CELEX: 31978R0982
Language: en
Date: 1978-05-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 982/78 of 16 May 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on waste of man-made fibres, not carded, combed or otherwise prepared for spinning falling within heading No 56.03, originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77 apply

No L 128/ 12                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                17 . 5 . 78
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 982/78
                                                    of 16 May 1978
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on waste of man-made fibres, not
               carded, combed or otherwise prepared for spinning falling within heading No
               56.03 , originating in Yugoslavia, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set
                                out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77 apply
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                               falling within heading No 56.03, the ceiling, calcu­
 COMMUNITIES,                                                 lated as indicated above, should be 869 tonnes, and
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European        therefore the maximum amount is 260.7 tonnes ;
 Economic Community,                                          whereas on 26 April 1978 the amounts of imports
                                                              into the Community of waste of man-made fibres not
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                 carded, combed or otherwise prepared for spinning,
 2706/77 of 28 November 1977 opening, allocating              falling within heading No 56.03, originating in Yugos­
 and providing for the administration of Community            lavia, a country covered by preferential tariff arrange­
 tariff preferences for textile products originating in       ments, reached that maximum amount ; whereas,
 developing countries and territories (!), and in parti­      bearing in mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC)
 cular Article 4 thereof,
                                                              No 2706/77 which provides that maximum amounts
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation            should not be exceeded, customs duties should be re­
 provides that customs duties may, for each category of       established in respect of the products in question in
 products listed in Annex C to that Regulation, be            relation to Yugoslavia,
 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,            As from 20 May 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 Yugoslavia :
 in any one of the countries listed in Annex D should
 be within a maximum Community amount repre­                        CCT
 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           56.03             Waste (including yarn waste and pulled or
 products, this reduced percentage will be 30 % ;                               garnetted rags) of man-made fibres (contin­
                                                                                 uous or discontinuous), not carded,
Whereas Article 3 (2) of that Regulation provides that                           combed or otherwise prepared for spin­
 the levying of customs duties may be re-established at                          ning :
 any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­
 tion originating in any of the said countries and terri­
 tories, with the exception of countries listed in its                                  Article 2
Annex E, once the relevant Community maximum
 amount has been reached ;                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
Whereas, in respect of waste of man-made fibres not           following its publication in the Official Journal of
 carded, combed or otherwise prepared for spinning,            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
(1) OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, p. 67.