CELEX: 31978R0050
Language: en
Date: 1978-01-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 50/78 of 10 January 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on cotton yarn, put up for retail sale falling within heading No 55.06, originating in Yugoslavia to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77 apply

12. 1 . 78                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No L 9 / 15
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 50/ 78
                                                  of 10 January 1978
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on cotton yarn , put up for retail
               sale falling within heading No 55.06, originating in Yugoslavia to which the pref­
               erential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77
                                                         apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 thereto, once the relevant Community maximum
COMMUNITIES,                                                   amount has been reached ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          Whereas, in respect of cotton yarn, put up for retail
Economic Community,                                            sale, the ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should
                                                               be seven tonnes, and therefore the maximum amount
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
2706/77 of 28 November 1977 opening, allocating                is 3 5 tonnes ; whereas on 9 January 1978 the
and providing for the administration of Community              amounts of imports into the Community of cotton
tariff preferences for textile products originating in         yarn, put up for retail sale, originating in Yugoslavia, a
developing countries and territories (*), and in parti­        country covered by preferential tariff arrangements,
cular Article 4 thereof,                                       reached that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in
                                                               mind the objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation             which 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
suspended up to a Community ceiling equal to 87 %              Yugoslavia,
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 Annex D thereto, but not including products
                                                                                          Article 1
coming from countries already covered by various pref­
erential tariff arrangements established by the Commu­         As from 15 January 1978 , the levying of customs
nity, and 5 % of the 1970 tonnage of such imports              duties, suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation
coming from other countries and from countries                 (EEC) No 2706/77, shall be re-established in respect
already covered by such arrangements ; whereas,                of the following products, imported into the Commu­
having regard to that ceiling, the amounts for                 nity and originating in Yugoslavia :
products originating in any one of the countries listed
in Annex D should be within a maximum Commu­
                                                                     CCT
nity amount representing 50 % of that ceiling, with                 heading                        Description
the exception of certain products for which the                       No
maximum amount is to be reduced to the percentage
indicated in Annex C to the abovementioned Regula­             55.06               Cotton yarn, put up for retail sale
tion ;
Whereas Article 3 (2) of that Regulation provides that                                    Article 2
the levying of customs duties may be re-established at
any time in respect of imports of the products in ques­        This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
tion originating in any of the said countries and terri­       following its publication in the Official Journal of
tories, with exception of countries listed in Annex E          the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 10 January 1978 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                     Member of the Commission
(!) OJ No L 324, 19 . 12. 1977, p. 67 .