CELEX: 31978R1066
Language: en
Date: 1978-05-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1066/78 of 22 May 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on gloves, mittens and mitts, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, falling within heading No 60.02 and originating in Pakistan and the Philippines, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77 apply

No L 135/ 10                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                    23 . 5. 78
                                COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1066/78
                                                    of 22 May 1978
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on gloves, mittens and mitts,
               knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, falling within heading No 60.02
               and originating in Pakistan and the Philippines, to which the preferential tariff
                         arrangements set out in Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 tonnes, and therefore the maximum amount is 17.50
COMMUNITIES,                                                   tonnes ; whereas on 5 May 1978 the amounts of
                                                               imports into the Community of gloves, mittens and
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          mitts, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized,
Economic Community,                                            originating in Pakistan and the Philippines, each of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   these countries covered by preferential tariff arrange­
2706/77 of 28 November 1977 opening, allocating                ments, reached that maximum amount ; whereas,
and providing for the administration of Community              bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC)
tariff preferences for textile products originating in         No 2706/77 which provides that maximum amounts
developing countries and territories (*), and in parti­        should not be exceeded, customs duties should be re­
cular Article 4 thereof,                                       established in respect of the products in question in
                                                               relation to these countries,
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) to (3) of that Regulation
provides that customs duties may, for each category of
products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
which is indicated, for each of the products listed in
Annex B, under (a) in column 5 ; whereas only the                                         Article 1
products originating in the countries and territories
listed in Annex D thereto, other than those specified          As from 26 May 1978 , the levying of customs duties,
under (b) in column 4 of Annex B, in respect of the            suspended in pursuance of Regulation (EEC) No
corresponding products, may be charged against that            2706/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
ceiling ; whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the          following products, imported into the Community
amounts for products originating in any one of the             and originating in Pakistan and the Philippines :
countries   listed in Annex     D should be within a
maximum amount representing 50 % of that ceiling ;                   CCT
                                                                    heading                       Description
Whereas Article 3 (2) of that Regulation provides that                No
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­        60.02               Gloves, mittens and mitts, knitted        or
tion originating in any of the said countries and terri­                           crocheted, not elastic or rubberized
tories, with exception of countries listed in Annex E,
once the relevant Community maximum amount has
been reached ;                                                                            Article 2
Whereas, in respect of gloves, mittens and mitts,              This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, the           following its publication in the Official Journal of
ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 35           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
(') OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, p. 67 .