CELEX: 31978R2193
Language: en
Date: 1978-09-20
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2193/78 of 20 September 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on woven fabrics of silk, of noil or other waste silk, falling within heading No 50.09, originating in Brazil, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1197/78 apply

No L 258/22                          Official Journal of the European Communities                            21 . 9. 78
                                COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2193/78
                                                 of 20 September 1978
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on woven fabrics of silk, of noil or
               other waste silk, falling within heading No 50.09, originating in Brazil, to which
               the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                      1197/78 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas, in respect of woven fabrics of silk, of noil or
COMMUNITIES,                                                   other waste silk, the ceiling, calculated as indicated
                                                               above, should be 97 tonnes, and therefore the
                                                                maximum amount is 1 9-40 tonnes ; whereas on 1 1
                                                               September 1978 the amounts of imports into the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           Community of woven fabrics of silk, of noil or other
Economic Community,                                            waste silk, originating in Brazil, a country covered by
                                                                preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
                                                                maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
                                                                objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 1197/78 which
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    provides that maximum amounts should not be
1197/78 of 30 May 1978 opening, allocating and                 exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in
providing for the administration of Community tariff            respect of the products in question in relation to
preferences for textile products originating in deve­           Brazil,
loping countries and territories ('), and in particular
Article 4 thereof,
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation
provides that customs duties may, for each category of
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
products listed in Annex C to that Regulation, be
suspended up to a Community ceiling equal to 87 %
of the sum arrived at by adding together the value of
the products in question, in tonnes, imported into the
Community in 1968 and coming from countries listed
in Annex D thereto, but not including products                                         Article 1
coming from countries already covered by various pref­
erential tariff arrangements established by the Commu­
nity, and 5 % of the 1970 tonnage of such imports
                                                               As from 24 September 1978, the levying of customs
coming from other countries and from countries                  duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
already covered by such arrangements ; whereas,
                                                               (EEC) No 1197/78 , shall be re-established in respect
having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for                  of the following products, imported into the Commu­
products originating in any one of the countries listed         nity and originating in Brazil :
in Annex D should be within a maximum Commu­
nity amount representing 50 % of that ceiling, with
the exception of certain products for which the                       CCT
                                                                    heading                    Description
maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage                      No
indicated in Annex C to the abovementioned Regula­
tion ; whereas, for those products, this reduced percen­        50.09           Woven fabrics of silk, of noil or other
tage will be 20 % ;                                                             waste silk
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 ques­
                                                                                       Article 2
tion originating in any of the said countries and terri­
tories, with exception of countries listed in Annex E
thereto, once the relevant Community maximum
amount has been reached ;                                      This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                               following its publication in the Official Journal of
(') OJ No L 149, 5. 6. 1978 , p. 1 .                            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, 20 September 1978 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                   Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                               Member of the Commission