CELEX: 31977R2688
Language: en
Date: 1977-12-05 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 2688/77 of 5 December 1977 increasing the Community tariff quota opened for 1977 by Regulation (EEC) No 2931/76 for newsprint falling within subheading 48.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff

No L 314/ 2                           Official Journal of the European Communities                              8 . 12. 77
                                    COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 2688/77
                                                   of 5 December 1977
             increasing the Community tariff quota opened for 1977 by Regulation (EEC) No
             2931 /76 for newsprint falling within subheading 48.01 A of the Common
                                                      Customs Tariff
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                      noted ; whereas, in order to safeguard the Community
COMMUNITIES,                                                     character of the tariff quota in question, the volume of
                                                                 the proposed increase should be allocated to the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            Community reserve set up pursuant to Regulation
Economic Community, and in particular Articles 28               (EEC) No 2931 /76,
and 113 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal of the Commission,                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas, for newsprint falling within subheading
48.01 A of the Common Customs Tariff, a duty-free                                         A rticle 1
Community tariff quota, the amount of which was                  1 . The volume of the Community tariff quota
fixed at 2 311 000 tonnes, was opened by the Council             opened by Regulation (EEC) No 2931 /76 for news­
and allocated among the Member States by Regulation              print falling within subheading 48.01 A of the
(EEC) No 2931 /76 (') ; whereas by that Regulation , the         Common Customs Tariff is hereby increased from
benefit of the tariff quota in question was extended to          2 311 000 to 2 511 000 tonnes .
certain types of paper which , apart from the criterion
of watermarks, correspond to the definition of news­             2.    This increase of 200 000 tonnes shall be allo­
print given in the Additional Note to Chapter 48 of              cated to the Community reserve set up by virtue of
the Common Customs Tariff ;                                      Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 2931 /76 which is
                                                                 thus increased from 124 000 to 324 000 tonnes.
Whereas, on the basis of the most recent data on this
product for 1977, it can be estimated that the addi­                                      Article 2
tional imports from non-member countries required
by the Community amount to 200 000 tonnes ;                      This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
whereas the size of the quota should be increased by             following its publication in the Official Journal of
this quantity to take account of the requirements                 the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 5 December 1977.
                                                                             For the Council
                                                                               The President
                                                                               A. HUMBLET
 (') OJ No L 334, 3 . 12 . 1976, p. 7 .