978 the levying of customs 1975 cif imports coming from other countries and duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation from countries and territories already covered by such (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect arrangements ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting of the following products, imported into the Commu­ from the sum of this addition may in no case exceed nity and originating in Yugoslavia : 225 % of that fixed for 1976 ;

Whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the amounts CCT heading Description for products originating in any one of the countries or No territories listed in Annex B to that Regulation should be within a maximum Community amount repre­ 29.35 Heterocyclic compounds ; nucleic acids : senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for which the maximum amount is to ex Q. Melamine be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex A thereto ; Article 2 Whereas Article 2 (2) and (3) of that Regulation provides that customs duties may be re-established at This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ following its publication in the Official Journal of tion originating in any of the said countries or territo the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 21 December 1978 .

For the Commission

Étienne DAVIGNON

Member of the Commission

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