CELEX: 31976R0498
Language: en
Date: 1976-03-04 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 498/76 of 4 March 1976 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on men's and boys' under garments, etc., of cotton fabric, falling within heading No ex 61.03, originating in India, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3002/75 of 17 November 1975 apply

6 . 3 . 76                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                    No L 59/ 17
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 498 /76
                                                         of 4 March 1976
                re-establishing the levying of customs duties on men's and boys' under
                garments, etc., of cotton fabric , falling within heading No ex 61.03 , originating
                in India, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regula­
                                    tion ( EEC) No 3002/75 of 17 November 1975 apply
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     No ex 61.03, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above,
 COMMUNITIES,                                                       should be 331 metric tons, and therefore the
                                                                    maximum amount 99-300 metric tons ; whereas on 2
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,                                                March 1976 the amounts of imports into the Commu­
                                                                    nity of men's and boys' under garments, etc, of cotton
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       fabric falling within heading No ex 61.03, originating
 3002/75 of 17 November 1975 establishing preferen­                 in India, a country covered by preferential tariff arran­
 tial tariffs in respect of certain cotton textile and like         gements, reached that maximum amount ; whereas,
 products originating in developing countries ('), and              bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC)
 in particular Article 4 (2) thereof,                               No 3002/75 which provides that maximum amounts
 Whereas Article 1 (3) and (4) of that Regulation                   should not be exceeded, customs duties should be
 provides that customs duties may, for each category of             re-established in respect of the products in question
 products, be suspended up to a Community ceiling                   in relation to India,
 equal to 1 66 % of the sum arrived at by adding
 together the value of the products in question , metric
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 tons, imported into the Community in 1968 and
 coming from countries listed in Annex B to that Regu­
 lation , but not including products coming from coun­                                          Article 1
 tries already covered by various preferential tariff arran­
gements established by the Community, and 5 % of                    As from 9 March 1976, the levying of customs duties,
 the 1970 metric tonnage of such imports coming                     suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
 from other countries and from countries already                    No     3002/75     of    17   November           1975,  shall be
 covered by such arrangements ; whereas, having regard              re-established in respect of the following products,
 to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating              imported into the Community and originating in
                                                                    India :
 in any one of the countries listed in Annex B to that
 Regulation should be within a maximum Community
amount representing 50 % of that ceiling, with the                        CCT
exception of certain products for which the maximum                      heading
                                                                           No
                                                                                                     Description of goods
amount is to be reduced to the percentage indicated
 in Annex A to that Regulation ; whereas, for those
products, this reduced percentage will be 30 % ;                    ex 61.03           Men's and boys' under garments, including
                                                                                       collars, shirt fronts and cuffs :
Whereas Article 2 (2) of that Regulation provides that                                 — Of cotton fabric
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­
tion originating in any of the said countries once the
                                                                                                Article 2
relevant Community maximum amount has been
reached ;
                                                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
Whereas, in respect of men 's and boys' under                       following its publication in the Official Journal of
garments, etc, of cotton fabric falling within heading              the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels , 4 March 1976 .
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                 Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 310 , 29 . 11 . 1 975 , p. 9 .