CELEX: 31977R0721
Language: en
Date: 1977-04-04 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 721/77 of 4 April 1977 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on nets and netting made of twine, etc., falling within heading No 59.05, originating in the Philippines to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3022/76 apply

6. 4. 77                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                     No L 88/5
                               COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 721 /77
                                                   of 4 April 1977
              re-establishing the levying of customs duties on nets and netting made of twine,
              etc., falling within heading No 59.05 , orginating in the Philippines to which the
              preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3022/76
                                                         apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                Whereas, in respect of nets and netting made of
COMMUNITIES,                                                   twine, etc., falling within heading No 59.05, the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 49
                                                               tonnes, and therefore the maximum amount is 24-5
Economic Community,
                                                               tonnes ; whereas on 30 March 1977 the amounts of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   imports into the Community of nets and netting
3022/76 of 13 December 1976 opening, allocating                made of twine, etc., falling within heading No 59.05,
and providing for the administration of Community              orginating in the Philippines, a country covered by
tariff preferences for textile products orginating in          preferential tariff arrangements, reached that
developing countries and territories ^), and in parti­         maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
cular Article 4 thereof,                                       objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 3022/76 which
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation             provides that maximum amounts should not be
provides that customs duties may, for each category of         exceeded, customs duties should be re-established in
products listed in Annex C to that Regulation, be              respect of the products in question in relation to the
suspended up to a Community ceiling equal to 174 %             Philippines,
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         As from 9 April 1977, the levying of customs duties,
tariff arrangements established by the Community,              suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
and 5 % of the 1970 tonnage of such imports coming             No 3022/76, shall be re-established in respect of the
from other countries and from countries already                following products, imported into the Community
covered by such arrangements ; whereas, having regard          and originating in the Philippines :
to that ceiling, the amounts for products originating
in any one of the countries listed in Annex D should
be within a maximum Community amount repre­                          CCT
                                                                    heading                    Description of goods
senting 50 % of that ceiling, with the exception of                   No
certain products for which the maximum amount is to
be reduced to the percentage indicated in Annex C to           59.05               Nets and netting made of twine, cordage
the abovementioned Regulation ;                                                    or rope, and made up fishing nets of yarn,
Whereas Article 3 (2) of that Regulation provides that                             twine, cordage or rope
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, 4 April 1977.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                     Member of the Commission
(!) OJ No L 349, 20. 12. 1976, p. 69.