CELEX: 31979R0913
Language: en
Date: 1979-05-08 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 913/79 of 8 May 1979 increasing the Community tariff quota opened by Regulation (EEC) No 964/78 for certain eels falling within subheading ex 03.01 A II of the Common Customs Tariff

11 . 5 . 79                            Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 116/3
                                        COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 913/79
                                                        of 8 May 1979
               increasing the Community tariff quota opened by Regulation ( EEC) No 964/78
               for certain eels falling within subheading ex 03.01 A II of the Common Customs
                                                             Tariff
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 COMMUNITIES,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                      Article 1
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 28
 thereof,                                                          The Community tariff quota opened by Regulation
                                                                    (EEC) No 964/78 for certain eels falling within
 Having regard to the draft Regulation submitted by                 subheading ex 03.01 A II of the Common Customs
 the Commission ,                                                  Tariff shall be increased from 6 100 to 7 400 tonnes.
Whereas by Regulation ( EEC) No 964/78 (') the
 Council opened and allocated among the Member                                              Article 2
 States, for the period 1 July 1978 to 30 June 1979 a
 zero-duty Community tariff quota for certain eels                  1.    A first instalment of the increase, amounting to
 falling within subheading ex 03.01 A II of the                     1 215 tonnes, shall be alocated as follows :
 Common Customs Tariff, the volume of which was
                                                                            Benelux                     1 165 tonnes,
 fixed at 6 100 tonnes ;                                                    Denmark                        50 tonnes .
Whereas it can be estimated, on the basis of the most
 recent figures concerning this product for the present             2. A second instalment, amounting to 85 tonnes,
 period, that 1 300 tonnes of additional imports into               shall constitute the reserve . The reserve laid down by
 the Community from third countries will be required ;             Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 964/78 , is thus
                                                                    raised from 1 200 to 1 285 tonnes .
whereas the quota should therefore be increased by
 this amount ; whereas, to safeguard the Community
 nature of the tariff quota in question , a first instal­                                   Article 3
 ment of this additional quantity should be allocated
among certain Member States and the remainder go                   This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
towards constituting the reserve set up by Article 2 (2)            following its publication in the Official Journal of
of Regulation (EEC) No 964/78 ,                                     the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 8 May 1979 .
                                                                                For the Council
                                                                                  The President
                                                                           P. BERNARD-REYMOND
(!) OJ No L 125, 13 . 5 . 1978 , p. 1 .