CELEX: 31978R1063
Language: en
Date: 1978-05-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1063/78 of 22 May 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on cotton yarn, put up for retail sale, falling within heading No 55.06 and originating in Argentina and Brazil, to which the preferential  tariff arrangement set out in Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77 apply

23 . 5 . 78                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 135/ 7
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1063/78
                                                       of 22 May 1978
              re-establishing the levying of customs duties on cotton yarn , put up for retail
              sale , falling within heading No 55.06 and originating in Argentina and Brazil , to
              which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regulation ( EEC) No
                                                        2706/ 77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas, in respect of cotton yarn , put up for retail
COMMUNITIES ,                                                     sale, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should
                -
                                                                  be seven tonnes , and therefore the maximum amount
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
                                                                  is 3.5 tonnes ; whereas on 5 May 1978 the amounts of
                                                                  imports into the Community of cotton yarn , put up
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No                     for retail sale , originating in Argentina and Brazil ,
2706/ 77 of 28 November 1977 opening, allocating                  each of these countries covered by preferential tariff
and providing for the administration of Community                 arrangements, reached that maximum amount ;
tariff preferences for textile products originating in            whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation
developing countries and territories ('), and in parti­           ( EEC) No 2706/77 which provides that maximum
cular Article 4 thereof,                                          amounts should not be exceeded , customs duties
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and ( 3 ) of that Regulation              should be re-established in respect of the products in
provides that customs duties may, for each category of            question in relation to these countries,
products listed in Annex C thereto , be suspended up
to a Community ceiling equal to 87 % of the sum
arrived at by adding together the value of the products           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
in question , in tonnes , imported into the Community
in 1968 and coming from countries listed in Annex                                            Article /
D, but not including products coming from countries
already covered by various preferential tariff arrange­           As from 26 May 1978 , the levying of customs duties,
ments established by the Community, and 5 % of the                suspended in pursuance of Regulation (EEC) No
 1970 tonnage of such imports coming from other                   2706/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
countries and from countries already covered by such              following products, imported into the Community
arrangements ; whereas, having regard to that ceiling,            and originating in Argentina and Brazil :
the amounts for products originating in any one of
the countries listed in Annex D should be within a
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maximum Community amount representing 50 % of                          heading                        Description
that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for                 No
which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the
percentage indicated in Annex C thereto ;                         55.06               Cotton yarn , put up for retail sale
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,            This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
once the relevant Community maximum amount has                    following its publication in the Official Journal of
been reached ;                                                    the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 22 May 1978 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                               Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                        Member of the Commission
(') Of No L. 324, 19 . 12 . 1977 , p. 67 .