CELEX: 31978R0548
Language: en
Date: 1978-03-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 548/78 of 16 March 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on nets and netting made of twine, cordage or rope, etc. falling within heading No 59.05, originating in South Korea to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77 apply

17 . 3 . 78                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                  No L 75 /9
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 548 /78
                                                       of 16 March 1978
                re-establishing the levying of customs duties on nets and netting made of twine ,
                cordage or rope, etc ., falling within heading No 59.05 , originating in South
                Korea to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regula­
                                                tion ( EEC) No 2706/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas, in respect of nets and netting made of
COMMUNITIES,                                                      twine, cordage or rope, etc ., falling within heading No
                                                                  59.05, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             should be 25 tonnes , and therefore the maximum
Economic Community,
                                                                  amount is 12-5 tonnes ; whereas on 10 March 1978
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No                     the amounts of imports into the Community of nets
2706/77 of 28 November 1977 opening, allocating                   and netting made of twine , cordage or rope , etc .,
and providing for the administration of Community                 falling within heading No 59.05, originating in South
tariff preferences for textile products originating in            Korea, a country covered by preferential tariff arrange­
developing countries and territories ('), and in parti­           ments , reached       that    maximum        amount ; whereas ,
cular Article 4 thereof,                                          bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation ( EEC)
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation                No 2706/ 77 which provides that maximum amounts
provides that customs duties may, for each category of            should not be exceeded , customs duties should be re­
products listed in Annex C to that Regulation , be                established in respect of the products in question in
suspended up to a Community ceiling equal to 87 %                 relation to South Korea ,
of the sum arrived at by adding together the value of
the products in question , in tonnes, imported into the           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
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            As from 20 March 1978 , the levying of customs
erential tariff arrangements established by the Commu­            duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
nity, and 5 % of the 1970 tonnage of such imports                 ( EEC) No 2706/77, shall be re-established in respect
coming from other countries and from countries                    of the following products, imported into the Commu­
already covered by such arrangements ; whereas,                   nity and originating in South Korea :
having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for
products originating in any one of the countries listed
in   the    aforesaid    Annex    D   should   be   within  a           CCT
                                                                       heading                         Description
maximum Community amount representing 50 % of                            No
that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for
which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the
                                                                  59.05               Nets and netting made of twine , cordage
percentage indicated in Annex C thereto ;                                             or rope , and made up fishing nets of yarn ,
Whereas Article 3 (2) of that Regulation provides that                                twine, cordage or rope
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             This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
thereto, once the relevant Community maximum                      following its publication in the Official Journal of
amount has been reached ;                                         the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 16 March 1978 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                               Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                        Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L .324, 19 . 12 . 1977 , p. 67 .