CELEX: 31978R1340
Language: en
Date: 1978-06-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1340/78 of 20 June 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on woven fabrics of silk, of noil or other waste silk falling within heading No 50.09, originating in South Korea, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77 apply

21 . 6 . 78                          Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 164/7
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1340/78
                                                     of 20 June 1978
              re-establishing the levying of customs duties on woven fabrics of silk, of noil or
              other waste silk falling within heading No 50.09, originating in South Korea, to
              which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC)
                                                    No 2706/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas, in respect of woven fabrics of silk, of noil or
COMMUNITIES,                                                   other waste silk, the ceiling, calculated as indicated
                                                               above, should be 97 tonnes, and therefore the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                maximum amount is 19.40 tonnes ; whereas on 9
Economic Community,
                                                               June 1978 the amounts of imports into the Commu­
Having regard to Council Regulation * (EEC) No                  nity of woven fabrics of silk, of noil or other waste
2706/77 of 28 November 1977 opening, allocating                 silk, originating in South Korea, a country covered by
and providing for the administration of Community               preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
tariff preferences for textile products originating in          maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
developing countries and territories ('), and in parti­         objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77 which
cular Article 4 thereof,                                        provides that maximum amounts should not be
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation              exceeded , customs duties should be re-established in
provides that customs duties may, for each category of          respect of the products in question in relation to
products listed in Annex C to that Regulation , be              South Korea ,
suspended up to a Community ceiling equal to 87 %
of the sum arrived at by adding together the value of
the products in question , in tonnes, imported into the         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Community in 1968 and coming from countries listed
in its Annex D, but not including products coming                                          Article 1
from countries already covered by various preferential
tariff arrangements established by the Community,               Af from 24 June 1978 , the levying of customs duties,
and 5 % of the 1970 tonnage of such imports coming              suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
from other countries and from countries already                 No 2706/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
covered by such arrangements ; whereas, having regard           following products, imported into the Community
to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating           and originating in South Korea :
in any one of the countries listed in Annex D should
be within a maximum Community amount repre­
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senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                  heading                       Description
certain products for which the maximum amount is to                    No
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex C to
the abovementioned Regulation ; whereas, for those              50.09               Woven fabrics of silk, of noil or other
products, this reduced percentage will be 20 % ;                                    waste silk
Whereas Article 3 (2) of that Regulation provides that
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­                                    Article 2
tion originating in any of the said countries and terri­
tories, with exception of countries listed in its Annex        This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
E, once the relevant Community maximum amount                   following its publication in the Official Journal of
has been reached ;                                              the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 20 June 1978 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                             Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                      Member of the Commission
(!) OJ No L 324, 19 . 12 . 1977, p. 67 .