CELEX: 31978R0424
Language: en
Date: 1978-02-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 424/78 of 28 February 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on gloves, mittens, mitts, stockings, socks and sockettes, not being knitted or crocheted goods, falling within heading No 61.10 and originating in developing countries to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77 apply

1 . 3. 78                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 59/39
                                COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 424/78
                                                 of 28 February 1978
              re-establishing the levying of customs duties on gloves, mittens, mitts, stock­
              ings, socks and sockettes, not being knitted or crocheted goods, falling within
              heading No 61.10 and originating in developing countries to which the preferen­
              tial tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 1978 the amounts of imports into the Community of
COMMUNITIES,                                                   the products in question, originating in countries
                                                               covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          that ceiling ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives
Economic Community,                                           of 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 thereto, be suspended up to a               As from 4 March 1978 , the levying of customs duties,
Community ceiling equal to 87 % of the sum arrived            suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
at by adding together the tonnage of the products in           No 2706/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
question, imported into the Community in 1968 and              following products, imported into the Community :
coming from countries listed in Annex D, but not
including products coming from countries already                     CCT
covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­           heading                        Description
                                                                      No
blished by the Community, and 5 % of the 1970
tonnage of such imports coming from other countries
and from countries already covered by such arrange­            61.10              Gloves, mittens, mitts, stockings, socks and
ments ; whereas Article 3 ( 1 ) of the aforesaid Regula­                          sockettes, not being knitted or crocheted
tion provides that the levying of customs duties may                              goods
be re-established at any time once the Community
ceiling has been reached ;
                                                                                          Article 2
Whereas, in respect of gloves, mittens, mitts, stock­
ings, socks and sockettes, not being knitted or               This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
crocheted goods, the ceiling, calculated as indicated          following its publication in the Official Journal of
above, should be 21 tonnes ; whereas on 23 February            the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 28 February 1978 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Éienne DAVIGNON
                                                                     Member of the Commission
(!) OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, p. 67 .