CELEX: 31978R1098
Language: en
Date: 1978-05-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1098/78 of 25 May 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on woven fabrics of silk, of noil or other waste silk, falling within heading No 50.09, originating in Brazil to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77 apply

No L 139/20                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                26 . 5 . 78
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1098/78
                                                    of 25 May 1978
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on woven fabrics of silk, of noil or
               other waste silk, falling within heading No 50.09, originating in Brazil to which
               the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                     2706/77 apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas, in respect of woven fabrics of silk, of noil or
COMMUNITIES,                                                   of waste silk, falling within heading No 50.09, the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 97
Economic Community,                                            tonnes, and therefore the maximum amount is 19.400
                                                               tonnes ; whereas on 10 May 1978 the amounts of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   imports into the Community of woven fabrics of silk,
2706/77 of 28 November 1977 opening, allocating                of noil or of waste silk, falling within heading No
and providing for the administration of Community              50.09, originating in Brazil, a country covered by pref­
tariff preferences for textile products originating in         erential tariff arrangements, reached that maximum
developing countries and territories (*), and in parti­        amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the objectives of
cular Article 4 thereof,
                                                               Regulation (EEC) No 2706/77 which provides that
Whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) and (3) of that Regulation             maximum amounts should not be exceeded, customs
provides that customs duties may, for each category of         duties should be re-established in respect of the
products listed in Annex C to that Regulation, be              products in question in relation to Brazil,
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 Annex D to the Regulation in question , but not
including products coming from countries already                                          Article 1
covered by various preferential tariff arrangements esta­
blished by the Community, and 5% of the 1970                   As from 29 May 1978 , the levying of customs duties,
tonnage of such imports coming from other countries            suspended in pursuance of Council Regulation (EEC)
and from countries already covered by such arrange­            No 2706/77, shall be re-established in respect of the
ments ; whereas, having regard to that ceiling, the            following products, imported into the Community
amounts for products originating in any one of the             and originating in Brazil :
countries   listed in Annex      D should be within     a
maximum Community amount representing 50 % of                        CCT
that ceiling, with the exception of certain products for            heading                       Description
which the maximum amount is to be reduced to the                      No
percentage indicated in Annex C to the abovemen­
tioned Regulation ; whereas, for those products, this          50.09               Woven fabrics of silk, of noil or other
reduced percentage will be 20 % ;                                                  waste silk
Whereas Article 3 (2) of that Regulation provides that
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 the exception of countries listed in Annex        This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
E thereto, once the relevant Community maximum                 following its publication in the Official Journal of
amount has been reached ;                                      the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 25 May 1978 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                     Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 324, 19 . 12 . 1977, p. 67.