CELEX: 31976R3045
Language: en
Date: 1976-12-09 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 3045/76 of 9 December 1976 totally suspending the customs duties on certain industrial products originating in Malta (1977)

20. 12. 76                          Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 350/65
                                    COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3045/76
                                                 of 9 December 1976
             totally suspending the customs duties on certain industrial products originating in Malta
                                                         (1977)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        totally suspended in respect of products falling
                                                                within Chapters 25 et seq. of the Common Customs
Having regard to the Treaty establishing , the                  Tariff covered by the Agreement establishing an
European Economic Community, and in particular                  association between the European Economic Com­
Article 113 thereof,                                            munity and Malta, pursuant to Article 1 of Annex I
                                                                thereto, with the exception of products falll'ing within
Having regard to the proposaH from the Commission,              heading Nos 55.05, 56.04, 60.05 and 61.01.
Whereas, by virtue of the Agreement establishing                Ireland, however, shall be authorized to apply to
an association between the European Economic                    such products duties equal to those which it applies
Community and Malta (1), the Community applies                  to Member States other than the United Kingdom.
the Common Customs Tariff duties, reduced by 70% ,
to products covered by this Agreement; whereas it               2. The suspension referred to in paragraph 1 shall
seems advisable provisionally to increase this tariff           apply solely to products originating in Malta. The
advantage by means of tihe total suspension of the              rules of origin shall fee those in force at the time
customs duties applicaMe to such products ; wihereas,           as regards the implementation of the aibove Agree­
however, this measure cannot affect the products                ment.
subject to the tariff quotas provided for in the
abovementioned Agreement;
                                                                                          Article 2
Whereas, in order to avoid the danger of disrupting
traditional patterns of trade by imports of such
products, provision should be made to enable the                In order to avoid disrupting traditional trade patterns
Commission to reintroduce at any time, by means                 by imports of products benefiting from the duty
of a Regulation, the levying of conventional duties             suspension provided for in Article 1, the Commission
in respect of Malta,                                            may, by means of a Regulation, reintroduce the
                                                                levying of customs duties at any time up to the end
                                                                of the cailendar year, at the level applicable in
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:                                    pursuance of Article 1 of Annex I to the aforesaid
                                                                Agreement.
                         Article 1
                                                                                          Article 3
1 . From 1 January until 31 December 1977, the
Common Customs Tariifif duties and the customs                  This    Regulation      shall    enter into  force    on
tariff duties of the new Member States shall be                  1 January 1977.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 9 December 1976.
                                                                                 For the Council
                                                                                   The President
                                                                                 P. J. J. MERTENS
 (*) OJ No L 61, 14. 3. 1971, p. 3.