CELEX: 31978R0984
Language: en
Date: 1978-05-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 984/78 of 16 May 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on nets and netting made of twine, cordage or rope, etc., falling within heading No 59.05, originating in developing countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77 apply

No L 128 / 14                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                 17. 5. 78
                                COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 984/78
                                                   of 16 May 1978
              re-establishing the levying of customs duties on nets and netting made of twine,
              cordage or rope, etc., falling within heading No 59.05, originating in developing
              countries, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regu­
                                           lation (EEC) No 2706/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                               amounts of imports into the Community of the
COMMUNITIES,                                                 products in question, originating in countries covered
                                                             by preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European        ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of
Economic Community,                                          Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77, which provides that
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                 the ceiling should not be exceeded, customs duties
2706/77 of 28 November 1977 opening, allocating              should be re-established in respect of the products in
and providing for the administration of Community            question,
tariff preferences for textile products originating in
developing countries and territories ('), and in parti­       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
cular Article 4 thereof,
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation provides that                                Article 1
customs duties may, for each category of products
listed in Annex C to that Regulation, be suspended up        As from 20 May 1978 , the levying of customs duties,
to a Community ceiling equal to 87 % of the sum              suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
arrived at by adding together the tonnage of the              No 2706/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
products in question, imported into the Community             following products, imported into the Community :
in 1968 and coming from countries listed in Annex
D, but not including products coming from countries                 CCT
already covered by various preferential tariff arrange­            heading                       Description
                                                                     No
ments established by the Community, and 5 % of the
 1970 tonnage of such imports coming from other
countries and from countries already covered by such          59.05              Nets and netting made of twine, cordage
arrangements ; whereas Article 3 ( 1 ) of that Regulation                        or rope, and made up fishing nets of yarn,
provides that the levying of customs duties may be re­                           twine, cordage or rope
established any time the Community ceiling has been
reached ;
                                                                                         Article 2
Whereas, in respect of nets and netting made of
twine, cordage or rope, etc., falling within heading No      This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
 59.05, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above,           following its publication in the Official Journal of
should be 25 tonnes ; whereas on 3 May 1978 the               the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 16 May 1978 .
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                       Christopher TUGENDHAT
                                                                    Member of the Commission
(») OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, p. 67.