CELEX: 31978R2844
Language: en
Date: 1978-12-04 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2844/78 of 4 December 1978 re-establishing the levying of customs duties on woven fabrics of silk, falling within heading No 50.09 and originating in South Korea and India, to which the preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1197/78 apply

No L 339/ 12                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                 5. 12. 78
                                COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2844/78
                                                 of 4 December 1978
               re-establishing the levying of customs duties on woven fabrics of silk, falling
               within heading No 50.09 and originating in South Korea and India, to which the
               preferential tariff arrangements set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1197/78
                                                         apply
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 E thereto, once the relevant Community maximum
COMMUNITIES,                                                   amount has been reached ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          Whereas, in respect of woven fabrics of silk, the
Economic Community,                                            ceiling, calculated as indicated above, should be 97
                                                               tonnes, and therefore the maximum amount is 19.400
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
1197/78 of 30 May 1978 opening, allocating and                 tonnes ; whereas on 27 November 1978 the amounts
providing for the administration of Community tariff           of imports into the Community of woven fabrics of
preferences for textile products originating in deve­          silk, originating in South Korea and India, countries
loping countries and territories (!), and in particular        covered by preferential tariff arrangements, reached
Article 4 thereof,                                             that maximum amount ; whereas, bearing in mind the
                                                               objectives of Regulation (EEC) No 1197/78 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
suspended up to a Community ceiling equal to 87 %              South Korea and India,
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 8 December 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 1197/78, 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 South Korea and India :
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             50.09               Woven fabrics of silk, of noil or other
tion ; whereas, for those products, this reduced percen­                           waste silk
tage will be 20 % ;
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 the exception of countries listed in Annex        the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 4 December 1978 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Étienne DAVIGNON
                                                                     Member of the Commission
 ') OJ No L 149, 5. 6. 1978, p. 1 .