CELEX: 31990R3248
Language: en
Date: 1990-11-09
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3248/90 of 9 November 1990 re-establishing the levying of the customs duties applicable to products of CN code 2915 70 10 originating in Malaysia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3896/89 apply

No L 311 /20                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                 10. 11 . 90
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3248/90
                                                      of 9 November 1990
                  re-establishing the levying of the customs duties applicable to products of CN
                  code 2915 70 10 originating in Malaysia, to which the preferential tariff
                            arrangements of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3896/89 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        reached on 30 January 1990 by charges of imports into
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              the Community of the products in question originating in
Economic Community,                                                Malaysia ; whereas the exchange of information organized
                                                                   by the Commission has demonstrated that continuance of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3896/89               the preference threatens to cause economic difficulties in
of 18 December 1989 applying generalized tariff prefe­             a region of the Community ; whereas, therefore, customs
rences for 1990 in respect of certain industrial products          duties for the products in question must be re-established
originating in developing countries ('), and in particular         with regard to Malaysia,
Article 9 thereof,
Whereas, in pursuance of Article 1 of Regulation (EEC)             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
No 3896/89, customs duties on certain products origina­
ting in each of the countries or territories listed in Annex                                Article 1
III are totally suspended, and the products as such are, as
a general rule, subject to statistical surveillance every three    As from 13 November 1990, the levying of customs
months on the reference base referred to in Article 8 ;            duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
                                                                   (EEC) No 3896/89, shall be re-established on imports into
Whereas, as provided for in Article 8, where the increase          the Community of the following products, originating in
of preferential imports of these products, originating in          Malaysia :
one or more beneficiary countries, threatens to cause
economic difficulties in a region of the Community, the                CN code                      Description
levying of customs duties may be re-established, once the
Commission has had an appropriate exchange of informa­
tion with the Member States ; whereas for this purpose the            2915 70 10     — — Palmitic acid, its salts and esters
reference base to be considered is equal, as a general rule,
to 6 % of the total importations into the Community,
originating from third countries in 1987 ;                                                  Article 2
Whereas, in the case of the products of CN code                    This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
2915 70 10, originating in Malaysia, the reference base is         following its publication in the Official Journal of the
fixed at ECU 21 000 ; whereas that reference base was               European Communities.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 9 November 1990.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                            Christiane SCRIVENER
                                                                         Member of the Commission
 (') OJ No L 383, 30. 12. 1989, p. 1 .