CELEX: 31978R2171
Language: en
Date: 1978-09-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2171/78 of 14 September 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, originating in Malaysia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1197/78 apply

No L 254/24                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                   16. 9 . 78
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2171 /78
                                                   of 14 September 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,
              originating in Malaysia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in
                                       Council Regulation (EEC) No 1197/78 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 35
COMMUNITIES,                                                     tonnes, and therefore the maximum amount is 17.50
                                                                 tonnes ; whereas on 7 September 1978 the amounts of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            imports into the Community of gloves, mittens and
Economic Community,                                              mitts, knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     originating in Malaysia, a country covered by preferen­
 1197/78 of 30 May 1978 opening, allocating and                  tial tariff arrangements, reached that maximum
providing for the administration of Community tariff             amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of
preferences for textile products originating in deve­            Regulation (EEC) No 1197/78 which provides that
loping countries and territories (*), and in particular          maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs
Article 4 thereof,                                               duties should be re-established in respect of the
                                                                 products in question in relation to Malaysia,
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 to the Regulation in question, other           As from 19 September 1978 , the levying of customs
than those specified under (b) in column 4 of Annex              duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
B, in respect of the corresponding products may be               (EEC) No 1197/78, shall be re-established in respect
charged against that ceiling ; whereas, having regard to         of the following products, imported into the Commu­
that ceiling, the amounts for products originating in            nity and originating in Malaysia :
any one of the countries listed in Annex D should be
within a maximum amount representing 50 % of that                      CCT
                                                                      heading                        Description
ceiling ;                                                               No
Whereas Article 3 (2) of that Regulation provides that
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at           60.02               Gloves, mittens and mitts, knitted        or
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­                              crocheted, not elastic or rubberized
tion originating in any of the said countries and terri­
tories, with the exception of countries listed in Annex
E, once the relevant Community maximum amount                                               Article 2
has been reached ;
                                                                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
Whereas, in respect of gloves, mittens and mitts,                following its publication in the Official Journal of
knitted or crocheted, not elastic or rubberized, the              the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 14 September 1978 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                              Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                       Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 149 , 5 . 6. 1978 , p. 1 .