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COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 667/79

OF 4 APRIL 1979

RE-ESTABLISHING THE LEVYING OF CUSTOMS DUTIES ON GLOVES , MITTENS AND MITTS , KNITTED OR CROCHETED , NOT ELASTIC OR RUBBERIZED , FALLING WITHIN HEADING NO 60.02 AND ORIGINATING IN THAILAND , TO WHICH THE PREFERENTIAL TARIFF ARRANGEMENTS SET OUT IN COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 3157/78 APPLY

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,

HAVING REGARD TO THE TREATY ESTABLISHING THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY ,

HAVING REGARD TO COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 3157/78 OF 29 DECEMBER 1978 OPENING , ALLOCATING AND PROVIDING FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF COMMUNITY TARIFF PREFERENCES FOR TEXTILE PRODUCTS ORIGINATING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES ( 1 ) , AND IN PARTICULAR ARTICLE 4 THEREOF ,

WHEREAS ARTICLE 2 ( 1 ) TO ( 3 ) OF THAT REGULATION PROVIDES THAT CUSTOMS DUTIES MAY , FOR EACH CATEGORY OF PRODUCTS , BE SUSPENDED UP TO A COMMUNITY CEILING WHICH IS INDICATED , FOR EACH OF THE PRODUCTS LISTED IN COLUMN 5 ( A ) OF ANNEX B THERETO ; WHEREAS ONLY THE PRODUCTS ORIGINATING IN THE COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES LISTED IN ANNEX D TO THE REGULATION IN QUESTION , OTHER THAN THOSE SPECIFIED IN COLUMN 4 ( B ) OF ANNEX B , IN RESPECT OF THE CORRESPONDING PRODUCTS , MAY BE CHARGED AGAINST THAT CEILING ; WHEREAS , HAVING REGARD TO THAT CEILING , THE AMOUNTS FOR PRODUCTS ORIGINATING IN ANY ONE OF THE COUNTRIES LISTED IN ANNEX D SHOULD BE WITHIN A MAXIMUM AMOUNT REPRESENTING 50 % OF THAT CEILING ;

WHEREAS ARTICLE 3 ( 2 ) 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 ORIGINATING IN ANY OF THE SAID COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES , WITH THE EXCEPTION OF COUNTRIES LISTED IN ANNEX E THERETO , ONCE THE RELEVANT COMMUNITY MAXIMUM AMOUNT HAS BEEN REACHED ;

WHEREAS , IN RESPECT OF GLOVES , MITTENS AND MITTS , KNITTED OR CROCHETED , NOT ELASTIC OR RUBBERIZED , FALLING WITHIN HEADING NO 60.02 , THE CEILING , CALCULATED AS INDICATED ABOVE , SHOULD BE 36,5 TONNES , AND THEREFORE THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT IS 18,25 TONNES ; WHEREAS ON 23 MARCH 1979 THE AMOUNTS OF IMPORTS INTO THE COMMUNITY OF GLOVES , MITTENS AND MITTS , KNITTED OR CROCHETED , NOT ELASTIC OR RUBBERIZED , FALLING WITHIN HEADING NO 60.02 AND ORIGINATING IN THAILAND , A COUNTRY COVERED BY PREFERENTIAL TARIFF ARRANGEMENTS , REACHED THAT MAXIMUM AMOUNT ; WHEREAS , BEARING IN MIND THE OBJECTIVES OF REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 3157/78 WHICH PROVIDES THAT MAXIMUM AMOUNTS SHOULD NOT BE EXCEEDED , CUSTOMS DUTIES SHOULD BE RE-ESTABLISHED IN RESPECT OF THE PRODUCTS IN QUESTION IN RELATION TO THAILAND ,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :

ARTICLE 1

AS FROM 8 APRIL 1979 , THE LEVYING OF CUSTOMS DUTIES , SUSPENDED IN PURSUANCE OF COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 3157/78 , SHALL BE RE-ESTABLISHED IN RESPECT OF THE FOLLOWING PRODUCTS , IMPORTED INTO THE COMMUNITY AND ORIGINATING IN THAILAND :

CCT HEADING NO*DESCRIPTION*

60.02*GLOVES , MITTENS AND MITTS , KNITTED OR CROCHETED , NOT ELASTIC OR RUBBERIZED*

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 APRIL 1979 .

FOR THE COMMISSION

ETIENNE DAVIGNON

MEMBER OF THE COMMISSION

( 1 ) OJ NO L 375 , 30 . 12 . 1978 , P . 71 .