CELEX: 31974R3120
Language: en
Date: 1974-12-11
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3120/74 of the Commission of 11 December 1974 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 3503/73 of 18 December 1973 apply

12. 12 . 74                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                   No L 332/ 15
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 3120/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 11 December 1974
               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 3503/73 of 18 December 1973 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     1974 the amounts of imports into the Community of
COMMUNITIES,                                                       the products in question , originating in countries
                                                                   covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              that ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives
Economic Community ;                                               of Regulation ( EEC) No 3503 /73 , which provides that
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       the ceiling should not be exceeded, customs duties
3503/73 (^ of 18 December 1973 establishing prefer­                should be re-established in respect of the products in
ential tariffs in respect of certain textile products origi­       question ,
nating in developing countries, and in particular
Article 4 (2) thereof ;                                            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Article 1 (3) of that Regulation provides that
customs duties may, for each category of products, be                                          Article 1
suspended up to a Community ceiling equal to 1 50 %                As     from     15   December       1974,       customs   duties,
of the sum arrived at by adding together the metric
                                                                   suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
tonnage of the products in question , imported into                No      3503 /73    of   18   December          1973 , shall  be
the Community in 1968 and coming from countries
listed in Annex B to that Regulation, but not                      re-established in respect of the following products,
                                                                   imported into the Community :
including products coming from countries already
covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­
                                                                         CCT
blished by the Community, and 5 % of the 1970                           heading                    Description of goods
metric tonnage of such imports coming from other                           No
countries and from countries already covered by such
arrangements ; whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation          55.08              Terry towelling and similar terry fabrics, of
provides that customs duties may be re-established at                                 cotton
any time once the Community ceiling has been
reached ;
                                                                                               Article 2
Whereas, in respect of terry towelling and similar
terry fabrics, of cotton , falling within heading No               This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
55.08 , the ceiling, calculated as indicated above,                following its publication in the Official Journal of
should be 78 metric tons ; whereas on 5 December                    the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels , 11 December 1974 .
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                   The President
                                                                              Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
( i ) OJ No L 358 , 28 . 12 . 1973 , p. 69 .