No L 359/18 Official Journal of the European Communities 31.12.80 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3448/80 | of 22 December 1980 on the implementation of Article 43 of the 1979 Act of Accession, concerning the system of trade applicable to the goods covered by Regulations (EEC) No 3033/80 and (EEC) No 3035/80 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to the 1979 Act of Accession, and in particular Article 43 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Whereas Article 43 of the Act establishes the rules governing processed agricultural products outside Annex II to the Treaty covered by the following Council Regulations: — (EEC) No 3033/80 of 29 November 1980 determining the system of trade applicable to certain goods processed from agricultural products (*), and — (EEC) No 3035/80 of 29 November 1980 laying down general rules for granting export refunds on certain agricultural products exported in the form of goods not covered by Annex II to the Treaty and the criteria for fixing the amounts of such refunds (%); Whereas, Regulation (EEC) No 3033/80 concerns in particular the determination of .the charge applicable when the goods in question are imported, which charge is composed of an ad walorum duty constituting the fixed component and of a variable component; whereas, it is necessary to determine the rate of the customs duty constituting the fixed component applicable by the Hellenic Republic on imports from third countries; whereas, this- fixed component must be determined, according to Article 43 (3) of the Act, by excluding from the total protection applied by the Hellenic Republic on the date of accession the agricultural protection to be introduced upon accession; - Whereas, according to Article 15 of the Association Agreement between the European Economic (") OJ No L 323, 29. 11. 1980, p. 1. () OJ No L 323, 29. 11. 1980, p. 27. Community and Greece there exists for certain goods covered by Regulatlon (EEC) No 3033/80 a residual customs duty on imports into the Hellenic Republic from the Community of Nine; whereas, these customs duties shall remain upon accession and be abolished in accordance with the timetable laid down for industrial products in Article 25 of the Act; Whereas the variable component applicable when the goods covered by Regulation (EEC) No 3033/80 are imported into the Hellenic Republic from third countries is, according to the second indent of Article 43 (1) of the Act, reduced or increased, as the case may be, by an accession compensatory amount; whereas, on importation into the Community of Nine from the Hellenic Republic the same accession compensatory amount is applied to the same goods; whereas the compensatory amount applied to certain goods imported into the Community of Nine from the Hellenic Republic and granted a reduction in the variable component prior to accession shall be subject to a ceiling; Whereas, pursuant to Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 3033/80 the Commission fixes for three-month periods and for all goods the amount of the variable component applicable on imports into the Community from third countries; whereas the same procedure applies with the same periodicity to fixing the compensatory amounts applicable on imports; Whereas on exportation from the Community of Nine to the Hellenic Republic of goods covered by Regulation (EEC) No 3035/80 — with the exception of albumins — an accession compensatory amount, determined in accordance with the third indent of Article 43 (1) of the Act is granted or levied as the case may be; whereas, on exportation of all goods covered by Regulation (EEC) No 3035/80 from the - Hellenic Republic towards third countries the same accession compensatory amount is applied; Whereas, according to Article 43 (4) of the Act,. the Hellenic Republic shall in trade with third countries for all products covered by this Regulation apply in full the Common Customs Tariff nomenclature by 1 January 1981; whereas this is not required in the application of the residual customs duties on imports from the Community of Nine; whereas this obligation , involves the application of only one fixed component