31978R3035

No L 359/44 22. 12. 78 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3035/78 of 21 December 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on sewing machines, falling within subheading 84.41 Alb) 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 ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of COMMUNITIES, Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 which provides that the ceiling should not be exceeded, customs duties should Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European be re-established in respect of the products in ques­ Economic Community, tion, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 establishing preferen­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : tial tariffs in respect of certain products originating in developing countries (!), and in particular Article 4 (2) Article 1 thereof, Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that As from 25 December 1978, the levying of customs duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation customs duties may, for each category of products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling, expressed in (EEC) No 2705/77, shall be re-established in respect units of account, which will be equal — with the of the following products, imported into the Commu­ exception of certain products the value of the ceilings nity, coming from any beneficiary country or territory, for which is given in Annex A thereto — to the sum with the exception of those listed in Annex C thereto : 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 CCT heading Description those arrangements, but not including products No coming from countries and territories already covered by various preferential tariff arrangements established 84.41 Sewing machines ; furniture specially by the Community, and 5 % of the value of 1975 cif designed for sewing machines ; sewing imports coming from other countries and from coun­ machine needles : tries and territories already covered by such arrange­ ments ; whereas, however, the ceiling resulting from A. Sewing machines ; furniture specially designed for sewing machines : the sum of this addition may in no case exceed 225 % of that fixed for 1976 ; I. Sewing machines (lock-stitch only), with heads of a weight not exceeding Whereas Article 2 (1 ) and (3) of that Regulation 16 kg without motor or 17 kg provides that customs duties may be re-established at including the motor ; sewing any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­ machine heads (lock-stitch only), of tion coming from any country or territory, with the a weight not exceeding 16 kg exception of those listed in Annex C thereto, once the without motor or 17 kg including Community ceiling has been reached ; the motor : b) Other Whereas, in respect of sewing machines falling within subheading 84.41 A I b), the ceiling, calculated as indi­ cated above, should be 3 983 000 units of account ; Article 2 whereas, on 18 December 1978 , the amounts of imports into the Community of the products in ques­ This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day tion, originating in countries and territories covered following its publication in the Official Journal of by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that 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.