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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 651/87

of 4 March 1987

re-establishing the levying of customs duties on stockings, knickers, panty-hose, understockings, socks, ankle-socks, sockettes and the like, products of category No 12 (NIMEXE code 40.01.20) originating in Sri Lanka to which the preferential tariff arrangements of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3925/86 apply

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3925/86 of 16 December 1986 applying generalized tariff preferences for 1987 in respect of textile products originating in developing countries (1), and in particular Article 4 thereof,

Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 3925/86 provides that preferential tariff treatment shall be accorded, for each category of products subjected to individual ceilings not allocated among the Member States, within the limits of the quantities specified in column 7 of its Annexes I or II, in respect of cerain or each of the countries or territories of origin referred to in column 5 of the same Annexes; whereeas Article 3 of that Regulation provides that the levying of customs duties may be re-established at any time in respect of imports of the products in question once the relevant individual ceilings have been reached at Community level;

Whereas, in respect of stockings, knickers, panty-hose, understockings, socks, ankle-socks, sockettes and the like, products of category No 12 (NIMEXE code 40.0120), the relevant ceiling amounts to 349 200 pairs;

Whereas on 24 February 1987, imports into the Community of the products in question originating in Sri Lanka, a country covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached and were charged against that ceiling;

Whereas it is appropriate to re-introduce the levying of customs duties for the products in question with regard to Sri Lanka,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

As from 8 March 1987 the levying of customs duties, suspended in pursuance of Regulation (EEC) No 3925/86, shall be re-established in respect of the following products, imported into the Community and originating in Sri Lanka.

1.2.3.4.5 // // // // // // Code // Category // CCT heading No // NIMEXE code // Description // // // // // // // (1) // (2) // (3) // (4) // // // // // // 40.0120 // 12 // ex 60.03 // // Stockings, understockings, socks, ankle-socks, sockettes and the like, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized: // // // 60.04 ex B // // Under garments, knitted or crocheted, not elastic nor rubberized: // // // 60.06 B II // // Knitted or crocheted fabrics and articles thereof, elastic or rubberized (including elastic knee-caps and elastic stockings): // // // // 60.03-11, 18, 20, 29, 40, 80 60.04-33, 34 60.06-92 // Stockings, knickers, panty-hose, understockings, socks, ankle-socks, sockettes and the like, knitted, crocheted or rubberized, other than babies, including elastic stockings other than items of category 70 // //

(1) OJ No L 373, 31. 12. 1986, p. 68.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 4 March 1987.

For the Commission

COCKFIELD

Vice-President // // //