CELEX: 31976R0678
Language: en
Date: 1976-03-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 678/76 of 26 March 1976 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on terry towelling and similar terry fabrics of cotton falling within heading No 55.08, originating in developing countries to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3002/75 of 17 November 1975 apply

27. 3. 76                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                  No L 81 /29
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 678/76
                                                     of 26 March 1976
                re-establishing the levying of customs duties on terry towelling and similar terry
                fabrics of cotton falling within heading No 55.08 , originating in developing
                countries to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regu­
                                lation (EEC) No 3002/75 of 17 November 1975 apply
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached
 COMMUNITIES,                                                   that ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives
                                                                of Regulation (EEC) No 3002/75, which provides that
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         the ceiling should not be exceeded, customs duties
  Economic Community,
                                                                should be re-established in respect of the products in
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                  question,
 3002/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­
 tial tariffs in respect of certain cotton textile and like
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 products originating in developing countries (•), and
 in particular Article 4 (2) thereof,
                                                                                           Article 1
 Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that
 customs duties may, for each category of products, be          As from 30 March 1976, the levying of customs
 suspended up to a Community ceiling equal to 166 %             duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
 of the sum arrived at by adding together the metric            (EEC) No 3002/75 of 17 November 1975, shall be
 tonnage of the products in question, imported into             re-established in respect of the following products,
 the Community in 1968 and coming from countries                imported into the Community :
 listed in Annex B to that Regulation, but not
 including products coming from countries already                     CCT
 covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­           heading                   Description of goods
                                                                       No
 blished by the Community, and 5 % of the 1970
 metric tonnage of such arrangements ; whereas Article
 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation provides that the levying of        55.08              Terry towelling and similar terry fabrics of
                                                                                   cotton
 customs duties may re-established at any time once
 the Community ceiling has been reached ;
 Whereas in respect of terry towelling and similar terry                                  Article 2
 fabrics of cotton the ceiling calculated as indicated
 above should be 86 metric tons ; whereas on 24 March           This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
 1976 the amounts of imports into the Community of              following its publication in the Official Journal of
 the products in question, originating in countries             the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 26 March 1976.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                             Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                      Member of the Commission
(!) OJ No L 310, 29. 11 . 1975, p. 9.