CELEX: 31976R2861
Language: en
Date: 1976-11-23 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 2861/76 of 23 November 1976 increasing the Community tariff quota opened for 1976 by Regulation (EEC) No 2883/75 for raw silk (not thrown) falling within heading No 50.02 of the Common Customs Tariff

No L 329/ 16                         Official Journal of the European Communities                           27 . 11 . 76
                                    COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 2861 /76
                                                  of 23 November 1976
             increasing the Community tariff quota opened for 1976 by Regulation ( EEC) No
             2883/75 for raw silk (not thrown) falling within heading No 50.02 of the
                                                Common Customs Tariff
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                    Article 1
Economic Community, and in particular Article 28
thereof,
                                                                The Community tariff quota opened by Regulation
Having regard to the draft Regulation submitted by              (EEC) No 2883/75 for raw silk (not thrown) falling
the Commission ,                                               within heading No 50.02 of the Common Customs
                                                               Tariff shall be increased from 2 500 to 3 050 metric
Whereas by Regulation (EEC) No 2883/75 (»), the                 tons .
Council opened and allocated among the Member
States a zero-duty Community tariff quota for raw silk
(not thrown) falling within heading No 50.02 of the                                       Article 2
Common Customs Tariff, the volume of which was
fixed at 2 500 metric tons ;                                    This increase of 550 metric tons shall be allocated to
Whereas, having regard to the increase in consump­              the Community reserve provided for in Article 2 (2) of
tion recorded in 1976, it can be estimated that the             Regulation (EEC) No 2883/75 which shall thus be
quota volume of 2 500 metric tons will not be suffi­            increased from 500 to 1 050 metric tons .
cient to satisfy requirements ; whereas the quota
volume of 550 metric tons should be increased to take
into account these requirements ; whereas, to safe­                                       Article 3
guard the Community nature of the tariff quota in
question, this additional volume should be allocated            This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
to the Community reserve set up by Article 2 (2) of             following its publication in the Official Journal of
Regulation (EEC) No 2883/75,                                    the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 23 November 1976 .
                                                                             For the Council
                                                                               The President
                                                                       A. P. L. M. M. van der STEE
(') OJ No L 292, 12. 11 . 197.5, p . 19 .