CELEX: 31976R1641
Language: en
Date: 1976-06-29 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1641/76 of 29 June 1976 amending Regulations (EEC) No 3152/75 and (EEC) No 3153/75 opening, allocating and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for outer garments falling within heading Nos 60.05 and 61.01 of the Common Customs Tariff, originating in Malta (1976)

8 . 7 . 76                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 182/ 1
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                                                (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                          COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1641 /76
                                                           of 29 June 1976
              amending Regulations (EEC) No 3152/75 and ( EEC) No 3153/75 opening , allo­
              cating and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for
              outer garments falling within heading Nos 60.05 and 61.01 of the Common
                                           Customs Tariff, originating in Malta ( 1976)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                           and Malta (5), signed on 4 March 1976, the tariff
COMMUNITIES,                                                          quotas in question have been increased to 190 metric
                                                                      tons and 730 metric tons respectively for the above­
                                                                      mentioned products, i.e., to levels higher than those
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                for the current year ; whereas, in addition , the
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 113                    Contracting Parties to the abovementioned Agree­
thereof,
                                                                      ment, agreed in a Joint Declaration that, under the
                                                                      tariff quotas of 190 metric tons and 730 metric tons,
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,                  quantities of 90 metric tons and 430 metric tons
                                                                      should be allocated to the new Member States ;
Whereas the Agreement of 5 December 1970 between
the European Economic Community and Malta (')                         Whereas the respective quantities allocated to the new
provides for the opening by the Community of annual                   Member States, when shares in the tariff quotas
Community tariff quotas for the importation into the                  opened for 1976 were distributed, are less than 90
                                                                      metric tons and 430 metric tons ; whereas , therefore ,
 Community, as originally constituted, of 100 metric
tons of outer garments and other articles, knitted or                 the difference , between the present quotas of 165
crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, falling within                  metric tons and 496 metric tons and the new quotas
                                                                      of 190 metric tons and 730 metric tons, should be allo­
heading No 60.05, and 300 metric tons of men's and                    cated to the initial shares of the new Member States ;
boys' outer garments, falling within heading No
61.01 ; whereas, at its meeting on 4 and 5 of June                    whereas it is therefore necessary to amend Regulations
                                                                      ( EEC) No 3152/75 and (EEC) No 3153/75,
 1973, the Council agreed that from 1 January 1974
Malta should enjoy treatment not less favourable than
that accorded to countries eligible for generalized pref­
erences ; whereas, on that basis and by Regulations
(EEC) No 3152/75 (2) and (EEC) No 31 53/75 (3), as
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1051 /76 (4), the                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Community opened, for 1976, tariff quotas of 165
 metric tons and 496 metric tons respectively for
products falling within tariff heading Nos 60.05 and
61.01 in which, following the Decision of 4 and 5                                                 Article 1
June 1975, the new Member States participate by the
allocation of initial quota shares and by the possibility              1 . The quotas provided for in Article 1 of Regula­
of using the Community reserves which were set up ;                   tions ( EEC) No 3152/75 and ( EEC) No 3153/75, shall
                                                                      be increased respectively to 190 metric tons and 730
Whereas under the Protocol laying down certain provi­                 metric tons .
sions relating to the Agreement establishing an Associ­
ation between the European Economic Community                         2. The initial shares provided for in Article 2 ( 1 ) of
                                                                      the said Regulations for Denmark, Ireland and the
(') OJ  No L 61 , 14 .  3 . 1971 , p. 3 .                             United Kingdom shall be amended as follows :
(2) OJ  No L 317, 8 .   12 . 1975, p. 49 .
(}) OJ  No L 317, 8 .   12. 197.5, p. 52.
 4) OJ  No L  120 , 7 . 5 . 1976 , p. 5 .                             (5 ) OJ No L 111 , 28 . 4 . 1976, p. 3 .
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  Regulation (EEC) No 3152/75 :                                                  Article 2
  Denmark                              9 metric tons,
  Ireland                              9 metric tons,
  United Kingdom                     38 metric tons ;
  Regulation (EEC) No 3153/75 :
  Denmark                           210 metric tons,       This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh
  Ireland                              3 metric tons,      day following its publication in the Official Journal
  United Kingdom                     110 metric tons.      of the European Communities.
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Luxembourg, 29 June 1976.
                                                                      For the Council
                                                                       The President
                                                                        G. THORN