Commission Regulation (EC) No 800/2000 of 17 April 2000 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 934/95 by deleting the tariff ceilings applicable for textile products originating in Malta
Date: 2000-04-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Malta, import, originating product, tariff ceiling, textile product

18.4.2000

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 96/33

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 800/2000

of 17 April 2000

amending Council Regulation (EC) No 934/95 by deleting the tariff ceilings applicable for textile
products originating in Malta

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 934/95 of 10
April 1995 establishing tariff ceilings and a Community statist-
ical surveillance in the framework of reference quantities for a
certain number of products originating in Cyprus, Egypt,
Jordan, Israel, Tunisia, Syria, Malta, Morocco and the West
Bank and the Gaza Strip (1), as last amended by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 563/2000 (2), and in particular Articles 3
and 4 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

The Agreement establishing an association between the
Economic European Community and Malta (3) was
modified by Coucil Decision No 2000/184/EC of 14
February 2000 on the conclusion of an Agreement in
the form of an Exchange of Letters between the Euro-
pean Community and the Republic of Malta (4).

This Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters
abolishes the tariff ceilings applicable to imports into the
Community of textile products originating in Malta.

(3) With a view to implementing the abovementioned
Agreement, Council Regulation (EC) No 934/95 should
be amended accordingly.

(4)

(5)

Council Regulation (EC) No 934/95 contained tariff ceil-
ings only for textile products originating in Malta. All
references in this Regulation to tariff ceilings should
therefore be deleted.

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

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 934/95 is amended as follows:

1. The title is replaced by the following:

‘Council Regulation (EC) No 934/95 of 10 April 1995
establishing a Community statistical surveillance in the
framework of reference quantities for a certain number of
products originating in Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Malta,
Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and the West Bank and the Gaza
Strip’;

2. Title I with Article 1 is repealed.

3.

in Article 2(1) the words ‘Annex II’ are replaced by the
‘Annex to this Regulation’.

4.

in Article 3:

— (1)(c), the words ‘tariff ceilings or’ are deleted,
— third indent, the words ‘ceiling or’ are deleted twice;

5. In Article 5(2), the words ‘ceilings and’ are deleted twice and
the words ‘Annexes I and II’ are replaced by the ‘Annex’.

6. Annex I is deleted.

7. Annex II is entitled ‘Annex’.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
tion in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

It shall apply with effect from 23 February 2000.

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

Done at Brussels, 17 April 2000.

For the Commission

Frederik BOLKESTEIN

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 96, 28.4.1995, p. 6.
(2) OJ L 68, 16.3.2000, p. 46.
(3) OJ L 61, 14.3.1971, p. 2.
(4) OJ L 59, 4.3.2000, p. 7.