Commission Regulation (EC) No 2206/98 of 14 October 1998 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2178/95 by deleting the tariff ceilings applicable for textile products originating in Latvia and Lithuania
Date: 1998-10-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, abolition of customs duties, originating product, tariff ceiling

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2206/98

of 14 October 1998

amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2178/95 by deleting the tariff ceilings
applicable for textile products originating in Latvia and Lithuania

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2178/95 of
8 August 1995 opening and providing for the administra-
tion of Community tariff quotas and ceilings for certain
industrial and fishery products originating in Estonia,
Latvia and Lithuania, and establishing the detailed provi-
sions for adapting these quotas and ceilings (1), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1926/96 (2), and in
particular 6(1) thereof,

Whereas Regulation (EC) No 2178/95 has opened the
tariff ceilings for textile products originating in Lithuania
and Latvia and listed in its Annex IV, and has established
a Community surveillance system for preferential imports
in the framework of these ceilings;

Whereas Council Decision 98/137/EC (3) provides for the
provisional application, from 1 January 1998, of the Addi-
tional Protocol in the form of an Exchange of Letters
between the European Community and the Republic of
Lithuania to the Free Trade Agreement between the
European Communities and the Republic of Lithuania
and the Europe Agreement between the Communities
and their Member States and the Republic of Lithuania (4)
and the Additional Protocol in the form of an Exchange
of Letters between the European Community and the
Republic of Latvia to the Free Trade Agreement between
the European Communities and the Republic of Latvia
and the Europe Agreement between the Communities
and their Member States and the Republic of Latvia (5),
hereinafter
‘the Additional Protocols';
whereas in its Decision of 13 July 1998 (6), the Council
has
the
Community;

approved these protocols

referred to as

on behalf

of

Whereas the Additional Protocols stipulate in their para-
graphs 2.1.1 and 2.1.2 that customs duties on imports
applicable in the Community to textile products origin-
ating in Lithuania and Latvia listed in Chapters 50 to 63

of the Combined Nomenclature shall be abolished on 1
January 1998 and that Annex VI to the Free Trade Agree-
ment and Europe Agreement with Lithuania shall be
abolished and Annex V to the Free Trade Agreement and
Europe Agreement with Latvia shall also be abolished;

Whereas it is therefore appropriate to amend Regulation
(EC) No 2178/95 accordingly; whereas that Regulation
will henceforth only apply to tariff quotas and all refer-
ences to tariff ceilings should therefore be deleted;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
in accordance with the opinion of the Customs Code
Committee,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 2178/95 is hereby amended as
follows:

1. the title shall be replaced by the following:

‘Council Regulation (EC) No 2178/95 of 8 August
1995 opening and providing for the administration of
Community tariff quotas for certain industrial and
fishery products originating in Estonia, Latvia and
Lithuania, and establishing the detailed provisions for
adapting these quotas';

2. in Article 1,

‘or ceilings' shall be deleted;

3. Article 3 shall be deleted;

4. in Article 6(2):

— in the second indent,

‘or ceiling' shall be deleted,

— in the third indent,

‘or ceilings' shall be deleted;

5. Annex IV shall be deleted.

(1) OJ L 223, 20. 9. 1995, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 254, 8. 10. 1996, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 41, 13. 2. 1998, p. 81.
(4) OJ L 41, 13. 2. 1998, p. 82.
(5) OJ L 41, 13. 2. 1998, p. 87.
(6) Not yet published in the Official Journal.

Article 2

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

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

Done at Brussels, 14 October 1998.

For the Commission

Mario MONTI

Member of the Commission