CELEX: 31978R2717
Language: en
Date: 1978-11-22
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2717/78 of 22 November 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on cotton yarn, not put up for retail sale, falling within subheading 55.05 B I and originating in developing countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1197/78 apply

23 . 11 . 78                         Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 328 / 13
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2717/78
                                                  of 22 November 1978
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on cotton yarn , not put up for
               retail sale , falling within subheading 55.05 B I and originating in developing
               countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regu­
                                             lation (EEC) No 1197/78 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  tial tariff arrangements, reached that ceiling ; whereas,
COMMUNITIES,                                                    bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                No 1197/78 which provides that the ceiling should
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           not     be     exceeded,    customs       duies  should        be
Economic Community,                                             re-established in respect of the products in question,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 1197/78 of 30 May 1978 opening, allocating and                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
providing for the administration of Community tariff
preferences for textile products originating in deve­                                      Article 1
loping countries and territories ('), and in particular
Article 4 thereof,                                             As from 26 November 1978, the levying of customs
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (2) of that Regulation             duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
provides that customs duties may, for each category of         (EEC) No 1197/78 shall be re-established in respect of
products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling                the following products, imported into the Commu­
                                                                nity :
which is indicated, for each of the products listed
under (a) in column 5 of Annex B thereto ; whereas
only the products originating in the countries and                     CCT
                                                                     heading                        Description
territories listed in Annex D, other than those speci­                  No
fied under (b) in column 4 of Annex B, in respect of
the corresponding products, may be charged against              55.05               Cotton yarn , not put up for retail sale :
that ceiling ; whereas Article 3 ( 1 ) of that Regulation
                                                                                    B. Other :
provides that the levying of customs duties may be
re-established at any time once the Community                                          I. Measuring, per single yarn , 120 000
ceiling has been reached ;                                                                m or more per kg
Whereas, in respect of cotton yarn , not put up for
retail sale, falling within subheading 55.05 B I, the                                      Article 2
ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 20
tonnes ; whereas on 16 November 1978 the amounts               This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
of imports into the Community of the ^products in               following its publication in the Official Journal of
question, originating in countries covered by preferen          the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 22 November 1978 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                             Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                       Member of the Commission
(») OJ No L 149, 5. 6. 1978 , p. 1 .